mediumiqsad

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by mediumiqsad 4y ago
It’s intentional, it’s a way to brag. They don’t need to at all. There’s a reason why nobody at other companies does that - people at other companies are normal and don’t think they’re gods gift to the world.
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by mediumiqsad 4y ago
I literally did all of that at my state school, and yet despite this my degree name still makes people like you think I’m subhuman because I didn’t get into any top schools (because I don’t have “merit”). I have nothing because CalTech and
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by mediumiqsad 4y ago
Most of those people would not be considered geniuses to Caltech educated elites like you. I personally think ignoring the top 10 students is perfectly fine because they can clearly already manage. The rest of us can’t, but are still consid
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by mediumiqsad 4y ago
Wow; that’s a little gross if you ask me.
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by mediumiqsad 4y ago
Why did you select these institutions in particular? Carnegie Mellon University University of California, Berkeley Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cornell University Princeton University Stanford University California Institute of Tec
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by mediumiqsad 4y ago
Why would that be attractive to employers? Why would it be a problem if opened up to more schools? I’d love to hear the subtext here made explicit.
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by mediumiqsad 4y ago
Not typical - he's a veteran. I admire that. But he still got in. Therefore, he's superior (nearly intrinsically, on almost every dimension) to 99.5% of the American population and has the privileges that come with it.
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by mediumiqsad 4y ago
The fact that it's considered a epithet is more revealing than anything else. Him being an elite - someone who knows he's intrinsically superior to everyone else by virtue of selection - is 100% relevant to his opinions being flaw
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by mediumiqsad 4y ago
Yes, I think all of those are worse if they are effectively coerced.
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by mediumiqsad 4y ago
The Modest Proposal is to put all children of single mothers into foster homes. Done, no more single mothers. Destigmatizing doesn't increase prevalence more than the conditions that actually cause it (welfare donut hole, the drug war)
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by mediumiqsad 4y ago
Once you're in, you've got the same privilege as everyone else. Homeless to Yale isn't that different from Cisco-engineer-parents to Yale. You're still at Yale. You're still hobknobbing with the elites, and you are
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by mediumiqsad 4y ago
Rob went to Yale. He's literally a luxury columnist.
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by mediumiqsad 4y ago
Probably because single motherhood is generally not a choice made willingly. There isn't any hypocrisy here, they don't endorse single motherhood because it's fashionable they "endorse" it because the alternative is
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by mediumiqsad 4y ago
You raise them like any other child. I've never seen a question like this.
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by mediumiqsad 4y ago
OP's original post referenced this article [0] as a concern. [0] https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Why-are-Palo-Alto-s-k... Are they concerned about depression because he's afraid his daughter won&#
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by mediumiqsad 4y ago
This post makes me really sad. I wonder if my parents thought this about me when I was growing up. My dad's pretty smart,and probably knew I was dumb when I couldn't beat him at chess/mental math when I was younger. My mom an