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by tharne 4y ago
> Madison Avenue may disagree about the statement about creative people. It was a joke :) I don't think any reasonable person believes that NYC is devoid of good-looking and creative people.
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> When I meet someone like the author, I always ask them if I can search their house, after all they have nothing to hide. Somehow nobody ever accepted my offer. I do the same thing with their phones. I ask them to unlock their phone an
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by tharne 4y ago
> This could only have been naively said 12 years ago. To me, this is cowardice. Exactly. This is 100% cowardice. It's the mentally of a broken man who's too beaten to fight anymore. Very depressing.
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> The guy is walking hyperbole, I will never understand why so many people idolize him. People admire those who put their morals before personal gain, which is exactly what RMS has done. With his intelligence and academic pedigree, he ea
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by tharne 4y ago
There are of a lot stories of these self-proclaimed "male feminists" turning out to be total creeps and true misogynists. The lady doth protest too much me thinks.
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> I'm just surprised you're making such a fuss about a ten year old in a dark room. Pretty sure that was just being used as an example to underscore a broader point. No need to nitpick.
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> Something needs to be done to monetize journalism online that doesn't depend on ads. Why? If every news organization in the country shutdown tomorrow very few people would care, and a lot of us might even be thankful for the reduc
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Yes, please!
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Whoops, my bad. That makes your previous comment look even worse though, not better.
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> Unless you're from the ruling class, we are all largely in the same boat in the end. At least in the U.S., both major political parties will do everything in their power to prevent the majority of people from realizing this.
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Our morals are driven much more by a desire to fit in and be liked by others than by a sincere search for truth.
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> (I am not your lawyer, this is not legal advice.) Good thing you're not a lawyer and this not legal advice because what you're suggesting is in a legal gray area at best.
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by tharne 4y ago
Nope. Low-code/node as the future of software development is the new "Year of the Linux Desktop". Always right around the corner, but somehow never here.
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My gut says it's worse than the numbers here suggest. I've been in more than one situation where no one outright said "Don't hire any more white men", but they made themselves clear nonetheless. The 'ole, &quot
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The only glib statement in this conversation is yours. You're trying to dismiss someone's point on the grounds that it doesn't align with your political views.
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Nothing to balance here. Discrimination is wrong or it isn't. If you're using race or gender as a factor when hiring you're in the wrong.
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This puritanical mindset is part of the reason we've made so little progress on things like climate change. When you're first recommendation is for people to live more impoverished lives, don't be surprised when your ideas do
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by tharne 4y ago
The usual stuff - gold, silver, real estate.
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The numbers are a lie, or at the very least, vastly understate the impact. For example, if I used to buy grass-fed beef, but am now buying the grade D crap because prices are so high, that doesn't get captured in the inflation numbers.
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That's because Twitter is not a real place.
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In the U.S. the main answer to this question is Health Insurance. The U.S. Health Insurance market is designed around the idea that your company pays (in part) for your health insurance. Most plans available to individuals are complete garb
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by tharne 4y ago
Theoretically, yes software could. In the real world, adding software to most things just makes them more complex and worse.
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That's why I think long-term, ransomeware attacks could actually be a good thing for online security. Companies have to pay an attacker real money to get their operations back up, instead of just having to send some bs "mea culpa&
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by tharne 4y ago
> Yawn, can’t wait for this bs platform gets ran off. “Freedom of speech” bs is exhausting I think your comment is bs. If you didn't want to hear about "Freedom of speech", you wouldn't have clicked on this story and
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This is exactly right. The other thing is that the only way to guarantee free speech to everyone who deserves it is by going a little too far and giving it people we think don't deserve it.
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> You don’t need to be into alt-righters to to know that freedom can only exist if we all have it. More people need to understand this point. Folks don't realize that we're easily corrupted by power and that sooner or later it
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by tharne 4y ago
> LOL, wait until you hear about ERISA and learn that everything you just said is wrong for most employee insurance plans and that you can't even get damages when they act in bad faith. We may be talking past each other here. I was
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Any time and place other than a funeral or memorial service would be a good start. I can't believe there are adults here arguing that it's somehow ok to crash someone's funeral or memorial service to hurl insults at their rel
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> The state shouldn't get to declare mandatory solemnity. Of course they can - for example, remembering those who died in a terrorist attack, victims of genocide, victims of the diseases such as the AIDS epidemic, etc. Lots of group
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by tharne 4y ago
> Every officially designated 'pro free speech warrior' I've seen in recent times has been strongly for authoritarianism if it suits their agenda. Huge sweeping claim, with exactly nothing to back it up.

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