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9 years ago
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on: Why I Quit My Job to Travel the World
Americans really do not prefer either candidate. Our political system is deeply screwed up. Saying something like "Just vote for the right people and everything will be better!" doesn't help us Americans because the system is both a two-party system and is heavily influenced by the rich. The two problems combined has really made our country less of a democracy and more of an oligarchy.
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9 years ago
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on: Facebook and Twitter pledge to remove hate speech within 24 hours
Safe spaces are echo chambers. Only people who align with their own views are allowed, so those views are the only ones expressed. It's "Free" as long as you say what they want to hear.
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9 years ago
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on: Facebook and Twitter pledge to remove hate speech within 24 hours
There is a difference between the two. Getting doxxed is caused by social regulation going awry. Getting removed by a company is that company controlling the narrative. Neither is good, but one still allows for the freedom of expression.
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9 years ago
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on: A Wave of Crap: Holding Content to a Higher Standard
I understand the sentiment of the post, but it's just not realistic. If we could get rid of the problem, that would obviously be preferable, but it's not going anywhere. It's just too pervasive and exploits psychology too well.
We should encourage people to do those things and break free, and some will be able to. Many people, however, lack the willpower to do so. If we can find a way to make people learn and feel fulfilled while in a short-attention-span environment, that would be an improvement from where we are now.
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9 years ago
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on: A Wave of Crap: Holding Content to a Higher Standard
It is tough to break out of the instant gratification cycle when everyone you see is in the same cycle. People on facebook spend all of their time looking at other people on facebook. Living differently takes someone or something to shift their perspective, as well as the self-discipline to create change. This expense makes me believe that the lifestyle of instant gratification is the new normal, and I doubt it will be going away any time soon.
That just makes me wonder: How can we manipulate this change for our own advantage?
advantark
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9 years ago
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on: Diversity and Inclusion at GitHub
I have never heard a good argument explaining how affirmative action is good for a company or society outside of college.
advantark
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9 years ago
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on: Foxconn replaces '60,000 factory workers with robots'
Theoretically, those people who lost their jobs are now free to use their time producing some other product, thus increasing GDP. We'll see if that happens, though.
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9 years ago
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on: For first time since 1880s, more young Americans live with parents than partner
'Society at large has decided that it likes suburbs and McMansions just fine.'
No, the people with the money and land have decided that they like suburbs. I am sure that if a millennial could buy a small patch of land and build a small house on it for cheap, they would.
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10 years ago
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on: There Are No Women on PayPal's Gender Equality Panel
True equality is choosing the right people for the job vs diversifying for the sake of diversity.
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10 years ago
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on: Secret Court Takes Another Bite Out of the Fourth Amendment
We're arguing for our right to due process. Something that is thrown away when secret courts make such big decisions.
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10 years ago
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on: U.S. Suicide Rate Surges to a 30-Year High
Unemployment may be going down, but that doesn't count for much when most of the added jobs are $10/hr service jobs.
