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by chillacy 6y ago
I've come to agree. The fact that there are candidates that study with questions that are leaked online means that the bar ends up getting raised every year. 5 years ago the 2 pointer solution to linked list cycle detection might have
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by chillacy 6y ago
Do you have a link to the article? It seems like a case of a sitting president doubting the legitimacy of the election process is pretty rare, this article only points to another example in the 1800s.
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by chillacy 6y ago
I think that’s obviously a good idea if the article is correct about “blue shift” with mail in ballots. Nobody should call it on the night of election. The question is after all ballots are counted, will someone still Concede?
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by chillacy 6y ago
My theory is that being king of the foreclosed feels better than being the poorest servant in the metropolis, so it’s still a net gain for these people. Just because status is all relative.
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by chillacy 6y ago
It depends where you work, if you work at a FAANG they usually have a path to promotion you’re expected to go through and you can just ask your manager what the criteria are for the next level. In fact it’s up or out till you reach some spe
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by chillacy 6y ago
Sure, we can criticize, but just keep in mind cycles of criticism and acceptance are the norm in the past. That many of us have forgotten the outrage and moved to acceptance is only further demonstration of this pattern. Will the future be
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by chillacy 6y ago
It's worth picking up his book and reading it firsthand. It's full of very interesting stories, the media coverage of him doesn't do justice to the real person.
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by chillacy 6y ago
The headline is sort of sensationalized. I guess that’s all that matters because most of the commenters here seem to have only read the headline and then commented less than 5 words on that.
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by chillacy 6y ago
True, I see the future as being coercion through soft power: e.g. people want to come to America because it has attractive political freedom, economic strength, and cultural capital. In this world, cultures built around immigration end up c
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by chillacy 6y ago
Title seems misleading in a way that the article itself seems to acknowledge, or at least the interpretation seems construed as a threat instead of a plea. > "In the event that the Applicant [Facebook] were subject to a complete sus
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by chillacy 6y ago
That’s how the game is played afaik... in Snowden’s book he mentions how the CIA operatives bribe assets in foreign countries (and himself witnessing a disastrous operation). The prime minister of Singapore famously called the CIA out on i
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by chillacy 6y ago
I was reading an account from the Roman Empire about parents begrudgingly using the imperial language while their kids grew up completely “Roman”. Then I reflected that if you go back far enough we all have a great^N parent who was in this
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by chillacy 6y ago
The article does mention France and China as examples of revolutions set on by inequality. I’m not familiar with some of those other countries but the Shah of Iran might have been extra unpopular for flaunting his wealth: https:/&#x2
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by chillacy 6y ago
I’m rather happy to own shares in companies run by the founder with ambitious growth over those run by a career CEO who wants to grow revenue 5% y/y and nothing else. While it’s true CEOs left unchecked engage in “empire building”, it’
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by chillacy 6y ago
If we get to be picky, emotions are probably better described chemically than with language. Second best would be through narrative, like reading a story or watching a movie or play. Third could be a description of it but my reading of a de
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by chillacy 6y ago
80 cases were traced to activities that were shut down?
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by chillacy 6y ago
Seemed to work out pretty well for all the scientists in Operation Paperclip. So historically, maybe it does pan out.
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by chillacy 6y ago
It’s a good sign that Monero is offering real privacy if the government doesn’t like it.
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by chillacy 6y ago
Most advanced countries do not have a self-sustaining birth rate (above 2.1, the replacement rate). Some are able to make up the difference in immigration, but immigrants assimilate and then the birth rates go back down. The US is at 1.77,
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by chillacy 6y ago
Initial post = parent post? or article? Can you spell it out? Why be coy on the internet?
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by chillacy 6y ago
Humans (sapiens) are very altruistic to their in-group and downright brutal to their out-group. The easiest trick may just be to adjust these boundaries over time. If sentient aliens showed up to wage war, I'm sure the different human
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by chillacy 6y ago
That was a good piece. The author is well researched and aware of opposing viewpoints, even while advocating his own. I wish more discussion were this informed and nuanced.
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by chillacy 6y ago
It's good that it hasn't happened in the US yet, the US luckily has pretty strong institutions it turns out. But just looking at number of times a democratically elected senate has been dissolved throughout history (Rome, Japan (r
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by chillacy 6y ago
I don’t think we’re high status in the US either, especially socially, though staff SDEs at FAANGs can make as much as doctors.
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by chillacy 6y ago
I assume this is sarcasm because by definition every non modern civilization is no longer with us. Including some of the early more democratic ones like Athens.
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by chillacy 6y ago
There’s a revolving door system where you can make laws to benefit an incumbent large company and conveniently end up as a board member in a few years after quitting the government role. So while the 3 letter agencies don’t profit directly,
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by chillacy 6y ago
Going from first principles though, Singapore has a large ethnically Chinese population which tends to take care of family members / elders more than in the west. Unless western countries are willing to adopt a culture of filial piety
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by chillacy 6y ago
That seems a bit tautological to include the outcome in the definition. By that logic there are democracies today that will sometime in the future become “masquerading” that we can’t know yet.
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by chillacy 6y ago
AFAIK one of LKY’s stated goals was to compete with private corporations for the best talent by paying comparably. DPMs are paid quite handsomely but not incomparable to C suite pay at large companies.
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by chillacy 6y ago
Even so, it's still better at the end of the day if users are at least aware that they are paying for their services with their data.

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