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While the general conclusion is correct, this angst-ridden blog post posing as a news article wouldn't get past the most generous editor a few decades ago. It's sad that Buzzfeed N…

> I have a pet theory that when people interview they bring this buried frustration into the room with them and use the interviewing process to play the part of the people they fee…

> Oh my God! Big Brother! Control! Black Mirror Is Real! Frogs and boiling water...

It's the ubiquitousness that was missing in the past. It's come to a point where it's considered socially regressive to not give your middle-school aged child a 24/7 communications…

They have crossed a threshold and, if you continue to use Google products, you have crossed a threshold. Google is now a willing and active participant in the coverup of massive hu…

You get a $20 wiretap! You get a $20 wiretap! Everybody gets a $20 wiretaaaaaaaaap!

I think you're right when it comes to the lower tier of JS developers, but IMHO there are a lot less middle tier devs per-capita in JS than Java. Proficient fullstack JS is a very …

There's an argument to be made that Java positions are the easiest to fill with lower waged visa or offshore workers, meaning that you have to maintain an extremely high proficienc…

There's a big difference between the AfterEffects guys and the writers. Rogan's complaints were as someone whose career requires massive amounts of writing and understandably wants…

I'm being forced into an timed upgrade by corporate and I couldn't be unhappier. If some of the extraneous software needed to work in the environment wasn't Mac/Windows only, I'd r…

My bad. I'm so used to the cognitive dissonance around here.

1. There may be a scale, but they didn't use it. 2. Go to an Antifa riot and you'll see your "Loch Ness Monster"

I'm assuming sarcasm, so forgive me if I'm wrong. I'm a pretty centrist, non-politically active guy, and I personally have one acquaintance that identifies as a marxist, another as…

Like most situations, you learn more about someone from the questions they ask than the answers they give. The creator(s) of that survey have some extremely binary world views.

Their authoritarian scale is the RWA, or Right Wing Authoritarianism . They did no test for general authoritarianism, meaning that their summary is suspect. It's no surprise to any…

For reference, I got a 59, which is securely within the supposed "non-authoritarian" side. That being said, the questions in that test are quite binary and, The RW in RWA being for…

An absolute false equivalence, save the "timeshare child" thing, which sounds disastrous for the well being of the child. Nobody in their right mind would argue that a child split …

That is an absolute cavalcade of stereotypes. Even then it has a major hole. In your vision those children will still be born into the societal norms of their larger group.

Did you read the article? He literally gave every example of maliciousness as right wing and provided no examples of how the left is equally manipulated.

(Playing devil's advocate) The child doesn't consent to a life of being outside of that social norm. One could make the argument that it's in the same ballpark as raising a child i…

(Argues that social media and data tracking is a dangerous combination that can serve to further alienate us from our humanity) (Proceeds to inject his political agenda that, while…

> We may be headed to a possible future in which technology makes it possible to decouple "romantic" impulses from the reproductive drive. This type of techno-hubris, which thinks …

> Why should mom-n-pop have a higher fiscal hurdle than MegaCorp? They don't. They have normal taxation. They wouldn't even have the opportunity to make profits, and hence be taxed…

You're proving my point, in that you don't see the situation holistically. You're assuming all "business" is tech. How about all the maintenance based services? Even inside tech, d…

How many other businesses are going to open branches, if not headquarters, in Des Moines to be close to the Apple data center? How many other companies can they now attract with la…