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by yedava 4y ago
One example is the loss of freedom to own what we buy. We have been slowly moving towards to future where we own nothing, and merely lease stuff. Smartphones are kind of already there - utterly locked down, with a walled garden of apps. Car
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by yedava 4y ago
Seeing the grand ambitions of these 'builders', the first thing that pops up in my mind is, how do I protect my freedoms from these people? The only political power I have is a vote and some measly donations to candidates who have
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by yedava 4y ago
I think we should start teaching kids to recognize the myriad ways technology is used to steal the most valuable thing they can have - time. Like when I open Netflix I want to continue watching from where I had stopped, but Netflix keeps je
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by yedava 4y ago
More than the language, it's the culture of the organization that matters. You could be working for a company that uses a 'modern' language like Typescript, but then restricts you to using UI components built by a central tea
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by yedava 4y ago
Once a code base gets big enough to be larger than a handfuls of files, a text editor just won't be able to keep up with the refactoring/reorganizing capabilities of a statically typed language managed by an IDE. This feature of J
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by yedava 4y ago
I wish there was a way to quantify the externalities of "success" of this kind. How many developers had to burnout? How many relationships had to suffer, or never even had a chance to bloom because "success" didn't
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by yedava 4y ago
I think this attitude about "bad judgement" needs to evolve. We need to consider whether a worker's profane tirade is a reflection of their judgement or a reflection of working under an extremely abusive boss.
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Adam Neumann’s New Company Gets a Big Check from Andreessen Horowitz(nytimes.com)
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by yedava 4y ago
From the article: > when you’ve got people who are caste privileged and caste oppressed, the people who are caste oppressed start to be given inferior assignments, get treated differently, left out of meetings, which are certainly things
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by yedava 4y ago
Caste discrimination is not a "subjective experience", however much your subjective experience maybe telling you so.
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Cities Aren’t Built for Kids(theatlantic.com)
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by yedava 4y ago
Aside from last names, diet is a big giveaway. If someone is vegetarian, it is highly likely that they come from the so called "upper" castes. In certain interpretations of Hinduism, which are now becoming the dominant ones in Ind
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by yedava 4y ago
I think it is possible to entertain the notion that these laws are not some inviolable physical property of the Universe, but something we made up and so are also something we can undo.
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Why the 2020 census has 9 fake people in a single house(fullstackeconomics.com)
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Monopolies Take a Fifth of Your Wages(mattstoller.substack.com)
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International airlines suspend some US flights over 5G issue(lite.cnn.com)
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The Purdue Bankruptcy Didn’t Work(bloomberg.com)
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Amazon still isn't doing enough to stop bait-and-switch reviews(fullstackeconomics.com)
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by yedava 5y ago
>Not to mean there was no social hierarchy in India, but the rigid birth based system we have today is the handiwork of the British social engineering. That is not true. Caste endogamy goes back a long ways[1] before the Brits. 1. https
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California plans to turn the screws on NIMBY cities(fullstackeconomics.com)
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Too Big to Sail: How a Legal Revolution Clogged Our Ports(mattstoller.substack.com)
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by yedava 5y ago
Yes, you're right. I had decriminalization in mind, but maybe chose the incorrect word. And to elaborate on the prosecution part, in the wake of #MeToo, a lot of people came out with their stories, but not many of them pursued a legal
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by yedava 5y ago
> 41% reported sexual assault This is from a group of sex workers who appear to be screening their clientele. I wonder how high the number would be among sex workers who don't have the same amount of financial safety net that someon
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by yedava 6y ago
I don't think 'mobility' is a factor for squats. If you think you have bad mobility, try the low bar squat where the back is more horizontal at the bottom of the squat. I have a great deal of difficulty squatting with a verti
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by yedava 6y ago
The any number of flame wars that techies have (like editor X vs Y, operating system A vs B) should put to rest any assertions of us privileging knowledge over emotions.
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by yedava 6y ago
Eugenicists work backwards from a conclusion - that their race is superior. So they look for or invent measures that only their race exhibits. So why would they even measure height? They know other races can be just as tall their own race.
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by yedava 6y ago
As a profit generating mechanism, bullshit jobs work out just fine. So the enterprising capitalist has already taken advantage.
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by yedava 6y ago
Given that most of our jobs are 'Bullshit Jobs'[1], I guess it doesn't really matter if we are 'productive' or 'creative' enough. WFH can give us real productive time elsewhere - like spending time with fa
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by yedava 6y ago
There is a lot of violent policing in India on who you are allowed to marry. Even if two consenting adults chose to marry, one of their families or both may not like it. These families then take it upon themselves to do everything in their
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by yedava 6y ago
Yes, it is discrimination as the premise is that "merit" is inborn and fixed. So the fact that someone came in through affirmative action is trotted out as incontrovertible evidence that they are of inferior birth aka an inferior

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