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by truffdog 5y ago
> only 40-something percent of the employees said that they felt like their total compensation was fair in the employee engagement survey I always reflexively lie on these out of a fear that someone will want to talk to me about it.
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by truffdog 5y ago
This is very cool and helpful. I have a lot of fond memories of the Desolation Wilderness.
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by truffdog 5y ago
You don't get to opt out of the primary ethnic conflict of your society. If you get read as white and treated as white then you are white. No one is going to ask you to pronounce parsley when the time comes.
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by truffdog 5y ago
The US has adopted a very aggressive stance against Russia and China and Iran, all at the same time.
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by truffdog 5y ago
I am glad that the captains of our ship of state have decided to pick a fight with most of Asia.
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by truffdog 5y ago
It doesn't need to be better than humans- slightly worse, but doesn't get drunk or tired still saves thousands of lives. Slightly worse but never drives crazy or gets distracted by someone in the passenger seat. Worse but is never
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by truffdog 5y ago
He has always been a conservative's parody of a socialist- a rich fancy lad pretending to care about the workers.
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by truffdog 5y ago
I mean- its not like we did the best job with the Kurds or the Hmong or the Mien. The best outcome would be not doing any more occupying army stuff. It is not very productive.
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by truffdog 5y ago
There is no mention of any failures of the occupation, atrocities committed by NATO forces or the old Afghan government, just an axiomatic belief that imperialism is good. Very on brand for the Economist.
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by truffdog 5y ago
I mean... it's the default?
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by truffdog 5y ago
I think everyone who allows users to upload images and is medium sized or larger has to- you really don't want to be hosting CSAM, for legal and moral reasons.
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by truffdog 5y ago
It isn't OK and has always been wrong.
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by truffdog 5y ago
NYC is so different from the rest of the US when it comes to transit, it seems like a bad baseline.
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by truffdog 5y ago
That seems high, although I don't know how you are amortizing purchasing cost. It's worth noting that there is the middle class used car market and car repair market, and a lower class used car market and car repair market, and th
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by truffdog 5y ago
Also it's Chrome only, it looks like.
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by truffdog 5y ago
> Expressing romantic interest in a co-worker or classmate is not de-facto inappropriate. Norms have changed, and in 2021, it is inappropriate. That's kind of what #MeToo meant. Think about this from the other side- do you want to f
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by truffdog 5y ago
I always think of https://xkcd.com/2044/ and shrug when people get excited about their new way to finally do security right. You either get a rats nest or people don't use it.
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by truffdog 5y ago
> What’s every new parent have on their phone? Hundreds of photos of a naked newborn is what This is exactly why I never took any of my tiny baby. Google photos is great, but I have to trust all future Google managements with the photos
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by truffdog 5y ago
I was in a northern california campground a few years ago and was kind of blown away- great piles of dead trees and "no collecting firewood" signs.
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by truffdog 5y ago
Trump let a big chunk of the Patriot Act expire, and other parts got stripped out along the way. I think it's more expired than not now.
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by truffdog 5y ago
And then you discover that no one ever reads any of the tickets.
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by truffdog 5y ago
I did. Almost all government adjacent forms ask you to specify your race. There's even a standard one when you get hired somewhere. There is almost always a 'decline' option, for whatever that is worth.
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Bitter Aloe Project – Plotting South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Reports(bitteraloeproject.createuky.net)
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by truffdog 5y ago
Police Activities Leagues, in cities all around you.
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by truffdog 5y ago
To be more explicit- first they object to housing unless it is fifteen percent affordable housing. When they get that, it goes to 25 percent. Then to 50. Whatever number is needed to get the project cancelled.
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by truffdog 5y ago
I always buy Tide because my mom used to work in the Clorox lab, and the techs there all agreed that Tide was the best.
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by truffdog 5y ago
I mean- no one is bound to the land, and Amazon's claim is not contingent on Bezos providing an army to the state on request.
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by truffdog 5y ago
Doesn't the UC have the same policy? It is the top 9%, but still- https://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/admission-requi...
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by truffdog 5y ago
Mr. Cantrill might be engaging in hyperbole. Big companies are big though- lots of people in charge of lots of things, and often they wander off in different directions. It doesn't make sense to model their behavior as if directed by a
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by truffdog 5y ago
I try to do code review religiously, and comment on structure, direction, and people committing the worst of all sins, mixing dashes and underscores in a single name. One of my coworkers logs in once a day and approves everything. Most of t

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