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by psi75 4y ago
450. Surprised because I expected to suck at this game.
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by psi75 4y ago
Probably. We ended up with a completely different internet than the one we still thought should be possible in 2004. For a brief period of time, the internet genuinely subverted the corporate beetle-men and the gatekeepers who've alway
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by psi75 4y ago
> Though, oddly enough the one professor I had who was adamantly capital-S Socialist and anti-capitalist was less annoying than many of the students who played at it. It's easy to hate capitalism, but it's hard to be a legit le
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by psi75 4y ago
You make a great point (several, in fact) and I don't disagree. This said, I think the ultra-dogmatic "woke" impulse, which on its own is well-intended, starts in college, before these kids have to actually implement any capi
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by psi75 4y ago
> It’s my belief that this coerced monoculture of identity politics and ideology will significantly degrade the quality of American universities, to say nothing of K-12 education. The long term effects on American economic competitivene
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by psi75 4y ago
> Everyone has worked with a terrible executive at some point in their career, but most executives aren’t awful. Almost all executives are outstanding at something; it’s just that often that something isn’t the topic you’re communicatin
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by psi75 4y ago
The corporates bank on the idea that if they tell you that you're an oppressor too for using drinking straws, you'll see them as the good guys who can be trusted to keep the world safe (from you, and from the 8 billion poors just
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by psi75 4y ago
My personal belief is that we will see catastrophic results from the use of AI by authoritarian governments or corporations long before we invent AIs capable of killing us; however, it is correct to view it as an X-risk. In a war against ro
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by psi75 4y ago
For a time, the movement recommended that inspirited young people should, rather than work for charities, get jobs in finance and donate their income. The problem is in the assumption that paid corporate work has zero social value. This i
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by psi75 4y ago
I'm in Asia right now and it's been bad since last night (~07:00 California time). Gmail too.
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by psi75 4y ago
He isn't wrong, insofar as when you start WFH, the pretense that work is anything other than an involuntary trade of time (in too large a quantity) for money (in to small an amount) people do because they have no other choice drops awa
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by psi75 4y ago
> Rigorous scholarship can of course be valuable, especially if combined with broader community engagement - but most of the time the notion of an "intellectual" refers to nothing more than pointless navel-grazing, with very li
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by psi75 4y ago
It's high time for this to end. The world doesn't need academic degrees for paper-push type jobs. Under capitalism, it won't. You're right, of course. The purpose of the credentialism is to sustain class barriers. Most
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by psi75 4y ago
The problem is that the relationship almost certainly exists, but is impossible to prove. It goes through so many levels of indirection. The people directly rewarded are rarely the ones who actually generate a societal surplus. That doesn&#
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by psi75 4y ago
I'm in graduate school now, and I took some CS courses in undergrad ~20 years ago, and fundamentals haven't changed as much as the superficial garbage that is all the rage in industry. There are new approaches and capabilities, es
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by psi75 4y ago
No, they work as designed. The question is: who really designed them? If Agile actually empowered workers, management would ban it. Management took the relatively sensible directives of "the Agile Manifesto" and turned it into a v
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by psi75 4y ago
I'm with you. By far, the best outcome is to find a way for the global corporate elite to peacefully abdicate and allow a better world to emerge. However, there is unfortunately a nonzero chance of them defending what they have by harm
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by psi75 4y ago
At this point, I only buy Apple products because of inertia. Give me an out-of-the-box Linux laptop that's as easy to use and that supports the software I need for my work, and give me a way to port over all of my cloud stuff, and I&#x
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by psi75 4y ago
This sort of dysfunction isn't new to history. China and Japan nearly industrialized several times in the second millennium, but such movements were quashed by the elites. Industrialization requires the ubiquity of fuels, machines, and
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by psi75 4y ago
True believers (or, at least, people who have figured out that their odds of survival are improved on playing the fool and seeming to be one) are way more than 20 percent of corporate workers. They're probably 70-80 percent (with an un
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by psi75 4y ago
What's notable here is not that academia is so great, but that becoming an employee has become so bad. In the Bell Labs days, before our economy got taken over by criminals, smart employees really were treated as researchers-in-residen
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by psi75 4y ago
This is true in computer science, but not in all sciences, and certainly not in the humanities. Getting a TA-ship is considered undesirable in CS, but getting a TA-ship as a history PhD is considered rare and special. There are a lot of pro
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by psi75 4y ago
5) you are expected to find other work over three months in the summer (but at the same time must continue your research, there is that deadline we REALLY need to hit, do NOT waste your time trying to earn money). Yeah, this is very true,
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by psi75 4y ago
The problem, I think, stems from the fact that a doctoral advisor, because he influences your reputation in all of academia rather than just one company, is even more of a career SPOF than a corporate manager. The good news is that your adv
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by psi75 4y ago
As someone in his late 30s who's doing a Master's degree and likely to go on for a PhD, I agree. It should be reformed, not abolished. What should be abolished are 97 percent of postdoc positions. Postdocs used to be a rare, prest
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by psi75 4y ago
I'm almost 40. The aging process has certainly begun, and here's what I have to say about it. Bodily health is important. Do everything you can to stay in shape. You don't have to have bulging muscles or a six-pack, but don&#
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by psi75 4y ago
Hustle culture is perpetrated by people who have something to sell you. They pretend to be successful until they are; their product is themselves, and there isn't much room in that space. The truth is that it's quite hard to make
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Or: people can live in places actually suitable to comfortable human habitation (there's nothing wrong with Michigan or Pennsylvania, as far as places to live go) and put up with the sky being gray 40 percent of the time, and those who
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I didn't mean to "defend" Stalinism, insofar as the man himself was a paranoid, brutal dictator who did a lot of evil shit; I only meant to contrast it with our totalitarian global corporate capitalism, which is (if we'r
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by psi75 4y ago
Agile [...] It used to mean “not waterfall” and now means “waterfall with a status meeting every day and an internal demo every two weeks”. "Waterfall" is a straw man invented to sell Agile, which has evolved into a perverse, al

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