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Whichever one you choose, be sure to select the one that gives you the experience of waiting on tables packed with rich, white, fat blobs of flesh and decadence opining on what it …

Would you make the same argument for amphetamines? Wonder what Erdős would have to say about this. As far as communication goes, frankly, I regard large swaths of the internet as h…

The irony is that my karma has actually increased since I began.

dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31269176

I identify as white and demand the accompanying privileges.

Why are you focusing on LGBTQ+ which, as some other posters have noted, appear over-represented in media (relative to their occurrence in the population), and not transracial peopl…

Nothing to do with being misinformed, everything to do with starting life on easy mode as a privileged white free from socioeconomic pressures and - yes, what a foreign concept - a…

Correct. In more mainstream language, quoth Gary Bernhardt, "functional core, imperative shell." Functional programming is a convenient fantasy, a highly restrictive and controlled…

> it starts with twitter No thanks. If this is the state of socialization in an era where online discourse is controlled by private interests with "agile" ethics, and people are to…

> a crisis in terms of the few people holding up the world not being paid properly. Who? The farmers and sweatshop workers in frontier or emerging economies?

Bootcamps and anti-intellectual sentiment spreading through the software development community have convinced newer developers that web APIs and other high-level frameworks/languag…

Slack. We've gone from terminal IRC clients running on practically no memory, to shipping entire Chrome/Electron installations that allow you to conveniently log in with a button t…

It's the New York Times, an esteemed institution in the advertising industry. I'm sure they have done their journalistic due diligence in accurately representing the myriad of indi…

Correct. The mechanics of the advertising industry and the incentives it imposes on other industries are some of the greatest evils our society has created in recent memory.