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by marnett 5y ago
I’ve been a proud paid subscriber of The New York Review of Books and Harper’s Magazine for several years. I advocate often just how worth the price is for quality, long form journalism.
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by marnett 6y ago
Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” is another phenomenal book which embraces the post-war era and the Lost Generation theme in a much more central way. I highly recommend it!
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by marnett 6y ago
> I expect Amazon will at some point leverage Whole Foods to build a proper food warehouse with the experience we've come to expect from Amazon Prime They do this depending on your metro/area. Here in SF-proper (dogpatch) there
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by marnett 6y ago
This is a really well-formed response with great historical context. I think you should consider posting some form of this to the main article so more people up top can see it.
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by marnett 6y ago
How do they control for the large portion of the older developer demographic who have retired early and/or changed careers?
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by marnett 6y ago
Is this the primary source of this https://fs.blog/2014/04/how-complex-systems-fail/ ?
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by marnett 6y ago
I think there is a certain mindset necessary for success in this area. I believe it is a mindset where even 1,000 failures is not "nothing", it is 1,000 ways on how not to do something. More so than that it is also learnings, exec
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by marnett 6y ago
Lapham’s Quarterly is truly a gem. I am a longtime subscriber and have the whole catalog, which I consider to be one of my prized collections.
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by marnett 6y ago
Wow. This is fascinating. What is a direct response advertisement? Also what is this site swiped? I haven't heard of it before.
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by marnett 6y ago
I find your reasoning very thorough, succinct, and easy to follow. Thank you for expanding. I am interested in what you have explored, for yourself, to replace the old world values with exclusively intrinsic values? As an aside, the mindset
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by marnett 6y ago
Hey, do you happen to have some lesser marketed books that you found being memorable and/or impactful for you?
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by marnett 6y ago
This is so succinctly profound. Thank you
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by marnett 6y ago
Don’t all these institutions unilaterally discriminate based on socioeconomic background?
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by marnett 6y ago
Yes I believe GP is referencing the broader political goal of diminishing/repealing affirmative action laws from the books.
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by marnett 6y ago
This is wrong. You can be charged with crimes that bar you from the banking system. Not to mention the credit scoring system can prevent the mobility you speak of.
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by marnett 6y ago
Do you currently believe that the US remains the uncontested "top dog" currently in 2020?
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by marnett 6y ago
> Another I run into often, especially with face masks on, is trying to unlock with a code and how iOS, for lack of a better way to describe it, has an input buffer. I know exactly what you are referring to and to this day it dumbfounds
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by marnett 6y ago
This is such an informative comment on a niche I am so foreign to. Thank you very much for sharing.
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by marnett 6y ago
Does nothing compared to when? Were you previously obese?
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by marnett 6y ago
Harpers magazine and the New York review of Books are my go to publications.
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by marnett 6y ago
I assume your hate towards Lacan extends towards Slavoj Žižek as well?
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by marnett 6y ago
Is there a movement, say Informational Philosophy, that embodies your thought on this? I find it interesting, but philosophers have typically used long form prose to build up their logical theories and arguments. Your argument seems to be t
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by marnett 6y ago
While I’ve added the critique to my reading list, I have yet to finish. I cannot speak to your claim the Illich’s critique is based on what he so desires (“I want a pony”), as opposed to describing a phenomenon of individual emptiness as a
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by marnett 6y ago
Is there a particular “cure” that was recommended by Marx/Engels for addressing their observations on the relationship between capital and labor in mid-19th century industrialist England that you found specifically impractical for the
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by marnett 6y ago
Most critical theory doesn’t come with a proposed set of workable solutions or policy suggestions. It is important to separate the expectation and allow critique to be just that. Anyhow, the first step to a solving a problem is identifying
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by marnett 6y ago
Your line of questioning goes against the intent of the critique. Which is: while perhaps (but not always) good for the institution and the societal whole, the gains from specialization are at the cost of individual wholeness. Questioning h
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by marnett 6y ago
Likely the OP means they will not submissively do exclusively what they are told; in a no questions asked, military-style command and control sort of way. More specifically, will answer to ridiculous demands of “we need this by tomorrow.”
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by marnett 6y ago
> I would be very disappointed if engineer, even junior, showed your attitude towards problem solving. What attitude is that exactly? Some semblance of a code of ethics? I think you are drastically underplaying the "random con"
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by marnett 6y ago
> Also hard to believe that more training and bodycams have negative effect [...] The police use body cameras for real-time facial recognition of the policed [1]. It 100% has, and explicitly is, a negative effect. It was a right of cente
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by marnett 6y ago
> doesn't mean you can't do bad things They did bad things in regard to endangering their institution. There is nothing objectively, morally "bad" about the National Emergency Library though.

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