gaur

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by gaur 10y ago
A key point that I was making (and a point which your rewriting of my comment completely erases) is that parenthood can be planned ahead for (or avoided) to a much greater degree than other situations that require family leave. I could have
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by gaur 10y ago
Policies that encompass parental leave as well as more general family leave situations, obviously.
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by gaur 10y ago
> I'm not sure why the solution should be to discontinue offering parental leave. I'm not sure where you got the idea that I'm suggesting that solution. In fact, I explicitly said "I'm not saying parental leave i
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by gaur 10y ago
Yet again, people who have family responsibilities through no fault of their own (e.g., taking care of a sick parent or sibling) are ignored while companies fawn over people who (largely) choose to pop out more mouths to feed. I'm not
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by gaur 10y ago
The Silicon Valley empathy vacuum strikes again.
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by gaur 10y ago
How many of the lost hundred cantatas do you think contained new (unknown to us) music, as opposed to music that was parodied in a surviving cantata?
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by gaur 10y ago
The creation of Maine from Massachusetts shows that there is a way to redraw the borders of a state already admitted to the union. It may not be an efficient or repeatable process, but evidently it can happen regardless of how many times yo
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by gaur 10y ago
> They don't actually care to collect any info about you beyond what you do during the test. Allegedly.
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by gaur 10y ago
A comment amounting to "that's how capitalism works, so tough shit!" is such a perfect example of the SV empathy vacuum that I almost think it must be satire.
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by gaur 10y ago
You've explicitly rewritten it as "if X, then maybe Y", exactly as I said. "If corporations write the laws, then maybe they will restrict or mistreat their users." That's not a law.
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by gaur 10y ago
No, you can't just take a statement and call it a "law", even in a facetious sense. Murphy's law, Betteridge's law, or other facetious laws are at least roughly formulated as "if X, then Y" (or sometimes &
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by gaur 10y ago
The post you replied to was talking about white supremacists, with no mention of Trump voters. You are the one who brought up Trump voters at the first mention of alt-right white nationalists, which is ironic since you insist that the forme
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by gaur 10y ago
> Have to be careful with definitions. OK, so let's spell it out explicitly. The term "alt-right" was created by Richard Spencer, who is often described as a white supremacist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by gaur 10y ago
The reddit admins allow subreddits that loudly promote white supremacism. Comment editing is not the most pressing ethical failing of that site.
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by gaur 10y ago
Maybe for you this is some abstract problem for which you enjoy dreaming up an endless stream of meandering questions. For me it's a matter of "are the people above me in management going to fuck me over because of my sexuality?&q
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by gaur 10y ago
> Is there a better descriptor for what Eich was put through? Yeah. He was given a taste of his own medicine with regard to what it feels like to be victimized.
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by gaur 10y ago
> You've now provided two examples: firing and voting. Voting someone out of office is firing them. We're talking about firing.
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by gaur 10y ago
> there was nothing reprehensible at the time Lots of people knew proposition 8 was reprehensible and protested accordingly. Eich chose not to listen. > if we purge people based on their political opinions, why bother with democracy P
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by gaur 10y ago
> It's a form of cultural terrorism, where one's private ideas can get them killed. 49 people were massacred this year for going to a gay nightclub, but Eich was a victim of terrorism because he was fired? What are you smokin
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by gaur 10y ago
> Brendan Eich, former CEO of Mozilla, fired for a donation, Fired for a donation that supported enshrining discrimination in a state constitution. It was a good firing. Support nasty causes, win nasty prizes.
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by gaur 10y ago
Why was the correct punctuation of the original headline replaced with a comma splice? Can we get someone to restore the correct punctuation?
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by gaur 10y ago
> with only 8 of 1455 especially significant This. It doesn't matter how clever you make the alarm. If it mostly goes off in the absence of real danger, you are teaching people to ignore it.
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by gaur 10y ago
> Is there an ethical question regarding the computer-assisted manipulation people's perspectives, however ignorant and wrong they may be? Yes, but why did you pick a temporary one-man experiment as your hill to die on rather than a
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by gaur 10y ago
> it's truly a lot more fun and engaging experience. No it isn't.
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by gaur 10y ago
> Playing nice has its reward in the long term. Being put on a registry because of your religion isn't a reward, and historically that kind of thing has been followed by extermination. I absolutely will not play nice.
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by gaur 10y ago
> unfairly singles out the alt-right movement -- one can't say that they are wrong in their dogmatic mistrust of the media A lot of alt-righters distrust the media because they think it's controlled by Jews. That's a regul
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by gaur 10y ago
I clicked the link half-expecting to find an article about pink-collar jobs, but nope, just another badly named technical concept.
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by gaur 10y ago
"Outta" is frequently listed in dictionaries. "S--t" isn't. Try again. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/outta
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by gaur 10y ago
> Why doesn't Nintendo just raise their prices to where supply equals demand? "Raise prices" is not the solution to all of life's problems.
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by gaur 10y ago
Nonono, it's all about economic anxiety.

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