Bit starting at :43 (Germany) will easily go down as one of the greatest stand-up bits ever written and performed. And he was the perfect guy to do it.
I'm assuming they're referencing the type of content they see from opposite sides of the political spectrum. I'm also not assuming any value attribution.
In the context of the comment, it seems that they simply do not want political noise in their social network in any form.
"Political noise" is completely subjective. There was a time within the last 10 years when claiming "White supremacists are a serious problem" got you branded as a SJW.
In addition to this, I often find myself trying to digest concepts broadly because my mind is lackluster with the mechanical side of calculations. When a professor makes a mistake, I occasionally have to revert an already imperfect record (with or without notes) and adjust my conceptual framework.
Just an anecdote about why I personally suffer from poor teacher preparedness as a student.
This instinct is so right, but the multitude of comments show how hard of a problem this is. I'd be so elated to work on something that solves this but I think the answer may lie in self-regulation.
We software people are generally mini-philosophers and it can be easy to lose sight of ourselves. But can you or I solve Search?
I guess what I've learned before replying is that it is often a high bar whether we recognize it as such.
I don't quite get how "working class" got into the mix. I see that there must have been some cohesion to his original rant since it was linked to income disparity, but what does that have to do with homeless beggars exactly?
To me a discussion about the homeless doesn't entail a discussion about the "working class" or vice versa.
he was comparing the working class (i.e. the people who live off the sale of their labour) to unemployed and homeless people (what Marx would have called the lumpenproletariat).
I guess your confusion stems from the fact that working class typically means manual labourers rather than intellectual labourers in common parlance. In this vein, one would see software developers as middle class, due to their relatively high income. However, this income is more a function of a temporary shortage of developers, rather than anything intrinsic about software developers.
I think he is right to use the term working class, but completely wrong in everything else he says.
Funny enough, manual labour in my area is a fairly high paying occupation. So much so, that everyone I know who went into construction is married with fully paid off condos before the age of 30.
It may not be glamorous, but it puts them firmly in the middle class.
Developers are upper middle class like doctors and lawyers, and hiring shows the same tendencies to networking: wherein its not what you know, but who you know to get work. Look at all the people on HN who brag that they don't apply for jobs.
I'm thinking that this is to Balderdash as Cards Against Humanity is to Apples To Apples. (At least from my understanding. I haven't played Cards Against Humanity.)
This irks me because of the absolutism in the writing voice. But I'm sure you'd say there is no absolutism present (not even an implication).
Let's leave the linguistic criticisms on this one to Frege and Russell please. I can interpret the phrasing in both your terms and in the previous commenter's terms quite easily.
I agree, I don't often feel I need to stick my oar in with type of thing, but I wish I had enough karma to down vote this from being the top comment. It is a first class derailment.
I really don't see what the parent can take as offensive.
Men have been dressing up as over-exaggerated caricatures of women for years (going back to Shakespeare and beyond), it's called pantomime. Women do the same and men don't get upset. Maybe it's a UK thing that doesn't translate well to other cultures.
This is being "offended" for the sake of being offended.
This point can't be sung enough. It always seems so absurdly obvious to me, but everyone is sold by their favorite media outlet, their upbringing, or whatever motivates the two-party voting base.
Sometimes I think people just like to debate when they have neat little debating packages lined up for them.
Bit starting at :43 (Germany) will easily go down as one of the greatest stand-up bits ever written and performed. And he was the perfect guy to do it.