jariel

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by jariel 5y ago
"We'll tell a higher-up why his new plan is stupid and that we're not very excited to waste our time on it" There's a difference between 'what my instinct is' and 'thoughtful communication'. It&#
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by jariel 5y ago
I don't think it's so much 'nothing but the facts' but rather a little more effort to explain 'what it is'. It's not that the site is 'marketing speak', it's just that it's a 3/10
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by jariel 5y ago
Oh, I understand all of that of course. I meant some kind of Unicode-specific debate over how it should all work and what the alternatives were.
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by jariel 5y ago
Can someone comment with relevant experience about the fact that maybe emojis should not be part of unicode? And that we should literally just send tiny images as part of text? This way, you know the host system is 100% going to represent w
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by jariel 5y ago
This is lesson in media, PR, liars, spin, misrepresentation, attempts to explain, yada yada. There are hardly any good actors here: Signal for misrepresenting, the press for turning a blind eye, Facebook for collecting too information etc.
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by jariel 5y ago
This kind of rhetoric I think might be at the root of the problem. If you believe the company founders, in the face of being told they occupy their position 'due to privilege' is 'right about everything' then you're
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by jariel 5y ago
Although colonialism played a role, 'it started' before that. It's fair to at least 'talk about' the 'pyramid of hate' and maybe 'believe in it' so as to 'make a point'. But I don'
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by jariel 5y ago
"It has hints of "reverse racism" " "That's closer to the camp of "white supremacist" or at the very least, a common defense used by white supremacist." This kind of gaslighthing though. "My
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by jariel 5y ago
That's not quite the right example though. CRT definitions of 'White Supremacy' are not about 'people acting deliberately' to support it. CRT laments that 'regular people' doing 'regular things'
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by jariel 5y ago
The exec. did not say that. 'White Supremacy' classically means men in Pointy White Hats. The CRT people now use it to mean 'regular white people' because they, in their regular, day to day actions, uphold oppressive sys
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by jariel 5y ago
That statement is not jarring. Employees calling the organization 'White Supremacist' is the thing that should be 'jarring' or at least controversial. There are arguments to be made, sure, but the language is fairly extr
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by jariel 5y ago
People are constantly confusing the issue with 'politics'. This is not about Trump or Obama, that's easily avoided, it's about Identity Politics, which cannot be avoided: They are arguing over Identity Politics and defin
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by jariel 5y ago
Without effective retail finance, which is not possible without other things in place first, which are not possible without a baseline of functioning governance, there really is no 'organized' solution that's going to work. Y
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by jariel 5y ago
"He told me today that attempting to link the list of customer names to potential genocide represented a case of “catastrophizing” — one that made it impossible for any good-faith discussions to follow. " And there you have the un
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by jariel 5y ago
There's some wilful misattribution or straw-manning by the Guardian here. 'Hard work is an essential ingredient in success' is much more consistent with common beliefs, and it's more or less true. Nobody is saying '
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by jariel 5y ago
The argument is not junk, there's value in understanding how taxes work through the value chain. A little bit like a VAT, we don't want to tax, tax and tax some product that has a long and complicated line of distributors, rather,
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by jariel 5y ago
The issue has nothing to do with technology, it has to do with 'quality' information ranking and Google's supposed bias with regards to who they deem 'credible' and not. Breitbart is a much more aggressive tabloid,
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by jariel 5y ago
True - but of the business activity is in EU, then really it's Ireland's issue to sort out with the EU, it's a separate issue from the 'other side' of the taxation in the US. What they should do is sort it out.
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by jariel 5y ago
The same thing applies to the Daily Beast and any number of other outfits. That you would pick on this one highlights the bias in the system. If there were a 'disconcerting rag' it would be Brietbart, not the Daily Mail.
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by jariel 5y ago
'The Daily Mail' has a case. Go and visit their site right now [1] and tell me where the inflammatory or irresponsible headline is. Now try 'The Daily Beast' [2], it's I think a little bit worse, and you have this f
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by jariel 5y ago
Teachers have some of the most powerful Unions in the world. The Ontario Teacher's Union might be the most powerful organization in Ontario. They own major league sports teams. Nurses salary in Bay Area is $133K, national average is $
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by jariel 5y ago
The TV show 'COPS' would demonstrate very vividly how insane some people can be and of course they are 'selected clips' - but when they film in Canada ... almost nothing happens. In LA, there used to be (still are?) news
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by jariel 5y ago
That category is a broader measure including basically all the 'helpers' in homes etc.. Some other numbers put nurses (strictly) up there with doctors at somewhat higher than average.
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by jariel 5y ago
Men commit suicide at about 3-4x the rate of women (it's not quite as high for attempts, men are better at 'getting it done'), often related to occupational issues but nobody seems to think one bit about them. [1] Education
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by jariel 5y ago
I'm not offering an alternative, I'm pointing out the OP didn't make an argument, or rather one that wasn't based on any reasoning. "just pay someone else's mortgage instead?" - it has nothing to do with w
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by jariel 5y ago
Being pulled over is incredibly safe, there's almost zero chance of being shot for people who aren't antagonizing. Policing in America is overly assertive, but remember that almost 1/2 the people they pull over have guns, it&
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by jariel 5y ago
I'm down-voting you because you haven't made an argument in the face of the issue. The flaw the assumption is that somehow 'buying' a home that is 15x your annual salary, that takes your entire life to pay off, is some k
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by jariel 5y ago
It's not 'ownership' that is the problem, it's when combined with housing inflation etc..
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by jariel 5y ago
It has nothing to do with liability. Amazon hosts all sorts of content that could make them otherwise liable, and they are selling billions in knock-off products every month. They are able to insulate themselves from it quite well - much li
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by jariel 5y ago
We know the US spies and so does China - this is not news. We do not have evidence the NSA is doing industrial espionage. Moreover, this is Huawei, not technically 'the state' and it's about the fact they are related to the s

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