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The Death of God and the End of History. The rest is noise.
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Yes, this is a question of competence, not resources.
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Billionaires can compete with each other, and, on paper, anyone can become a billionaire. Govt power is concentrated and unique.
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Consumers love Amazon. Everybody loves Amazon. “A new survey says Americans have more confidence in Amazon than they do the government or the press.” https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/10/25/18022956&#x2F
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I guess Dorsey's glorious beard makes him look sanctimonious and patronizing.
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There have always been Kochs and Soroses. What’s new post 1960 is: 1. Massive increase in the college-educated. 2. Women getting educated and entering the workforce in large numbers.
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Haidt is a top psychologist, the book’s appendix is full of citations to quality psych research to back up his claims. I don’t know how the authors of this paper are related to Haidt et al
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In these cases, you are supposed to automatically align with the less powerful. People don’t distinguish between earned power(authority ) and unearned power anymore.
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Forget it Jake, it’s Chinatown. It’s impossible to discuss non-left politics on HN.
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This interview might help: https://brightestyoungthings.com/articles/tao-lin-literary-t...
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I’m sorry, have you been living under a rock? Even the New York Times acknowledges this change. Details here: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/06/us/aclu-free-speech.html More at: https://www.t
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Evergreen Mencken quote: “The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the begin
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“Erwin Griswold, who had been the Dean of Harvard Law School, had the theory that he knew which people were geniuses. If he approved of them, they would certainly do good work over time, and therefore they had to write nothing.“ https:&#x2
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Roughgarden on blockchain:Future generations will be jealous of your opportunity [pdf](timroughgarden.github.io)
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>It’s worth recognizing that we’re currently in a particular moment in time, witnessing a new area of computer science blossom before our eyes in real time. It draws on well-established parts of computer science (e.g., cryptography and d
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From Tim Roughgarden, top CS algorithms scholar: https://timroughgarden.github.io/fob21/l/l1.pdf “Future generations of computer scientists will be jealous of your opportunity to get in on the ground floor of this
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Letter from a “prominent” medical school professor: “..This is affecting clinical medicine. It is the death spiral of American medicine, with unintended consequences for the very groups it is supposed to help..” Seems like an extremely impo
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Hot air from /u/numair
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Please please write on Substack/medium etc. The voices of people like you —- and those who lived through the cultural revolution in China or its consequences — are priceless right now.
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He was also relatively much more open to engaging with his ideological enemies. See his debate with Peter Thiel or his engagement with Nassim Taleb. https://davidgraeber.org/videos/david-graeber-vs-peter-thiel... (His
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Leader of Apple activism movement says she was fired(nytimes.com)
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“The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quit
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And they’d do the same thing to you.
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Exactly the opposite in my experience. The top competent/productive people I’ve worked with were too obsessed with their craft to even think about politics.
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A counterpoint: I’m actively seeking out “mission-based” or “anti-woke” workplaces in AI/ML. I’m not interested in crypto, so not Coinbase though. This pluralism is what makes America great, right? As the beloved slogan goes: “It’s a f
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Can there be an “after socialism”? (2002)(philpapers.org)
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Abstract There is no “after socialism.” There will not be in our or in our children's lifetimes an “after socialism.” In the wake of the Holocaust and the ruins of Nazism, anti-Semitism lay low a bit, embarrassed by its worst manifesta
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You can easily find mainstream sources for those claims. Maybe parent doesn’t want to direct traffic to such sites.
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Fair enough. Apparently most POC employees didn’t leave Coinbase, but yes, it’s too early to tell.
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Did you predict last year that their head count would be up 110% in a year? or did you predict that they’d shut shop soon?

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