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by tnone 9y ago
The new generation is more censorious and intellectually sheltered than before. Blame schools and colleges who decided to focus on providing a safe space, and the tech companies those students moved into.
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by tnone 9y ago
Blame shitty mobile developers who screwed the pooch on Android. Even if you avoid shovelware, the quality is abysmal. My Android phone still randomly lights up its screen several times a day, without a new notification having come in. Repo
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by tnone 9y ago
There are trolls on the internet, but pretending it's a unified front is a ploy only useful to those seeking to play out their victim status. Pao got roasted on reddit because she became the figurehead for widely unpopular community ch
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by tnone 9y ago
You're right of course, but telling the truth gets your comment flagged. I wonder what they're so afraid of...
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by tnone 9y ago
I agree that her gender and ethnicity were a factor: when a white male is a CEO, nobody will conclude he isn't in full authority in his role and deserves full responsibility and blame for what happens under his watch and tenure. This v
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by tnone 9y ago
And chauvinistic and sexist is a word reserved for men, but few seem to notice that. Equality goes both ways. I looked around for a follow up to the lawsuits but the Vanity Fair article is still the most informative. Her husband's prob
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by tnone 9y ago
Assuming this is all true, it would confirm my suspicion that when people talk about techbros, they're talking about the rich 0.001% handling the money rather than the vast bulk of the sector. Conflating the two is eminently useful to
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by tnone 9y ago
Luckily programming or computing hasn't changed at all since the 50s and 60s, so we can effortlessly assume that what people said about it then still applies perfectly to today's distributed, abstract, always-on landscape. Even mo
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by tnone 9y ago
Not necessarily. Identity politics is when issues get defacto interpreted through the lens of social identities, even if that identity is irrelevant or even meaningless for the matter at hand. Observing that there is such a thing as nerd cu
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by tnone 9y ago
The way you get people to not care about real Nazis is to cry wolf every time you encounter a political position you don't like. If we apply those same standards to antifa, they too are a violent, irrational hatemob with blood on their
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by tnone 9y ago
He didn't aim to piss off all his coworkers, he posted a memo in an internal forum designated for that explicit purpose, i.e. "skeptics". It was the sjw-types clutching pearls who sent it around and who leaked it to the press
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by tnone 9y ago
But one unhinged guy in a car is suddenly representative of the right wing? I say this being on the left. I'm utterly appalled at what goes on in social media. People who a few years ago were quiet exemplars of sanity are now calling f
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by tnone 9y ago
What is disingenuous is labeling a statement that starts with the words "I support diversity and inclusion" as being against diversity. Claiming he violated a code of conduct by doing so requires myopia of the highest degree. Seco
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by tnone 9y ago
If this is such a problem, do you think it's a problem too that English doesn't distinguish between singular and plural you?
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by tnone 9y ago
This is a long standing pattern. Whenever a thread about a social justice topic gets too far away from the orthodoxy, it gets flagged and hidden. In some cases I've seen a thread without any noticable flags and with a high score nevert
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by tnone 9y ago
I see the tolerant flagging brigade is here to push for a statement for reason, compassion and holding corporations to account, which we all know are their most deeply held values...
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by tnone 9y ago
Now apply your last paragraph to the people who tell us their efforts will increase diversity. For that matter, apply it to the people who complain about how a memo makes them feel unsafe while their co-workers are making open threats of vi
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by tnone 9y ago
You mean when she violated the code of conduct that she was claiming for herself, by engaging in harassing photography? Disguising their attacks as a defense, and blowback as an attack is a staple of the progressive playbook by now. Once yo
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by tnone 9y ago
It wasn't an academic paper, it was an internal memo posted to a discussion forum. Even then, it was well structured, moderating in its commentary, and peppered with links to support its arguments. This sort of criticism seems like mot
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by tnone 9y ago
This is great insight, but it seems a bit silly to act like you don't need a 4D / hypersphere representation when the 4th one is hiding in plain sight. For the not-quaternion to describe a rotation, it needs unit length in 4D, wit
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by tnone 9y ago
This is a strawman retort. The principle is far broader than that, it is about respect for the exchange of ideas. When a private company serves a public function, you can absolutely make an argument that an opinionated enforcement of speech
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by tnone 9y ago
The keybase identity model combines the worst of the 90s geek internet with the worst of the 2010s social media. Instead of private and distributed trust, we got public and centralized. No thank you.
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by tnone 9y ago
Healthy competition optimizes for value, HFT is just optimizing for profit. These are not the same. It's paperclip maximizing, using an economic Maxwell's demon.
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by tnone 9y ago
Slate star codex highlighted this dynamic very well here: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/01/neutral-vs-conservative... "Neutral" is no longer neutral, and if you keep telling people they are bigo
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by tnone 9y ago
Reinstated mysteriously after he explicitly appealed, and got a reply he did not qualify for reactivation because of unspecified policy violations. Let's not pretend this system is doing what it says on the tin. He was reinstated becau
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by tnone 9y ago
Yes but the amount of griping over the need to fight the status quo is absolutely there to keep the bulk from noticing they are the status quo.
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by tnone 9y ago
Conservatives score much higher on loyalty and respect for authority as their moral foundations. Wouldn't surprise me if that's enough to explain the gap.
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by tnone 9y ago
The answer to this should be a resounding "fuck off and don't come back". Open source is great because it is generally free of this pushy and disingenuously non sense. Defection over cooperation leads to the detriment of the
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by tnone 9y ago
Group psychology vs egregore psychology. The difference is whether you are paying attention to individual desires in aggregate, or whether you are attributing desires to the collective entity that no single individual has.
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by tnone 9y ago
This is called mystery meat navigation and it's always, always a terrible idea.

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