Uber is not just like every other company. That's seriously some "boys will be boys" type thinking to excuse the messed up behavior of a certain few.
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It's a huge, huge fallacy to claim "this thing would happen regardless, so who cares how difficult we make it for it to happen". Your mind is wrong.
I'm proud of India for rejecting Zuckerberg's ploy, and I wish Peru was wise enough to do the same.
https://s22.postimg.org/lilkrmo4x/Screen_Shot_2017-06-21_at_...
What do you think your chances of competing against Facebook, or Facebook-based businesses, are, when clients see this before accessing your site?
We have not yet seen a candidate running on a socialist proposal coupled with even mediocre or passable mediatic support. Every time a socialist-leaning candidate pops up, moneyed interests work really, really hard against them. However, it's getting better and better (see: Corbyn in UK).
It'll come. People will vote themselves, not bread and circuses, but health and education. And democracy and markets, as opposing decision-making mechanisms, will clash.
> The political-science professors, perfectly sane men, look at me with wonder when I talk about the ruling class in America. They say, “You are one of those conspiracy theorists. You think there’s a headquarters and they get together at the Bohemian Grove and run the United States.” Well, they do get together at the Bohemian Grove and do a lot of picking of Secretaries of State, anyway. But they don’t have to conspire. They all think alike. It goes back to the way we’re raised, the schools we went to–after all, I’m a reluctant member of this group. You don’t have to give orders to the editor of The New York Times. He is in place because he will respond to a crisis the way you want him to, as will the President, as will the head of the Chase Manhattan Bank. http://davidsheff.com/article/gore-vidal/
The interview it comes from, in Playboy, is pretty great. They're talking about how that now that the commie threat is spent, they'll need a new threat to keep people scared (they, as in the, the conspiratorial they). He jokes about Nicaraguan imperialism. We now know what we got instead.
Makes me sad that CSS programmers make truckloads of money while other workers in the economy rot.
Two stereotypical emotional memes for men:
- men think with their libido, and will throw away their life for a shag
- men have fragile egos, and will pick up a fight over a perceived injury to their honor
The sexist stereotype "women are emotional" just doesn't work.
You don't get paid like an ultra rockstar that lives in a different strata of society than other people, but it being Montreal where rent is affordable and events like the International Jazz Fest, Tam Tams, or drinking wine in one of the many parks is free, and you move all over the island with high quality public transport, it's for the better.
However, it feels a little bit hollow sometimes and like not a lot of real tech work is being done. Lots of stuff geared towards yuppies and going to coffee shops and renting pads and shopping, not a lot of really groundbreaking stuff.
There's gaming companies (eg: Ubisoft), old ex-startups (eg: Shopify), new startups (eg: Transit), Google and Microsoft have offices here, big investment into machine learning research in local universities, etc. It's a college town... for 5 universities... in the downtown of a great city.
There's probably better places to go if you want a super prestige-track career, but I doubt there's many places that are more fun or better balanced.
I hear some people really really prefer `print as statement`, but I've never seem them in real life.
"Switch to Electric" is favorably compared to "Hitch a Ride", and then "Hop on the Bus" is unfavorably compared to "Ships ahoy".
The overall impression I take is something like: "just wait and see, some guys are working on hard engineering problems wrt ships and planes, you save for your Tesla while eating plants and you'll be doing your part".
Trickle down environmentalism is just like regular trickle down economics.
Outside of the fact that politics is always important for everything, this is crucially about a "hack" in the 13th amendment, that allowed a backdoor so that slavery could continue, ostensibly "smoothed out", rather than a true abolishment as often portrayed.
!mdn <search query>
You can also do the same for stuff like
!gweek <search query>
It's amazing.
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=andrenth
You may want to check on that before you accuse the notoriously anti-Corbyn Guardian of having some kind of "Worker Party" allegiance.
Seems more like they're being even handed, while you absolutely need Roussef and co to be considered worse than capitalist-style corruption.
I think you may like it.
This is a form of "citizen duty".