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by mikkergp 5y ago
I can observe that Gender is one of the strongest social constructs that we have. But I think most of the ideas around them; Men shouldn’t cry, women are better caretakers; are not inherent, they’re a function of inertia. You can probably
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by mikkergp 5y ago
What’s it like to have such strong feelings about gender? I don’t have that, the idea that it’s all just a social construct is so embedded in the way I see the world, I just don’t see how anything about sexuality or biology are immutably co
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by mikkergp 5y ago
I don’t think we’re really disagreeing here, I think my point was just that in addition to your point about people misreading data, some people read it correctly and come to different conclusions. Not to mention the issues we have no data
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by mikkergp 5y ago
I will grant you it must be difficult trying to voice your opinion as a conservative in a liberal space, but there are countless examples of conservative safe spaces and running away from those platforms, or they just never join them in the
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by mikkergp 5y ago
I'm actually curious to push on your idea that "we can all agree that violence isn't the answer". Because I think there are more and more people who think it is the answer. I would guess you're saying the vast majo
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by mikkergp 5y ago
But data can't encapsulate values. My friend sent me a chart asking why were pushing vaccines for kids when only .001% of kids were dying from COVID. I looked at the chart and saw that 1000 kids had died from COVID and thought 1000 k
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by mikkergp 5y ago
He said if he’s successful, that both the far left and far right would be equally unhappy, has he made any kind of statement to suggest his goal is to “get people back on the same team”? I.E. his goal is to get people to trust the platform
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by mikkergp 5y ago
I'm surprised this isn't mentioned, but "golang" is much easier as a keyword to search for then 'go' as well.
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by mikkergp 5y ago
> For millennia every human has known what a woman and a man is, now even supreme court justices in American don't know. What does this mean? Are you talking about gender or sex?
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by mikkergp 5y ago
> Blaming social media is not legitimate in my opinion; social media will be what fixes this. The fix to the USA falling apart is free and open discussions between the camps. This is what Elon is planning to do with twitter. I’m skeptica
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by mikkergp 5y ago
What do you like doing? I went management a few years ago, and while sometimes in the back of my mind I think about doing it again, I'm extremely happy as an IC, especially in the challenges of my current role. For better or for wors
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by mikkergp 5y ago
Exactly
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by mikkergp 5y ago
Not directly, but indirectly, this is one reason why bigger companies can pay more than small companies, more efficiencies, automations, and economies of scale means the output per employee is higher.
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by mikkergp 5y ago
At a 2000 bed facility though, you could specialize in specific types of heart surgeries. At a general hospital you're probably more likely to take on a wider variety of heart procedures. It's not just experience, but experience
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by mikkergp 5y ago
It's an interesting problem, because we currently align economic 'productivity' and pay rather than social value and pay, which is efficient since we don't have to redistribute resources between industries or roles, and
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by mikkergp 5y ago
Nursing is a underappricated underpaid job, but we can't get 90% of people in this world to agree that the sky is blue.
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by mikkergp 5y ago
I get what you're saying, but the promise of the medical system and the implementation of the medical system aren't really aligned. Sure 50% of problems are naive patients, but the other 50% are doctors or a system that doesn&#x2
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by mikkergp 5y ago
I think this alludes to it, but it's one thing mentioned in one of Atul Gawande's book is that in India they have hospitals that focus on one thing: https://www.businessinsider.com/inside-indias-no-frills-hosp...
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by mikkergp 5y ago
It might be on me, but they're trying to build a public forum, not a niche community. If you want to attract the number of people that Twitter wants to attract, it can't be built on power users. Hell I'm a 'power user&
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by mikkergp 5y ago
Doesn't advertising revenue require the same metric to be high? Assuming he wants to make money or just be self-sufficient, not operate at too much of a loss.
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by mikkergp 5y ago
> billionaire I think you meant 'person of means'?
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by mikkergp 5y ago
I think this article hints at an important thing though which is that language is contextual. Even if we think that we should describe mothers as birthing persons or fathers as non-birthing parents in the general context, I should be allow
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by mikkergp 5y ago
This is a popular tool in hiring for creating inclusive job descriptions. They're competing with companies like https://textio.com/
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by mikkergp 5y ago
I always interpreted this as someone wrote a script and learned to game the algorithm, you think there’s a line of code in there that says trump_replies.unshift(crazy_doctor_brother_tweets) in there somewhere?
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by mikkergp 5y ago
Are they trying to prevent people I.e. spammers from gaming the algorithm?
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by mikkergp 5y ago
I wonder if the world can support a conservative Twitter. I think the problem is that if you're going to spout offensive nonsense it's not as much fun if there is no one around to be offended by it. And while those who are offen
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by mikkergp 5y ago
The problem is that those ideas spread because it’s not in most peoples best interest to challenge them intellectually. It’s in their self interest to promote that material because it feels good emotionally.
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by mikkergp 5y ago
My use of the term objective was to try and describe the numbers and not the substance of what they were saying. I guess I could have said from a quantitative perspective vs a qualitative perspective? I wasn't alive 50 years ago, so
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by mikkergp 5y ago
I don’t want to negate what this person is saying, but from an objective perspective, is this the most diverse source of news we’ve had in human history? I mean 50 years ago it was just the big three right? ABC, CBS, NBC. Maybe the New Y
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by mikkergp 5y ago
Freakonomics just did a good podacast about this this week: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/dont-worry-be-tacky/ . Essentially that what we talk about liking and what the general population actually like are very

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