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by kar5pt 6y ago
Yeah, my point is that's only true for FAANGs. Not the average engineer.
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by kar5pt 6y ago
Do you have a source that says the average experienced engineer in Silicon Valley makes $400k/year?
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by kar5pt 6y ago
I agree but that's becoming harder as social capital deteriorates. For example, I've tried joining hobby groups and they're usually overwelming older people and/or male. You could say, "just try different hobbies&qu
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by kar5pt 6y ago
50% of Americans in their 20s and roughly a third of Americans in all age groups report having used dating apps. What do you mean "a small percentage of the population"? https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/
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by kar5pt 6y ago
The part about it being easier if you're looking for a life partner is not true in my experience since most young women on dating apps will just assume that any man on there just wants sex and is lying if he says otherwise. The other p
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by kar5pt 6y ago
Am I missing something about duckduckgo? I was under the impression it already serves the function of providing privacy-focused search. Is it not as private as I thought it was?
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by kar5pt 6y ago
You've obviously never been an unattractive man on Tinder. It's not just "hard", it's mentally excruciating. You can easily swipe through thousands of women and not find one that's willing to even have a conver
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by kar5pt 6y ago
I dont understand how you can consider the causes of women and men having less sex to be separate. Most people are heterosexual, if something causes women to have less sex, that will also cause men to have less sex since they'll be les
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by kar5pt 6y ago
The people doing deliveries aren't the ones working in the warehouses (which are unionizing). Most of the delivery drivers work for third party contractors. If the warehouse workers were happy with the status quo, why would they be try
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by kar5pt 6y ago
And why do we need "superstar firms" if they require inhumane working conditions?
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by kar5pt 6y ago
Or the connection between the US having low unionization rates and a high gdp per capita could be a coincidence? You can't only associate correlation and causation when it's convenient.
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by kar5pt 6y ago
Do they open source their OS? I'd be interested to see what they're actually changing in stock Android.
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by kar5pt 6y ago
This is exactly what Android verified boot is meant to prevent: https://source.android.com/security/verifiedboot . Why can't Xiaomi just do that?
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by kar5pt 6y ago
How would blockchain land claims be enforced without a state backing them?
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by kar5pt 6y ago
Tom Brady has broken many records because he's had a longer career than most other players. To call him a 10xer, you'd have to somehow show that he's 10x more productive per game. I don't know enough about football to kn
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by kar5pt 6y ago
I'm pretty sure the study which gave rise to the 10x myth has been debunked. I think the reason why this myth persists is because of engineers' conceit. Everyone wants to believe that they're the 10xer. Besides even if some e
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by kar5pt 6y ago
Exactly. I tried joining sports for the first time when I was 14 (around 15 years ago). And it was honestly a humiliating experience. I was so far behind the other kids in skill level it was just sad. And I was the ONLY one on the team that
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by kar5pt 6y ago
I'd argue that romanticizing children's free time is more weird and more western than anything else. My free time as a kid usually just involved being bored and lonely while watching TV or playing video games.
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by kar5pt 6y ago
From reading the article it sounds like laws dictating when a prisoner is released are pretty complicated and many prisoners may not know if they should be released early based on good behavior or changing laws. That's just my assumpti
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by kar5pt 6y ago
The bullying that I experienced was verbal. Hitting the bullies for saying mean things probably would have been overreacting (and lead to me getting in trouble), but it was happening in class so I couldn't "walk away" either.
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by kar5pt 6y ago
Those kinds of summer camps usually mimic the structure of school systems, so I don't see how you're disproving anything with that example.
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by kar5pt 6y ago
The problem with people complaining about "cancel culture" isn't that cancel culture is good, it's that it's not that big of a deal. We have climate change, growing inequality, migrant crises, and (in the US) lack o
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by kar5pt 6y ago
Are you claiming there's some wealthy Vegan lobby that's paying scientists blame meat for health problems? You really think that vegan food producers are more powerful than the meat and dairy industries?
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by kar5pt 6y ago
This is measuring happiness, not optimism. There's probably some overlap, but they're not the same thing.
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by kar5pt 6y ago
But if there's an alternative tax/regulation structure that can make distribution more equitable without affecting production too much, then the game can be zero sum, or close to zero sum. We don't have to choose between Amer
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by kar5pt 6y ago
I think the social stigma attached to Herpes is more than "an annoyance".
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by kar5pt 6y ago
So he knew so little about the kind of investing he was doing that he didn't even understand what would cause his account to gain or lose money? He shouldn't have been playing around with markets he didn't understand. I'
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by kar5pt 6y ago
The American constitution is notoriously vague. Perhaps the problem isn't that we relied on a founding document too much, but that that founding document didn't provide the foundation we needed because there's too many differ
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by kar5pt 6y ago
I think you can criticize Foucault to a point for being unclear sometimes, but you have to remember that sentence was taken out of context. Words get meaning from their context, so I don't think it's fair to expect every sentence
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by kar5pt 6y ago
I created an account to say this, but you said it better than I ever could. I just want to second the idea that the quote he gives as an example of Foucault's "obscurantism" is perfectly clear to someone who's actually r

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