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by cbozeman 5y ago
The problem with these "movements" and "organizations" is that they usually have very clearly defined goals and they come together to solve a specific problem. I don't think any of the people coming together realize
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by cbozeman 5y ago
Everything you just wrote, right down to the dollar amounts, exemplifies just how privileged you are, and 'privilege' is a word I hate and almost never use, but it is the correct and appropriate word here. The majority - as in &gt
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by cbozeman 5y ago
> But yeah, don't expect a unicorn to come around and "disrupt" education. The easiest way to get a bright-eyed SV entrepreneur to try to take something on is to tell them, "That industry is non-disruptable."
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by cbozeman 5y ago
You're not going to have to worry about that. Once rich people are inconvenienced, the problem will be taken seriously. Case in point, there was no "opioid crisis" in America until some rich Senator's daughter overdosed
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by cbozeman 5y ago
This is happening because it's Peter Thiel, and he's an enemy of progressives, or at least, he is in their mind. If it came out this was someone they like and hold dear, there'd be no article. That's why this whole artic
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by cbozeman 5y ago
The language in this article highlights how important "financial professionals" view themselves and their peers... "Extinction-level events" to describe the potential collapse of their hedge fund, when engaged in behavio
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by cbozeman 5y ago
There are still enough EverQuest players for Daybreak Games to continue to make expansion packs for the original version. That game came out in March 1999. It's so old, it's creator is dead. You can play something forever if you
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by cbozeman 5y ago
> If your goal is to move the us to post scarcity world you have to come up with unlimited free and (relatively) clean power source. Not a problem. Nuclear fusion. And before someone goes off on a tangent about, "It's only 10 y
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by cbozeman 5y ago
> I wouldn't be surprised if the Dirty Harry genre themes of police struggling bravely against those who would hold them accountable That is not the theme of Dirty Harry . Callahan is fighting against a city overrun with crime, str
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by cbozeman 5y ago
That is the dumbest shit I have ever seen. I'm so glad I was completely consumed with interest in computers and programming all throughout the 90s. I almost never watched television, and after watching this, I'm glad I didn't
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by cbozeman 5y ago
I've often thought this is the reason Republicans are so staunchly against the ACA. Insurance that's portable and moves with you from job to job is a liability for companies that want to tether workers to the job because of health
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by cbozeman 5y ago
Sounds like it's a bug for him, because he doesn't want the filthy commoners making a mess of the place.
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by cbozeman 5y ago
It would look worse. I'm currently working on robotics deployment for several new Amazon warehouses and I hate having to visit the already operating ones - everyone looks like they would jump out of the window like the people at Foxcon
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by cbozeman 5y ago
Jesus, tell me about it.. the entitlement in this post is un-fucking-believable. Furthermore, I'm wondering what shitholes these people live in or near where they actually experience this sort of thing. The Walmarts around Keller, Texa
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by cbozeman 5y ago
Then you live in, or near, a shithole. Nothing about your list describes Walmarts in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, except perhaps the poorest parts of Dallas, which I have not personally visited. Grapevine, Flower Mound, Roanoke, Rome, K
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by cbozeman 5y ago
> Working class shoppers. Almost everyone in America is "working class". America no longer has a leisure class to speak of, if we ever had one. Looking at the most recent data - I forget where I saw it - but the wealthiest Am
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by cbozeman 5y ago
Not sure if the people below just did not read your entire comment, or if their sarcasm detector is broken. I like to also point this out whenever someone mentions that only "X" percent of women are <insert male-dominated field
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by cbozeman 5y ago
Competition is the best sign of healthy politics. It means many different ideas are being expressed and debated. Politics is supposed to be an eternal struggle against competing ideas. Stagnation is death.
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by cbozeman 5y ago
This literally happened to me today. I left my shitshow of a job because I finally got fed up with the petty favoritism, backstabbing, inability to deal with conflict in a reasonable and adult manner, and just plain poor management. And I l
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by cbozeman 5y ago
Yeah, this is the conclusion that I'm coming to as well. It's better to just move on from Google and attempt to find alternatives to all their services.
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by cbozeman 5y ago
> I'm supposed to be training the next generation of $my_profession, and if they're not getting in the way, I'm not letting them do enough to learn. I had intended to say this myself. Computer programmers rarely train them
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by cbozeman 5y ago
> basically having Game of Thrones on your IMDB page I'd rather have Alien , but each to their own.
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by cbozeman 5y ago
I don't know enough to know if that's true, but I do believe you, and: > Don't help companies for free, they will never repay you. Is apparently not true, because Rockstar paid that guy for speeding up GTA Online's lo
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by cbozeman 5y ago
> I don't think you'll find anyone who earnestly believes that all people are equally intelligent, or equally strong, or equally funny, or whatever. What you'll have are people who argue that if people who aren't as
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by cbozeman 5y ago
> Throwing away equity while chasing equality is a recipe for ushering in the next dark age. I would argue trying to enforce equity to chase equality is your actual recipe for ushering in the next Dark Age. Look at your Scandinavian soci
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by cbozeman 5y ago
You mean Yucca Mountain, that sits largely unused to this day?
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by cbozeman 5y ago
I've been mining Bitcoin since the early 2010s. It is hot garbage... but it's hot garbage people will pay for, and I see no reason to sell now. I legitimately think BTC will hit $1m per coin, although I couldn't say when, a
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by cbozeman 5y ago
> Define what's a professional gambler? It's your full-time job and you pay all your bills doing it.
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by cbozeman 5y ago
> > where the median home price is $572,000 > Where did all the money come from in last 1 year to inflate the prices to this insanity. This area of Texas is not well-known to most people. It's a bit of a well-kept secret. Whil
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by cbozeman 5y ago
Every professional gambler to whom I've spoken or have known easily puts in 60+ hours a week... some of them, to make no more than $40,000 - $50,000 a year. I struggle with understanding that mentality, since just about anywhere, doing

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