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by zorpner 11y ago
America has -- just not in living memory. The single greatest contributor to the absurd American prosperity of the first half of the 20th century is the mysterious extinction of the Rocky Mountain locust, leaving North America the only maj
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by zorpner 11y ago
The disrespectful part is discovering that you've been laid off via a side effect of the layoff, rather than being told by a person. It's true that layoffs are (even more) difficult and complex in the case of a remote employee, bu
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by zorpner 11y ago
the emotional state of a listener is the responsibility of the speaker The desire for consequence-free speech is hypocritical in the extreme, as it requires that others refrain from speech in order that you may suffer no consequences for
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by zorpner 11y ago
Ok, we reverted to the original title plus a representative phrase from the article. It combines the clickbait of the original title with a specific industry term that people will have to look up separately! I genuinely don't unders
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by zorpner 11y ago
Huh, I've actually been wanting something like this for my Macbook for travel (since the USB-C cable is charge-only anyways, it doesn't do me a lot of good for it to have two ends -- I'm not going to be plugging it into untru
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Disparities in Cumulative Environmental Health Impacts in California(ajph.aphapublications.org)
1 points by zorpner 11y ago|0 comments
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by zorpner 11y ago
Exploitation of marginal utility is fundamentally disconcerting, and it should be -- as tech people, we could think of it as being paid for time spent in a chair, or lines of code. It exploits an inefficiency which exists because of an abs
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by zorpner 11y ago
The idea that technical aptitude and social/humanistic aptitude are orthogonal is bizarre, especially in the context of someone designing something to be used by other people. The intentional obtuseness and unfriendliness of the urbit
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by zorpner 11y ago
Sean Forman indicates that their suggestion to Adblock users to whitelist was explicitly blocked: https://twitter.com/sean_forman/status/644580617208864768
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by zorpner 11y ago
A private sale between two parties is not distribution.
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by zorpner 11y ago
I made the mistake of buying a used router that was managed by a ISP. ... Who owns this hardware? I bought it. I paid for it. Its in my house. This argument breaks down when you're not talking about the manufacturer -- at the time th
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Surly: Our Own Two Wheels(surlybikes.com)
1 points by zorpner 11y ago|0 comments
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by zorpner 11y ago
I was under the impression that they were pointing out the mechanisms responsible for the evident pay gap. What do you think they were attempting to communicate?
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by zorpner 11y ago
Exactly! A big part of the problem is that women aren't promoted as often and much of the work they're expected to do (admin tasks, coordination that falls outside the scope of their official title) isn't accounted for in es
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by zorpner 11y ago
It's easy enough for you to Google up the details. The "issue" wasn't with the content but with their labeling -- they only included the California Prop 65 warning on their website, not on the product packaging (which t
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Twitter Bias: When Men Talk Tech and Women Talk Diversity(recode.net)
2 points by zorpner 11y ago|1 comments
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by zorpner 11y ago
(clearly a 1st ed) Heh. Don't believe everything you read, kid.
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by zorpner 11y ago
Relevant: https://twitter.com/danbarker/status/439125570115223552
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by zorpner 11y ago
It's exhausting to keep having this same conversation over and over, but I suppose that's the purpose of comments like yours. Look at the graduation rates for women and minorities from CS programs; then look at the industry partic
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Kaspersky Lab Statement on Reuters Article(usa.kaspersky.com)
3 points by zorpner 11y ago|0 comments
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Bad comments are a system failure(medium.com)
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Trigger Warnings(katenonesuch.com)
2 points by zorpner 11y ago|1 comments
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Over-generalizer, know thyself.
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by zorpner 11y ago
Technical skill is systemically undervalued, by people who preferentially hire other people who look like them, went to school with them, and don't make them uncomfortable. Diversity increases average technical ability, every way you
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by zorpner 11y ago
You have a serious confounding factor in that urban density correlates highly with liberal political views, at least in America.
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by zorpner 11y ago
Thank you for letting me know, and I'll use their preferred pronoun in the future.
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The Habitable Epoch of the Early Universe(arxiv.org)
4 points by zorpner 11y ago|0 comments
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by zorpner 11y ago
I assume what the GP is referring to is that nothing prevents a satisfied Homejoy customer from exchanging contact information with their cleaner (and, if they do like the cleaner, they would benefit from doing so rather than taking on futu
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by zorpner 11y ago
Despite your numerous edits, you've missed the point entirely, which is that the GP posited that the reason the class tends towards homogeneity is its difficulty. The implication is that minorities are not as smart. I really didn&#x2
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by zorpner 11y ago
You really check all the doesn't-want-to-understand boxes with this post. It's like a textbook in attempting to discredit through non sequitur. Have you ever thought you might just look lost and people are trying to help out? Wh

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