ranchpredictor

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   by ranchpredictor 8y ago

   I think what he meant by meritocracy is that the merits from doing projects hands on and having solid results, as opposed to the “scholastic” meritocracy which I had initially assumed he meant (and which may be confusing other readers too).
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   by ranchpredictor 8y ago

   Cadr city
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   by ranchpredictor 8y ago

   US never does well in these kinds of rankings lol
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   by ranchpredictor 8y ago

   Orthogonal to being physically outside and interacting with people, is the issue of social networks and their effect on mental health. I’d argue that reddit and other anonymous social networks (ahem hn) which allow users to register under a
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   by ranchpredictor 8y ago

   I mean, a lot of relatively smart people I know these days have gotten over fb and I don’t see many of people in fb or social media that much. Fb gets old after college and then it takes people a few years in their mid twenties to grow out
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   by ranchpredictor 8y ago

   Would you even believe them? Haha
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   by ranchpredictor 8y ago

   Slow clap
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   by ranchpredictor 8y ago

   Alot of what they suggest seem to be better solved in the domain of compilers and microcode translation on the fly.