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by trieste92 4y ago
But diet isn't the only data point here, pretty sure diet plus home state/region (maybe discernable from accent and/or surname) is likely enough to determine it
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by trieste92 4y ago
> I try to talk to my Indian colleagues about this and they stay extremely tight lipped about this for a multitude of reasons. I notice this too. It's like someone brings up caste discrimination online (somewhere like teamblind) and
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by trieste92 4y ago
> I don’t think this is woke, this is monopoly copyright maximizing for profit. A corporation redacting a work of art that they have a monopoly over to sell more copies? I mean, it's legal. At least until the government punishes Pen
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by trieste92 4y ago
Seeing a bunch of people here saying Penguin is "perfectly within their rights" to do this Likewise, the government is perfectly within their rights to punish Penguin for other, unrelated monopolistic behavior For any other book,
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by trieste92 4y ago
Something weird I noticed: the author keeps misspelling "Guardian" but does it in a different way every time There's the following: Gaurdian, Grauniad, Guarrdian What's the joke here? Is he referencing something?
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by trieste92 4y ago
One person is an airline, another person is a car... Not a very good comparison considering the basic needs of all people are practically the same: food, water, and shelter It's like you're saying that "impactful people"
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by trieste92 4y ago
> ignores big government funded all this tech and gifted it to private owners Where does this deification of government come from? The government funds the schools we went to, so now we have some eternal obligation to advocate for more g
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by trieste92 4y ago
> but it led to an internet where spam, hostility, nonsense etc can be filtered without worry or risk of consequence. No, it led to an internet where the listed things proliferate
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by trieste92 4y ago
Doesn't seem like it
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by trieste92 4y ago
> it's the Daily Mail for men. What is this supposed to mean?
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by trieste92 4y ago
You left out the full quote > She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling > She went to nineteenth century estates with Jane Austen. She went to Af
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by trieste92 4y ago
There's definitely more stuff going on in EU but I think Civ translates to multiplayer much better
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We’re All Living Under Gravity’s Rainbow(wired.com)
8 points by trieste92 4y ago|5 comments
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by trieste92 4y ago
I'm fine with an 100% wealth tax for anything over 30 million applied at a federal level > What's going to happen is that people with that kind of wealth just won't move to California Even more of a reason to introduce it
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by trieste92 4y ago
> And this is why is California is trying to get a 10 year exit tax on your income. Context: For net worth over 30 million Leaving this out is disingenuous
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by trieste92 4y ago
> Villages are not toxic. I highly highly doubt this
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by trieste92 4y ago
When I read this article, I get the impression that I'm watching a mass psychogenic illness unfold in real time Not a metaphorical one either, but a real MPI
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by trieste92 4y ago
I wonder how well this will age with the current legal climate and cloudiness around 230
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by trieste92 4y ago
> When we talk about violent forms of speech, this is what we mean. Actual crimes. If we're talking about actual crimes getting prosecuted, then what's the issue here? All I see is the law doing it's job Somebody got swatt
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by trieste92 4y ago
I hope people elsewhere don't have the same bullshit pseudo debates we have in usa...
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by trieste92 4y ago
> that are sufficiently credible to provoke a police response They do promote a police response because making a bomb threat is illegal in itself. Harassment is illegal in itself You don't need to redefine a bunch of words and do a
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by trieste92 4y ago
> morality of speech Where are you getting this morality business from? Free speech is how it's defined in law, in the USA that's the 1st Talking about "morality of speech" is just noise and deserves the quotation mar
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by trieste92 4y ago
> Some speech suppresses the speech of others Isn't this exactly what you're trying to do here? > Free speech isn't just about saying anything you want, it's also about maximizing the number of voices at the table
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by trieste92 4y ago
> The idea of a union is that it insulates you from being instantly punished for factors you might not be able to control a little better than the market is doing right now. Most people have good days and bad days. Any manager who's
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by trieste92 4y ago
> Usually that means something like getting a PIP and six weeks to improve performance. Is that such an unreasonable ask? Isn't this what parent took issue with? If you can't fire the underperformers, where's the incentive
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by trieste92 4y ago
> I'm currently suffering from a serious case of distrust and cynicism over anything related to medical health news, I wonder if this is widespread? I feel the same way but at this point it isn't suffering for me. I open nyt an
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by trieste92 4y ago
+1
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by trieste92 4y ago
> poor developers tend to try to make up for their perceived inadequacies by trying to look more professional in other ways (like behaving "professionally", dressing better, using marketingspeak on meetings, etc.) Don't fo
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by trieste92 4y ago
whether they're recording or not is one question whether they can find a needle in a lake sized haystack is another
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by trieste92 4y ago
Sample size is 3, sampling isn't random :)

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