fahayekwasright

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by fahayekwasright 9y ago
You might want to check your facts if that’s what you believe. Or else I’ve got a bridge to sell you.
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by fahayekwasright 9y ago
GM is one of the last American companies that still has a union. Hope they don’t use this as an excuse to throw that proud tradition away.
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by fahayekwasright 9y ago
Hope they are built in the US by union labor.
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by fahayekwasright 9y ago
“Between Facts and Norms” by Juergen Habermas. A voice of clarity for a time of confusion and rancor.
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by fahayekwasright 9y ago
As a taxpayer, I support Tesla, am glad to have subsidized them, and I don’t care if they turn a profit.
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by fahayekwasright 9y ago
Social constructionism is lunacy why?
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by fahayekwasright 9y ago
You might like Minsky’s “The Emotion Machine.” Emotion is, as you say, essentially a higher order function of the nervous system—-some complex way of amplifying and dampening certain systems in order to adapt to circumstances. We understand
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by fahayekwasright 9y ago
This topic seems to make you rather emotional.
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by fahayekwasright 9y ago
Emotions come from the unconscious. Of course they can be difficult to detect. Nonetheless they can shape our thinking and behavior dramatically. Read Carl Jung, “The Undiscovered Self.”
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by fahayekwasright 9y ago
Are you really so sure? It’s not an easy thing to maintain awareness of the workings of one’s emotions, especially for someone raised in a repressive, collectivist culture that doesn’t value the internal life of the individual, and especial
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by fahayekwasright 9y ago
Interesting that in one section, he casts doubt on the notion that mathematical models can accurately describe reality, and in another, he uses a heart rate monitor to conclude that he doesn’t have emotions.
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by fahayekwasright 9y ago
Same for me... I sometimes sleep 12 hours a night, sometimes 0. Having worked remotely with flex time for the last 5 years, I have to say, it isn’t that hard to communicate with colleagues even without a set schedule. People are almost alwa
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by fahayekwasright 9y ago
It’s true. We should all avoid alarms and sleep until we feel rested. Why don’t we do that?
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by fahayekwasright 9y ago
I agree, it’s not force. I just don’t think “force” in the literal sense is required to make it a scary situation.
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by fahayekwasright 9y ago
FB’s power is not a binary of either “can force” or “can’t force.” But they can offer an amount so high it’s hard to say no, and they can manipulate their users’ attention in ever more complex and subtle ways. I don’t consider FB a pure evi
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by fahayekwasright 9y ago
Hacker News is just as ideological as the NYT.
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by fahayekwasright 9y ago
Facebook has sufficient accumulation of capital to make this impossible. Build something good enough to challenge them and you will get purchased.
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by fahayekwasright 9y ago
Remember when these articles were about OOP?
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by fahayekwasright 9y ago
I’m 35 and I hear from recruiters every day. If I’m about to fall off a cliff, I can’t see it from here. I’m not an exceptional dev by any means but my code works.
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by fahayekwasright 9y ago
Growing up in Indiana, I thought my home was backward and boring, and wanted to see what the rest of the world had to offer. After spending 10 years in a variety of cities across the world, I was relieved to find that Indiana houses were st