trowawee

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by trowawee 6y ago
Wage theft comprises, by some estimates, about 75% of all theft in the United States each year[1]. A brief perusal of television news or newspapers in any city in this country will make it immediately apparent that the crime that corporate
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by trowawee 6y ago
No one has “built wealth completely on their own”. Every rich person, in every country on earth, has in some way been assisted in building their wealth, whether that’s directly, like Bezos getting $250k from his parents (nearly half a milli
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by trowawee 6y ago
This was not at all historically true. White business owners all over the South publically and vociferously supported segregation. The White Citizens Councils we're usually organized and led by wealthy white people in the community, fr
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by trowawee 6y ago
I think requesting the most charitable reading of something that starts from a decidedly uncharitable position is an unfair request. If cscurmudgeon wanted to have a real conversation about it, they could do their own research; this informa
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by trowawee 6y ago
Are you yourself higher caste? Being a member of the group that isn't discriminated against frequently makes it harder to see the discrimination. My wife is Indian-American, and her parents are a mixed-caste marriage; I've seen ca
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by trowawee 6y ago
"post-Truth", "virtue signalling", and "accept the narrative unquestioningly" are all (barely) coded flags to say "This thing doesn't exist/isn't true." Following those up with "I&
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by trowawee 6y ago
I've been sorta keeping an eye on the space for a long time, because the dream for me would be to get the biggest iPad and have that be my full-time machine. Currently (well, pre-pandemic), my work laptop just moved from being docked o
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by trowawee 6y ago
I mean, that's not a dick move tho? Going "on background" or "off the record" is not a one-way conversation. It's a negotiation with the journalist. It's not a magical invocation that binds the other party
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by trowawee 6y ago
> I feel pretty strongly that, assuming you care about the art and creating things then Valve is a blueprint of how exactly not to do it, hang on let me finish. > Building Steam was a genius business move, it has basically given them
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by trowawee 6y ago
Yeah, I think the complaint was that Valve is/was theoretically flat, in that people could self-manage, but in practice, it had an implicit hierarchy that was obscured by the officially "flat" structure (which, let's be
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by trowawee 6y ago
American taxpayers contributed at least $70m to the development of this drug[0] and our reward is to be gouged by Gilead. It's the exact same shit they've pulled with Truvada[1] and it's grotesque. [0]: https://www
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by trowawee 6y ago
I'm interested when I see this critique, because I definitely agree with you, but I also see a strong bias against new pedagogical approaches like Common Core math that focus more on teaching concepts like numerical composability and l
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by trowawee 6y ago
For starters, I'm a little disappointed that that's the only thing you decided to engage with. That said: this isn't actually terribly complicated. This isn't medical malpractice, where some degree of risk is an inevitab
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by trowawee 6y ago
It's honestly even worse than that in some ways, because we were still pretty actively adding to/changing the rules as recently as the late 1960s, and then we just kinda...stopped.
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by trowawee 6y ago
To address your first point, there're a constellation of relevant answers. 1. Most people who dislike or distrust the police don't actually trust those numbers. There are decades worth of documented evidence of police lying about
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by trowawee 6y ago
True. And looking at their comment history, this "What about black-on-black crime?!" seems to be a recurring bit over the last few weeks whenever people here talk about police brutality. Still, I think it's worthwhile to name
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by trowawee 6y ago
It is completely irrelevant. It's like responding to "It's raining today" with "It was sunny last week". At best, it's a non-sequitur, at worst it's an active attempt to distract from the conversation
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by trowawee 6y ago
> "[...] justifiably or not [...] extrajudicial and unjust tactics are used" ...how could this be justifiable?
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by trowawee 6y ago
Bringing up "black-on-black crime" is a common disingenuous tactic to distract from conversations about police brutality. Most violence is committed by people you're around, and in an intensely segregated country, that will u
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by trowawee 6y ago
Well, you choosing to donate your time and effort to an open source project is really not analogous to a union's work improving workplaces, but! As it so happens I do believe that having huge swathes of the tech industry built on unpai
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by trowawee 6y ago
Yeah, this is a complaint that a contract they signed had a clause they didn't like. Which...tough? You always have the option to not attend the trade show, or try to negotiate the contract. Sounds like they publicized the rules well i
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by trowawee 6y ago
You have your causation backwards there. If you look at virtually every metro area in the US, the history goes: dense core -> policy decisions to favor cars above everything else, usually with a healthy dose of racism tossed in -> sub
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by trowawee 6y ago
If you benefit from the union's work, you should absolutely have to pay for that work.
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by trowawee 6y ago
Chicagoan here; we also don't need a tank or a humvee and probably don't need a chopper.
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by trowawee 6y ago
I was curious what the City Journal was, so I looked it and the Manhattan Institute up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Institute_for_Policy... . Worthwhile reading for anyone wondering where the original piece
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by trowawee 6y ago
Well...yeah. That's the whole point of deniable operations: when they go to hell, you can pretend they were the work of some rogue operators. Every time one of these goes sideways, the US government tries to wash its hands of the insti
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by trowawee 6y ago
Some special forces guys believing they were sufficiently individually bad-ass enough to bluff their way into a country and overthrow a government, ignoring intelligence to the contrary, and then everything going to shit in an objectively
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by trowawee 6y ago
I actually turned the game on and parked my avatar in front of the anchovy tank for most of the morning every day this week while I worked from the couch. It's incredibly soothing.
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by trowawee 6y ago
I don't think people necessarily disagree, but I also think that the benefits of that are limited by human biases and tendencies toward clique-ish behaviors, and that hurts both the people who inevitably get left out of those events an
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by trowawee 7y ago
No you don't. No one is pushing to break up Basecamp, or LinkedIn, or even companies that have actual documented histories of anticompetitive practices, like Oracle. I haven't even heard much chatter about breaking up Apple, altho

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