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by richmarr 11y ago
I appreciate it's muddy water here, but it doesn't seem like a simple case of free speech. These are internally-moderated groups (i.e. not really free speech to start with for regular folks) that form echo chambers in which hate g
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by richmarr 11y ago
Ah, but they're only focusing on productivity at work and at home, and on the move, so that helps narrow it down.
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by richmarr 11y ago
So, lions are evil?
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by richmarr 11y ago
Google "flamewar". This is not one. Or is it that you disagree with something I've said? If that's the case your comment would be disingenuous.
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by richmarr 11y ago
Please stop... You were out-argued... I disagree. If you'd like to explain how you believe that, I'm happy to listen, but my guess is that since you're using 'SJW' as a snarl-word you've read this entir
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by richmarr 11y ago
You berated this person... I disagree. Telling someone that they are sticking their fingers in their ear (strongly implying that they're acting like a child) and then telling them to "level up" clearly conve
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by richmarr 11y ago
Thanks. Although it seems I didn't say it well enough :/
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by richmarr 11y ago
I downvoted you for your unwarranted vitriol, end of story. Please point out anywhere I was cruel, or criticised @csvan as a person, rather than the maturity of the ideas he expressed. @csvan hasn't replied yet but I'm hap
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by richmarr 11y ago
Okay, let's start from the top. @csvan: This is to be expected from a field which is traditionally male-dominated. An attempt to justify why there are zero women listed (despite women making up 10-20%). @csvan: Personally I
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by richmarr 11y ago
the country that first legalized gay marriage Out of curiousity I started reading... depending on the interpretation this is either Canada, Denmark, or Mesopotamia. I'm guessing she means Canada. Good post though, spot on.
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by richmarr 11y ago
With respect, you're flat wrong here. The consequences of this kind of thing are serious for our industry. This is to be expected... Software isn't a 100% male field; maybe 80-90% in my experience. That means: (a) This list
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by richmarr 11y ago
Exactly, maintain the mindset that you can absolutely master the problem once you've learned your way through it and you'll be fine. It's a pain to have to re-learn libraries and APIs, but new idioms are always interesting. I
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by richmarr 11y ago
Without meaning to kick the political hornets-nest... the real problem is trying to fund healthcare through insurance at all. It creates moral hazard, conflicting incentives and information asymmetry, which combine to make it an extremely i
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by richmarr 11y ago
It didn't just pass 73,000, it "eclipsed" it, says a website whose every headline seems designed to stir up sentiment against a progressive agenda.
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by richmarr 11y ago
They are transferrable. You'll still have a learning curve but it'll be shallower than if you didn't know any development. Not only that, but open-mindedly exploring new ways of doing things once will make you a better web de
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by richmarr 11y ago
Only if you read things like "no person"... We're talking about foreign nationals on foreign soil.
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by richmarr 11y ago
... blatant... rediculous... You seem to be arguing against an assertion I never made. Not sure what to clarify. Maybe I wasn't clear somewhere, or maybe you've taken something out of context, I don't know. Might help
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by richmarr 11y ago
According to the US constitution, foreigners don't have any rights at all. In other news, foreigners don't look to the US constitution before deciding whether to be cross about being spied on.
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by richmarr 11y ago
Is there any situation that's not improved by adding cyborg cockroaches?
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by richmarr 11y ago
Isn't that intelligence/judgement wrapped up in the interpretation of 'premature'?
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by richmarr 11y ago
The UK and Germany (amongst others no doubt) have been complicit in Extraordinary Rendition for starters... you can believe in humans rights and fair trial if you like, but that'd be naive.
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by richmarr 11y ago
Agree with everything except this one point... it seems a bit odd to refer to his retreat to Ecuador's embassy as "self-imposed house arrest". Surely he has a genuine and reasonable fear of being extradited to a country that
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by richmarr 11y ago
Yep. Poverty and the pathetically ineffective "War on Drugs" put them there, and the prison system's focus on punishment rather than rehabilitation keeps them imprisoned and/or reoffending. Imagine the economic effect of
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by richmarr 11y ago
No need for swearing, just don't include a cookie banner. Seriously, what's going to happen? Absolutely nothing. The ICO actually admitted as much in the UK. The cookie law is the result of tech-illiterates trying to inform other
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by richmarr 11y ago
When I see that discussion about basic income I am always wandering, who is going to pay for that? The typical justification is that it pays for itself in simplified management, improved education, lower crime, etc. I haven'
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by richmarr 11y ago
Well you can hardly blame them, the yam gods have really similar names and a downright byzantine rota system.
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by richmarr 11y ago
Fear of change is justifiable in my opinion; offense isn't. There are parts of any expertise that are formulaic, and by using the word "parts" I'm being generous to humankind. Should systems/ops folks be 'offen
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by richmarr 11y ago
I think you're reading too much... The author has thought about, analysed, and written an essay on this subject, using the word "minimum" regularly (including in the title) and not once gave a single nod to anyone ea
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by richmarr 11y ago
Love the diagram. One comment; I have a hard time not questioning why "Chinese" is presented as a single block here; many languages that are included under "Chinese" are mutually unintelligible. Other related-but-mutuall
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by richmarr 11y ago
Sure, you can minimise the relevance of the "discrepancy" and claim that the author isn't entitled, but the entire enterprise of this article is based on the premise of discovering whether these really are the "minimum&q

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