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by pluma 7y ago
It's performative hypermasculinity. In the 80s and 90s (and to a slightly lesser degree now still) nerds were generally portrayed as effeminate and unmanly. However they would still retain similar toxic ideas about manliness while dism
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by pluma 7y ago
It's meant as a cultural shorthand for the kind of companies like early PayPal. They wouldn't hire classic "jock" people of course but they were very much about what nerds thought was cool. The "bro" label is m
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by pluma 7y ago
There's a video from Hong Kong that went somewhat viral showing a protester jump kick a police officer in the face who was trying to drag and arrest another protester lying on the ground. The video was widely shared by protester-friend
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by pluma 7y ago
I mean, China's influence was enough for companies like Activision Blizzard to clamp down on people expressing support for Hong Kong, so it's entirely credible. Turkey's president literally just ran an op-ed in the Wall Stree
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by pluma 7y ago
Projects like Exit are important to rehabilitate nazis. Deplatforming and silencing are important to shut down recruitment. Not every person facing hardship becomes a nazi. It's true that as a society we need to fix the social problems
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by pluma 7y ago
The neo-nazis didn't have a point worth debating that the public opinion suppressed. But they were in part caused by socio-economical problems that largely went ignored. Deplatforming works. People like Milo Y were raking in massive am
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by pluma 7y ago
Keep in mind "no hierarchies" in these cultural studies does not mean that there are no authority figures or that there aren't any leaders. In many situation it is more practical to have one decision maker rather than always
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by pluma 7y ago
The problem with the word "hierarchy" is that most people conflate very different concepts when talking about whether it is or isn't necessary. Anarchism doesn't say there should be nobody in charge, just that authority
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by pluma 7y ago
The problem with capitalism isn't money. The problem is a centralisation of power. If your only idea of an "alternative to capitalism" are nation states like the Soviet Union or China, you might have a massive blind spot. Loo
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by pluma 7y ago
Interesting that most people are so used to capitalism they can't fathom any system that isn't hierarchical. Nepotism is only a problem if you have centralised power and static top-down hierarchies. When people are saying capitali
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by pluma 7y ago
Hamburg? Cologne? Munich? If nothing else works, pivot to JavaScript.
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by pluma 7y ago
The point is that the division pre-dates the racist impact it has now. Racism and classism go hand in hand in this case the same way they do in many others. I don't think the multi-tiered system would be salvageable even if there was n
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by pluma 7y ago
It's not so much intentionally racist as it is classist. When I was ready for secondary education, it was clear to me that Gymnasium or ("at least") Gesamtschule was where you went if you were later going to study in a un
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by pluma 7y ago
"Gold rush" is a nice way to say "bubble". It's just another field with some interesting (modest) applications but where 99% of startups are likely either knowingly peddling snake-oil or are total moonshots that hav
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by pluma 7y ago
That's orthogonal to the conversation. The conversation was clearly about organised religion, i.e. specifically the Catholic Church (in Poland or Germany but also in general as a larger entity). It doesn't get much more organised
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by pluma 7y ago
I'm talking about hospitals and other officially church operated institutions: http://humanist.de/kirchensteuer/krankenhaeuser.html Hospitals and elderly homes are NOT primarily financed by the insurance of their
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by pluma 7y ago
Hah, I'm amazed my comment got flagged. The article is literally about _the German Catholic Church_ and we're talking about _the Polish Catholic Church_, which are both formal organisations. I know Americans have more "church
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by pluma 7y ago
Keep in mind that in Germany these "church operated" services are heavily subsidised by the German state via regular taxes (not the "church tax" registered church members pay directly to their church via the tax office).
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by pluma 7y ago
No other package manager is run by a VC backed startup. That's inherently problematic and means the registry is in the hands of a company that could be killed off or sold at any moment because it needs to make massive profits (without
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by pluma 7y ago
Sure but at a certain point it just harms your credibility if instead of owning up to the incredibly bad mistakes you still pretend you're only leaving because the grass is greener elsewhere. I know it's standard business procedur
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by pluma 7y ago
To be fair, people started leaving last year when the leadership change was first announced internally.
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by pluma 7y ago
For context: Entropic was started by several former npm Inc core developers including CJ who left the company after the CEO change was announced internally. CJ herself is the former CTO of npm Inc. Basically most of the top developers have
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by pluma 7y ago
I haven't had a look at GQL yet but the obvious one would likely be that as ArangoDB aims to support native multi-model, AQL is not just a graph querying language. Graph databases generally only consider edges between vertices (identif
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by pluma 7y ago
Victory forfeited by mixing up copyright and trademarks. I know intellectual property is a mess but at least get your terminology right.
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by pluma 7y ago
Bonus points when that info actually still lives there but is now rendered inaccessible, violating the actual laws their presence is intended to comply with. E.g. in Germany the impressum (often also called "imprint" in English ve
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by pluma 7y ago
As you hint at, the (more common) alternative to defining the world in advance is to rely on machine learning to figure things out (and possibly generate separate clusters for meanings that don't even map well to specific words but res
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by pluma 7y ago
Except this doesn't work consistently because words in real language are ambiguous and not every combination results in something that can meaningfully map to real-world language. You need to start from a word list with 100% unambiguou
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by pluma 7y ago
Maybe the US would do well to obsess a little less about wars? After spending 90%+ of its time existing on being at war, it sure would seem like a good time to take a break and stop attacking other countries maybe.
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by pluma 7y ago
Yes. The problem with FB is that it already has a ton of data about you, trusting it for dating means giving it even more. Additionally FB has a track record of being extremely reckless with your data and being dishonest about what data it
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by pluma 7y ago
I think github.io is explicitly registered as a shared second level domain (similar to co.uk), which also ensures browsers don't allow cookies spanning multiple subdomains.

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