cemery

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by cemery 15y ago
The visualization was confusing for me at first. It's important to realize that if <1% of a group is in the 1% there is a fair chance that they are not the ones bringing in the wealth. Instead they have married into wealth. The darkness
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by cemery 15y ago
I used to think this and it's not true. The takeaway is to when you interact with people think about what your interaction is doing to the other person, on many levels. Feeling bad is A) crappy and B) not productive. Whatever you do when yo
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by cemery 15y ago
You're thinking about the word privilege in the wrong way. When you use the term in a social justice setting you need to stop thinking about all the possible meanings and focus on a very few specific ones. (Think of the word in the same way
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by cemery 15y ago
I think community acknowledgment is basically useless honestly. I think it comes down to individuals needing to understand privilege and how it affects them and the groups they are a part of. Then the individual has to take it upon themselv
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by cemery 15y ago
In some ways the solution falls out of just knowing that it is a problem. If you think about it during your interactions with other people, then you can avoid the harmful things that could be said. The reality of male privilege is that it's
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by cemery 15y ago
You appreciate not having to right click? Right click is on your mouse, where as in order to use the ribbon you have to go up to the top. This seems like pulling the most useful feature out from under your finger to duplicate it somewhere f
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A Supercomputer in Every Backpack(speirs.org)
4 points by cemery 15y ago|1 comments
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by cemery 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizon#Distance_to_the_horizon Wikipedia says 3.1 miles.
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by cemery 15y ago
At least at Amazon you are free to change projects after a year. Any large tech company is probably so in need of coders that the idea of having to let one go because they were unhappy with what they were currently doing is repugnant.