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by pc86 2y ago
You are the only one who cares if your job is soul-sucking or not, so you're exactly the person to complain. This whole idea of "other people have it worse so it's rude or 'bad' for me to complain about things I don
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by pc86 2y ago
"Taxpayer funded" pretty obviously means "paid for or subsidized by the government directly" and it seems bad faith to pretend you don't know that. Of course you can probably find some government subsidy somewhere a
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by pc86 2y ago
I've often thought about how likely it is there are intelligent and sentient civilizations that are content to their planet, or bounded to it by - as you mentioned - physiological constraints. I never connected that to "you probab
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by pc86 2y ago
It's quoted in another comment but 42 USC 289(a) requires the establishment of an IRB in any institution applying for federal grants, among other things. So it is a law that there exist some sort of IRB for any "biomedical or be
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by pc86 2y ago
I'm not aware of British people rioting in the streets over living in a society with multiple cameras on every corner of every street, where police knock on your front door based on social media posts. They seem to accept it, even welc
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by pc86 2y ago
I think it's reasonable here to differentiate between acceptable and legal. It's completely unacceptable, but the British people have proven time and time again they're more than happy to make horrifically unacceptable things
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by pc86 2y ago
Yes you're absolutely right if anything in your past indicates poor judgment or otherwise increases risk you might run into issues.
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by pc86 2y ago
US intelligence agencies really only care about your third point directly, everything else they care about only insofar as it can blackmail you or make you beholden to criminal interests. They don't care if you're gay, but they ca
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by pc86 2y ago
> The whole premise is weird. Only if you don't take 30 seconds to think about it. Of course you can be compromised without owning foreign property. But foreign property is a vector by which you can be compromised. Doesn't it
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by pc86 2y ago
I think broader acceptance of trans people has increased as long as you view acceptance as "do whatever you want with your body." The big wedge trans issue I've seen is with children and puberty blockers which is much more co
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by pc86 2y ago
After hearing Armie Hammer discuss some of the texts and DMs he received on the YMH podcast this makes a lot more sense (but still very surprising)
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by pc86 2y ago
Give me a break the fascism nonsense is completely played out. Get another false ad hominem there are better ones to pick from.
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by pc86 2y ago
It's not irrelevant because as I said earlier if you run a "DEIA" office and an EO says to dismantle DEI, it's a pretty easy legal maneuver to at least argue that they're different and that you don't need to sh
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by pc86 2y ago
A sibling comment quoted it as well but the relevant thing is here: > Sec. 2. Implementation. (a) The Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), assisted by the Attorney General and the Director of the Office of Personnel
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by pc86 2y ago
Because the administration is thousands of people and it's possible for them to do both good things and boneheaded stupid things simultaneously?
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by pc86 2y ago
Because it's a pretty simple legal maneuver to say "no this EO isn't requiring us to shut down this program because we call it 'DEIA' instead of 'DEI' so it's different." The EO is using the lang
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by pc86 2y ago
Yes because accessibility and DEI are different despite partisans' attempts to make "DEIA" a real thing.
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by pc86 2y ago
The whole "browser integrity check" thing is bullshit.
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by pc86 2y ago
You're completely right that I kind of got off track there and thank you for calling me out on it. But in this comment I think you're conflating merit with potential. If we're comparing those two hypothetical people, the one
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by pc86 2y ago
You skipped right over the "lawful executive order" and "democratically elected" parts of my point pretty conveniently, there. "I was following orders" is not a justification for committing crimes, but "I
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by pc86 2y ago
It would have taken you just a few more seconds to actually explain how this is the case.
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by pc86 2y ago
Please don't lump accessibility in with DEI. Accessibility is a noble goal that most everybody agrees with. DEI is, at best, an extremely divisive thing that millions of people disagree with and voted against. Lumping them together is
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by pc86 2y ago
Is "Here's a thought: commit crimes" really the thing you're trying to say here? What exactly does "nullified" mean in this context?
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by pc86 2y ago
Software engineers who work for the federal government are being told (not asked) to follow a lawful executive order from a democratically elected President. They don't really have a choice in the matter.
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by pc86 2y ago
At the risk of repeating another comment, the problem is that DEI proponents don't care about socio-economic status or family struggles, they care about race and whether or not you're from a "historically marginalized communi
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by pc86 2y ago
This presumes the existence of systemic bias in the first place, not to mention the fact that overt racism and sexism is the way to overcome that. In any DEI conversation you end up with people making convoluted examples like the one you ga
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by pc86 2y ago
No it doesn't, if you're trained in constitutional law and actually know what you're talking about. Disagreeing with something doesn't make you a shill. Saying everyone who disagrees with you is a $PEJORATIVE_OF_CHOICE d
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by pc86 2y ago
I didn't address that claim because it's a pointless ad hominem. Tell me what I could respond with that would have you say "oh actually you're right, I was wrong, my apologies" even if just internally.
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by pc86 2y ago
And renamed, somebody got yelled at.
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by pc86 2y ago
I've tried every LLM+IDE combo that I've heard about and Cursor is by far the best.

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