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devtul | 4 years ago | on: Google removes its head of diversity after 2007 blog post surfaces

> how the one tiny country in the whole world

This tactic of saying "oh try to find Israel on the map, it's so tiny, oh poor state of Israel" is often pushed by Zionists, also often trying to link anti-zionism with anti-semitism.

I saw a talk with Ruth Wisse, a professor at Harvard University pushing this narrative.

devtul | 4 years ago | on: Leaked emails show crime app Citizen is testing on-demand security force

In Brazil the state provides free healthcare and of course, security through two polices, the day to day enforcement through the Military Police, and the investigative arm the Civil Police.

Since both services are lacking, everyone that can pay, either from out of pocket or as a employment benefit, uses the private healthcare system. The more well to be pay for private security, bullet-proof cars, and other measures.

It's symptomatic to see people using private services, as it may show the state provided ones are falling short. Defunding only hurts the poor that can't afford to pay for good private services.

devtul | 4 years ago | on: Don't Talk to Corp Dev (2015)

My guess is basically yes. Once they copy your small startup features and you go bust, what is really left to do? Spend an inordinate amount of time and money that you might not have chasing some compensation? How feasible is that.

devtul | 4 years ago | on: What I learnt roasting 200 landing pages

Is this why recipes online are such a pain?

"Want to check my roasted platypus recipe? Check out this 1000 words tell on why I love roasting platypuses"

Of course paired with an auto play video of unrelated content.

devtul | 4 years ago | on: White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help meet climate targets

1. creates an insanely huge web of tax breaks, silver lining is that we would have a lot more accounting positions.

2. Replace steel? I see how this rationale works, we strive to replace X for something that generates less carbon, this ought to work to some extent until nothing more carbon neutral exist.

devtul | 4 years ago | on: Facebook's Trump ban upheld by Oversight Board, for now

Government positions are on the frontline of the policy making debate and the execution of it, paired with how humans communicate imperfectly, it's doomed to be controversial. If anything we should give more leeway to politicians to express themselves in areas of contention.

We in fact already do that, just not uniformly. The media run defense for one side while distorting and assuming* the worse of the other. We have plenty of examples of the media covering the exact same thing but coming to different conclusions based on the political leaning.

It's so tiresome to point this out and get immediately gaslighting replies.

devtul | 4 years ago | on: Prince Philip has died

We should have a designated shit talker on everyone's wake. Someone who only purpose is to bring every bad word said, bad deeds, remember the unreturned books or any item.

devtul | 5 years ago | on: Phones and apps reduce your ability to focus even when they don’t distract you

A friend told me a new hire spent weeks drawing diagrams on the board and explaining to coworkers how X feature should work, after two months of zero commits he was let go.

A perfect example of a -2 X 5, zero work done but great presentation, now the guy is infamous in our circle and no one would recommend him to be hired anywhere.

devtul | 5 years ago | on: Encountering Thomas Sowell

No matter how polite and sophisticated the criticism is, ideologues will always finds epithets and labels to try and delegitimize critics.

devtul | 5 years ago | on: Encountering Thomas Sowell

It turns out that some genocidal ideologies are too hard to let go, we managed with Nazism pretty well but Marxism is taking some time. Cambodia under Pol Pot should have been enough.
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