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by igorkraw 5y ago
The thing that's evil is exactly the part where that ideologically driven congress is also not allowing USPS to innovate or raise prices to raise the money, or to spread out the buildup of the pension fund over a longer time. I rarely
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by igorkraw 5y ago
Dang has personally told me to avoid incendiary language and while I personally disagree with the exact definition used at hackernews, it's their playground so I'm trying to be a good citizen. But I agree
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by igorkraw 5y ago
Because I originally wrote it on level 2 in a thread, then felt it was serviceable as a reply to the thread OP, as well as a top level reply.
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by igorkraw 5y ago
Gonna repost this reply wherever it seems fitting: The USPS has been legally blocked from adapting by anti-infrastructure ideologues (source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLyU1WCQQ8A ) in order to set them up to fail. In
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by igorkraw 6y ago
Is this not a thing in the US? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashlight I assume they are going for "batteries included" connections?
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by igorkraw 6y ago
It's not unrelated until systemic racism is gone
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by igorkraw 6y ago
I mean, all you'd need is a damping factor via a wealth tax, above some threshold that's still motivating enough. I doubt anyone would call everyone having 1 million dollars "equality of poverty", and you can make it so
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by igorkraw 6y ago
Posts like this really piss me off, because you can make anything sound small. So don't take the next few paragraphs as me attacking you, I'm just venting a general sentiment I've had for a while. (Looking back after typing i
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by igorkraw 6y ago
One could preface it or postscript it with some commentary instead of implicitly endorsing it as a good idea.
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by igorkraw 6y ago
...why do you think it's easier for people to apply this stuff? Who do you think builds and maintains tools like umap-learn, sklearn etc.?
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by igorkraw 6y ago
I had hoped that this would go more into the failures of taylorism but from quickly skimming through, it didn't seemt to be. I recommend people read at least some of the many critiques, starting with the ones linked in the Wikipedia
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by igorkraw 6y ago
Almost yes, except wages for the stuff that needs to be done will rise to the point that you actually earn almost what your labor is worth :-) some of the most important jobs in the world (nurses?!) pay much less than my hobby of sitting in
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by igorkraw 6y ago
Well, then it will be fully mask off for amazon. And it is historically unwise from a societal standpoint to surpress all ways of peaceful worker participation. We'll see what road the US/amazon will go.
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by igorkraw 6y ago
I prefer Camus personally. The act of rebellion against ...well everything, but in this case against things to worship, against stories that try to hide the absurdity of the universe seems to me a narrative much less likely to be led astray
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by igorkraw 6y ago
Erm...so maybe Germany is actually more sexist than the US, but I could totally see this happpen to women in germany, less so men. Because, especially in engineering, older workers do sometimes still assume a women in a dress must be a
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by igorkraw 6y ago
>Bitcoin market cap today is $1 trillion. It would cost US government a pretty penny to re-purchase BTC owned by US citizens. That's today. Within a year market cap could be $2 trillion. I don't see how you'd argue that th
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by igorkraw 6y ago
But in this thread people have repeatedly explained to me that no matter what you say, people can and will accuse you...so why do we not hear more about rejected female, black etc. entrepeneurs calling down the PC mob on VCs that rejected t
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by igorkraw 6y ago
Isn't that circular logic? Everyone is afraid of something bad happens, so everyone censors themselves way too much...but it's somehow still so well known that it would happen?
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by igorkraw 6y ago
Thanks for pointing that out, good point. I'll actually need to think about this aspect a bit more. It still seems like the fear is more clamming than the thing being feared
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by igorkraw 6y ago
I mean, can you provide me a link? Because neither Reddit not Hackernews has supplied me with examples so far
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by igorkraw 6y ago
thank you, corrected
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by igorkraw 6y ago
> If I'm sexist then I could choose to make such a remark only if it happens to be a female colleague. If male then sleep(). Sexism achieved. Well, sure, but then you are displaying a clear and verifyable pattern, and my original po
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by igorkraw 6y ago
3 points: 1. An observation that you are arguing from a position of assuming malice from the other side. "They" are trying to twist everything, therefore evidence is not required since "they" won't listen anyway 2.
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by igorkraw 6y ago
Well if that was the case where are all the horror stories ? With the acceptance rates of startups at VC pitches etc., shouldn't we be expecting a lot of VCs being hounded with allegations of sexism and the media circus going amok? H
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by igorkraw 6y ago
You are inventing a hypothetical straw-man. Until you can point to conversation where someone said something fact based like I gave as an example and people accept your twisting and start a twitter mob of any impact, this remains a hypoth
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by igorkraw 6y ago
Good points, thank you. It just seems like in this case, whenever the topic is discussed everyone points to "it is known" style twitter mobs, and the actual examples of twitter mobs that do show up tend to not be as unreasonable i
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by igorkraw 6y ago
And I am calling that fear bullshit. If you cannot articulate the differences, then why are you making the suggestion? A "gut feeling"? Well, then that might be sexist and deserve being called out as BS. And if everything was fine
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by igorkraw 6y ago
I'm a bit sad about how eager everyone is jumping on the idea that "candid advice" will always be construed as possibly sexist. I'm from Germany and we are famously blunt, so maybe there is a cultural aspect to this, but
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by igorkraw 6y ago
"Hey XXX,and YYY, do you have time for a discussion tomorrow at lunch? I noticed some things that make me think the company could benefit from you two swapping some responsibilities. I've noticed XXX struggles to aaa,for example a
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by igorkraw 6y ago
I have it all mixed up in my head tbh, you are right. Mutual credit is an even more explicit money mechanism though

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