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by daseiner1 1y ago
A good analogy I’ve been told is the NFL combine. Vertical jump, straight-line speed, and bench press performances are probably moderately correlated with on-field performance, but the best test of playing the game is playing the game . I
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by daseiner1 1y ago
I think the failing point with all(?) of the attempts in this space is that, to phrase it in a very handwavy pseudo graph way, “real world” social groups depend on people who are “hubs” with a disproportionately large number of links to ind
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by daseiner1 1y ago
Is your comment just in response to the falling testosterone levels point? Because that’s been an ongoing trend since I believe the 80s and has absolutely nothing to do with performance enhancing drugs. Testosterone levels being in healthy
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by daseiner1 1y ago
Contempt prior to investigation ought not be a point of pride, I think.
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"The Question Concerning Technology" [1] mentioned in this piece is dense but can be understood by the literate layman, I think, with patience and a bit of work. Re: "call to action", part of Heidegger's project by
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by daseiner1 1y ago
taking ideas and making them, i.e., translating said ideas and said "makes" into consumer-ready and profitable products at high quality and massive scale, is not exactly running a lemonade stand and certainly isn't just a fli
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by daseiner1 1y ago
you and i certainly have very different ideas of what an "awful" human being looks like and i hate to play mr. ceo defender but "a very good businessman who made a lot of money" is selling him rather short, i think. he d
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by daseiner1 1y ago
Is this a point being made via absurdity or is this your sincere position? Buying a five pound bag of frozen nuggets and a bottle of ketchup isn’t climbing everest. Maintaining a shopping list takes no effort at all. Being depressed doesn’t
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Not going to presume your lifestyle, but many regular users of food delivery are paying a steep premium to eat junk for the convenience of not having to drive 10 minutes
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Who do you think is delivering food?
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by daseiner1 1y ago
your comment reminds me of when i interned at a large cloud services provider i was very much infatuated by the idea of total reliability on a global scale and couldn't wait to talk about the CAP theorem with anyone who would listen. R
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by daseiner1 1y ago
that would be cool! sincerely. post it here if you do. i feel like the above comment might come across as sarcastic but i genuinely find it super cool when a layman can master a new discipline with force of will and publicly available writi
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by daseiner1 1y ago
I’ll allow that I have the misguided presumption that I’d’ve been so smart as to have pulled my money out of the market just before Black Monday in 1929. But I still stand by the belief that the “gamble”, if following the Vanguard model of
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by daseiner1 1y ago
Investing in the market at-large, though, is based on so many presuppositions of general global order that I struggle to understand what the entire market being “irrational” over an investing period of 30-40 years would look like short of a
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If the claims are true then Vermeer is absolutely exceptional, just in a different manner than is usually considered. All painters must grapple with the technical nature of paint itself and its manipulation. Choice of type of paint, canvas,
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by daseiner1 1y ago
> Investing in a diversified index is NOT gambling, because it isn't a zero-sum game, where you have winners and losers. You are investing in the growth of the economy as a whole. I’ve genuinely never understood why this is so unint
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by daseiner1 1y ago
I agree. I equivocated to avoid the potential tedious series of replies about “innovation”, given the leanings of much of this site.
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Capital is a destructive force just as much as it is a productive one.
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Asking isn’t forcing. And people who are suicidal are often in an unhealthy state of mind that doesn’t persist over an extended period of time. And we obviously place limits on autonomy in all sorts of ways.
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> When those on the fence see us getting up in arms about something where to all appearances the "victim" actually did break the law and is being given due process, we lose credibility. If we instead save our breath for the man
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> we have no reason to believe at this time that she didn't! this is not the standard of guilt and i think you know that i also think you know that this is merely the latest incident in an extended, obvious campaign to override the
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by daseiner1 1y ago
Yes, I would absolutely consider Zuckerberg as one of the top 5% most talented people in the world. Frankly, that isn’t a particularly high bar whatsoever. Haven't you ever been amongst the general populace? You’ve committed the typica
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what music??
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would citing lebron james explain away the obesity epidemic?
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i think it’s consensus that yellow journalism directly led to the spanish-american war via hearst
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by daseiner1 2y ago
i’d imagine food shelter and dignified employment rank just a little higher. in terms of higher-order needs, meaningful connection and love are quite a bit more important to me.
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by daseiner1 2y ago
USD remains the world’s reserve currency, and the primary currency of global trade. i.e., the exporter, paid in dollars, can also use those dollars to buy goods from other nations beside the US.
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nicely done.
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I'd presumed that that's been the standard "critical" take for educated people since at least Foucault. Perhaps that's part of the rot in the soul of higher education in the United States. The infection of universit
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Children of Dune is my favorite thus far (just finished God Emperor … and don’t intend to continue the series). With that being said, Frank Herbert certainly (IMO) is a genius of pure vision and worldbuilding but he is a serviceable writ

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