Bakary

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811.
by Bakary 6y ago
The more useful interpretation of the argument is that it's another form of justifying the social order through cultural perception of the inherent worth of people in each class i.e. everything a wealthy person does thanks to wealth is
812.
by Bakary 6y ago
Let's examine the proposition. Firefox pros: the browser works, has good support for add-ons and some features not found in Chrome such as containers. Can generally be assumed to be privacy-friendly to some degree Cons: some cringe-wor
813.
by Bakary 6y ago
Could you explain a bit more why it ought to be classified as hate speech?
814.
by Bakary 6y ago
While that is true, it is a non-trivial task to make actionable change on any of these propositions. Even boycotting certain companies is a job unto itself.
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by Bakary 6y ago
It sounds like they could make the transition to graphic design or similar industries. They would be jumping into dangerous waters but at least it wouldn't be from scratch
816.
by Bakary 6y ago
Reading is vague. It could mean anything, and can absolutely be shallow. Successful people just have a portion of their life that produces something valuable to others. You can be a celebrated boxer while not even knowing how to read. Taleb
817.
by Bakary 6y ago
I think there's a lot of cargo-culting around books being magical in and of themselves, but there is a subtle trap in this line of thinking. The micro-niche aspect of the internet is unrivaled for straightforward, practical information
818.
by Bakary 6y ago
I really don't see the point of all that productivity in every facet of life. It sounds like cargo-culting to me. Generally, people who do fascinating things don't need to analyze their own productivity since they are naturally dr
819.
by Bakary 6y ago
People will lose their jobs en masse regardless of unions. The concentration of wealth and capture of surplus that we will see in the coming decades will probably make feudalism look like child's play
820.
by Bakary 6y ago
Cars themselves are pretty wasteful in terms of space and the way they rearrange the urban landscape. The concept of the Boring tunnel actually sounds like someone in 1894 wanting better spaces for horse carriages, except even more wasteful
821.
by Bakary 6y ago
It is actually a decent justification for antinatalism. Even a low probability of such torture occurring is enough to undo all the good aspects of human life there might be
822.
by Bakary 6y ago
Plenty of horrific things are both banned in most jurisdictions and still rampant all over the world. If the tech exists, then the horrors will happen and will keep happening unless every person can be monitored all of the time.
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by Bakary 6y ago
>You aren't holding it if you can't draw from it. That doesn't sound plausible. In my personal case, I can maintain a clear image but be unable to translate it accurately to paper or to another medium (electronic or not) s
824.
by Bakary 6y ago
Are you sure you aren't suffering from aphantasia and extrapolating that to other people?
825.
by Bakary 6y ago
Essentially it's a clash between the Great Man conception of history and the process version. The Great Man version is easier to understand. You can look at a specific individual and easily conclude that their actions had an enormous i
826.
by Bakary 6y ago
I don't know if freeloading is the appropriate concept here. A person making open source contributions will be happy to see people use their work. They won't worry about whether the typical user also contributes back. Most people
827.
by Bakary 6y ago
It's not gratuitous if it is central to the argument. The state of affairs they describe is dependent on a virtualized capitalist economy being in place.
828.
by Bakary 6y ago
I can't tell if the rest of the website is a parody or not. Or perhaps that is an essential element of a successful parody of the modern economy?
829.
by Bakary 6y ago
Both are true: there are supernaturally talented people and also an incredibly wide world. If you take an intellect so impressive that they are one in ten million, there will be still be almost eight hundred of those people in the world. We
830.
by Bakary 6y ago
I can't comment on Ferriss specifically, but almost any marketable diet can work in the short term since it makes you pay attention to what you eat. That fact alone is enough for results.
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by Bakary 6y ago
>I personally would not be proud of myself though if i had his 'career'. It's interesting how we are primed to assume a psychological burden for anyone who is financially successful. Perhaps to help ourselves cope? I'
832.
by Bakary 6y ago
The inherent tension in the crypto space is that for early adopters crypto is the best thing imaginable: figuratively winning enormous sums with little to no effort. For anyone else, it is not only a generator of envy and bitterness but a b
833.
by Bakary 6y ago
I've been unable to find a linguistics SF story based on a theory other than Sapir-Whorf
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by Bakary 6y ago
Bribed implies the natural course of the tech worker would be altruistic, which is quite the assumption
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by Bakary 6y ago
Younger me would have paradoxically been in both the diligent and alienated category. The older I get, the more I realize that the openly rambunctious kids I went to school with probably had the right idea all along. They were experiencing
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by Bakary 6y ago
Take the perspective of your average Chinese household. You have a century and a half of absolutely horrific events one after the other. The nation itself is parceled, invaded, and humiliated in various ways. Then after generations of pover
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by Bakary 6y ago
We'll have to confront the nature of our education system pretty soon anyway since automation will probably destabilize the way society parcels out work and keeps people busy Some kids are diligent and eager to learn, but that doesn&#x
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by Bakary 6y ago
The former. The proposition is a hard sell on a purely logical basis ("if you don't freedom correctly, we'll freedom you ") but also in its broader context. Western nations have made great innovations in empire building
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by Bakary 6y ago
But it's not going to happen again. There might be a bloody conflict, but it will not have meaningful similarities to WW2.
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by Bakary 6y ago
Framing everything in relation to WW2 actually holds people back from looking at the problem and formulating an actual solution. Almost every relevant parameter is wildly different: analogies based on simplified similarities are seductive b

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