nouripenny

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by nouripenny 10mo ago
People are at least as often evaluating men's performances. i.e. "Was Stephen Hawking overhyped by other physicists to help him not die in poverty?", "How good was Riemann compared to Gauss?" etc. Not hard to find p
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by nouripenny 1y ago
I agree, it's a huge trap. The right exploits leftists who insult normal people as dumb. It worked when they insulted George W Bush, who people identified with and found likeable, and was probably coached to bungle sentences despite li
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by nouripenny 2y ago
Consider Bob McChesney's 3 biases of professional journalism: reliance on official sources, fear of context, and "dig here, not there". https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-rise-of-professional-jo...
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by nouripenny 2y ago
The US government has many military bases and troops stationed in other countries. It can project violence across the planet. Any entity with that power has strong ability to dictate what others do, and induce dependency. https:/&#x2F
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by nouripenny 2y ago
Generally, societies value human time far less than we might wish they should.
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by nouripenny 2y ago
Is there any alternative to raises that don't lower employee performance, like some kind of bonus scheme? Or do you find some unfortunate relation between money vs motivation?
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by nouripenny 2y ago
Excuse me, I forgot a 'not': Those "unlucky" enough NOT to make it inside one of them
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by nouripenny 2y ago
Well, I think so. Because many didn't understand they were fascists too. The fascism was always in the vast majority of us, if we wanted to look at it. Just look at the structure of our workplaces, which accounts for half our waking li
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by nouripenny 2y ago
I agree that wokeness is a big problem on the serious left. It was analyzed in high-profile leftist's Norman Finkelstein's "I’ll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It! Heretical Thoughts on Identity Politics, Cancel Culture, and
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by nouripenny 2y ago
I think porting to k8s can succeed or fail, like any other project. I switched an app that I alone worked on, from Elastic Beanstalk (with Bash), to Kubernetes (with Babashka/Clojure). It didn't seem bad. I think k8s is basically
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by nouripenny 2y ago
No doubt you know this, but Common Lisp's standardization gave leeway to implementations. So you could choose which implementation suits you better. Common Lisp is an umbrella for different Lisps to have some commonality. It was a proc
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by nouripenny 2y ago
On MacOS, you can install whatever you want. On iPadOS, Apple's the rentier middleman with the App Store. If the iPad could run MacOS, I'd search for a lightweight stand (like Roost or Nexstand K1), and use my own keyboard. Closer