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drat in 18 years stymie only caught two bans. impressive.
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Mr. Nice! posted:drat in 18 years stymie only caught two bans. impressive.
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uncurable mlady posted:like it's honestly super gross for stymie to compare their treatment on here to being the victim of sexual assault
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Oct 29, 2019 20:47
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has anyone watched Silicon Valley S06E01 and is it good
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uncurable mlady posted:like it's honestly super gross for stymie to compare their treatment on here to being the victim of sexual assault Stymie posted:i'm not comparing my treatment, i'm comparing the defenses being used to justify it that’s literally what you’re doing by invoking the comparison you loving idiot. this is disgusting
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MononcQc posted:has anyone watched Silicon Valley S06E01 and is it good it's extremely good they dove headfirst into a pile of horseshit and doubled down on richard-as-villain
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i stopped watching it after season 1 even though i really enjoyed it because i mostly just don’t watch any tv i might pick it back up now that i know it’s ending
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i hope jared finds peace
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does silicon valley suffer from office space itis where if you've spent real time in that field, it's way less funny because it's basically true?
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Fatty Crabcakes posted:It is and honestly it's super upsetting to hear it because of what's happened to me over the past few months. 💜
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playstation vue is dying at the end of the year and dish or sling didn't even want their customers so cord cutting tv packages is going super great, apparentlyquote:“Unfortunately, the highly competitive Pay TV industry, with expensive content and network deals, has been slower to change than we expected,” said Sony’s John Kodera of the move. “Because of this, we have decided to remain focused on our core gaming business.”
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Jonny 290 posted:does silicon valley suffer from office space itis where if you've spent real time in that field, it's way less funny because it's basically true? i mean its still funny but in a different, more depressing, way
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Jonny 290 posted:does silicon valley suffer from office space itis where if you've spent real time in that field, it's way less funny because it's basically true? yes and no? i find both office space and silicon valley to be more funny because they're so very true silicon valley is at least meaner than office space. office space is far too kind to its protagonists. silicon valley is totally comfortable with the main characters being awful, horrible human beings who actively promote the terrible things they have gotten themselves into
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Oct 29, 2019 20:55
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hell yeah i might check it out then ty
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qirex posted:playstation vue is dying at the end of the year and dish or sling didn't even want their customers so cord cutting tv packages is going super great, apparently sony was selling cable tv, over the internet, for the same price as just buying a cable package also it is $10 more than the exact same offering from google
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my love for stymie does not exonerate him
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Yeah silicon valley definitely hits close to home for me. Also rip stymie, died trying to increase shareholder value by lowering salaries of workers
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rotor posted:if you've never encountered someone whom "performative brokeness" describes perfectly then I envy you. in louisiana the term is "fauxbo"
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Oct 29, 2019 20:57
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Jonny 290 posted:does silicon valley suffer from office space itis where if you've spent real time in that field, it's way less funny because it's basically true? i don't even technically work in silicon valley but i know a personal example of every archetype from that show. it's spot-on. read the nyt interview where they talk about how astro teller's behavior when they interviewed him was too unbelievable to put in the show
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Oct 29, 2019 20:58
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Silicon Valley would be more depressing if I weren't remote and with an easier way to dissociate from the wild valley work environments, but it's also funnier when you can spot all the archetypes and play a kind of bingo where you identify which character is based on which real person or series of events.
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:i'm the shell cordovan lol
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MononcQc posted:Silicon Valley would be more depressing if I weren't remote and with an easier way to dissociate from the wild valley work environments, but it's also funnier when you can spot all the archetypes and play a kind of bingo where you identify which character is based on which real person or series of events. yeah outside the core group of protagonists, almost all of the "fictional" characters are only very thinly fictionalized
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Oct 29, 2019 21:06
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i'm glad someone got the joke
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:sony was selling cable tv, over the internet, for the same price as just buying a cable package ps vue used to be pretty cheap when it launched but yeah, i dropped them once they hiked their prices up
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i keep wondering about this thesis that "all tech companies are bad & unethical, therefore logically all tech workers are bad and aiding unethical behavior". there are literally thousands of companies making custom software for managing parking permits, tracking parcels.. software that is basically commissioned to speed up a non-tech company's day to day operations through the use of modern technology apparently all those developers working on that software - all over the world - should go gently caress themselves and enlist in re-education as a worldwide coordinated unified front because a small but vocal minority of extremely privileged failchildren do you also go around your local schools and try to persuade the administration to go back using spreadsheets on paper instead of word and excel?
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Oct 29, 2019 21:24
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basically this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc1P-AEaEp8
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Penisface posted:i keep wondering about this thesis that "all tech companies are bad & unethical, therefore logically all tech workers are bad and aiding unethical behavior". almost like it was a ridiculous claim engineered to get people to engage so that he could turn it around to talk about himself 
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PIZZA.BAT posted:almost like it was a ridiculous claim engineered to get people to engage so that he could turn it around to talk about himself but he also didn't talk about himself
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Penisface posted:i keep wondering about this thesis that "all tech companies are bad & unethical, therefore logically all tech workers are bad and aiding unethical behavior". you should appreciate the artful gimmick, but you shouldn’t engage
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Penisface posted:i keep wondering about this thesis that "all tech companies are bad & unethical, therefore logically all tech workers are bad and aiding unethical behavior". replace tech with cops and you'll understand the reasoning, if not the conclusion. not all tech is bad, but a lot of it is. suppose you're just automating processes to make things more efficient. that will ultimately lead to job losses; eventually automation and tech can make things more efficient, but without support for those displaced it often does actively make things worse. a lot of vc funders have questionable ethics
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The options are to do the lovely work by hand, or automate it and be evil. It has nothing to do with the accumulation of capital created by the hands of the laborers into the pockets of capitalists, we have to blame the employees in A for getting rid of the job of the employees in B. In conclusion, the idea is that it is easier to convince everyone to keep doing the manual labor than it is to address the problem around the concentration of capital because ???
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restore progressive taxes to the way they were at the beginning of the new deal, and make the work week 25 hours so more people will be employed. basically i'd be happy if we just copy whatever sweden's doing atm
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the choices are get paid to do something that advances someone else's interests, often malign, anti-social interests, or die in a ditch unless you were inherited a great sum of money, there was never some moment where you got to choose whether you would work for something unambiguously good or evil in the world. you were born into this leaking wreck of a society and you will die embedded in the same just try and get paid and take care of your family and be kind to one another
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