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Hahaha, touché. I either missed or forgot that bit. Guess I fail the test :-)

What code of conduct? Who advises that? Expecting that to be followed seems like it would just disadvantage honest hard studiers and honest people who actually do figure out the so…

I think most of the dislike comes from the tendency of typical whiteboard questions to favor someone who happens to have seen a very similar problem recently, the same way someone …

> It doesn't seem that way, it is that way. If you have to muddy the definition to make it fit then it's not very practical. OK. I wrote a really long response attempting to get th…

> Being a central concept does not mean it's not esoteric. That might be fair. I wouldn't consider a term well understood by anyone with much exposure to the social sciences (any o…

> This thread was about the term, and that's the definition. If you have to change it to "you'll know it when you see it" then perhaps the definition is not so useful. The biggest …

> I don't think your point is going to get across. Oh, I'm used to Internet discussions with folks of a certain mindset (I here carefully avoid a convenient, self-selected label th…

> Also why does it have to be "large quantities"? Buy 1 share and you're a part owner. Many large companies have stock plans. It's not rare and if you're an employee then by defini…

> This is a fallacy. If you're going to talk about profit then you must also consider that the risk and loss also goes to owners while workers get paid either way. I think you're f…

> And yes, agree that it's a useless definition. I've never seen it used outside of esoteric political debates. Esoteric? It's a central concept for understanding how capitalist so…

Owning a few shares isn't really what's meant. If your way of life still depends on earning wages for the bulk of your adult life, that's usually not what people mean by the term "…

And they're pushing 8k now! I don't know who that's even for . The "actually benefits from 4K" slice of the market's already pretty damn small.

HDR and larger color gamut's nice. Deeper blacks are nice. Agree 4k's more useful for monitors than TVs, where it's bottom of the list of important modern upgrades to ordinary hi-d…

Some bad companies: no big deal, no one's making you stay, leave if you don't like it. Some bad unions: all unions are awful and the solution is to not have unions.

> Modern capitalist societies—marked by a universalization of money-based social relations, a consistently large and system-wide class of workers who must work for wages, and a cap…

> Also, why 4k? Small room, massive display? Many people can not even detect a difference between 1080p and 4k at normal couch distance. I've got a 55" 4K at a viewing distance of …

Apple needs another of their performance-focused releases, like that one where one of the biggest features was reducing memory use. For MacOS and for iOS, focused on reducing syste…

I'm probably still easily in the 80s WPM, and could practice back up into the 100s in a day or two. Input lag doesn't so much throw off my typing as it makes computing feel kinda r…

75x... factor in the inverse cube law... yeah I'm gonna say unless it's somehow a directed effect it's still won't even be close to mattering a little bit, even if there is some su…

Pick a job that offers actual maternal leave (teaching's probably the best—time it right and you get the Summer, too, plus your daily schedule will be close to that of your kid so …

Recent college grads couch surfing and trying to make a career of blogging/youtubing? Are we counting the beach/ski bum sort? Migrant farm workers? About 3% of the US workforce see…

That won't hold up when a million other people also want to go sit on a rock and listen to the wind at the same time. At least the experience, and place, will be... quite different…

It's all the shoving, mostly, for me. Their group leader banners/umbrellas are a sight to be feared and avoided. Not behavior I see from others, (relatively) few of whom form so ma…

I hate Node's model of async concurrency. I need one thing to happen, then another depending on the result of the first, and so on, way more often than I can let several things hap…

The file managers for Gnome and KDE are both really crashy for me, too. I don't know which graphical file manager to use in Linux without going back to MC or something. Linux is th…