spacemanmatt

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by spacemanmatt 4y ago
Intelligence is a poor social construct on which to build social policy. We already know how to do better than that.
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by spacemanmatt 4y ago
The GI Bill had problems with racism [1]. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Bill#Racial_discriminatio...
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by spacemanmatt 4y ago
> shoveling children into furnaces https://thediplomat.com/2021/07/factory-fire-reveals-banglad...
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by spacemanmatt 4y ago
that lifetime ban on working for the Krogers may have represented a much bigger threat to Mr. Manager than it ever would to you
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by spacemanmatt 4y ago
I can't drive a mile without seeing a truck sporting a sticker of Calvin peeing on (competing brand truck logo) or praying to a cross. Or both.
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by spacemanmatt 4y ago
The boss is a bad actor because they have delegated leadership duties without any authority to make necessary changes. The boss is not able to judge technical talent.
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by spacemanmatt 4y ago
I can tell, and this is a familiar situation to me. It's hard to remember what a good environment is like when you have been exposed to dysfunction for a long time. I advocate good organizational health, and I can't do that indepe
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by spacemanmatt 4y ago
A couple of notes from my own history... When you are expert on a topic, try to convey your comfort with the topic by entertaining questions from others. This is the most honest form of bragging. Some people say "learn how to sell your
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by spacemanmatt 4y ago
This. Get into the office where you will be eligible for IT-related tasks instead of swinging a hammer.
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by spacemanmatt 4y ago
The Maverick is a bad actor. The copy-paster is a bad actor. The boss is a bad actor. Is it easier to turn this tide or get a better job?
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by spacemanmatt 4y ago
Tell your boss what everyone knows: This team sucks and it's the boss's fault for building a shitty team. This is a classic pattern, where you have a team in full dysfunction with a lead who is not empowered and a boss who is not
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by spacemanmatt 4y ago
That does it, I'm canceling all my BMW orders.
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by spacemanmatt 4y ago
criminally underrated comment here
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by spacemanmatt 4y ago
HN has weighed in against filming the police, now? I had no idea.
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by spacemanmatt 4y ago
To the extent that I understand anything, which is to say with all humbleness, incompletely, I'd say the most complex things I understand are: 1. human behavior 2. supply chains (arguably a subset of 1.) 3. distributed software systems
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by spacemanmatt 4y ago
Elvis was a hugely popular rock musician when there were still a lot of potential fans to convert to actual rock fans. Jon Stewart entered no such market for political talk shows. The format had long since saturated the market.
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by spacemanmatt 4y ago
HTMX kept making my radar until I learned React. Now I consider Next/Mithril/SolidJS ahead of HTMX. I'm not sure how legit it is to track the evolution of items I don't get around to trying. :)
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by spacemanmatt 4y ago
As a savage, I use 4 tabs now.
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by spacemanmatt 4y ago
I wish we could outlaw private schools.
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by spacemanmatt 4y ago
Same difference -- it was already quite a phenomenon. He didn't popularize anything.
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by spacemanmatt 4y ago
1. that is awesome 2. i'm exhausted just reading about all those builds
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by spacemanmatt 4y ago
Why do you think he was the first? I don't understand what kind of rock a person lives under to pretend like this was some undiscovered format The Daily Show pioneered.
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by spacemanmatt 4y ago
> More accurately: there is a landed (or otherwise wealthy) class in AZ that would rather not pay for public institutions they don't see the need for. It's important to understand that about most red states.
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by spacemanmatt 4y ago
Vouchers don't cover cost of special education. They are at least all disabled students left behind.
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by spacemanmatt 4y ago
I used to have some faith in the consistency of the appeals circuits but it has become a farce in my lifetime
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by spacemanmatt 4y ago
> Jon Stewart popularized the format of taking a subject and reducing it to a very narrow aspect, mocking it, and associating audience applause with “winning”. [citation required]
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by spacemanmatt 4y ago
> could be a neoliberal hack who blindly trusts in his party, like Biden So, I don't think Biden is exactly a hack but I do think he is a status-quo guy who doesn't understand when a long-term predictable plan makes him a sitti
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by spacemanmatt 4y ago
He and Colbert had routinely poked entirely un-ironic fun at their own formula, by way of poking fun at Republicans for writing their material for them. I could believe they understood exactly what they were doing.
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by spacemanmatt 4y ago
Compared to Biden, who I consider blissful, I do want someone angry. This country has some problems that demand motivated leadership.
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by spacemanmatt 4y ago
Jon definitely has some questionable moments but overall I think he'd make a good candidate.

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