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by jeffe 6y ago
Isn't the American legal system the one where that kind of argument actually has weight? Why so many cases are thrown out on technicalities and litigation costs are so high.
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by jeffe 6y ago
Can't wait until he hears about that time we had a marginal tax of over 90%.
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by jeffe 6y ago
The value is similar to that of internships - the amortized cost of a 6 month 'trial period' should be similar if not cheaper than false positives that are a lot tougher to fire so you avoid dumpster fires like Amazon's manda
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by jeffe 6y ago
What was the cost to himself? He clearly has the experience to obtain a similarly compensated job, and if the post achieved what would be its 'virtuous' goal of large exposure, it would be done so on a short timeline no less (a re
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by jeffe 6y ago
For a more modern and youthful perspective, I'd recommend "Trick Mirror" by Jia Tolentino. It really dives into how chaotic world of internet and media has influenced younger generations.
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by jeffe 6y ago
At least for higher education, I think it's a little more difficult to scale than this piece makes. Higher education has a very entrenched culture of obsessing with fundraising, accumulation of prestige through factors tangential to ed
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by jeffe 7y ago
I don't believe the concept of some 'natural order' the book seemed happy to worship. Nature is always in a state of flux, and species will always compete and alter their environments. Limited resources means all species are
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by jeffe 7y ago
I'm surprised that this book, which is as about as heavy handed and nuanced as Atlas Shrugged, seems to have such positive consensus. Reading it at a similarly impressionable age I found it to be a typical luddite philosophy presented
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by jeffe 7y ago
This story has been updated since. https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/17/21184308/coronavirus-ital... Basically the company does not plan to sue, and was not selling the part at $10,000.