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by zzalpha 9y ago
Heck, you only earn $200k running a "top-grossing store"? How rarified is that air? Even just limiting it to "managers" is grossly skewed, given they likely represent a fraction of the company's total headcount. T
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Fair point. I'll do that right now. Thanks for the feedback!
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The problem is that for any specific individual, focussing on the things holding them back is usually counter productive. So what is the alternative? To sit back and hope the problem solves itself? Yes, obviously using minority status as
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by zzalpha 9y ago
It's not the minority that holds you back. It's a class system. Well, I'd counter that and claim it's actually both, and the former frequently contributes to the latter.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
we've created an industry with a culture that prioritises the values of one class (middle/upper-class urban men) over everything else. Thus you have 'casual' workplaces with games consoles, beer, lame forced socialising
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Eh, this is just the standard argument against "identity politics". The obvious counterpoint is that, by working together as an identified sub-group, you have greater power than you would otherwise. Dedicated venues for those sub
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Give something like the T470 a try in-store somewhere. I had an old T410 with the old school Thinkpad keyboard, and I loved it, but the chicklet style that Lenovo uses these days is actually pretty damn good.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I can attest, the keyboard on the 5th gen X1 Carbon is also excellent. Remarkably, they actually managed to improve on previous generations (which, for the record, have Backspace, Delete, PgUp, and PgDown keys) by increasing key travel. A
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I think building a policy based on the possible existence of a vanishingly small group of bad actors is a great way to make excuses for avoiding solving real problems...
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Again, that statement is only false if these are false accusations. Are you saying they're false accusations?
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Because VCs are all populated by serial harassers who now realize they can't get away with this crap? Or are you saying these will be seen as false accusations and thus it'll scare off VCs who aren't run by mysogynist pieces
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by zzalpha 9y ago
But the debate should be framed as one about civil liberties and how to balance them against safety. But that's precisely what this is about. The NRA claims concealed carry increases safety, and therefore concealed carry should be de
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Either you believe in the second amendment - namely, that the right to self-defense is fundamental, and the right to own a gun is inseparable from that - or you don't. But it's so much more nuanced than that, and this kind of
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Usually the people who take a crap job like that simply don't spend that much time on intellectual pursuits to begin with. Well that's definitely not elitist...
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Amen. I recently (like, in the last couple of weeks) gave Firefox a shot again and it's just objectively slower for my use cases. It sucks, but it is what it is.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Yup. At minimum, in the case of a lawsuit, they will be subject to document retention and subpoena.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Well that's a loaded question... this could easily be rephrased as "How do your companies align the need for security with the use of cloud hosted services like Slack?" But then again, that assumes an honest question and not
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Oh make no mistake, speaking for myself, I think we absolutely can do something about global warming. I just don't believe we will. In fact I would bet a significant dollar amount that by 2035 or so we will have done nothing and we mi
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Judging by the headline alone I can tell this isn't about the Canadian market...
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Amen. Not heavily investing in tech while being in the industry is just another form of diversification.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Charming. I picked up a 5th Gen X1 Carbon configured with a Kaby Lake processor, and apparently there's no way to disable hyperthreading in the BIOS, and according to Intel's errata, no fix available yet. Oh well... so far the ma
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by zzalpha 9y ago
* I was replying to someone who assumed some arrogant naval captain was playing chicken with a merchant vessel* Odd, because when I go back to the OP, I don't see any indication that suggests he thinks the captain made an active decisi
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Interesting! So down south it'd more commonly be just milky, black tea with sugar?
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by zzalpha 9y ago
For folks who want to try this out, other suggestions for things to try in your chai masala include black pepper, clove, and/or star anise
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by zzalpha 9y ago
So as a someone who's only experienced chai in North American Indian restaurants or with my best friend's family (who immigrated from Punjab), I'd love to hear what makes the real thing unique and different! Is it richer? Sw
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Is this comment intended to be sarcastic? If lookouts were not posted or the radar was not properly manned, the commander is ultimately responsible. Heads will proverbially roll on this one, and his will absolutely be one of the first.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Why do you keep persisting in quoting that 30% number when it's been repeatedly demonstrated to be misleading? You don't need to rationalize your choices with bad statistics, or worse, by deriding those who choose to make a differ
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Yeah, because he had patrons, including Pope Julius II.
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Again, that's across all cohorts, with significant variation by education, income, and age... which is why high-level statistics like that are horribly misleading: it doesn't tell the whole story by a mile.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Intimidated by divorce statistics (a $50 billion industry in the US alone, 30-50% chance, etc.) FYI: Those statistics are incredibly misleading and/or inaccurate. Do you know what the divorce rate is for 35-44 (and 45-54) year old co

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