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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
I was talking about Marxism and other revolutionary movements that spring from the French Revolution. VP and CTO are actual titles that confer authority. What Bakunin is describing are hierarchies of competence in a particular art ( techne
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
This looks like its for questions about Mormonism or theological questions, not current events or other pop-culture things (forwards from Grandma) like Snopes.
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
> What other forms of righteous hierarchies are you thinking about? Head surgeon and other surgeons. CTO and other engineers. VP of sales and sales people, etc. Other forms of hierarchy would be upper and lower courts. Whether or not the
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
Whether or not there is truth is dependent on if you believe in an objective set of values. Conservatives believe there is (the Bible, natural law, God, etc) and people like Postermodernists believe there isn't. And yes all discussions
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
Probably because the Cathedral of mainstream liberalism has been mortally wounded over the past decade. That has rapidly accelerated as of late and you're seeing the last dying breaths with the rise of populism on the left and right. M
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
> objectives facts (what is) rather than ideology (what should be) What is a "fact" or what is "true" is dependent on your values (aka your ideology). This is one of Nietzsche's main contributions to philosophy.
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
If you're talking about people like Chris Wallace, then I agree with your point. People like him are very much an example of The Cathedral but on the conservative side. Even stuff like The Five is pretty middle brow and establishmentar
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
There is no Republican Snopes because conservatives, since the Enlightenment, don't do sense making that way (i.e. via institutional consensus). At the end of the day unless you were personally there to witness something or can prove s
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
Personally I would recommend starting with Human Action by Mises as it represents essentially the purest distillation of that school of thought and the culmination of a lot of Mises' earlier works. Rothbard studied under Mises so it wo
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
> but it's definitely possible that by not "following conservative media" I overlooked the actually agonizing deliberation that transpired behind the scenes. This is actually exactly what I'm talking about, not the pr
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
The best criticism of Marxism I've read is in the introduction to Human Action by Mises where he shows that the concept of class struggle, specifically class itself, is illogical. Also FWIW I have been upvoting you as you get downvoted
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
There are righteous forms of hierarchy and tyrannical forms of hierarchy. What your argument boils down to is an attack on hierarchy qua hierarchy. Very common to see these days as it is a classic revolutionary/Marxist ideal but it&#x2
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
That's a pretty uninformed reading of the situation as it happened. If you followed conservative media throughout the process it wasn't at all obvious that establishment Republicans were going to actually mount a defense of the Pr
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
For what it's worth, Thomas Sowell was a Marxist up until he did a summer internship at the US Department of Labor. Excerpt from interview where he talks about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6PDpCnMvvw
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
It's been pointed out by someone who still has access to the internal org chart that they're not actually fellows so the point is kind of moot with respect to that. I assume they're distinguished engineers but I'm not su
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
I'm attempting to offer you some insight in good faith. I can't offer you a mathematical proof of this so I'm not sure what you're looking for. If you insist on asserting that Google Fellows are treated the same as other
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
Rob Pike and Ken Thompson have Sundar as their manager (I saw this at least with other Google Fellows) and don't go through perf in any real sense if they actually do have a perf process which I doubt they do. They do whatever they wan
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
FWIW I am an ex-Googler and I agree with you. The principal authors of Go are not really Googlers in the sense that other "mere mortals" are. Their engineering skills, practices, and decisions are not informed or subject to the st
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
Personally I am not a fan of Go so I can't speak to that. However, conditioned on Go existing and someone using it, the category of problems he's describing with the tooling are familiar. To your point about engineers being more a
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
As a meta comment I will say that the rhetoric you're using is representative of the kinds of rhetoric you see on the internal mailing lists in case anyone reading whose never worked at Google wants to get a taste of what that's l
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
If you've been at Google for 6 years then you know that my point about the promo system is the dominate opinion held by engineers there. Not that Memegen is the best barometer but you should check that out around promo time since it do
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
As a counter-point, I worked at Google for two years and what the author is describing is completely consistent with my experience with the engineering culture and the systems it produces. Fundamentally there is a hostility towards the phil
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by googthrowaway42 6y ago
When I worked at Google, Rob came and gave a talk to our team about NgRx. Based on my experience at Google and having worked extensively with front end technologies there I am not surprised that someone as talented as Rob was forced to quit