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by rexpop 4y ago
> as long as I'm not missing emails From the article, it sounds like Travis was missing 75% of emails.
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by rexpop 4y ago
> Deregulation leads to low prices ...with negative externalities. Low price, high cost living.
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by rexpop 4y ago
They're carrying water for the oppressor. Maybe they're "arguing against abortions," or maybe they're just being a "useful idiot."
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by rexpop 4y ago
First of all, it's gross to use depictions of violence in a conversation in order to cow your counterpart. Second, a woman with a PhD would have more opportunities to avoid marrying you.
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by rexpop 4y ago
Of course it is! That's the premise of every open-source initiative, too. It's not too cynical, it's plain economics. Pretty sure it's the explicit purpose, too. No one really thinks open-source sponsorships are charity,
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by rexpop 4y ago
Au contraire, the men can collectively decide to oppress them, but it is not going to do them much good if all the women in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan have PhDs. What is it, I ask you, that makes a population difficult to oppress?
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by rexpop 4y ago
Educating women is the most effective way of equipping them to protect their own interests. To enlighten yourself, consider reading Federici's "Revolution at Point Zero" and Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed.&quot
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by rexpop 4y ago
> That won't put the water back. No, but it will partially compensate for impacted communities' subsequent economic precarity.
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by rexpop 4y ago
"dangit" is double entendre, for fuck's sake. And now it's a good mnemonic for remembering this reference sheet.
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by rexpop 4y ago
They're not "asking to ban it," but they are attempting, through obstreperous language, to discourage it.
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by rexpop 4y ago
Not stupid; imaginative and agreeable.
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by rexpop 4y ago
This is a vividly disgusting analogy and has no place in civil discussion. I happen to be eating my breakfast, and you're threatening my stomach. You can make points without hideous imagery. Meanwhile, you're merely being petulant
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by rexpop 4y ago
> I only see the impact a union could have on improving morale There is literally no higher calling.
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by rexpop 4y ago
Then it's news. So what?
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by rexpop 4y ago
As far as I am concerned, your employer takes it too far. What I do on my own time is none of my employer's business , as it were. If I am involved in a weekend nightclub drunken brawl, and no other company, customer, or vendor person
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by rexpop 4y ago
It's also true that management at for-profit firms introduce ostensible DEI programs to undermine unionization efforts, [0] but I don't think it's useful to refer corporate managers as "the left." 0. https:/&#
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by rexpop 4y ago
I'd never heard that Nabakov quote, but it's terrifically cynical and, I hope, false but, in my experience, not entirely untrue. Designers' unnecessary desire to delight users staves off the more Kafkaesque user experiences,
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by rexpop 4y ago
Boy have you got cause and effect backwards. Hell, you've even got simple temporal event ordering backwards!
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by rexpop 4y ago
> I have four kids, I am everything BUT lonely with them. This is inadequate. Adults need "love" and companionship from adults in our lives. The love of children is inadequate; we must also have strong ties with buddies, pals,
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by rexpop 4y ago
How's this lesson been taught since then?
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by rexpop 4y ago
Isn't the point of a movie to provide studios with outsized economic rewards? "Shared cultural experiences" are just one way of economizing. Procedural generation might be another. Perhaps we'll see Web 4.0, ie the &quot
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by rexpop 4y ago
Thank you for asking. I am sure the term is as old as the industry, but in every domain I am irked by the use of adjectives, specifically, as nouns. This article is a particularly irritating example. My earliest memory of struggling with th
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by rexpop 4y ago
> they agreed not to compete Apparently, as of 2019, this is no longer the case.[0] 0. https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-reforms-free-file-pro...
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by rexpop 4y ago
It seems that the author switched from Facebook's React to [his employer] Google's [Lit](lit.dev), and subsequently wrote a blog post in praise of the hand that feeds . > Replacing lit-html would be an undertaking but much les
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by rexpop 5y ago
From the author's account, it's clear to me that he didn't write the tweet.
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by rexpop 5y ago
> Unfortunately, since my account is now blocked I can’t make noise about this on Twitter, which is probably the only place where making such noise would be effective. This is dangerously true, unfortunately. Were there ever adequate cha
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by rexpop 5y ago
> a cover for something else What are you accusing me of? I am literally just a technology professional who likes to compare notes about important aspects of my career with other professionals. It's not a cover for anything else. I
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by rexpop 5y ago
> There is no "ladder" to being a customer service agent. Experience doesn't scale your value to the company. Yeah, this is wrong. I have a good friend who developed his understanding of the customer in that role, and leve
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by rexpop 5y ago
TWC is literally what it says on a thin: all workers, no backers, just being honest about our experiences. You can call us entitled, but insofar as we're propagandists, each individual is only pushing our own personal "narrative.&
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by rexpop 5y ago
It's not about permission, it's about Schelling points.

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