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lightgreen commented on Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 (W3C draft)   w3.org/TR/did-core/... · Posted by u/mooreds
lightgreen · 4 years ago
Unless I miss something, this looks like a solution to nonexistent problem?
lightgreen commented on What it's like to be cancelled   noahbradley.com/cancelled... · Posted by u/noahbradley
chmod600 · 4 years ago
A reminder that it's OK to not take sides and just support your friends. Maybe they did something bad, but we all make some serious errors in judgement.

One of my friends was not cancelled but shunned by a lot of people. Not sure exactly why; it was probably a lot of minor stuff that added up.

I just asked him straight: "did you do anything bad enough that I shouldn't be friends with you?". He said "no" and we moved on.

Cancelling or shunning is usually not the right punishment even if someone does something pretty bad. Unless someone who is a cultural model (e.g. CEO), and just can't do their job any more, cancelling doesn't really solve a problem. It just makes people hypersensitive, politically-correct, and quiet. That's not a healthy environment.

lightgreen · 4 years ago
> A reminder that it's OK to not take sides and just support your friends.

It is probably more complicated than that.

Like if you know for sure that a friend of yours did something completely incompatible with your norms (for me that would be for example stealing money from poor old people), perhaps you don't want to have them as your friend anymore.

But if there's doubt and uncertainty and pressure from the community, it's better to support your friends.

lightgreen commented on What it's like to be cancelled   noahbradley.com/cancelled... · Posted by u/noahbradley
SassyGrapefruit · 4 years ago
Maybe the author could consider an alternate title for his article.

"I engaged in sexual misconduct with multiple women. This behavior may imply life long psychological consequence for them. Yes they are the victims but let's take a minute consider its made me feel."

I think we all know the answer...who cares.

lightgreen · 4 years ago
> I engaged in sexual misconduct with multiple women

The term misconduct is used usually in the work environment when one party is in a position of power, like a boss of another. This is not the case here.

> This behavior may imply life long psychological consequence for them.

Or may not. Or maybe refusal to engage with women could imply life long psychological consequence for them: women as well as men feel bad when they are rejected.

Don't decide for women what's best for them. They are grown up adults and engage in these relationships voluntarily.

> Yes they are the victims

Victims are those who were assaulted against their will. My understanding that there was no violations like that in this story.

lightgreen commented on What it's like to be cancelled   noahbradley.com/cancelled... · Posted by u/noahbradley
tw04 · 4 years ago
Or you know, just don't be a creep and treat women like human beings and you'll be fine?

If you're giving negative feedback because they did something wrong/substandard work, you document it and move on. If there are questions later, you refer back. I've literally never had this be a problem.

I'm not sure why talking about your personal life would be grounds for issues unless you decided to talk about your bedroom, politics, or religion. "I went hiking on X trail this weekend, it was pretty cool" isn't going to get you called into HR.

lightgreen · 4 years ago
> don't be a creep and treat women like human beings and you'll be fine?

You may have your best intentions about women and still slip. Like accidentally calling people "guys" which is considered offensive now.

Everyone does tons of "mistakes" like that. Sometimes it is forgiven, sometimes it is now.

Whether it is forgiven or not often depends not on the exact words or tone of your voice, but on the perception of you. If you are handsome, the reaction will be a giggle. If you not so good, exactly the same words can be considered offensive. https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1663485-hello-human-resource...

The problem is that people gets offended too easily nowadays.

And you advice can be translated as "just be successful young and handsome".

lightgreen commented on What it's like to be cancelled   noahbradley.com/cancelled... · Posted by u/noahbradley
gambiting · 4 years ago
He was cancelled because he wrote a public apology on Twitter and that's how people found out about him. Twitter is completely to blame here - maybe along with being so naive to think that writing an apology on Twitter is a good idea.
lightgreen · 4 years ago
> Twitter is completely to blame here

Don't blame knives for killing people, blame people who kill people.

I think the issue here is that Twitter came too quickly into our lives, and people did not have time adapt to the new reality.

Three hundreds years ago people would happily join a mob on a square trying to burn a woman because she is a witch or a traitor or unfaithful. Today people would just tell them they are coo coo and continue with their business.

After a couple of years people will learn to react to Twitter cancelling mob the same.

lightgreen commented on What it's like to be cancelled   noahbradley.com/cancelled... · Posted by u/noahbradley
WA · 4 years ago
No, just post anonymously. Way better. Then your voice is heard, but you don't have to suffer personal consequences.
lightgreen · 4 years ago
The opinion of a person with some credibility, like name is N, lives in a city M, occupation is X is valued more than some of anonymous.

Because nowadays there are too many fake accounts, even paid trolls, and talking to them (or even listening to them) is just waste of time, not a meaningful conversation.

My twitter account is anonymous and I sometimes get replies like why would I want to talk to nobody. And they are right, they probably shouldn't.

lightgreen commented on Taxes Are for the Little People   pluralistic.net/2021/06/1... · Posted by u/rbanffy
djbebs · 4 years ago
And 13% of income. Perhaps the problem is that poor people are poor because they make bad financial decisions, not because rich people are kicking them down.
lightgreen · 4 years ago
Poor people indeed often make bad decisions (not necessary financial, but like taking college degree they don't need or staying with their parents until they are 40).

But realistically it's much easier to save money when your income is $10K per months vs when your income is $1K per month.

The UK did a great thing recently: there's semi-mandatory private pension contributions: it is 8% total (you can opt-out, but you need to explicitly do that). So even folks making poor financial discussion will own some wealth.

AFAIK in the US there's no minimum contribution to 401k.

lightgreen commented on Taxes Are for the Little People   pluralistic.net/2021/06/1... · Posted by u/rbanffy
killingtime74 · 4 years ago
We pay taxes. The Super rich pay politicians
lightgreen · 4 years ago
Super rich pay several orders of magnitude more taxes than you (in absolute numbers).
lightgreen commented on Taxes Are for the Little People   pluralistic.net/2021/06/1... · Posted by u/rbanffy
djenendik · 4 years ago
I no longer live in the US, but once held permanent residence status. I plan on running a little experiment: submit randomly generated tax returns to the irs. I'll keep you posted.
lightgreen · 4 years ago
What are you trying to achieve?
lightgreen commented on Taxes Are for the Little People   pluralistic.net/2021/06/1... · Posted by u/rbanffy
carver · 4 years ago
I don't buy that the reversion to income tax should happen on high percentage gains if the absolute gains are low. I think the tax could be made even more progressive. Something like:

The first $500k of capital gains get current cap gains treatment. After that, all gains are taxed as regular additional income.

lightgreen · 4 years ago
This is gross double taxation: they already paid taxes when they earned the money you are investing, and you are suggested taxing them again at high rate.

u/lightgreen

KarmaCake day320September 3, 2011View Original