exBarrelSpoiler

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by exBarrelSpoiler 9mo ago
As cliche is it to cry whataboutism, this clearly is. Incrementalism is better than nothing. Sanctimony is FUD. If even one company is suffers at least it’ll serve as a warning to the others.
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Spreadsheet Simulators Are Unstoppable(youtube.com)
1 points by exBarrelSpoiler 9mo ago|0 comments
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by exBarrelSpoiler 9mo ago
G Gundam might've been the most uncomplicated, yet wrong , series to introduce the American mass market to the franchise.
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by exBarrelSpoiler 9mo ago
This essay about it is a good watch- it concludes that IBO might be a cynical and dark show rooted in realism, but the ending is hopeful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNRjwktvPV8
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by exBarrelSpoiler 9mo ago
If you like IBO, you might enjoy this essay, which analyzes its sociopolitical content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNRjwktvPV8
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by exBarrelSpoiler 1y ago
Essentially your argument is “if you don’t like it so much why don’t you move?” which must feel satisfying to trot out but is obviously fatuous.
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by exBarrelSpoiler 1y ago
Is that what Salman Rushdie called them?
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by exBarrelSpoiler 1y ago
Looks like that attribution is missing. Dubious provenance, probably a later addition. Next!
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by exBarrelSpoiler 1y ago
What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray? And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it
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by exBarrelSpoiler 1y ago
"You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’ But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brot
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by exBarrelSpoiler 1y ago
If you have such disdain for this community, you can always go to a different website instead of begging to be banned for being abrasive and tiresome.
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by exBarrelSpoiler 2y ago
Twitter thread: https://x.com/MKVRiscy/status/1893590632901595491
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by exBarrelSpoiler 2y ago
Apple is a huge organization with a lot of internal variance. Knew someone doing localization testing for Siri and reported severe understaffing issues. There are some very small teams with crucial tasks that are badly under-resourced.
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by exBarrelSpoiler 2y ago
Indeed. https://scroll.in/article/1023979/from-outsiders-to-termites...
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by exBarrelSpoiler 2y ago
Hey, it's the author of the tweet quoted by the article!
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by exBarrelSpoiler 3y ago
Amartya Sen, "Human Rights and Asian Values," The New Republic, July 14-July 21, 1997 > In Buddhist tradition, great importance is attached to freedom, and the traditions of earlier Indian thinking to which Buddhist thoughts r
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by exBarrelSpoiler 3y ago
Sounds like culture doesn't mean much when even the lands where the culture originated from willingly discard the cultural elements that lead to more children and larger families, even while preserving other elements. Consider the case
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by exBarrelSpoiler 3y ago
How do you explain what happens outside of America? https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?location...
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Ask HN: Anyone left software to study non-STEM subjects?
68 points by exBarrelSpoiler 3y ago|62 comments
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by exBarrelSpoiler 3y ago
Sounds great, you've really found the place for you. Only question is: what are you doing posting on HN then?
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by exBarrelSpoiler 4y ago
> instead created industries that were propped up on instable economics Ah, perhaps then it is appropriate to praise them in tech startup related spaces.
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by exBarrelSpoiler 4y ago
It’s interesting history and good analysis but the whole framing just seems ill-conceived. “Business operational lessons from the great bloodthirsty marauders of history” works as a parody or when you’re intentionally edgy (as with War Nerd
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by exBarrelSpoiler 4y ago
Then perhaps it is different in that South Asian nations don’t seem themselves as successors to Britain, whereas many peoples the Romans conquered claimed their imperial mantle as legitimacy.
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by exBarrelSpoiler 4y ago
> Can the French or British find things to admire about the Romans? The statute of limitations have passed on those crimes since they took place in Antiquity. > First, the article does plenty of throat clearing about those issues. Ple
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by exBarrelSpoiler 4y ago
Isn’t recognizing one’s limits and dependence on others also part of becoming an adult?
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by exBarrelSpoiler 4y ago
The article does provide interesting, educational details, but it also engages in a lot of gratuitous cheerleading of the BEIC and makes comparisons to modern day startups. Wonks celebrating imperialism for business lessons. It’s ghoulish
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by exBarrelSpoiler 4y ago
They probably don't praise it with all of the glee of a Medium influencer article like OP does to the BEIC though.
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by exBarrelSpoiler 4y ago
The BEIC was only sporadically profitable and required frequent British government intervention to keep it afloat. Corruption was widespread and its armies were forced to put down almost constant insurgences.
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by exBarrelSpoiler 4y ago
They just find it distasteful. It’s like reading a productivity article about the best tips to be a more effective organizer by learning from the mistakes of Operation Searchlight in failing to put down the East Pakistani insurgency.
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by exBarrelSpoiler 4y ago
That same employer who's perfectly happy with laying you off once economic winds shift?

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