BadThink6655321

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by BadThink6655321 8y ago
“Toxic racial politics from the right wing...” I agree that racial politics is toxic, but racial politics is just one subset of identity politics. The left has “sown the wind” and they’re going to “reap the whirlwind.” May $diety help us a
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by BadThink6655321 8y ago
Let me relate a true story, and then discuss some implications. After dinner one night, many years ago, an Indian co-worker and I started discussing politics. The Indian wanted to know why we didn’t nuke Pakistan in our hunt for bin Laden
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by BadThink6655321 8y ago
Not in my experience. But doing an on-site interview in India is the exception, not the rule. (Note: I’ve done both). And when an “on-site” interview is done, make sure you’re the one who is on-site, and not an Indian agent. Their caste
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by BadThink6655321 8y ago
Depends on the culture of the people. I have experienced numerous instances where an Indian candidate is not who they claim to be. Person X is hired, person Y shows up. Person X conducts the phone interview for person Y. And so on. And
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by BadThink6655321 8y ago
I disagree. He wants to know, as much as is possible, what is true. He isn’t interested in a philosophical placebo.
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by BadThink6655321 8y ago
Actually, what makes us human is the lack of fixed goals. As McCarthy wrote circa 1958, one of the properties of human level intelligence is that “everything is improvable”. That means innate knowledge that nothing is ever good enough, an
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by BadThink6655321 8y ago
If they're my door handles, then yes. If they're public doors, then yes. Why, just yesterday, I tried the door of my favorite coffee establishment where the Open light was on but, unbeknownst to me, they had closed early. The ki
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by BadThink6655321 9y ago
iOS support?