KODeKarnage

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by KODeKarnage 5y ago
"EU tech sector fights to have an EU judge reset the scoreboard to zero after decades of losing the game against Microsoft"
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by KODeKarnage 5y ago
A tax haven is a nation with low to no taxes, where foreigners can operate for tax purposes. The term you are looking for, and almost had, was "tax avoidance". Tax avoidance is perfectly legal. It is tax evasion that is illegal
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by KODeKarnage 5y ago
Now imagine he was offered 6 months pay to not show up ever again!
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by KODeKarnage 5y ago
And you just presumed everyone on that list was in the "down" group. Why?
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by KODeKarnage 5y ago
You might want a little self-reflection about that last sentence and how it paints you as precisely the sort of person that others are rightfully worried about.
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by KODeKarnage 5y ago
There are more important things than money. Having your name dragged through the mud, having people presume you are a disgusting sexist before they have even met you, these are things that can destroy a person regardless of their wealth.
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by KODeKarnage 5y ago
Comments do not fall on a spectrum between "absolutely sexist" and "absolutely not sexist". Comments exist as fixed points in space, and the observers fall on a spectrum of "absolutely going to call the comment s
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by KODeKarnage 5y ago
The problem being highlighted here isn't bad communicators. The problem is good communicators being incentivized out of communicating. It says something about you that you could not comprehend something that obvious.
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by KODeKarnage 6y ago
Imagine if the person in charge of AI Ethics converted to a fundamentalist Christian sect. Their ethics changed and now they think LGBT people should be discriminated against explicitly. Nobody supporting Margaret Mitchell would be defendin
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by KODeKarnage 6y ago
Yes, ethics is agnostic to one's personal convictions when it is your job. Same as how defense lawyers leave their personal sense of justice out of their jobs. Same as how sports referees don't let their childhood fandom of a part
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by KODeKarnage 6y ago
Compare that to the economy Germany could have had.
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by KODeKarnage 6y ago
Not really. Unions often operate as guilds, restricting access to potential employees and restricting the trade of members.
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by KODeKarnage 6y ago
No, people will read it as a variation on jupyter, as intended, and jupyter is pronounced (by pretty much everybody) as jupiter. So Jupystar is pronounced like Jupistar. Jupis, like lupis. People try to be too clever with these portmanteaus
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by KODeKarnage 6y ago
Jupyter is pronounced like Jupiter. Jupystar must therefore be pronounced like Jupistar.
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by KODeKarnage 6y ago
I think a name change might be in order. This project is called Jew Piss Star. Sorry, but you can't unhear it.
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by KODeKarnage 6y ago
One line, one idea. That's the goal. Your eye doesn't need to move if you can get the information you need from the first 30 characters. Two lines, one idea. That's a recipe for cognitive disaster. It forces you to read the
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by KODeKarnage 7y ago
> Redemption is to just try not to be a jerk. Motte and Bailey. Telling people you aren't a racist and didn't mean the thing they consider to be racist in a racist way is in no way denying the other party's feelings are va
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by KODeKarnage 7y ago
"Fake news" was first used in the 17th century. Today, it is a term deployed by President Trump against news outlets he doesn't like. But he didn't invent the term. He heard it from someone using it against news outlets
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by KODeKarnage 7y ago
Perhaps, but wouldn't a better example be the actual purity spiral occurring in open source?
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by KODeKarnage 7y ago
> The very term "social justice warrior" is an invention of the reactionary right. No, it wasn't. It was invented by the Left, unironically. They would call themselves Social Justice Warriors. Many leftists still proudly m
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by KODeKarnage 7y ago
Feminism wasn't just standing around doing nothing. Grifters and frauds exploited feminism and attacked games and game players. Feminists fell for the grifters and fraudsters grift and fraud and dutifully went after game. Then they wen
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by KODeKarnage 7y ago
> I think most people agree racism exists and is bad. Sure, by the definition of racism that you and I would use. But not by the one that's been weaponised in these purity spirals. By their definition, as explained by the academic i
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by KODeKarnage 7y ago
It's real. And it's spectacular.
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by KODeKarnage 7y ago
This has been posted half a dozen times, but now gets 250+ up-votes and 150+ comments?
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by KODeKarnage 7y ago
What sort of solution is this supposed to be? I mean, who thinks the reason homeless people are homeless is just because they don't have a roof over their heads? Spend money on mental health services! It's not rocket science!
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by KODeKarnage 7y ago
Oh great, another non-economist getting famous for criticizing economics from a position of comprehensive ignorance. Modern economics has more than enough critics WITHIN the economics field. People who wouldn't say something as stupid
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by KODeKarnage 7y ago
Turning over the leaseholder has a cost all by itself. But more importantly, there is also the reputation damage you'd sustain by doing this. Consider, any perspective leaseholder who googles the property could find that out that you
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by KODeKarnage 7y ago
Almost every "movement" is a teen movement. They're the ones who feel most passionate about, well ... anything, the ones who have had the least life experience countering what's being "revealed" to them, the
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by KODeKarnage 9y ago
How much more common is this type of person nowadays? Using a technical book to engage in hamfisted virtue signalling is such incredible cringe!
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by KODeKarnage 9y ago
A fruitless exercise. The same pathology that prevents you from understanding his article, would prevent you from understanding further explanation. Go back. Read the article again. Multiple times. And TRY to do it fairly. TRY to recognise

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