merouan

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by merouan 1y ago
Sounds cynical. Sure, people are not organized. They lack strategy and insight. It takes time to get there. Sure, there is definitely a performative thing out there, and maybe this is that. My point is this - now is a time when we need more
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by merouan 1y ago
Your point being? There are multiple levers we can pull, sometimes this one, sometimes that one. That is no surprise.
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by merouan 1y ago
Governments are pushed to do things to protect people by the people. Seat belts were not a thing (i.e., required by law) until there was sufficient public pressure to make them so. Heard of Ralph Nader? Food is made in unsafe conditions and
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by merouan 1y ago
Hmm, this doesn't track with history. Boycotts, and more generally collective economic action (strikes, etc), are an incredibly powerful form of protest. People have shaped the world through refusing to buy from oppressive forces - cas
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by merouan 3y ago
Here’s the thing: actually, we need the behavior of a _very small_ number of humans to change: the rich. Not only is their personal CO2 consumption the majority of personal CO2 consumption, but the capital they control drives the behavior a
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by merouan 4y ago
True, for clean data. You can’t clean data without looking at it (a lot), though.
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by merouan 4y ago
Typically such contributions come from the PR budget.
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by merouan 6y ago
Black people (or developers, for that matter) are not a monolith, obviously. So me providing one example ( https://dev.to/afrodevgirl/replacing-master-with-main-in-git... ) only goes to show that it is a concern among so
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by merouan 6y ago
Not the parent, but your characterization of the stated perspective reveals quite well that you aren’t taking it seriously! This is a complex issue, so let’s treat it that way. The micro-aggression, as I understand it, is having to ask your
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by merouan 7y ago
I appreciate the sentiment and agree on an individual level but it’s not reproducible across the entire workforce. There is a certain degree of privilege required to even feel comfortable adopting this policy. As software engineers some of
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by merouan 8y ago
I think you're misunderstanding the intent: obviously they are aware of that. Hearings commonly involve asking basic questions
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by merouan 9y ago
Strongly recommend you read Dawkins' "The Greatest Show on Earth" ( https://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Show-Earth-Evidence-Evolutio... ) and come back to tell us what you think :)
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by merouan 10y ago
It's hard to apply cultural analysis like this uniformly. I also feel that there is a general trend towards anti-intellectualism in America. I think both things can be true: that 'we' value excellence academically (because it