giantsloth

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by giantsloth 7y ago
The implication of “Consumers are far better now than they were” is that they are better, because of the App Store. This is false, completely illogical, and a straw man argument (as no one suggest users of tech have it worse in 2019 then 20
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by giantsloth 8y ago
Being pro democrat is not being left at all. It’s being center right. The left since Carter has pushed forth far right neoliberal economic policy. Bill Clinton is universally known for his right wing policy. Obama literally bailed out t
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by giantsloth 8y ago
This seems like a case of capitalist imposed enculturated guilt for not having a butt in seat for 8 hours a day (regardless of actual productivity). Rather than alphabetizing your socks, go to the gym or improve some other skill set intersp
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by giantsloth 8y ago
I’m not worried about the fictitious and overblown “SJW” strawman youtube has lead everyone to believe are everywhere. I’m worried about corporate interests, ideologues, and charlatans publishing biased nonsense and making the world even m
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by giantsloth 8y ago
I recently started strength training as a software developer and it’s been a huge boon on my mental health, my confidence and for sticking with decent eating habits. For people looking to get started, I would suggest Starting Strength, whic
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by giantsloth 8y ago
You’re an immoral and evil person. Anyone who makes excuses for the powerful restricting the rights of people with limited power is a horrible human being. You should be absolutely ashamed of yourself.
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by giantsloth 8y ago
Spoken like a true boot licker. It is absolutely the responsibility of every sovereign citizen and every company made up of those citizens to resist objectively evil behavior regardless of the larger apparatus at work. Saying it “isn’t fair
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by giantsloth 8y ago
No this is actually a myth. “More to the point, corporate directors are protected from most interference when it comes to running their business by a doctrine known as the business judgment rule. It says, in brief, that so long as a board o
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by giantsloth 8y ago
Did this guy pay for this article? It's a pure personal branding/ego piece about a guy who watched a lot of YouTube and had also happened to write for Washington Post (owned by Amazon) and The New York Times, known for publishing
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by giantsloth 8y ago
Reading his website makes him seem less like a master of anything serious and more a master at self aggrandizing douche baggery. B=MAP reads much like any self helpy gimmick, something so obvious and so useless you somehow feel smart for ha
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by giantsloth 8y ago
You can just imagine that the function that would normally generate DOM elements with something like document.creatElement(‘div’), has been replaced with boundObjectiveCCreateNativeUIView() ... there is no platform check for the browser, so
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by giantsloth 8y ago
What does "fulfills himself as a flight."? We need to define flight here: "a brilliant, imaginative, or unrestrained exercise or display" [1]. So he fulfills himself as a a brilliant, imaginative, or unrestrained exer
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by giantsloth 8y ago
You are making a simple assertion that the metaphor was good without any explanation, while the author made a deep and cutting explanation as to why he he believes it’s a terrible metaphor. You’ve made no counter argument.
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by giantsloth 8y ago
This is a perfect opportunity to whip out one of my favorite quotes by Simone de Beauvoir: “Proust observed with astonishment that a great doctor or a great professor often shows himself, outside of his specialty, to be lacking in sensitivi
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by giantsloth 8y ago
This happened with trains in the 19th century and it was an absolute disaster. Please learn your history on privatized public goods. It results in massive fragmentation in standards, extreme levels of corruption and an overall worse exper
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by giantsloth 8y ago
You are propping up a very weird straw man definition to tear down which has absolutely no basis in material reality, so that you can simply state that taxes are bad. From an actual real world level, it’s unfair that the stock market is use
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by giantsloth 8y ago
The crisis was largely due in part to deregulation and private companies getting kick backs for their ratings. Crypto currency is mostly unregulated and rated on a private market. Also, there is a small elite group of people who own most
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by giantsloth 8y ago
When people say corporation they clearly mean the board, the C level execs and regulations need to be put in place that promotes a culture of morality for the people that comprise and make these businesses function. You're blaming the
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by giantsloth 8y ago
I also agree that larger businesses should shoulder higher burden than smaller ones, but if we make any business pay in a headcount sensitive way, then we are creating disincentives which may be explored in opaque ways. Your third paragra
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by giantsloth 8y ago
This is an awful suggestion. Next you're going to be suggesting employers ask where on the Andre Walker Hair Typing System potential recruits fall so they don't have to ask whether or not they are black.
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by giantsloth 8y ago
Large businesses do not pay their fair share to society and therefore should incur the cost of helping pay for the people that maintain and build their business.
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by giantsloth 8y ago
Money objectively provides the means to purchase health services, legal services, investments, decent living spaces, etc. [Insert Ethnic Group] group does not objectively mean [insert stereotype]. I think you are most likely confusing the
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by giantsloth 8y ago
It’s extremely intellectually dishonest to compare people who live in extreme comfort and can afford tremendous amounts of power because of their money to people who are historically oppressed by law and culture because of their ethnicity.
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by giantsloth 8y ago
Religion is a perfect example of guerilla marketing, multilayer marketing, grassroots marketing and a pyramid scheme. They advertise by hooking guilable people looking for easy answers, the churches convince their local populace to give the
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by giantsloth 8y ago
You are basing your analysis purely on your own personal experience and attitude towards the world which is definitionally anecdotal and extremely anti scientific. If people are not influenced by advertising and marketing why then do govern
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by giantsloth 8y ago
Well aren’t we confusing good advice for the individual vs good advice for the mean. There is room for both sets of advice, but I think on average we need to look towards implementing policy that takes the whole into consideration. Not ev
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by giantsloth 8y ago
Disney is able to creat tasteless childlike story arcs that challenge nothing. There’s a good guy, there’s a bad guy, there’s the struggle and sacrifice of the good guy, which eventually trumps the bad guy leading to a rich life. They are s
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by giantsloth 8y ago
If you supported them, you’re still in love with the franchise and the characters, and now they have a giant marketing/pr push behind them which will grow the brand even more. The idea that you can just “opt out” like some emotionless
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by giantsloth 8y ago
This is a quaint sentiment, but marketing, sales, PR is all about misleading and creating unnecessary want. This is a major tenant of running a business and living under capitalism. There is also a moral argument for doing what you need to
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by giantsloth 8y ago
Donald Trump

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