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People are at least as often evaluating men's performances. i.e. "Was Stephen Hawking overhyped by other physicists to help him not die in poverty?", "How good was Riemann compared…

I agree, it's a huge trap. The right exploits leftists who insult normal people as dumb. It worked when they insulted George W Bush, who people identified with and found likeable, …

Consider Bob McChesney's 3 biases of professional journalism: reliance on official sources, fear of context, and "dig here, not there". https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-rise-of…

The US government has many military bases and troops stationed in other countries. It can project violence across the planet. Any entity with that power has strong ability to dicta…

Generally, societies value human time far less than we might wish they should.

Is there any alternative to raises that don't lower employee performance, like some kind of bonus scheme? Or do you find some unfortunate relation between money vs motivation?

Excuse me, I forgot a 'not': Those "unlucky" enough NOT to make it inside one of them

Well, I think so. Because many didn't understand they were fascists too. The fascism was always in the vast majority of us, if we wanted to look at it. Just look at the structure o…

I agree that wokeness is a big problem on the serious left. It was analyzed in high-profile leftist's Norman Finkelstein's "I’ll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It! Heretical Though…

I think porting to k8s can succeed or fail, like any other project. I switched an app that I alone worked on, from Elastic Beanstalk (with Bash), to Kubernetes (with Babashka/Cloju…

No doubt you know this, but Common Lisp's standardization gave leeway to implementations. So you could choose which implementation suits you better. Common Lisp is an umbrella for …

On MacOS, you can install whatever you want. On iPadOS, Apple's the rentier middleman with the App Store. If the iPad could run MacOS, I'd search for a lightweight stand (like Roos…