phabora

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by phabora 6y ago
Small business is just a propaganda tool. The idea has some allure, maybe because it reminds Americans of their priomordial beginning as settlers, homesteaders, yeomans, craftsmen (or so the stories go).
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by phabora 6y ago
We all agree about what taxes are. Some just attach more libertarian sensibilities/fears/paranoia to that word.
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by phabora 6y ago
My mistake. I thought you were upper-middle class.
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by phabora 6y ago
Your dream has two outcomes: 1. You get outcompeted by other companies that look out for Number One, namely the bottom line 2. You get surrounded by an entourage of corporate sycophants that nurture your lie about how your company is so ben
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by phabora 6y ago
High-performers (read: well-payed workers) like to complain about the nefarious corrupting influence of unions but seldom consider the case that the high-performers (read: upper-middle class) might have a vested interest in the corrupt stat
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by phabora 6y ago
Yes, for shame! When will America get to hear the side of the employer? Mabye the executive of Amazon could be allowed to post a little column in paper like the Washington Post. Maybe the owner of that paper wouldn’t object to that idea.
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by phabora 6y ago
The meaning is pretty straightforward to interpret. Vampires suck blood.
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by phabora 6y ago
Not really euphemism. More of an Orwellian term.
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by phabora 6y ago
Some people are privileged enough to be able to get jobs where they don’t need collective bargaining to get decently fair compensation and decent working conditions.
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by phabora 6y ago
> ethics Debatable.
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by phabora 6y ago
Do you have a lot of experience with multiple EU countries?[1] Or are you just using “outsized influence” to extrapolate that non-English speaking countries can be neatly categorized as being a homogeneous contrast to English-speaking count
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by phabora 6y ago
That’s not the case where I live in the small non-American West. We’ve all seen the American TV show/films where some Mega Loser has failed to move out the year they become eighteen and graduated the year they become twenty-two. May
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by phabora 6y ago
Westerners are from Saturn, Orientals are from Pluto: Rapsey’s five definitive sociological facts™
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by phabora 6y ago
I think Spotify insist on using 10% of my drive. I can’t configure it as far as I know (any more). The only solution that I know of is `rm -rf <cache>`.
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by phabora 6y ago
> I don’t think most people going to 3rd-tier college to study humanities are doing it out of some abstract love of education. Well, the fact that they are third-tier already tells you that they won’t get some cushy job from the educatio
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by phabora 6y ago
You can’t use teacher as a synonym for researcher, they’re two completely different things.
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by phabora 6y ago
> In many other countries, top academics and researchers are at large public universities. But that’s not even terribly relevant to the average student. An undergraduate won’t benefit from going down the same hallways as the world’s fo
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by phabora 6y ago
How is this an example of an efficient market when one of the outcomes is to simply get a “name-brand degree”?[1] Ideally it should just be about the other alternative, namely what you learnt. Let’s not even get into the problems associate
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by phabora 6y ago
That’s the stupidest theory I’ve heard this week. This is a forum hosted by a startup accelator where programmers and founders (as well as other professionals) gather. It’s not exactly a hippie resort. Libertarians are also the most ideol
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by phabora 6y ago
That governments act more in the benefit of business owners than workers was observed by Adam Smith and is still true today. Further that’s a sociological fact and not a “conspiracy theory”, but I don’t have time to write ten sentences to
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by phabora 6y ago
The GC was apparently the reason behind rewriting that particular service. No wonder there are more reasons when you look at all the services across the company. But you couldn’t help yourself even after being corrected by someone who know
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by phabora 6y ago
> Edit: On the other hand, Discord could have made the very valid decision that they have an easier time recruiting for Rust than for Go. Which is in fact a good reason to switch. In other words, discard the technical arguments laid out
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by phabora 6y ago
Neither Go nor Zig are spelled ALLCAPS
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by phabora 6y ago
This is a fine suspicion to have. It’s a fine theory, even. But why raise this suspicion for this particular neo-language case? Why not raise it across the board? Such a theory is more robust if it predicts how the organization will work
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by phabora 6y ago
No numbers.
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by phabora 6y ago
Okay cool. Let’s just make better tooling for existing languages. ... Turns out that languages that are widely-used are difficult to make tools for because of all the pragmatic (real or imagined) tradeoffs that were made. How can I prototy
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by phabora 6y ago
Oh stop speculating about their personal life and stay on topic.
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by phabora 6y ago
> And that is general global instability. E.g., things sure feel like they've come off the rails recently and things I used to take for granted: that competent people would generally be in charge, has been challenged. You must have
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by phabora 6y ago
This is pure hysterics. You have to back up what you say with arguments.
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by phabora 6y ago
Is it interesting? You leave out any argument for the implied statement that the democratically illegitimate government will be better for the Rohingya people. Presumably any coup is better than no coup. I think that is interesting.

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