todd_whitehead

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by todd_whitehead 12y ago
We shouldn't. I don't vote because I don't delude myself into thinking that I'm informed, or that it's possible for me to be reasonably informed. We should minimize the amount of decisions people make about governme
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by todd_whitehead 12y ago
The democratic recourse is that you stop using it. You can opt-in and opt-out; there is no institution coercing you into using it. Why should we expect that 99/100 people have anything insightful to say about currency? Even the person
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by todd_whitehead 12y ago
"Attack" has violent connotations; so does "harsh." There is more to language than prescriptive definitions. Have you heard of "meaning as use", Wittgenstein's "motto"? The first half of my colle
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by todd_whitehead 12y ago
People like him should be "attacked", if you want to dilute the meaning of "attacked" to include non-violent criticisms of character. If he's going to litter his article with first person pronouns and make it person
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by todd_whitehead 12y ago
This is a very disappointing article. It's a regurgitation of cliches. "Education is about critical thinking and 'self enrichment'; Steve Jobs was a Prophet; Mark Zuckerberg is a Public Hero" -- how much was the aut
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by todd_whitehead 12y ago
It's a PR nightmare because money-grubbing journalists realize the amount of money they make is a linear function of the amount of "controversy" they can produce. Take Ferguson, for example. I would fund anyone with a good pr
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by todd_whitehead 12y ago
Who cares if he is racist? I don't. It is the most irrelevant thing to talk about. An operating system cannot be racist. Consider a career in HR if you like being so ridiculously petty.
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by todd_whitehead 12y ago
I largely agree now -- in fact I think that women and men (since it's the 21st century and all types of people go on maternity leave) should be able to go on paid maternity leave. The leave will be funded by all corporations for soci
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by todd_whitehead 12y ago
Why should someone be paid for adding nothing of value to a company (by being on maternity leave)?