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by poszlem 5y ago
You miss a time frame if you say "2 weeks" and end up having to lockdown for 3 instead. If you say "2 weeks" and end up with lockdowns for years you are either incompetent or lying or both.
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by poszlem 5y ago
What do you need your health system for other than treating the sick?
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by poszlem 5y ago
This 100 times this. It's especially weird since the whole idea of open source was that you can just fork a project if you don't like it.
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by poszlem 5y ago
Except in those situations you never weight the amount of people you lose by adding a significant level of "cultural oversight" to a project. I actively avoid projects that spend a lot of time talking about "inclusivity"
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by poszlem 5y ago
Calling something a political issue is not political but factual. I think they absolutely should host that conference, but let's not do the tired "everything is political" thing again lest we end up with the: “You talk to old
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by poszlem 5y ago
I have no idea why you are being downvoted, since political neutrality for a hotel should mean - we host everybody no matter their politics. They are doing the opposite of what they claimed to be doing.
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by poszlem 5y ago
I don't know, maybe it's an American thing, but to a person from Europe this reads like an attempt at parody. I cannot believe one can watch Seinfeld (likely one of the most benign tv shows there are) and somehow find it problemat
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by poszlem 5y ago
Just to confirm I read it right. You found that you couldn't comfortably watch Seinfeld with your girlfriend? Was that because she was uncomfortable watching it which made you uncomfortable too or you assumed that she would be offended
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by poszlem 5y ago
This is a distortion of the paradox of tolerance, it doesn't endorse censorship. The paradox of tolerance only comes into play when views start getting translated into actions. Let the Nazis march down Skokie. Action should only be
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by poszlem 5y ago
The reason is that Norm died a few days ago, I guess people have been rediscovering his content which pushes it up in the algorithm.
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by poszlem 5y ago
There is no law that makes people call other people by their given names too. Or law that makes people call priests "father". I don't understand how that can be so hard to fathom. You should not legislate kindness.
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by poszlem 5y ago
I can assure you that most people would not bat an eye they were asked to use a different pronoun. The problem starts when they are 1) forced to do so b) suddenly have to "disclose" their own pronouns, and you end up on a zoom cal
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by poszlem 5y ago
Unfortunately it's a discussion tactic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy The motte-and-bailey fallacy (named after the motte-and-bailey castle) is a form of argument and an informal fallacy w
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by poszlem 5y ago
I don't think we should optimise workplaces for the smallest possible edge cases. If you joined a bigoted company as a queer person and transitioned then you have to change your job, the same way if you join NPR and suddenly realise af
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by poszlem 5y ago
In the perfect world people would just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and went on their merry way if they didn't agree with Coinbase. The reason why there is so much vitriol in the comments here is that to some people there is nothing more scary than
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by poszlem 5y ago
How about we stick to "a company can do everything it wants as long as it is legal and people are free to go work at whichever company they want"? Why is that controversial? If you want to effect social change become a politician,
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by poszlem 5y ago
If you cannot work without doing social activism then perhaps a non-profit foundation is a better place to be?
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by poszlem 5y ago
If there is one thing I've learned from a company that went woke was that the supposed diversity that it reached was merely superficial. They hired people from all the minorities necessary and ended up with culture that was even more m
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by poszlem 5y ago
There is a difference between people/companies that believe that lives of black people matter and those that claim that BLACKLIVESMATTER. There is a difference between people/companies that believe that women need to have the same
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by poszlem 5y ago
Yes, I very much would like to live in a world where people are not treated unfairly because of perfectly LEGAL speech they made on a random topic, while doing it on what's essentially a public square of the 2021.
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by poszlem 5y ago
That is essentially my point and you expressed it much better that I could (sorry, English as a second language). Facebook is not a newspaper. Twitter is not a newspaper. In this example Facebok/Twitter ARE PAPER. They are part of the
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by poszlem 5y ago
I would not mind a coffee shop that pulls down flyers, but I would mind a coffee shop that doesn't serve coffee to people it doesn't like. I feel very frustrated by this because to me this is essentially the case of that religious
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by poszlem 5y ago
Okay, so this is going to be super controversial to some people, but I firmly believe that we are basically trying to bypass the law (at the very least in spirit) when we agree for the big companies to limit free speech in that way. We shou
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by poszlem 5y ago
I think we are underestimating the role Slack/Slack-clones play in making people organise around a common non-work related goal at work. Here it's working remotely, but it also played a huge part in any kind of corporate social ac
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by poszlem 5y ago
Of course it does, it violates many things (the right to medical treatment without coertion, anybody?). I am doubly vaccinated for COVID and have been getting flu jabs yearly. I'm as far away from anti-vaccine as one can be. But the fa
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by poszlem 5y ago
At this point I would much rather see a list of things that are not predicted to be in short supply.
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by poszlem 5y ago
It is hard to overstate how much influence Stripe had on the financial services online. Great job Stripe!
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by poszlem 5y ago
The reason why platforms are expected to host even the speech they don't agree with is the same why some bakers are forced to make cakes for homosexual weddings. If you compel to the latter, you should also compel to the former and vic
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by poszlem 5y ago
Also the reason for the pushback from the right. It is actually the regressive left that started poking at it and opened the pandora box without thinking about the consequences of doing so. Now the whole scientific method is up for debate.
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by poszlem 5y ago
Wait, is English not also spoken officially in Ireland?

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