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by shredprez 6y ago
I'm not sure how to interpret this comment... it seems to me people on the "wrong side" of a constructed power imbalance are often the first to question the validity of the construct. Can you elaborate?
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by shredprez 6y ago
I'm not sure where you got the impression I got that impression. Simply pointing out the obvious: if you follow my advice to leave unhealthy work environments and find yourself facing repeated trouble, it's worth considering wheth
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by shredprez 6y ago
Yeah, this just isn't true. Plenty of fun to be had, plenty of candid perspective sharing, plenty of drinking with coworkers. If your coastal corp doesn't have these things, get out of there. And if you find yourself getting &quot
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by shredprez 6y ago
What's the best metric for metric quality?
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by shredprez 7y ago
I think you’ll appreciate ColorHunt, a wonderful 4-tone palette library (no relationship to the site, just a happy user). https://colorhunt.co/
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by shredprez 7y ago
Rarely! They're mainly collateral damage that gets hurt during the downturn AND the upswing.
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by shredprez 7y ago
Yelp! Try clicking "read more" on any review in a mobile browser and see what happens.
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by shredprez 7y ago
Do you even maximize your grey matter volume, bro?
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by shredprez 7y ago
I think I've gotten a different impression. There's definitely a casual use of the word "addict" that is well-understood to be different than clinical, destructive addiction. And that destruction is obviously where the d
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by shredprez 7y ago
Ah, scare quotes. How about: Oracle: "Co-Ceo Mark Hurd Has Died"
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by shredprez 7y ago
Hopefully folks like yourself have a seat at the table when it comes time to define "positive outcomes."
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by shredprez 7y ago
Incentivizing profit on elective credulity is a great way to drain tons of consumptive (and second-order productive) capacity out of your economy to the benefit of the ethically bankrupt. "Idiots deserve to suffer" is a shaky asse
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by shredprez 7y ago
Agreed. That's what Epstein's private jet was for.
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by shredprez 7y ago
> A few years ago, I did not realize that new grads at companies were being paid more than I was! I switched companies to fix that. To everyone chiming in with how wild the salaries are, this is really the point. If you're doing com
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by shredprez 7y ago
Near term, the radical contraction or failure of most businesses that directly or indirectly depend on consumerism and over-consumption as the prevailing social behavior. In America, that's a lot of businesses. In China, that's a
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by shredprez 7y ago
> the scale of our folly of consumerism and over-consumption Consumerism, over-consumption, and the economic growth these behaviors drive are impossible to eliminate without crippling the global economy. But I think there actually is a w
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by shredprez 7y ago
Also, just to throw another opinion into this dumpster fire: I had to get a new laptop, knew I was getting a 2019 MBP, and was terrified the keyboard experience would be horrendous due to the coverage I see on the topic here. And it isn&#x2
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by shredprez 7y ago
> Middle management is often desperately trying to justify their job by creating purposeful confusion. I swear he's trying to trip me up looking for reasons to put marks on my record. Or he, like most of us, is primarily self-intere
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by shredprez 7y ago
>The internet has been ruined by the mainstream and the money grubbers. Predatory practical monopolies and outdated labor laws functioning as intended. This is one of the under-appreciated aspects of capitalism: the profit motive encoura
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by shredprez 7y ago
Every time this wanders across the front page of HN, I wonder: What are the chances this is more a description of the murkiness or opacity of a dark sea (compared to water near the shore) rather than the literal color of the water?
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by shredprez 7y ago
I think it's meaningful to draw another line between the kind of casual value enforcement you see in day to day life (which, in my experience, is generally reasonable and mild) and the enforcement you see by zealot communities online (
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by shredprez 7y ago
Here's an Epstein explainer they published in 2015: https://gawker.com/billionaire-pervert-jeffrey-epstein-and-h...
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by shredprez 7y ago
>Look out for the situation where you or someone must "hold their tongue." If you must hold your tongue, you are being suppressed by people with unchecked power approaching the epistemic breakdown. If you feel others should &qu
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by shredprez 7y ago
Totally agree. It's a pulpy show (hacker noir?), but the shifting pace and focus throughout the three seasons that have aired have consistently kept me entertained. Corny earnestness aside, I think it does a great job exploring the ten
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by shredprez 7y ago
I’m genuinely on board with most of this, but it reads like satire. On topic, it is wild how dated even brand new car consoles feel. Luxury brands do a bit better, but it’s still worse than my phone. Where do I sign up to overhaul vehicle U
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by shredprez 8y ago
A little background: you are more or less describing the author of the blog post! That’s the interesting thing about being a coder who designs, the tooling on both sides always lets you down at least a little. Having that wider context is w
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by shredprez 8y ago
If I were to describe how I want to be treated: I don’t want to have to ask to be touched by someone whose touch I want. Having the touch come unbidden is exciting and satisfying. But I don’t want to be touched by someone who’s touch is rep
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by shredprez 8y ago
Piggybacking on my similarly basic understanding of wave-particle duality: it is literally both, and the mode of measurement is what causes the superposition to collapse into one state or another. In other words, you can “force” a superposi
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by shredprez 8y ago
I don't believe this fear involves "the truth." The fear is that a true thing (there are cognitive differences between men and women) will be used to bolster a lie (men and women should be excluded from varying industries bas
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by shredprez 8y ago
Biological cognitive differences (real or not) have traditionally been applied to exclude people from work, opportunities, and liberty that, in a free society, everyone should have the chance to access. I get the sense there is a fear that

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