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by salt-thrower 5y ago
Doesn’t this happen in almost every country that hosts the Olympics? If my city were proposed as a site for the games I would oppose it as much as possible.
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
I would tell them “no, I am not in another recruitment process at this time.” There doesn’t seem to be a good reason to claim that you’re still interviewing somewhere else.
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
Well said, and great counter-example. People in this thread think "progressive" means "vaguely liberal west coast city," regardless of actual policy, economic systems or the broader context of what's going on in the
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
Can you describe more of what you mean by that? What part of letting the richest companies on earth set up shop in your city and using little to none of that wealth to establish helpful social programs is progressive?
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
Any examples you'd like to bring up? It's far more common for politicians to claim to be progressive up until the point of assuming office, only to revert to status-quo business as usual afterwards. Obama is the most famous recent
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
So laying it solely at the feet of politicians is the real answer? SF has seen a massive accumulation of capital and influx of wealthy residents to its housing market over an incredibly short time span. Huge changes in material conditions l
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
How is massive consolidation of wealth for VCs and unicorn startups, fueled by a speculative investment environment, seen as "progressive?"
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
Perhaps "life ruining" is an exaggeration but losing your job for discussing the effectiveness of different protest tactics is an insane knee-jerk reaction made by the people who fired him. He clearly agreed with the movement and
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
Yup. I mentioned this in another comment but one of the key problems is the discrepancy between the impact tweets really have, and the ease with which Twitter allows you to post them. Any social media is designed to maximize engagement, so
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
The searchable digital record is the key difference. Statements out loud to one or more people are often: A) tailored to that audience, B) carry much more context than a piece of text on a screen, and C) are a way of growing and exploring n
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
You're being downvoted, presumably because of the idea that "if you don't say anything stupid, you'll be fine." And yet acceptably edgy jokes from 10 years ago can easily become dumpster fires of controversy today.
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
Spot-on. The "problem statement" the author makes is woefully out of touch. I don't think it's too negative to take issue with the tone and inaccuracy of OP's article. I'd love to be interested in a new type of
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
> The terminal isn’t built for how modern software engineers work Have you done user research to confirm this assumption? I love the terminal. And I'm not some ancient dev who's been around since the terminal was invented - I&#
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
It's more a complaint about the commodification of meditation itself, one cause of which is the app's marketing angle.
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
It's nice to see a renewed public interest in meditation driving the trend of new meditation apps, but I feel that most of the apps miss the point. The act of meditating is marketed as an individualistic, prescriptive activity for stre
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
Any time I see a headline is from the Economist I go straight to the comments for the inevitable rebuttal of their oversimplifications or outright bias. Appreciate the book recommendation; just ordered it.
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
"You get what you pay for"
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
You can also "hibernate" your account to disable it completely until you log in again. I just did this; my go-forward strategy will be to resurface and collect connections anytime I switch jobs, then hibernate it again when I no l
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
You don't have half a million dollars invested in the thing you claim to be, to then blow. Unlike a VC or this coin. That analogy doesn't work.
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
A VC publicly saying "I don't spend money on coke" as a marketing tactic and then getting busted doing just that would make the news. Much like a coin that claims "this coin is stable and its value is tied to USD" g
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
This is the kind of sentiment that watching too many Alex Jones documentaries will give you. It's funny that you think places like America, which can't even manage to legislate sensible climate-saving policies, would ever get to
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by salt-thrower 5y ago
> So far I think none of their statues have been torn down because of the fact Even Abraham Lincoln's statue got torn down in Portland, OR last year. Not because he was a slaveowner but because he oversaw expulsion of Native America