nostromo95

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by nostromo95 6y ago
Good reminder that non-profits, rather than, say, pharmaceutical companies, auto manufacturers, agro-chemical companies, logistics companies, etc. etc. have been the source of the leaps and bounds improvement in human welfare over the past
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by nostromo95 6y ago
Honestly knowing just the spellings and not the meanings / useage contexts behind the words strikes me as an advantage since you’re as likely to weight “obscure” words as common words in your internal search algorithm. Knowing the lan
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by nostromo95 6y ago
Really this is just the scientific method.
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by nostromo95 6y ago
The point of conclusion-first isn’t necessarily to save time, it’s so I (as an executive) can pressure-test / place into context all of your ensuing explanation because I know what your end-point is. This isn’t unique to business...aca
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by nostromo95 6y ago
Like any company, it’s much better working in the function that drives their competitive advantage—supply chain at walmart, marketing at coke, etc. They get the management attention and the budget. Working in software at Disney is going to
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by nostromo95 6y ago
Ha. My personality tends towards letting small stuff go, but I work in management consulting, and so I end up having to be horrifically pedantic about spelling, formatting, etc. with my reports... Luckily the entire organization is like thi
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by nostromo95 7y ago
Believe they meant “empathizing gender.”
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by nostromo95 7y ago
No that’s not how utilities work. Utilities are compensated for the approved capital they invest in infrastructure in the form of higher customer rates. The upshot of this is that every utility in the country would love nothing more than t
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by nostromo95 8y ago
Have you considered that there are enough people who can both whiteboard a BFS tree and get stuff done that Google doesn’t need to hire people who can do the latter but not the former?
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by nostromo95 8y ago
>90% go to prison in a plea bargain I also think our criminal justice system is in need of some reform, but this number by itself doesn’t say anything. What % of defendants are actually guilty? What portion of that 90% are for offenses
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by nostromo95 8y ago
Not to be crass, but you might just as well call someone a coward when they won’t show you their genitals after you unilaterally show them yours. If you uninvitedly told me your salary I’d think you’re a clown.
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by nostromo95 8y ago
Scenario A: I make more money than them, they (despite their best intentions) slightly resent me. Scenario B: They make more money than me, I (despite my best intentions) slightly resent them. Beyond that, I’m not really in an industry wh
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by nostromo95 8y ago
Definitely a tragedy of the commons or first mover disadvantage situation we have here: systemically it'd be better for everyone to discuss their salaries, but individually I'd never be the first one to start that discussion.
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by nostromo95 8y ago
I agree that "vastly more people who have pursued educations and careers in literature and writing than any past point in history." I don't think that necessarily means we're producing better writers than the best writer
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by nostromo95 8y ago
Have to say I completely disagree with this, especially with respect to 21st and late 20th centuries. We may be more concerned with design nowadays (although I'd argue mostly on a commercial level), but to extrapolate that to an impro
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by nostromo95 8y ago
Well, to be fair an equivalent statistic for baby boomers wouldn’t be as alarming as it is for millenials: 1. A higher percentage of the population back then were working towards a pension and didn’t necessarily have to save. 2. The long-
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by nostromo95 8y ago
Are you saying that Penn State is an average university that happens to be public, or that among public universities it is average?
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by nostromo95 8y ago
You must be fun at parties.
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by nostromo95 8y ago
Your moral relativism argument might be relevant if everyone in this thread didn’t already have a shared understanding of what good/evil mean in the context of facebook and this discussion.
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by nostromo95 8y ago
To play devil’s advocate, a government’s primary duty has been defense since the dawn of organized government. The U.S. government began in an armed rebellion. Moreover, there’s no reasonable alternative to the government having a monopol
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by nostromo95 8y ago
What industry do you work in? In my experience most out-of-college jobs require your GPA, with some jobs (e.g. management consulting) GPA being a major differentiator amongst applicants. I actually don’t understand why you wouldn’t want
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by nostromo95 8y ago
I think that definition is actually too general—ironing my shirts or mowing my lawn might apply. I think some nod toward personal fulfillment needs to be there.
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by nostromo95 8y ago
You are mixing up cause and effect wildly here. (Most) people don't pour money into houses because they consider it an investment, they consider it an investment because they've poured money into it. The fact that real estate is
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by nostromo95 9y ago
Yes, I’m saying that because immortality is infinitely good, the inequality of some people (super-rich) getting it while others (the poor) don’t is (infinitely?) more unnacceptable than any wealth inequality there has been in the past.
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by nostromo95 9y ago
>Epictetus was friggin insane though. What do you mean?
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by nostromo95 9y ago
(1) Yes, but from a utilitarian perspective cell phones, cars, and any other technology offered finite utility over their alternatives, whereas immortality offers infinite utility over the alternative of death. (2) ? unsure about what you&
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by nostromo95 9y ago
How about a utilitarian one: it's most likely that everyone alive right now is going to die, so from a quality-of-life perspective most people should try to accept their death.
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by nostromo95 9y ago
I think there are a few explanations: (1) The idea that the ultra-rich may be able to survive into the future cryogenically while 90+% of the rest of the world dies is morally abhorrent. (2) Fearing death so much is viewed as cowardly. (3)
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by nostromo95 9y ago
Yep, this. During summer internships in college I easily transitioned to a fully-functioning 11PM-7AM sleep schedule, but university's manifold distractions pushed me to a 2AM-10AM schedule. And in high school I was chronically exhaus
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by nostromo95 9y ago
At least in my high school gym class, you weren't given enough time at the end to both shower AND get to your next class on time.

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