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by java_script 8y ago
> The team began their study with the conventional measurement of cesium-137 levels in the unopened bottles. That showed levels to be indistinguishable from background noise. And yet I bet wine snobs are gonna pretend their palates are s
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by java_script 8y ago
Seems like a total misrepresentation of what the critics to the left said about it, and like you're trying to pull a "both sides do it" / "the truth is in the middle" act without substance. For example the Los
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by java_script 8y ago
It’s just a regressive position on diversity masquerading as being a reasonable progressive one. Take something that’s easier to fix from a centralized location, and instead argue for individual responsibility. Like how instead of complaini
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by java_script 8y ago
Then by definition you are not "all for diversity".
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by java_script 8y ago
> A browser extension to make Medium less annoying. So this just blanks out the articles or what?
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by java_script 8y ago
> Do you think a lot of people are running JS in a container for frontend? Hold my beer. --Frontend developers
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by java_script 8y ago
The most basic form of this is undermining or exploiting a group of people as your core business model, and then donating a small portion to charities that help that same group. Or even better, the ceo’s unrelated pet cause, an astroturf gr
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by java_script 8y ago
My favorite is how if you check out any oil companies website, pretend you knew nothing about them and you’d think they were green peace by the messaging on their site.
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by java_script 8y ago
My bad. Sorry if anyone thought my comment was rude.
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by java_script 8y ago
Advice for SF people: Stop talking about changing the god damned world when what you're actually working on is a middleman payment processor. You sound like your head is planted so far up into your ass you can see daylight again. E: Ju
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by java_script 8y ago
SF is subversive and counter-culture... if being a cutthroat capitalist is subversive... ROI is the new karmic energy ;)
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by java_script 8y ago
Hahaha that was one of the most ridiculous (and succinct) 180's I've ever seen online.
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by java_script 8y ago
https://twitter.com/alayne_f Keep in mind they literally have 0 accusers, and when the women they worked with were interviewed they all had 0 complaints, and even at the time of publishing the book was categorized as satire
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by java_script 8y ago
Just posting to say I miss the TARFU report.
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by java_script 8y ago
https://pando.com/2014/01/23/the-techtopus-how-silicon-valle...
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by java_script 8y ago
I literally have family (white) about as far right as that guy is left and they haven’t been arrested for their speech. Literally including violence against cops stuff except framed from the right wing angle (i.e. property rights and 2nd am
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by java_script 8y ago
He’s misunderstanding what tyranny is. Tyranny isn’t when the police state arrests you for criticizing them. Tyranny is when Peter Sweden or whoever is suspended from Twitter for being racist. (Said in a 2018 Libertarian voice).
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by java_script 8y ago
I really don’t care about how to slightly tweak our current unjust system to make it slightly less bad. The fact that it’s unjust (hence why I’m calling out his moral arguments) makes any details a irrelevant. Like asking “How could the tra
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by java_script 8y ago
Wow good points. I’m sure those tens of thousands of people a year who die due to lack of health insurance are so glad nobody got coerced into helping them out. What a useful definition of liberty, that allows the richest country on earth &
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by java_script 8y ago
Their recent episode on The Atlantic & Kevin Williamson was really enlightening. Establishment media is seen as a “balanced news diet” but it’s really an extremely narrow ideological band. It’s so telling that the NYT or Atlantic would
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by java_script 8y ago
What an impactful life. Very amusing how she told W, as president, to keep his feet off a table one time. And there’s at least a six-figure body count from the needless decisions of her son and husband whose political careers she supported.
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by java_script 8y ago
Yup, ideologically, liberals are the enemy of leftists unfortunately. And much closer to neo-cons. It’s why you’ll never see an actual Marxist anti-Imperialist on the masthead of so-called left-leaning (by some) pubs like NYT, WaPo, the Atl
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by java_script 8y ago
The future of work is shitty jobs like this, but a la Uber you "get your side-hustle on" AKA have no rights or security as an employee ever anywhere. e: Which, speaking of Marxism, this situation will keep you permanently alienate
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by java_script 8y ago
Is pro gaming a white collar industry?
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Haunted by Data (2015)(idlewords.com)
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by java_script 8y ago
Psssh what’s an entire field of study worth when we have an VC techie who invested in MongoDB to teach us.
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by java_script 8y ago
Started skimming this and immediately started to wonder this guy's credentials, especially when I got to the parts on UBI and communism and how "governments distort markets". Like how can you write a book called "The Wor
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by java_script 8y ago
GP means left-libertarians, for example anarcho-syndicalists like Noam Chomsky. Versus American libertarian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZITP93pqtdQ
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by java_script 8y ago
No conspiracy needed. AZ wants to appear friendly to self driving car companies (e.g. they already don't regulate them as hard as CA.). A single undesirable being taken out isn't gonna change that. Plus it's not like AZ has a
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by java_script 9y ago
This is capitalism working. Not from the viewpoint of the academic justifiers of capitalism, but the from the viewpoint of people that have an actual vested interest in capitalism (aka the ones whose opinion actually matters and the ones wh

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