brucephillips

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by brucephillips 9y ago
It's impossible to know how many inspiring companies started with a primarily financial motivation. Every company has a bias toward telling a romantic, non-financially motivated founding story, so we can only have a lower bound.
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I agree with most of what you wrote, but I will say that people outside of the scene might not realize how common it is for founders to raise a couple million in seed funding, then pay themselves a market salary (I've seen as high as $
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by brucephillips 9y ago
Your list excludes what is probably the most common reason to start a startup, which is that someone thinks they're more competent than the 90% who fail, so they have a good chance of succeeding and making themselves rich. There is unc
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That's just the racist side. You're quite simply defending racism. Racists are still morally culpable even if their prejudices are statistically true, because it harms individuals who don't happen to adhere to those stereotyp
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> when applying our own interpretation grid, see a presumption of guilt. You're arguing that "presumption of guilt" is somehow contextually relative. It's not. If 99% of "trials" result in a conviction, th
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by brucephillips 9y ago
> Which would be a statistically sound assumption. This is a straw man. I haven't argued otherwise. You're making the same mistake that other of my respondents are making, which is to assume I'm claiming that the native
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Every new person I meet would assume I'm a foreigner. That's what gives rise to the feeling of being "forever a foreigner". You never escape it. It's very simple.
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Much morality is relative. Some isn't.
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> whereas talking English by default in Japan (or any other non-English speaking country) means that you take that person as a foreigner Exactly that. If you're white in Japan, people will speak to you in English, which indicates t
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"forever" because it's based on the color of my skin, which I can't change, and "foreigner" because they're assuming I don't speak the language of the land. It's quite simple. You seem to be ass
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If you don't consider the presumption of innocence a core human value, what do you?
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I never said it was surprising. What is surprising is how every respondent thus far has misinterpreted what I said.
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> That's because english is considered universal language and they don't want to presume that you know japanese well enough for a conversation? Yes, which is a source of white people being "forever foreigners" in Japa
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> How is any of that offensive or anything but kind? When did I say it was offensive?
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Sure, but cyclists don't kill other people. Cars do.
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> Is there something inherently wrong with this attitude If the culture is good, no. If the culture is bad, yes.
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> It's just a matter of being on the other end of it now. Not quite. It's a different degree. When I was in Japan, for example, no Japanese person would start a conversation with me in Japanese. It was always English. That
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Cars kill far more people than bicycles, both absolute and per capita, so if that's your measure, then the road is no place for cars.
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> Within context: "The police are awful" is better for your mental health than "The Japanese police are awful". Except the entire purpose of that section of the post was to describe Japanese police.
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You think the desire to protect individuals from racism is merely virtue signalling?
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> except for obviously violations of core human values which I don't think we would find in Japan Yes, we would. The Japanese penal system has a presumption of guilt.
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He provides data regarding the gender bias in Japan. Why do you call it imaginary? It's a real problem.
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> As the use of the word Japanese is often irrelevant in this post. You think the word "Japanese" is irrelevant in a post describing Japanese culture? Cultures have traits. Some of those traits can be good. Others can be bad.
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A double cheeseburger may have only 7 grams of "sugar", which is defined by the FDA as a mono- or di-saccharide, but it has 29 grams of carbs, most of which is white flour, which is almost as unhealthy as sugar.
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> implicitly discouraged by most workplaces What do you mean?
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> and still concluded they do? When did they do this?
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That's by weight, and apricots are mostly water. By macronutrient content, apricots are about 15% fiber. What ultimately matters is the glycemic index. An apricot has a GI of 34, whereas a Snickers bar is ~70.
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Not really. Most Americans are Vitamin D deficient, and about half are Magnesium deficient.