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"Our ancestors died because as Germany built towards genocide, companies like IBM powered & profited from their persecution https://twitter.com/NeverAgainActn/status/11697437076896…

China’s sexist culture – from the point of view of a Chinese girl http://telcontarrulz.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/chinas-sexist-...

> Now, you have an object file, but to run the app you will need to link it first. Press ‘L’ at the Workshop prompt (it’s a hidden option) Ouch.

So I don't actually know, does Uber flash up a big red warning when you're about to book a cab that your usual $10 ride is going to cost you a lot more? One of the reasons people d…

Girls? Like 8 year olds? Who says 'girls' anymore?

Yep, no one who used Windows 3.1 extensively would put up with losing at Minesweeper on the first click. MS was actually pretty nice about rearranging the map so that the first cli…

I looked into those, but my preference for not ever leaving the home keys is trumping using the scroll wheel for now.

I recently switched from NetBeans to Emacs, and while NetBeans did support split windows, it involved carefully dragging a tab to just the right place in the application, then adju…

It's a shibboleth in social media to show that you travel by air often. It's even sillier when Canadians do it because what the everloving crap does YYZ or YUL tell you if you don'…

> It solves all the same problems as Basic Income, but with far lower disincentive for work, and at far lower cost. There is a basic assumption people make that a basic income woul…

A study by UC Berkeley and the University of Toronto actually showed that luxury car owners were by far the most aggressive drivers, and the least likely to stop for other road use…

A lot of the old announcements were due to "we finally squeezed a few more MHz out of the G4/G5, thank god." variety.

If someone is "less than productive" you let them go. If they could use some improvement, encourage them to spend their 20% non-core work time learning and improving their basic ab…

And Atlantic Canadian cities are still great places to live because Canada has invested in social safety nets, sane urban development, and not abandoning entire cities. 'Detroitifi…

> What incentive does a waitress have to give you good service if she's making a standard wage and no tips? Does your boss pay you a few extra dollars if you were extra productive …

Careful, if you get Shards of Honor you'll quite likely find yourself plowing through dozens more books in the Vorkosigan series.

On /r/askhistorians someone asked about this idea that universal education was brought about to raise a nation of docile factory workers. Here's the thread, the idea gets debunked …

On /r/askhistorians someone asked about this idea that universal education was brought about to raise a nation of docile factory workers. Here's the thread, the idea gets debunked …

I feel kind of gross for creeping on his old resume, but the idea of having "jobs@mydomain.com" as an e-mail address is a really good one I hadn't thought to do before.

> from what I've seen, the increased pay more than offsets the increased cost of living Only if you're willing to downsize. Some people are, but it's a tough sell to lots of people…

Obligatory Vimes quote: The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars…

There's a fable warning about the problem of throwing out a suggestion because you think one needs to be made, and then everyone going along with it because it's what they think th…

An advocacy group for other minorities in tech probably just got a great idea of something they can lobby for themselves, and are very thankful to the Ada Initiative for the idea.

You might not realize it but the thing you're complaining about? That's the Patriarchy to a t. No one thinks 'patriarchy' means 'all men oppressing all women.' except people constr…