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by quacked 5y ago
Right, I certainly don't disagree with your analysis, but your recursive ripple effects all aren't caused by physical laws, they're caused by people refusing to work because they can't guarantee that other people in turn
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by quacked 5y ago
Yeah, but the retirees depending on the income is just a second-order effect that's also screwed up due to money. Retirees don't depend on money changing hands, they depend on crops getting grown, shelter being refurbished (or b
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by quacked 5y ago
I can't help but notice how weakened this entire process is as a result of revolving around money. In terms of manpower and expertise, none of these changes really need to happen, but since everyone is chasing a buck as a matter of sur
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by quacked 5y ago
I've seen similar sentiments about the relationship between propaganda and one's ability to recognize truth before, and I tend to agree with those arguments, but I've always been a little confused about whether or not these a
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by quacked 5y ago
I think the only mistake you're making is believing that school only teaches curriculum. That's true for adult schools where a fully-formed adult learns from an expert, but it's not true for primary schools, who teach childre
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by quacked 5y ago
You are absolutely dead-on with the paragraph about family culture. I will paraphrase a small essay written by a smart friend of mine who was educated at home: "Children naturally imitate people they respect. If they are raised by a pa
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by quacked 5y ago
Can you explain the joke? I do not understand it.
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by quacked 5y ago
This is a fantastic comment, and it matches exactly the attitude that Anthony Bourdain wrote about in his book Kitchen Confidential, which I read in eighth grade and have thought about weekly ever since. CTRL+F for "WHO COOKS" and
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by quacked 5y ago
That's not actually what I'm trying to say, and I certainly never said anything about doing a job that you hate. Many people today seem to hold the view that they ought to find some sort of passionate self-actualizing experience f
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by quacked 5y ago
Concur- I do use a pretty harsh tone when I talk about this, but it's definitely not what I mean to say.
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by quacked 5y ago
"Doing what you love" is a total new-age garbage scam, only possible because we (most of us on HN) collectively live in the wealthiest, most powerful empire the world has ever seen, and nearly all of the important work (food, defe
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by quacked 5y ago
I have thought similar things about Whiplash. On the one hand, I find that J.K. Simmons's character was a monster, one who I would have a hard time not coming to blows with if he treated a family member in the way he treats Miles Telle
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by quacked 5y ago
This problem must be taken in the full context. This wasn't a free-form "explore the infinite bounds of mathematical expression" lesson, it was part of a worksheet. Worksheets are meant to be completed as proof of mathematica
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by quacked 5y ago
And I in turn can only venture a guess that you have entirely forgotten the brain-liquefying tedium of modern mathematics education, as shown by the fact that you immediately revert to actually interesting patterns that a properly-educated
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by quacked 5y ago
Which I agree is an extremely useful skill to have, but I wouldn't call this problem "bootstrapping", I'd call it "a trick question". If the question had asked "provide a general solution to get you pretty
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by quacked 5y ago
That is... absurd. What an absolute waste of time, setting arbitrary patterns in interesting math questions- do we seriously want students, upon seeing a tough problem, to "just start adding"? What rationale could anyone possibly
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by quacked 5y ago
Thanks for the essay, bookmarked. I would like to offer a perspective I don't think you should miss. Many English authors wrote about their horrible experiences in boarding schools and of life in stodgy, middle-to-upper-class Britain;
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by quacked 5y ago
I worked as a cog in the ISS program for three years and every ex-Soviet or Russian employee we had working for us would agree with the comment you're responding to- I totally understand how it seems like a rude comment but it's g
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by quacked 5y ago
Dunno if you're talking to me or a child commenter, but my career has nothing to do with what I do on the side. I work in tech so I can pile enough cash to convince banks to give me land and doctors to give me surgery. If the U.S. enac
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by quacked 5y ago
That's a good way of putting it. I think that some tech-competitive or modern-conservative people are turned off by the eco-friendly prose you wrote there, but there is simply no denying it- there is trash everywhere and species are dy
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by quacked 5y ago
It's not just that tech can't bring much value to these industries, it's that the legacy players in the industries are openly resistant to innovation via tech. (They say they're not, but the best engineers often leave bi
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by quacked 5y ago
The engineers I know working for banks vs. those working for SpaceX confirm your thoughts; however, there are plenty of engineers working insane hours for fintech, finance, or even engineers-turned-financiers. The problem is- let's say
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by quacked 5y ago
Nonsense. Our definitions of "value" are different. For instance, you likely would only ever work for money, or wish to live in a society that uses financial allocation to determine labor and resourcing. Personally, I do not find
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by quacked 5y ago
I'm not necessarily anti-capitalist, but it's so frustrating that a huge percentage of the best talent, compensation, and tech stacks goes to industries that aren't doing anything actually useful (finance, fintech, adtech)*.
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by quacked 5y ago
Ah well, I suppose the situation is hopeless- it's not as if there's any possibility to regain those skills.
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by quacked 5y ago
I agree with you, but in a different way. Our supply chains that we need to stay alive (medical, shipping, farming, manufacturing) run on extreme conditions and extreme working hours, paid for by extreme money, designed by extreme intellect
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by quacked 5y ago
I agree with what you're saying, but why don't instead we all just work for the supply chain, and then we can all work two days per week, instead of worrying about how to incentivize those in the supply chain to work ever longer?
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by quacked 5y ago
Most jobs are meaningless, and it's hard to tell which ones are unless you think about what literal actions and materials are required to support human life instead of how much money is required to purchase those actions and materials.
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by quacked 5y ago
It would see them exposed to violence and harassment?
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by quacked 5y ago
What people say they sort on: personality, values, morals, political views, friendships, etc. What people sort on when they don't think they're being observed: genes

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