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by thex10 9y ago
I find systems thinking an interesting subject but honestly I think it is more useful for people higher up (PMs, etc) and/or people whose primary work is more along the lines of strategizing and evaluation more than implementation
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by thex10 9y ago
> has no sign of going away due to the constant influx of young people willing to take it Why is the onus to change the industry on the inexperienced folk (who likely don't know any better) rather than the bosses/leadership who
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by thex10 9y ago
This is one functionality I wish Twitter included! I’d love for it to use some machine learning or whatnot to naturally group all the people I follow into several distinct lists.
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by thex10 9y ago
> But it seems to me they spend an awful lot more time talking and creating powerpoints than they do thinking. As far as I can tell, that's how they do their thinking!
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by thex10 9y ago
I happen to be very much like you (except I'm a cis woman, and my friends are usually not cis women), but my impression is that people like us are the exception, not the norm.
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by thex10 9y ago
Toys being abundant and cheaply available didn’t fix poverty.
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by thex10 9y ago
I'm with you both; my mom has the same unspecified affliction. I'd never seen her work, and she definitely seems incapable of it in the lazy/brat sense, at least back when we were younger. It did make me a little torn, becaus
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by thex10 9y ago
I find it a much better view of the transit layer, and I actually enjoy its navigation UX, but that's about it.
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by thex10 9y ago
Completely agree. I miss this capability so much. Now with cell phones we're 'always online' but in a weird way less available (well. way more of my messages get ignored now than did my AIM chats).
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by thex10 9y ago
Live somewhere great, have myself chauffeured everywhere, donate to some choice people.
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by thex10 9y ago
OK, are you going to support tax increases for it then?
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by thex10 9y ago
Did many folks feel forced to do that due to AIM? For those of us in households with one phone line, we couldn't even be online 24/7 even if we wanted to. I had no problem turning off the computer at many times of day and simply b
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by thex10 9y ago
Hi, I’m someone who happened to both grow up on welfare AND watch zero people close to me work any sort of job ever. Your comment reads to me as an implicit argument against UBI. Is that your case? Allow to me comment from an insider perspe
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by thex10 9y ago
Hi, I don't know about job listings, but you might be interested in Benefit Corporations[0] or B Corporations[1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefit_corporation#Difference... [1] https://en.wikipe
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by thex10 9y ago
Believe it or not, there are some folk who abhor all violence, for whom there is literally no situation where a weapon of arms sector level sophistication could be used for good. In this case, there's simply no justification for the ar
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by thex10 9y ago
This is a lazy statement. In reality it appears to depend on who "everyone" is. For example, "everyone's" "reasonable" photo of a mother breastfeeding is somebody's cause for banning.
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by thex10 9y ago
> Now people are weak, emotionally weak, so easily offended. Back in the day white Americans would throw a goddamn hissy fit if negroes drank out of the same public water fountain. They were so offended by the presence of these folks doi
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by thex10 9y ago
Has anyone tried holding the people who run public institutions there accountable for their failure?
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by thex10 9y ago
This aligns with a thread I read on this last night [0]. I'd never really thought about the advantages local organizations would have over national ones, but it makes sense. [0]: https://twitter.com/alexisgoldstein&#x2F
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by thex10 9y ago
Similar to Brunch but more opinionated is Jus. http://jus.js.org/ I really enjoyed using it, but alas I wanted a different Markdown loader (theirs is based off Github markdown, which doesn't support footnotes), so I sw
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by thex10 9y ago
I actually think his writing the document itself was not as disruptive as the resulting outrage and debate. I'm not a witch hunter but I'm flattered you want to assume I'm one simply because I'd rather hunker down and do
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by thex10 9y ago
To be honest I don't think I'd describe any of our prominent media as leftist. Maybe liberal? Maybe just neurotic. Whatever it is, what you're describing isn't really a left thing.
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by thex10 9y ago
> Skilled URM engineers who meet the Google hiring bar will find a place to work regardless of outreach efforts. I'm not so convinced that'd be true! If there are no concerted outreach efforts what's stopping the majority
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by thex10 9y ago
Have you met leftist organizers? No, it's still class-based.
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by thex10 9y ago
The people around me might be pondering all sorts of strange things - if they're not disrupting my life as they work through those thoughts then that is OK with me. I can mind my own business. I'm not really into the 'dig thr
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by thex10 9y ago
Maybe there's a relevant post in the archives of askamanager.com? Also aren't there many other white men around you that you could ask for advice?
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by thex10 9y ago
As a minority woman in tech I'm not bothered much by his document, but that's only because I don't work with this guy or folks like him. His manifesto doesn't pain me, but that's only because I have a secure job c
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by thex10 9y ago
Well, I'm not the least bit surprised - you don't just get to spam your colleague network with your non-work-related hot-button-topic nondeliverable and get anything productive out of it. If he's actually interested in the to
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by thex10 9y ago
Depends on the type of persecution you're concerned about. On what basis do you perceive being oppressed for existing as a white male at work?
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by thex10 9y ago
I was also going to say books. You could get books that aren't novels. For example, a book on how to do magic tricks, or a book about how the world works (e.g. earth science), or a book about different type of bridges, etc etc.

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