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by tharne 4y ago
> brother, wait until you find out about the gleaming metropolises, noble equity, and high academic standards of the red states. Brother, wait until you find out that Trumpism and Wokism are not the only ways to run a government.
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by tharne 4y ago
This is very excellent "non-advice". OP would do well to take it. Document everything, keep hard copies, and don't quit. -- edit -- Your employers EAP program should typically offer free legal consultations with a lawyer they
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by tharne 4y ago
You don't think having a DA who didn't believe in the mission of his own organization had any influence on police morale? Why would officers risk their safety arresting people they know the DA's office had no intention of cha
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by tharne 4y ago
> Ultra rich Americans absolutely love socialism ... for the ultra rich. Getting bailed out in 2009, having the central bank buy their broken assets in the bad times (they enjoyed the profits privately in the good ofc) The much more obvi
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by tharne 4y ago
This quote from the article could be the motto of progressive cities everywhere, it certainly applies to the ones near me: "...making the citizens of our city miserable in service of an ideology that made sense everywhere but in realit
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by tharne 4y ago
I think what you're saying is true in the best run businesses, but that's not what we're seeing right now. We're seeing cuts from business that were hiring like crazy a few weeks ago.
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by tharne 4y ago
Even a 20% cut tells you that management is incompetent. If you're a CEO and you can cut 20% of your staff without destroying the business, why on earth did you hire all those extra people and add all that expense in the first place? P
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by tharne 4y ago
> More employees also does not mean faster product development, every developer knows this is often the complete opposite. This is only true up to a point. Otherwise, every startup would be a one man show.
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by tharne 4y ago
> It's free from monstrous JS frameworks. More information, less apps. 100%. The craptastic-ness of the modern JS web is driving a broader resurgence in things you might call "indie web" or "retro web". In additi
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by tharne 4y ago
Also, this doesn't take into account the fact that people who get a 4 year degree are more likely to have parents who are well off. In a lot of ways a college degree is just a measure of your parent's socioeconomic status.
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> Norwegian researchers analyzed the IQ scores of Norwegian men born between 1962 and 1991 and found that scores increased by almost 3 percentage points each decade for those born between 1962 to 1975 Statements like this have always mad
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by tharne 4y ago
> If you own a house, you pay property taxes. That's not a benefit! I've got news for you. If you rent, you still pay property taxes, it just happens to be bundled with your rent. Saying you don't pay property taxes beca
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by tharne 4y ago
This is incorrect. Houses can be sold and folks can move in with family. Or, you can rent out the house, often at a profit. I know several people who have done this. Furthermore, in most places in the U.S. a mortgage payment is cheaper than
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by tharne 4y ago
At least one of the two characters will be disabled, and possibly autistic.
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by tharne 4y ago
Good grief, no need to take the comments of others in bad faith. What folks mean by "in your face", is the fact that these shows will throw in a bunch of woke characters as a substitute for actually writing a good show. Instead, t
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by tharne 4y ago
> Increasing pop politics seemingly shoe horned into everything I'd turn on This is exactly why I stopped watching Netflix.
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by tharne 4y ago
> Seriously though, as the article itself says, the problem was never even to identify these "crews". It was about the political will to do something about it. A big part of the problem is the police unions, which routinely pre
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by tharne 4y ago
Stop whining and vote with your feet. If you're talented enough to work for Apple, there are plenty of other wonderful companies out there that will happily let you work remotely. Not every company needs to have the exact same policies
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by tharne 4y ago
> The divide already exists. Talking about a union is just verbalizing your recognition of it. This divide only exists in somewhat dysfunctional workplaces. In most roles, I have not felt this division. A good manager is an ally and some
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by tharne 4y ago
It says a lot about where we are as a culture that we're here having even a semi-serious debate about whether or not it's good to make jokes. What a bunch of joyless puritans we've become :(
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by tharne 4y ago
> I think many people who run other Unix-like OSes don't always realize how much of the code they use regularly comes from the OpenBSD project, even if we don't often run OpenBSD directly. OpenBSD is a huge contributor to the U
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by tharne 4y ago
IQ is what prevents you from getting fired, EQ is what gets you promoted.
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by tharne 4y ago
> He seems to be equating "mating success" with "high number of sexual partners". I don't think this is reasonable. It's not a perfect equivalence, but it's more than reasonable, c'mon man.
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by tharne 4y ago
You're the first person in this comments section who seems to know how the world works.
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by tharne 5y ago
> No, they just don't want to get fired This is exactly right.
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by tharne 5y ago
They are very pro free speech, so you tend to get more interesting (and potentially more heretical) writers compared to other platforms.
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by tharne 5y ago
In most of these discussions we're using "bias" completely wrong. I frequently see processes that result in a disproportionate negative outcome for a particular group referred to as "biased". This is not what biased
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by tharne 5y ago
> Congratulations. You just discovered "the price of something is what someone is willing to pay for it", not its actual utility. There's a some truth to this comment, but only some. Your comment also accurately describe
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by tharne 5y ago
This is a brilliant explanation of financialisation.
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by tharne 5y ago
He wrote about it in: David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

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