Yes I'm with you culturally speaking (British). I suppose the difference I see here is this is a forum for the exchange of ideas, not a social space where there are other, more important factors at play e.g. the…
Well you wrote "forum/discussion". My apologies for not quoting you verbatim. And I am not advocating for anything. I am pointing out the contradiction of the proposal to ban politics on topics that are politically…
The guidelines do not say "do not discuss politics". They say no political or ideological battles. And no-one is talking about inserting politics into every discussion. You have no idea how often the people mentioning…
> If there's a group to discuss ice cream, but they keep talking about Trump, it's not a "political act" to say "hey guys, aren't we here for ice cream?" Depends who is selling the ice cream.
You're right about neutral/hopeless. I meant "happy" in the sense of "OK with / resigned to let exist". Not necessarily "this is great". The meat-eating morality point I think is also an interesting example. It could…
No, the parallel would be an atheist saying "I don't want anyone in this room to mention God".
Telling people not to be political is a political act – specifically, one that accepts whatever comes, doesn't care about power, is happy with whoever rules whom and how justly. Those are your politics, or at least…
"Something went wrong." Long X posts seem to be totally inaccessible if you're not an X user.
You phrase this as if it’s absurd. Why should it be possible to offshore your future capital gains without paying an exit tax? You live in a country with a tax system that assumes people pay into it.
The ranking isn’t published by the newspaper - it’s by the research and insights B2B company of the overall group. Regardless of what assumptions you have about the newspaper (elite, yes, but I’m unclear on why you…
The downvoters are welcome to offer actual counterarguments.
But the parent point was that no British media could be critical of government policy. Picking an example that isn’t, on one area, doesn’t prove their point. [Edit] Granted though, the bbc isn’t merciless - that’s more…
Trivially true I suppose, but it doesn’t make my point irrelevant - do you think Britain is equivalent to China and Russia? If everyone does but us then yes my goodness they’ve done a good job controlling us, but that…
Why is it funny? You think British media can’t be critical of the British government? They are famously merciless. Also, the economist is majority foreign owned, so try doing more than 1 second of research, or be more…
If you think Britain and Russia or China are equivalent in terms of government overreach, you need to find new sources of information.
They’re talking about British hate speech laws. They think other countries have universal free speech and they absolutely do not, but for some reason they think Britain goes too far. Although “think” is probably too…
Not sure we think of Banksy as being particularly subtle. Innovative and impactful, sure - but the message is usually quite clear, no?
It’s a peer reviewed study in one of the world’s top science journals. It’s not some random person on a podcast.
A lot of engineers find it difficult to conceive of product and design (and marketing, and management…) as actual skilled work. It’s all con artistry orbiting engineering.
Skills frameworks are great. Your mentee can rate themselves at different levels across different competencies. You can have a discussion about where you see them differently on any areas. You can agree, based on your…
Ok great. I would frame your product in those terms. It’s not an abstract feature - it’s an improvement on job boards! Sounds like a promising idea.
True but what about existing job boards? They also mean you don’t have to go to every company website. Is this approach better than that?
The way to think about this is: what user (jobseeker) need does this solve, or make easier? What does the user currently do, and why is this better?
You’ll find that a pretty unpopular attitude around here (hence the downvoting on your comment, and I assume mine shortly), but you are right.
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Yes I'm with you culturally speaking (British). I suppose the difference I see here is this is a forum for the exchange of ideas, not a social space where there are other, more important factors at play e.g. the…
Well you wrote "forum/discussion". My apologies for not quoting you verbatim. And I am not advocating for anything. I am pointing out the contradiction of the proposal to ban politics on topics that are politically…
The guidelines do not say "do not discuss politics". They say no political or ideological battles. And no-one is talking about inserting politics into every discussion. You have no idea how often the people mentioning…
> If there's a group to discuss ice cream, but they keep talking about Trump, it's not a "political act" to say "hey guys, aren't we here for ice cream?" Depends who is selling the ice cream.
You're right about neutral/hopeless. I meant "happy" in the sense of "OK with / resigned to let exist". Not necessarily "this is great". The meat-eating morality point I think is also an interesting example. It could…
No, the parallel would be an atheist saying "I don't want anyone in this room to mention God".
Telling people not to be political is a political act – specifically, one that accepts whatever comes, doesn't care about power, is happy with whoever rules whom and how justly. Those are your politics, or at least…
"Something went wrong." Long X posts seem to be totally inaccessible if you're not an X user.
You phrase this as if it’s absurd. Why should it be possible to offshore your future capital gains without paying an exit tax? You live in a country with a tax system that assumes people pay into it.
The ranking isn’t published by the newspaper - it’s by the research and insights B2B company of the overall group. Regardless of what assumptions you have about the newspaper (elite, yes, but I’m unclear on why you…
The downvoters are welcome to offer actual counterarguments.
But the parent point was that no British media could be critical of government policy. Picking an example that isn’t, on one area, doesn’t prove their point. [Edit] Granted though, the bbc isn’t merciless - that’s more…
Trivially true I suppose, but it doesn’t make my point irrelevant - do you think Britain is equivalent to China and Russia? If everyone does but us then yes my goodness they’ve done a good job controlling us, but that…
Why is it funny? You think British media can’t be critical of the British government? They are famously merciless. Also, the economist is majority foreign owned, so try doing more than 1 second of research, or be more…
If you think Britain and Russia or China are equivalent in terms of government overreach, you need to find new sources of information.
They’re talking about British hate speech laws. They think other countries have universal free speech and they absolutely do not, but for some reason they think Britain goes too far. Although “think” is probably too…
Not sure we think of Banksy as being particularly subtle. Innovative and impactful, sure - but the message is usually quite clear, no?
It’s a peer reviewed study in one of the world’s top science journals. It’s not some random person on a podcast.
A lot of engineers find it difficult to conceive of product and design (and marketing, and management…) as actual skilled work. It’s all con artistry orbiting engineering.
Skills frameworks are great. Your mentee can rate themselves at different levels across different competencies. You can have a discussion about where you see them differently on any areas. You can agree, based on your…
Ok great. I would frame your product in those terms. It’s not an abstract feature - it’s an improvement on job boards! Sounds like a promising idea.
True but what about existing job boards? They also mean you don’t have to go to every company website. Is this approach better than that?
The way to think about this is: what user (jobseeker) need does this solve, or make easier? What does the user currently do, and why is this better?
You’ll find that a pretty unpopular attitude around here (hence the downvoting on your comment, and I assume mine shortly), but you are right.
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