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by proximitysauce 6y ago
You don't have to "do your part". Your part is living a healthy life. Take whatever steps necessary to make that happen, even if that means cutting contact with your parents.
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by proximitysauce 6y ago
That's kinda a crappy message to be spreading on Mother's Day for people who don't have parents (or aren't in contact with them) tbh.
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by proximitysauce 6y ago
If you have a good relationship with your mother. If she was/is abusive and you're not comfortable talking to her, feel absolutely no guilt today.
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by proximitysauce 6y ago
> As bad as your relationship is with your parents. Once they're gone, you're pretty much alone. Absolutely untrue. If your parents are toxic and damaging, you should cut them from your life. Some people can't live healthy
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by proximitysauce 7y ago
I find that I don't get very many "bad" hires. It's pretty easy to tell if someone is a good developer or not. In the rare case that someone bad slips through, it's easy enough to fire them. That's only happene
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by proximitysauce 7y ago
If only people who agree to it make it through, then I'm not surprised the feedback is positive. What you're missing is all of the senior people who would never do this (which is a lot of them). I'll also add that it's n
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by proximitysauce 7y ago
> It doesn’t undermine the grandparent’s point that the BBC is a different kind of organisation to Fox News. I guess that depends on if you think making one of the worst pedophiles in history a network star for decades is "better&qu
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by proximitysauce 7y ago
I think it's important to understand that you're asking candidates to burn "social capital" by arranging those introductions. I've worked for pretty high end people (successful founders, ceos...). I'm not going
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by proximitysauce 7y ago
In addition to all of the very dystopian examples given in this post, there are other non-technical, super-dystopian things that have been popping up as "trends" in the tech industry. Ever heard of top-grading? It's the most
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by proximitysauce 7y ago
Is there a downside to recognizing when the media deliberately deceives their audience? We should do more of that, not less. These media companies do not have your best interest at heart.
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by proximitysauce 7y ago
I think you should reconsider including the BBC. They most definitely intentionally deceived people for a very long time with regard to Jimmy Savile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Savile_sexual_abuse_scan...
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by proximitysauce 7y ago
BBC doesn't belong on that list either. They covered for Jimmy Savile's pedophilia for decades . Fun fact: the head of the BBC left as their cover-up came to light after Savile's death. He is now the CEO of The New York Time
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by proximitysauce 7y ago
There's a difference between AWS and a tiny startup, the CEO of which is married to one of the top advisors of a the Buttigeig campaign. At this point, this conversation doesn't really matter as it's been widely accepted as a
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by proximitysauce 7y ago
That's the definition of conflict of interest! You can't sell tech to the candidates and the election at the same time.
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by proximitysauce 7y ago
The conflict of interest is what you're calling a "conspiracy theory". It's a known fact that there is conflict of interest between the Buttigieg campaign and Acronym/Shadow. That's not a "theory", it
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by proximitysauce 7y ago
Are you saying that people who have a problem with this conflict of interest are the equivalent of flat earthers? That's not a viable position to take.
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by proximitysauce 7y ago
Records filed by the estate on Friday indicate that Southern Country had $693,157 in assets when Mr. Epstein died on Aug. 10. Then, in mid-December, the estate transferred $15.5 million to Southern Country in two checks. Southern Country s
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by proximitysauce 7y ago
> If the AMP page doesn't have the content you want and the non-AMP page does, that is the publisher's problem and the search engine's problem for displaying an inferior page. Actually it ends up being my problem. I don&#x
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by proximitysauce 7y ago
It's not "faster" if I have to wait for the AMP site to load, then figure out where to tap in Google's UI to get the page I actually wanted to go to, then wait for it to load. Especially the case if I want to share the u
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by proximitysauce 7y ago
There are other ways Google "leverages" its market share that are questionable. Look at the recent controversy about making all search results look like ads. They are also making it harder for ad blockers to exist in Chrome with e
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by proximitysauce 7y ago
Apple makes bad internet software. It’s ok at software that runs without any services but anything that requires internet access is a disaster. Even their “good” software is only good if you use exactly how Apple wants.
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by proximitysauce 7y ago
That's incorrect. Most of those services were using collaborative filtering social data to drive their recommendations.
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by proximitysauce 7y ago
I believe that they wanted to hire you. There were a ton of music recommendations available at the time. Every music service had them: Rhapsody, Yahoo! Music Unlimited, Last.fm, Mog, iTunes, Grooveshark... Echo Nest's weren't even
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by proximitysauce 7y ago
Spotify acquired Echo Nest in 2014. Spotify was already wildly successful at that point, and were latest in a long line of music streaming services that came before them. They also already had recommendations. It was basically an acquihir
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by proximitysauce 7y ago
I think the problem is that you're associating people calling out media bias and corruption with Trump. I explicitly said the white house has issues too. Major issues, tons of them. That doesn't absolve the mainstream media, the
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by proximitysauce 7y ago
A far greater concern than conspiracy theorists getting taken seriously are actual conspiracies perpetrated by mainstream media outlets. I gave two examples elsewhere in the thread: Weinstein and Epstein. Those aren't "conspiracy
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by proximitysauce 7y ago
I've never heard manufacturing consent used like that. Do you have any examples of what you're talking about? Genuinely curious.
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by proximitysauce 7y ago
I disagree. It's not the job of journalism to manipulate people, even if they think they're doing it for a good cause. Jim Lehrer's rules are very correct here.
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by proximitysauce 7y ago
I wouldn't but I also wouldn't expect a political operative to become the chief anchor and political correspondent of a major network.
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by proximitysauce 7y ago
It's the job of journalists to vet the stories. No journalist ever has or ever will suggest that the earth is flat. That's a strawman.

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