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by kepler1 6y ago
I mentioned this below in the other thread about it. Sounds like he was rebelling hardcore against an overly restrictive, maybe typical (?), 1st generation immigrant parent background? "Ultimately happiness is really just about enjoyi
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by kepler1 6y ago
Sounds like he was rebelling hardcore against an overly restrictive, maybe typical (?), 1st generation immigrant parent background? "“Ultimately happiness is really just about enjoying life,” he wrote in the 2010 book..." This i
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by kepler1 6y ago
Good. This was rife with abuse from people gaming the system, and delegitimizing the use of support dogs by handicapped people who actually needed help. And the airlines would do nothing because they couldn't be seen as the bad guy (o
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by kepler1 6y ago
It takes a lot of money, people, and investment to bring a chip to market, years ahead of other competitors' technologies. Maybe locking it down (to the disappointment of the "everything open" crowd) is Apple's reward fo
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by kepler1 6y ago
Well, I don't wish to be too negative, but SF is really reaping what it sowed. Up to now the problems were just papered over by enough benefits for people working there to outweigh all SF's issues. The government and people of SF
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This is actually better than any photograph.
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Photographic evidence is required to back up such bold claims lol.
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Great, very productive, and mature. You probably turn around and then criticize people for contributing to the e-waste problem, and polluting the planet with carbon emissions. Can't be satisfied just not to buy someone's offering,
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by kepler1 6y ago
Unfortunately I don't feel a lot of interest to sign up via Google/FB/etc account link just to see some technical interview questions. No way to bypass via email signup either.
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As long as the majority of the US population doesn't know or doesn't care about the issue, it won't make a whiff of difference. Everyone just keeps buying with their wallets open because it's cheap and available. All t
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by kepler1 6y ago
As long as 95% of the people in the US keep on buying items with their wallets open, and we're distracted with our own internal strife, what hope is there to counter this? Our leadership certainly isn't up to standing against th
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by kepler1 6y ago
I am sad to say, we in the US, UK, and EU can barely save ourselves from our own domestic troubles to present a strong authority to counter these human rights abuses. We kind of squandered our ability to police the world (right or wrong) g
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by kepler1 6y ago
I appreciate that a lot, thank you. And as I said, I am not a fan of having an encounter with the justice system send you down a spiral of Kafka-esque inability to recover. Also, I fully agree that some (few!) jurisdictions turn the polic
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by kepler1 6y ago
I don't know where you get your distorted view of what police and the justice system do. But they barely have enough resources to address the major crimes that happen. Almost everyone who gets called to court has been legitimately ti
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by kepler1 6y ago
I'm all for decreasing people's unnecessary trouble with the justice system. But I also find it a bit sad and maybe not totally sympathetic that people who receive a court summons can't pay attention / treat it seriously
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by kepler1 6y ago
Well, I hate to start a political digression, but here goes: The borderline unliveable nature of many parts of SF (and increasing now) are a direct and foreseeable product of the city's overly tolerant approach to crime, the homeless p
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by kepler1 6y ago
What I find frustrating about our immigration system is that some people are held to such a higher bar than others. I know of colleagues who are made to submit hundred page applications to be admitted under talent-related visa programs. In
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You know, systems were established for a reason . It's not like the cash bail system was some ridiculous fanciful notion that someone created to torture the poor. We have arrested people pay cash bail so that we have some forcing fu
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by kepler1 6y ago
You know, a problem with all this discourse about police bias and racial inequity is that it ignores, or chooses to wave away, some fundamental truths about pattern recognition, and the dual (sometimes conflicting) charge being given to law
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by kepler1 6y ago
It's appropriate that the commenter below uses the phrase "bought in", because that conveys the general sense of mob/unthinking latching onto this movement. One which I'm quite disappointed to see companies just c
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by kepler1 6y ago
Well, I don't wish to drag this into highly opinionated territory, but 2 points: 1. Has there ever been a nasty shock to economic systems or unforeseen circumstances that do not affect the poor disproportionately? Of course the poo
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by kepler1 6y ago
No, it's racism against everyone who is displaced from otherwise being admitted, so that the UC can under-the-table enact a policy designed to increase the number of black and Hispanic admits without saying it's affirmative action
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And yet, they still try to introduce racial diversity by using policies in disguise. The entire sub-part of UC admissions having to do with top 9% of students (by school) being guaranteed admission is an effort to achieve racial diversity w
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by kepler1 6y ago
If you don't think UC has a diversity quota, you are deceiving yourself. The entire sub-part of UC admissions having to do with top 9% of students (by school) being guaranteed admission is an effort to achieve racial diversity without
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by kepler1 6y ago
I mean, if you simplify this to its most fundamental level, the article is about not wanting to work (not just the office part). Or it's about not wanting to do the unpleasant aspects of work. And citing some random studies to sup
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What will the keepers of this index say to the social justice criticism that it's unfair to track this metric because it discriminates against women and minorities who don't get chances to publish as much?
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by kepler1 6y ago
What qualifies as part of the facial recognition chain? Does source video count? Because I could see an interpretation in which people filming police activities and the people they arrest as no longer being allowed. What about that?
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That wasn't it at all. They weren't blocked at multiple turns by fire closing in on them and cutting off escape routes. They had a clear way out right back from where they came in. And they took it, but made it seem much more dr
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Well, by contrast I took it to show how much of a non-event this story really was. At least for the rich folks in this story. If the person is sleeping 9 hours and dining on smoked salmon and mussels, is it really the "escape" fr
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by kepler1 6y ago
Maybe I'm just being harsh, but after reading several times and figuring out what was going on, it's an instagrammer's slight inconvenience and detour being dramatized (or implied, given the photos and hour-by-hour narrativ

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