qsymmachus

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What does free speech require?(currentaffairs.org)
2 points by qsymmachus 10y ago|0 comments
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by qsymmachus 10y ago
Poe's law applies
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by qsymmachus 10y ago
> None of the thousands of extra hours I worked (I kept track) counted for anything Yep, that's exactly what your management was counting on.
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by qsymmachus 10y ago
> eating only meals hand cooked from base ingredients Yeah what a nightmare. Where's soylent goo when you need it??
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by qsymmachus 10y ago
This is a textbook example of survivorship bias. Survivorship bias, or survival bias, is the logical error of concentrating on the people or things that "survived" some process and inadvertently overlooking those t
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by qsymmachus 10y ago
> Async callbacks can be flattened with either ES6 generators or async/await by using TypeScript (Both of which require transpiling. nodejs alone would understand ES6 without it though.) Sounds like a tempting option amirite
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by qsymmachus 10y ago
> Merck people won't be able to mate with Novartis people I think I'll stick with cancer for now
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by qsymmachus 10y ago
Fight the real enemy, like the word "learnings"
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by qsymmachus 10y ago
There's probably a middle ground between Pol Pot and a therapeutic nihilism that denies the possibility of improving society.
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The internet is an innocent fraud(aeon.co)
4 points by qsymmachus 10y ago|0 comments
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How San Francisco’s hippy explosion shaped the modern world(theguardian.com)
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by qsymmachus 10y ago
"People who excel at software design become convinced that they have a unique ability to understand any kind of system at all, from first principles, without prior training, thanks to their superior powers of analysis. Success in the a
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by qsymmachus 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immiseration_thesis
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UC Berkeley invested in consultants to boost chancellor’s image(sfchronicle.com)
4 points by qsymmachus 10y ago|1 comments
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by qsymmachus 10y ago
Right, a $6000 Eames lounge chair just appeals to "innate human preferences", and has nothing to do with demonstrating power and wealth.
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by qsymmachus 10y ago
This is what STEM majors actually believe
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by qsymmachus 10y ago
"Stop liking things that I don't like"
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by qsymmachus 10y ago
This is why abuse of rights is an important legal principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abuse_of_rights Rational != Ethical
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by qsymmachus 10y ago
Admittedly off topic, but can we stop using the made-up word "learnings" when "lessons" will do?
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> I believe that the answers to this crucial question are obscure and are unlikely to be found in conventional economic and political analysis. It's pretty straightforward actually. The change you're looking for starts in the 8
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by qsymmachus 10y ago
Good point, I believe the 97th percentile is per capita, not per household.
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by qsymmachus 10y ago
Obviously you are correct that $125k does not go in far in SF, LA, or NYC as it does in Cleveland. But these cities are extreme outliers, and my main point remains that you need a little more perspective about what "definitely sucks&qu
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by qsymmachus 10y ago
Thanks for the correction, my numbers must be older (or just wrong).
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by qsymmachus 10y ago
There's a grain of truth to this, but it's a frankly smug attitude. It's a bit of a hand wave ("because racism") that allows urban elites like you and me to avoid asking what it is about _us_ and our politics that m
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by qsymmachus 10y ago
> Sad to say, there are many areas of the country where living on $125,000 still definitely sucks. Only by truly decadent standards could an income of $125,000 be said to "definitely suck". $125k is 2.4x median income and puts
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by qsymmachus 11y ago
The biggest wealth equalizer in human history begins. This is what cryptoanarchists actually believe
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by qsymmachus 11y ago
It does not follow that because Kim Il Sung fought against the Japanese, he was not influenced by Japanese ideology. Before you dismiss the article's argument out of hand, take a look at "The Cleanest Race" by B. R. Myers, wh
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The Story of a Trump Supporter(mattbruenig.com)
3 points by qsymmachus 11y ago|3 comments
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Funklet(funklet.com)
1 points by qsymmachus 11y ago|0 comments
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by qsymmachus 11y ago
Until a large part of the ecosystem adopts terse APIs, conventions, and strives for significantly reducing implementation details for end-users, abstract tooling may be our only outlet. Convention over configuration? ( ‾ʖ̫‾)

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