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gertef··on Practical tips for writing inclusive job ads (2016)
It means "a male working in tech who I don't like"
gertef··on Practical tips for writing inclusive job ads (2016)
The first part is important to signal that you aren't just trying to find people to work with, but that you also want to join up in a culture war, and a culture war requires promoting ideas to hate instead of letting them fade away.

Imagine how it would look if they wrote "no pushovers or girly-girls, please"

gertef··on Books from 1923 to 1941 Now Liberated
There is high-quality current literature today, and there was low-quality literature then.
gertef··on The Land of Lisp
Counterpoint comic: https://xkcd.com/224/
gertef··on The Last Invention of Man
We also have virus botnets
gertef··on Redesigning the smartphone dial pad
Right-handed privilege.

But still, the thumbs are probably the least "handed" element of the body. I mix right and left thumb use based on whatever I need to be doing with my other hand.

gertef··on The cost of higher education for students on the edge of poverty
The people who respond to sales tactics are the sort of people who buy lattes every day, fo rhte same reason.
gertef··on The cost of higher education for students on the edge of poverty
Buying new saves on the transaction costs of the resale through a dealer and the risk of buying private used.

Buying non-luxury cars is NOT expensive. Throwing away a working car is expensive.

gertef··on The cost of higher education for students on the edge of poverty
If you're good enough to act on Broadway, you're good enough to be a salesperson.
gertef··on While you pay into your 401k, CEOs collect $250k in monthly pension payments
What does private companies' compensation plans have to do with the government or Republicans?
gertef··on USPS ‘Informed Delivery’ Is Stalker’s Dream
Equifax is waiving the fee since the recent incident.
gertef··on USPS ‘Informed Delivery’ Is Stalker’s Dream
> I wish I could have 72 hours to review the front of all my snail mail electronically

https://www.google.com/search?q=postal+mail+virtual

> The post office would still get money/postage,

The post office can't take money from a customer and then fail to provide the service because someone else told them to. That would be fraid.

gertef··on Mozilla Awards Over Half a Million to Open Source Projects
The headline doesn't mention "dollars" at all.
gertef··on Switching to e-cigarettes could save 6.6M American smokers
What in tobacco makes tobacco so bad, compared to all the other plants and animals people chew on?
gertef··on Switching to e-cigarettes could save 6.6M American smokers
Vaping is illegal, but cigarettes are legal? Vaping is illegal, but also taxed?
gertef··on How the Elderly Lose Their Rights
Those wealthy people can spend some of their wealth to hire reputable maangers, or donate their wealth to communal funds so they aren't a target.

Hunger for wealth and control makes one a target.

gertef··on How the Elderly Lose Their Rights
Not to disparage your suffering at all, but jail isn't always so much better.

> you broke a written rule and you spend some time for it.

Not true. Jail is for people accused of breaking rules, not convicted. And arrests are severely biased against certain subpopulations.

> The judge gives you rules and you follow them and you get out.

which generally involve sitting in jail because you can't afford bail, with a nontrivial chance of losing your job due to absence, then losing your home due to poverty.

Don't argue which injustice is worse. Fight the injustice.

https://brooklynbailfund.org/

gertef··on How the Elderly Lose Their Rights
Defense of self and family is not murder.
gertef··on How the Elderly Lose Their Rights
Scams and survival of he fittest are the state of nature. It's a miracle the legal system is able to resist it even a little.
gertef··on How the Elderly Lose Their Rights
Interesting that your aunt cared for their mother for 30 years, drawing a small compensation rate, and your mother just took an interest in grandmother's care decades later when her inheritance started to dwindle.
gertef··on How the Elderly Lose Their Rights
But really, what's wrong with that?

Why is someone entitled to control accumulated wealth after they lose their faculty?

Most parents live for their children. If a parent doesn't want to give wealth to their children, that's fine; the parent can give wealth to their grandchildren in trust, or anyone on the world they choose.

gertef··on Sickness absence associated with shared and open-plan offices (2011)
Your body is often sneezing because it has been hijacked by a virus that triggers the sneeze in order to spread infection.

Sneezes were evolved before the invention of the handkerchief and tissue.

gertef··on Sickness absence associated with shared and open-plan offices (2011)
People should be able to control all of them, at least for timespans of a few seconds.
gertef··on Sickness absence associated with shared and open-plan offices (2011)
"Gesundheit" means "health". Sneezing is an indicator of health risk.

It's a tradition, not a superstition.

gertef··on A Whale's Guide to Crypto Trading (2014) [pdf]
Do you value grammar over spelling?

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grammer

gertef··on Why Wages Aren’t Growing
This is one of the problems with GDP/econometrics in general: It tries to measure value but actually measures prices.

If I lower my prices (maybe as a charitable act, or due to competition), I haven't decreased my value, but econometrics thinks I did. If you and I pay each other to waste fuel, pollution and time to drive to each other's homes to do the laundry, that's consider "better" than if we stayed home and did our own, according to econometrics.

gertef··on Why Wages Aren’t Growing
Anything administrative paid to a third-party vendor is administrative cost but not payroll. For example, the EPIC software license fee is admin but not payroll.
gertef··on How Logos are Remembered
That's LOGO, not LISP.

The program at top is a LOGO interpreter, written in LISP.

gertef··on How Logos are Remembered
Using text to quiz colors is folly

https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/

gertef··on The East India Company, the original corporate raiders
I trust that you'll have similar gratitude for any doctor who kills you on their way to surgery, or any web developer who does the same on their way to build a revolutionary new Uber for Widgets
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