adamsea

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by adamsea 7y ago
Well let’s not forget “moving to the new world” also meant they process subjectifying the people whose land it was, in order to take it.
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by adamsea 7y ago
No disrespect but I think what the people use the product for should be mentioned ... in addition to the number of people using the product. The world has a lot of problems right now. I know there’s some VC in those areas but, well, look at
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by adamsea 7y ago
Thank you for the information and the reminder. My apologies.
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by adamsea 7y ago
Apologies - not sure I understand. But I think I agree that societies choose how to distribute their resources?
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by adamsea 7y ago
"Many schools in Japan control every aspect of their pupils' appearance, forcing pupils to dye their brown hair black, or not allowing pupils to wear tights or coats, even in cold weather. In some cases they even decide on the col
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by adamsea 7y ago
Just 'cause you appreciate a tree doesn't mean you're going to stand by it if it's about to fall on you.
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by adamsea 7y ago
I would argue the bigger handicap is the resource constraint for large projects - from lack of funding as well as lack of resources since the major sources Of taxable income (Amazon, Apple, etc) don’t pay tax.
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by adamsea 7y ago
Evidence/stats?
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by adamsea 7y ago
No disrespect but that’s pretty far removed from pretty much any set of facts you can dredge up. And “rehab resort” is the biggest pile of BS I’ve read in a while.
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by adamsea 7y ago
Create affordable housing. Universal healthcare. Basic income. Perhaps universal higher education. Actually collect taxes from the very very large companies (Apple Amazon, etc).
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by adamsea 7y ago
And if you wanted to learn to play violin, would you teach yourself?
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by adamsea 7y ago
I would argue its gross inequality more so than those technologies. In other countries with less economic inequality I believe studies show more happiness and social cohesion.
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by adamsea 7y ago
Close - it's gross inequality, not prosperity per se. And thus studies find societies with less inequality are generally happier : ).
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by adamsea 7y ago
Some tools are better for some things than others. Our digital tools included. An extreme example is the Simpsons episode where Homer buys a gun, and then when Lisa asks him to get her basketball down from the garage roof, he shoots it. It
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by adamsea 7y ago
If you don't mind my asking how did you get into training people in JS and Python, and, how do you like it?
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by adamsea 7y ago
LOL.
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by adamsea 7y ago
Agreed. I think the beauty of the phrase "shit is fucked up and stuff", is that the problems we face are so overwhelmingly obvious that we don't actually have to articulate them. And since the usual way calls for change are d
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by adamsea 7y ago
Perhaps not as often or quite so capriciously
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by adamsea 7y ago
The point is that while for you it is your choice and pleasure to spend your free time doing something with a direct career benefit, for others, there are often other valid and important uses of their free time and so there is a cost to tha
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by adamsea 7y ago
Good luck being a human
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by adamsea 7y ago
I would also add that the economic conditions of the software industry are stacked against endeavoring to master and use a complex and thus powerful and expressive system / library
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by adamsea 7y ago
The parents point is that there is a baseline of complexity which can’t be factored out due to the social and economic conditions under which software is designed and constructed.
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by adamsea 7y ago
“non-STEM” — care to be more vague?
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by adamsea 7y ago
Uncomfortable?
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by adamsea 7y ago
The common thread is corruption.
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by adamsea 7y ago
Yes very simple. Anyone can be a multi-millionaire working 4hrs a day or less.
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by adamsea 7y ago
I saw a lot of people marching in uniform together and flying fighter planes and wearing suits and making speeches. What did I miss? Not quite sure where the superiority in that video is.
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by adamsea 7y ago
Oh my god dude go home
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by adamsea 7y ago
Your brain is not a computer
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by adamsea 7y ago
Unasked-for advice is often not actually helpful and more about the advice-giver than the receiver. They would probably not say that and just slowly freeze you out of their social life because they found you annoying, grating, or unpleasant

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