Bakary

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by Bakary 6y ago
I don't agree with the parent comment's perspective, but isn't it deeply ironic to make this statement?
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by Bakary 6y ago
If YouTube doesn't like (still hypothetical) laws that regulate it, it can always look to other markets
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by Bakary 6y ago
Can you control whether you are lucid or not? I would be annoyed at the prospect of being "locked in" to having lucid dreams every night instead of the typical unconsciousness
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by Bakary 6y ago
I mean... they will probably care for about five minutes then head back to their no doubt richly textured, varied, and stimulating lives. Not the most satisfying gotcha situation
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by Bakary 6y ago
It reminded me of those silly "you wouldn't download a car" anti-piracy ads
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by Bakary 6y ago
The system and forces that make this table scrap arrangement possible are the same forces that generally drive the salaries and perks of tech workers much higher than the average for other professions. It's healthy to be cynical but it
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by Bakary 6y ago
This is such a great project
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by Bakary 6y ago
Is there a study on whether such studies and reports achieve any results? Asking non-sarcastically
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by Bakary 6y ago
Reforming the degrees and schools that train teachers. Increasing teacher salaries in the public sector. Essentially making it more selective but giving a higher reward goes hand in hand. Making it a funnel where a portion of unmotivated an
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by Bakary 6y ago
There are plenty of non-Veblen alternatives to the remarkable with higher functionality (Dasung, Boox, etc.) but the price will still be high because of the stranglehold of e-ink patents
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by Bakary 6y ago
Better training for teachers, higher barriers to entry, and much stronger incentives to be a teacher. Namely, a higher salary. With degree inflation, the status of teachers has decreased sharply when they are in fact one of the most importa
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by Bakary 6y ago
Over time, I've come to progressively reject the "zombie/sheeple" criticism of that behavior. People just want to live their lives, and we should focus our attention on the rent-seeking tech companies that try to cynical
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by Bakary 6y ago
>If I can take a pause and suggest, too, that every country has its scapegoats and when I hear people in France say things like, oh, the violence in the banlieue is due to American influence (I heard this not in regards to BLM today but
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by Bakary 6y ago
If Fb is going forward with the change, then they've realized that those people are a rounding error.
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by Bakary 6y ago
YMMV but it's generally possible to improve that sensation over time by conscious appreciation and a return to less information-intensive activities. Generally philosophical visions of the world are a product of emotions and neurologic
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by Bakary 6y ago
From your own description, it sounds as though the self-perception as a creative and continual risk-taker different from the nine to fivers is where the ego maintenance lies, so it might not actually be put in danger by failure.
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by Bakary 6y ago
This post echoes some of my own personal findings, but the biggest problem remains. It's difficult to live a narratively meaningful life, especially in a professional setting. There comes a point where you would love nothing more than
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by Bakary 6y ago
You gotta start somewhere. It's far from an ideal situation, but simply the prospect of it creating a spark elsewhere is worth taking.
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by Bakary 6y ago
They saw the number of users who actually migrated, and how the negative media reaction dissipated quickly, and realized that it was barely a blip on their radar. They have years of experience introducing changes and waiting out the scandal
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by Bakary 6y ago
It's not technically forced, but in practice you are often at the mercy of specific apps for many interactions. In many regions, not having Whatsapp or Messenger or WeChat can cause you all sorts of grief and annoyances.
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by Bakary 6y ago
But we just got proof that backlashes can be ignored, so what's the point?
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by Bakary 6y ago
Or revolt and cause social change as it has happened multiple times in the past? The 8-hour workweek didn't fall from the sky
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by Bakary 6y ago
Much of that wealth has filtered down to the masses, but the vast majority of it has been captured by rent-seekers or first-movers.
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by Bakary 6y ago
On one hand, it's true that they are making odd demands and are linked to Murdoch. On the other, it's disturbing that you pretty much have to play ball with Google and Facebook to survive as a media institution. Yeah, they could c
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by Bakary 6y ago
That's a good point but FAANGs are oligopolistic on a global scale. It's come to the point where anything that could possibly weaken them or get the ball rolling towards their fragmentation sounds like a good idea, even if it&#x27
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by Bakary 6y ago
The laws might be bizarre or poorly thought-out but the concern isn't. A news landscape controlled by American tech companies doesn't sound like a rosy future.
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by Bakary 6y ago
To cite a few examples, the talk about the French football team in 2018 was a clash between the French universalist vision and the anglo-saxon melting pot vision. The veil and French secularist rules is also a classic issue that comes up on
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by Bakary 6y ago
The market and the history of the game is precisely the reason they became like this. It's hard to build a profitable server platform that can compete with what's already there. Engines are already very advanced, especially on the
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by Bakary 6y ago
It's partially tied to ethnic affiliation, but that is not an essential aspect of the term. For instance, Trevor Noah's comments on the French football team would definitely be referred to as an anglo-saxon perspective even though
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by Bakary 6y ago
Other people in the thread have cast this vision as puritanical, but in my view the more interesting angle is that its Judaeo-christian aspect has more to do with the sense of expecting punishment. We are trained by the media to have this i

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