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by fortythirteen 8y ago
While the general conclusion is correct, this angst-ridden blog post posing as a news article wouldn't get past the most generous editor a few decades ago. It's sad that Buzzfeed News is considered a legitimate source by some.
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
> I have a pet theory that when people interview they bring this buried frustration into the room with them and use the interviewing process to play the part of the people they feel humiliated them. I think it has more to do with imposto
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
> Oh my God! Big Brother! Control! Black Mirror Is Real! Frogs and boiling water...
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
It's the ubiquitousness that was missing in the past. It's come to a point where it's considered socially regressive to not give your middle-school aged child a 24/7 communications device laden with apps engineered with
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
They have crossed a threshold and, if you continue to use Google products, you have crossed a threshold. Google is now a willing and active participant in the coverup of massive human rights violations, including the open air murder of poli
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
I think you're right when it comes to the lower tier of JS developers, but IMHO there are a lot less middle tier devs per-capita in JS than Java. Proficient fullstack JS is a very in-demand skillset right now, and if you're an exp
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
There's an argument to be made that Java positions are the easiest to fill with lower waged visa or offshore workers, meaning that you have to maintain an extremely high proficiency, move into management, or be under constant threat th
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
There's a big difference between the AfterEffects guys and the writers. Rogan's complaints were as someone whose career requires massive amounts of writing and understandably wants a keyboard to have feedback. I'm in complete
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
I'm being forced into an timed upgrade by corporate and I couldn't be unhappier. If some of the extraneous software needed to work in the environment wasn't Mac/Windows only, I'd request a hi-res Thinkpad and throw
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
My bad. I'm so used to the cognitive dissonance around here.
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
1. There may be a scale, but they didn't use it. 2. Go to an Antifa riot and you'll see your "Loch Ness Monster"
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
I'm assuming sarcasm, so forgive me if I'm wrong. I'm a pretty centrist, non-politically active guy, and I personally have one acquaintance that identifies as a marxist, another as a communist, and a third, literally as a &qu
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
Like most situations, you learn more about someone from the questions they ask than the answers they give. The creator(s) of that survey have some extremely binary world views.
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
Their authoritarian scale is the RWA, or Right Wing Authoritarianism . They did no test for general authoritarianism, meaning that their summary is suspect. It's no surprise to anyone that the mostly left-wing remain voters scored low
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
For reference, I got a 59, which is securely within the supposed "non-authoritarian" side. That being said, the questions in that test are quite binary and, The RW in RWA being for "Right Wing", heavily biased towards &q
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
An absolute false equivalence, save the "timeshare child" thing, which sounds disastrous for the well being of the child. Nobody in their right mind would argue that a child split between two homes is a preferable state. Regardles
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
That is an absolute cavalcade of stereotypes. Even then it has a major hole. In your vision those children will still be born into the societal norms of their larger group.
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
Did you read the article? He literally gave every example of maliciousness as right wing and provided no examples of how the left is equally manipulated.
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
(Playing devil's advocate) The child doesn't consent to a life of being outside of that social norm. One could make the argument that it's in the same ballpark as raising a child in religious extremism.
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
(Argues that social media and data tracking is a dangerous combination that can serve to further alienate us from our humanity) (Proceeds to inject his political agenda that, while it has many truths, is written in a way that will completel
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
> We may be headed to a possible future in which technology makes it possible to decouple "romantic" impulses from the reproductive drive. This type of techno-hubris, which thinks it can undo millions of years of evolutionary b
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
> Why should mom-n-pop have a higher fiscal hurdle than MegaCorp? They don't. They have normal taxation. They wouldn't even have the opportunity to make profits, and hence be taxed, if the clientele never moved into the area. &
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
You're proving my point, in that you don't see the situation holistically. You're assuming all "business" is tech. How about all the maintenance based services? Even inside tech, do you think all issue management in
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
How many other businesses are going to open branches, if not headquarters, in Des Moines to be close to the Apple data center? How many other companies can they now attract with larger employee counts, as a town that was chosen by Apple? If
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
These deals are far from short sighted. What the city may lose in corporate taxes is more than regained through the increase in revenue from middle class population growth. Sales tax and automobile tax revenues skyrocket with the all the pe
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
Why would anyone of above average ability become a journalist anymore? You have better, long term salary prospects as a public school teacher. Journalism in the west is close to dead. It's arguable if there ever was true objectivity, b
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
https://store.steampowered.com/app/489600/The_Golf_Club_VR/
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
My favorite is when Sabo the conservative street artist got banned from Facebook right after his "Fuck Zuck 2020" posters appeared all over L.A. But hidden camera footage of a Twitter engineer openly admitting that they shadowbann
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
This isn't opinion, it's provable fact. Twitter and Facebook were on a tear last year, actively shutting down the accounts of conservative pundits, under the guise of rules violations, while turning a blind eye to the same actions
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
The article (and anyone who focuses on "quiet eye") is placing emphasis on one of many triggers to flow state. Hyper visual focus is no different than the focused breathing of vipassana "mindfulness" mediation, or the pr

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