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by ericmcer 3y ago
The interesting thing here is the article winding itself up in tedious philosophical circles attempting to find some sort of objective truth. If a politician approached issues like that they would get about 4 votes. People hate it, they wan
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They are called Nazi concentration camps, if you google Nazi death camps the top results will all include the words "Concentration camps", that is what we have called them for years, whether technically accurate or not that is wha
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The two terms are interchangeable. In the context of learning about WW2, swapping the wording seemed like an attempt to demonize the United States by linking the internment camps with the Nazi concentration camps.
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A huge part is probably right wing personalities talking about "wokeness" in our schools. Personally, I do shake my head at some of the stuff my kid talks about. For instance, they were taught that the WW2 era American internment
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seriously, all of the sports betting, state lottos and other forms of gambling are like little ponds next to the vast ocean that is the financial markets. These little examples of people cheating in their small ways involve 1000X less money
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Developers can't physically see the people that will be effected and they are usually just following orders from managers. It is shitty but it is way easier to know a bomb you were ordered to make is blowing people up on the other side
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Some anti-vax people take it too far, but calling anyone who asks questions a crazy anti-vaxxer doesn't make sense. How can you simultaneously know that pharmaceutical corporations are corrupt and choose profits over health, but also t
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Is this just a few doctors experimenting and manufacturing this stuff on their own? Is there a pharmaceutical company behind this? The article doesn’t mention anything other than “Factor VIII”.
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If I had been born ~90 years earlier I would have died before I formed my first memory. That thought comforts me when I feel like life is unfair or difficult. The whole thing is a bonus for me… I should be dead. Maybe similar feelings provi
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The population of Los Angeles has decreased in the last 5 years though, is the housing supply also decreasing? I don't understand how housing demand goes up as population goes down.
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Yeah agree, I have worked with tons of smart people, talented people, people whose parents had them coding in elementary school, but only one person I would consider brilliant. It was jarring how he instantly understood any line of reasonin
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The system is obviously not fair but individuals are still responsible for how they play their hand. You really think it is ignorant to believe you have control over your life? What do you do just lay on the floor and wait for things to was
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Convincing people that their problems are outside of their control and that the only way to solve them is to vote a certain way is also a form of authoritarianism. If you aren't to blame for your own life that implies you have no contr
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by ericmcer 3y ago
The Mom Test is a great book around this. It really helped me (as an engineer) realize that the M part isn't a daunting sales task, it just involves talking to people about what they do. And people like to talk about themselves.
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Kind of cool, but the conclusion was completely backwards. The final line of the study was "So he is our collective responsibility. They all are.", but the entire study was about how the home environment affects your outcomes. I g
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I have used it a bit to generate scientific reasonings behind vague sci-fi ideas, but leveraging it to directly write passages would just produce a bunch of bloated garbage. It is great for fact checking though, I wonder how good it would b
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by ericmcer 3y ago
Do you all really think AI is going to cause this massive disruption everyone keeps predicting? It feels like we keep going down technological roads that are good enough to get sensationalist demos and articles but then getting that last 10
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I am struggling a bit with this right now. Being a provider in the modern age means less than it used to. It feels like paying all the bills and being reliable isn’t valued much.
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If anything Engineers would get the least pushback to taking a mental health day of those careers. Our skillset becomes so uniquely tied to the company we work at that replacing a veteran engineer would take more than a year minimum. The di
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SF is a joke. 20 years of being one of the richest cities in the world (probably in the history of human beings) and it comes out worse than it was before.
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The original Bart had wool seats and carpet. It is too bad that we need vinyl everything now or people will destroy it.
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Focusing so much of our research and innovation on digital technologies does seem like something that will bite us eventually. Maybe once VR gets good enough no one will leave the house and it will all balance out.
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Controlling inflation will hopefully be the main discussion around the next election, I am tired of watching the political theater around small side-issues and then paying $8 for milk and $6 for peanut butter. Why is our labor becoming wort
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Well it will suck for us, if you are 20-50 right now you better hope robotic workers will be around to support us when we are too old to be useful. In the long run yeah it will improve everyones quality of life if we can level the populatio
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The non-tech founder needs to do the sales/marketing stuff. Managing social media, meeting with prospective users, translating feedback into product requirements. They should be taking every little thing we work on, whether its a napki
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That is super interesting because I do not recall hearing about it or taking it seriously until early March 2020. It really points to how USA centric our news is that there was a global health emergency declared in January, but we were so h
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Don’t people have partners, kids, aging parents, hell even pets that depend on them? The authors version of being stuck seems like a luxury, an inward exploration to find out how you are holding yourself back. To even approach it from that
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by ericmcer 3y ago
You are really ignoring that I put smart before hard. Sorry things haven't gone your way though, I am kinda surprised someone could have been in tech for > 10 years and not have significant savings, stock, real estate or something b
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I approach life thinking that I should do the best for myself and my family regardless of what broad societal problems are. I want to raise my kids to be the same way. There is no way I am going to raise them thinking they should just quit.
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You are totally right housing prices have skyrocketed relative to wages, but you cant just tell kids they are doomed. There have always been good times and hard times and there are always people who succeed or fail regardless.

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