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by mikkergp 4y ago
> if you actually want honest and unvarnished opinions on your idea then 4Chan is the place to solicit it. I actually doubt the kind of trolling that happens on 4chan can be described as honest. Unvarnished maybe.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Not having access to their psych records, I think all we have to go on is what they claim.
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Not that it makes it better, but Elon also said he suffered from bipolar disorder.
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> Unfortunately the world now revolves around [gui] web browsers. We brought this technologically retarded hellscape on ourselves and we deserve it. This seems like rose colored glasses, maybe there was a very small period of time where
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by mikkergp 4y ago
YMMV. I’ve had nothing but trouble with both pickup and delivery from both Home Depot and Lowes, the last time I ordered from Lowe’s they told me “oh, you can’t believe the website when they say that we have it and it will be there tomorrow
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I’m trying to find a source but I’m pretty sure this wasn’t an off-hand nurse claim, he talked about it for years.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Have you listened to Alex Jones speak? I get that we should try to see the humanity in people and that 99.999% of people are complex and nuanced but some people really are sociopaths. Some people really are cartoons.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
DEI has an enormous surface area, I don’t think you can blanket describe it as anti-intellectual.
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Yes.
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I could bikeshed on this, but I think this is missing the overall point. It's not that nothing is measurable, obviously some tech skills are measurable and obviously some people are going to do better on those things, but those things
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> The Cultural Revolution: A people's history Never read it, have you read "Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China" or "Mao?" by Jung Chang? Great books on the subject as well, I'll check yours out. Not sure
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> You can, otherwise we would select leaders by rolling dices, however we don't tend to do that. I would disagree. First of all, just because we think we have ways, doesn't mean that they're good ways, it may be that our
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> The insistence that any inequality of outcome is caused by unjust oppression, and not anything else. Wholly untrue. Inequality happens for a whole mess of reasons, including individual ability and interest, it's just not exclusiv
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by mikkergp 4y ago
You seem to be making a lot of assumptions about what I did or didn't say. I didn't say people can't demonstrate merit. I said people are bad at measuring merit, and I think that is relatively true on its face, and the subj
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by mikkergp 4y ago
People should care because big companies are constantly competing on talent and it would be a competitive advantage to leverage a larger talent pool.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> When I do an interview, and someone can complete a simple coding exercise in 2 minutes, I feel very good about my ability to say they are better than someone who takes 20 mins on the same question. Honestly? My gut reaction is you&#x2
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> It is only one logical step to go from one to the other. The idea that the promotion process is so random that the introduction of an additional random factor (D&I status is totally uncorrelated to performance) can't make it a
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Posts like this seem reactionary and equally anti-intellectual. Sure I know that a lot of the DE&I stuff is frustrating for people. But it seems like if you really want to dig into this you need to take broader approach. Can you actu
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I may just be seeing the problem in a different way because our positions seem irreconcilable. fair enough to your position though.
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Yeah You’re totally not wrong, I just had a reaction to the oft mentioned on the media pop psychology version of “get out of your bubbles” that is too abstract for most people to act on.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> The teacher instead should be directing the children to print or digitized encyclopedias Any data source you encounter needs to be validated. Wikipedia is a fine source for lots of types of data, traditional encyclopedias aren’t known
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I actually think this is some not too minor part of the misinformation problem we have today. Sure some of it is willful, but simultaneously almost any common sense notion you have about how to do research these days has a big fucking aste
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> but with the reduced (to none existing) exposure to other content that might challenge your views. We owe it to ourselves to honestly test our beliefs and worldview, see if they hold up, and adjust accordingly. This sounds good but I a
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> Its not fair to pick that one sentence and quote me out of context Fair enough, I apologize.
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> The road only leads to diluted standards This is not the only possibility. So much of the way we used to view education was top-down and memorization of facts. I don't think that a medical school education is that different from
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by mikkergp 4y ago
Yeah, maybe I’m the outlier but I don’t know if a lot of the AI stuff that’s coming out right now is doing what people think it’s doing. My impression is that the AI is learning the minute details that make up a cat and confabulating somet
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I saw one very normal cat picture come up twice. Has anyone done an an analysis on the underlying data to see how unique these “do not exist” pictures really are? Sometimes I wonder if these are little more than stiched together collages,
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by mikkergp 4y ago
> Nine in ten CEOs in the U.S. (91%) believe a recession will arrive in the coming 12 months aren't we in a recession? In America, half of the CEOs (51%) say they’re considering workforce reductions during the next six months CEO&#x
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I'm not a total libertarian nor a total communist, but I don't know why an elected government is worse than an unelected corporation at deciding what gets done with private property.
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by mikkergp 4y ago
I don’t get your hero worship mentality. Talk about pessimism.

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