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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
Hey, Russian genocides can never match the sheer killing power of American efforts to bring democracy to various parts of the world. And the Yanks have better marketing. Putin is jealous.
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
Let me point out the fly in the ointment: in the enlightened SF Bay Area high-flying tech workers who would never dare be associated with anything less than 100% liberal leanings... still send their own kids to private schools rather than a
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
I think you got your timelines mixed up in your effort to portray me as a neo-Nazi. I know Russians are responsible for everything wrong in the world ever, but when I say that there is a rich tradition of antisemitism in Europe, I mean sinc
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
You're thinking https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzhokhar_Dudayev Fascinating man, really. If you do read the article - notice that while he resigned rather than follow orders to suppress a rebellion in Estonia, a
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
Yes, I speak from first hand experience. I have family and friends in Russia. Nobody in my circles is a racist. If someone would speak of a "churka" I'd be concerned for my friend and try to get them to see a psychiatrist.
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
Antisemitism in Europe has a long history stemming from the church wanting to paint Jews as "Christ-killers" and "other". There was a much more famous and murderous contemporary antisemitic movement in Germany. Singlin
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
Yes, like all propaganda, the Western version is great at producing catchphrases. The Iron Curtain. The Axis of Evil. The Prison of Nations. Or, self-referentially, the White Man's Burden and Manifest Destiny. For internal consump
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
The matters of race occupy a much smaller percentage of the brains of people outside of the USA. I say this completely without malice. It simply means that the trauma of segregation is still too raw in American society. The rest of your s
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
And yet Itanium flopped.
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
Umm, the COVID response itself was just as much a religion as it was science. There were people walking nature trails with nobody around with their masks securely on their faces. There were requirements for people whose job was to sit in
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
Humblebrag much? Do you think your employees are where they are in life because they aren't willing to do uncomfortable things? Or because they follow their interests too much?
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
Corporate espionage targeting an open-source project?
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
You drastically overestimate the value and skill of the average code monkey (and I include myself in this illustrious 10% sitting at a typewriter all day).
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
Capitalism babies seem to have forgotten that somebody needs to actually pay them for the stuff they peddle. Unfortunately, that part of the deal takes a while to kick in and initially VC money creates the illusion that they can fire every
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
Let's be clear: invalidating someone's life experience based on your misrepresentation of something they said is not cool. Even if bullying remains a fixture in one's life, having something to look forward to after the hell t
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
It's kind of funny: the land of the free is seemingly too brainwashed to take a joke.
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
Well, there's currently this little conflict going on that had the president call on the National Guard. And a certain governor apparently sided with the rioters and decided to... sue? ... and reading this probably just made steam com
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
And few countries are as split into two warring camps as the United States of America.
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
A government that runs the richest city in the country (SF trades this spot with NY every few years) and makes it look the way it does is the definition of dysfunction. And Detroit... well, I guess now that they've bulldozed all the ab
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
Well, this is a very one-sided take. Imagine being a dev tasked with evaluating a product that makes you look redundant and also costs the company license fees in perpetuity. Whereas building a homegrown solution ensures that you keep you
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
That's... what I said. The entire office was likely seen as "staff augmentation" rather than strategic.
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
> Will you, as this author has described, find a comfortable position in life, be able to afford whatever you need? Absolutely. Only when the times are good, as many of us had to learn the hard way. When times are tough and there aren&#x
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
If you weren't offered a relocation package, then you probably weren't actually valued. Probably along with the entire office in the country.
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
Depends on whether you want a say in the direction of the trench you are digging, or just want to dig from here until quitting time.
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
It's most likely not C/C++ per se, but rather the eleventy billion ways different projects build these libraries. Bazel for example builds everything in a well-contained sandbox and it all works, but only for the C/C++ librar
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
Self-reflection seems to be a more computationally expensive task than decision making. The human computer increases its power differently than the accepted mythology suggests. First, the human computer it not an individual brain, it'
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
"Outsized" doesn't mean "small", it means "much more than you would expect out of something so small and cheap".
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
So it makes sense then: there are two parties. The center is the imaginary line in the middle. One of the parties is center-left, the other is center-right. Logic! :)
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
Or you just fund a celebrity-driven defamation campaign against the supporters of the stadium (or detractors, depending on yours side). Faster and more effective.
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by riehwvfbk 1y ago
Oh, you'll still get dingdongs, in addition to the flower shop. Ever attended something like an HOA meeting? It'll be something like that. There will still be the local "dictator" mod coming up with a new rule for what

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