wherewillitlead

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by wherewillitlead 6y ago
I'd consider using a product like this and I don't give a shit about draconian politics. The issue is that remote work has downsides. One downside is dramatically less collaboration. I like collaborating with team-mates, not just
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by wherewillitlead 6y ago
That has nothing to do with the product. If you don't want to be on camera in your underwear, don't turn a camera on while in your underwear.
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by wherewillitlead 6y ago
It would be Orwellian if imposed by employers, of course. But for teams who really would prefer to be colocated, why shouldn't they use something like this as a next-best option? It should be up to the users.
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by wherewillitlead 6y ago
I'm sure they are, but the opposite is also true: every disordered regime or pressured state points to foreign interference as the reason for strife. There are distortions in both directions and not really any reliable information.
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by wherewillitlead 6y ago
The mainstream media seems shockingly Soviet now, too, perhaps with the difference that more people still believe it. Do you agree? I'd like to hear your comparison. One difference from the USSR is that there remain plenty of alternati
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by wherewillitlead 6y ago
That's so far from accurate that I'm not sure how you got there. Both are squarely on the left and abhor Trump. Chomsky calls Greenwald his close friend, for example, and Taibbi wrote a book called "Insane Clown President&quo
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by wherewillitlead 6y ago
Max from Oakland didn't think it was irrelevant to the topic at hand. Shouldn't he be heard? He belongs to the population being discriminated against. To me that makes his perspective relevant, and I can't see by what logic i
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by wherewillitlead 6y ago
How do you situate Max in Oakland on this spectrum? Taibbi writes about him at length in the article - and his original comments were https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1268390704645943297 . I'm not asking a rh
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by wherewillitlead 6y ago
Have you seen the news show "Rising"? They have been staking out this space for about a year now. Taibbi and Greenwald appear there regularly. This show is probably the most interesting new development in American political media.
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by wherewillitlead 6y ago
If Taibbi is reporting accurately, that's not what he said, and the NYT even had to issue a correction to clarify that he didn't say that.