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South Korean Author Han Kang Wins Nobel Prize(aljazeera.com)
70 points by ricardoplouis 2y ago|56 comments
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by ricardoplouis 2y ago
Our workforce is more educated now than at any point in history. This means we'll have more and more people competing for jobs they are overqualified for. From a job seeker perspective, it will only get harder as the traditional creden
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by ricardoplouis 2y ago
Location: Remote - US Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: NextJs, React, Node, Typescript, PostgreSQL, Supabase, Tailwind Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lSITbDJN9_-q5eFlBsBlBxGprvD..
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by ricardoplouis 3y ago
Chasing profits didn't cause slavery to end, it was the abolitionists who were standing up for human rights. Historically massive social change doesn't come from the top down like you are describing. It would be akin to saying LBJ
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by ricardoplouis 3y ago
Location: Chicago, IL, USA Remote: Yes, 5 years of remote experience Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Typescript, NextJs, React, Javascript, Tailwind, Node, Postgre Résumé/CV: LinkedIn ( https://www.linkedin.com/in&
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by ricardoplouis 3y ago
Worth noting that while affirmative action has been banned, we still have proxies for race (aka legacy admissions) which overwhelmingly favor rich and white students. And given the historical discrimination of elite universities, this ban o
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by ricardoplouis 4y ago
I'm mostly referring to the cases where the teenager or child was killed by the police for no reason at all. There's no movie involved, but the execution happens nonetheless https://eji.org/news/black-children
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by ricardoplouis 4y ago
The luxury and call to arms fails to reach all ears considering out government routinely does the same thing to teenagers in the states, but because they are poor and black, it's largely considered acceptable in our culture.
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by ricardoplouis 4y ago
It's worth asking what made issues surrounding climate change so unpopular in the first place. Advocates and activists are working against decades of misinformation from oil execs. Even something as straightforward as replace coal with
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by ricardoplouis 4y ago
I've personally seen the race problem in multiple large scale socialist orgs, but feel free to ignore the criticism.
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by ricardoplouis 4y ago
There is truth to the matter, but it's also because class conscious groups fail to recognize that they perpetuate the same racism, sexism, etc... that the elites do. Coincidentally, ignoring race as an issue is the one issue many peopl
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by ricardoplouis 4y ago
Given the stark racial inequality we have today due to compounding wealth from centuries of colonialism and slavery, it seems diversity is the bare minimum we could do to address such a burden, and it's a shame that is even considered
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by ricardoplouis 4y ago
Worth noting both Adam Smith and Marx agreed that landlords were parasites.
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by ricardoplouis 4y ago
Slight anecdote on test scores. In H.S. a friend and I both scored the same on a college admissions exam. A few months later after studying my score went up a couple points while his jumped dramatically to the highest percentile. I asked hi
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by ricardoplouis 4y ago
You make a weak case for representative democracies while ignoring the police killing part. Where does that fit in?
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by ricardoplouis 4y ago
If a foreign country had a rogue police force that killed citizens and then passed a law criminalizing the recording of the police we'd easily call them a dictatorship.
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by ricardoplouis 4y ago
Wouldn't you rather have a healthy dose of skepticism and pessimism surrounding new inventions? Even if the negativity is off base, it's far more preferable to a world where everyone is always positive and praises what geniuses th
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by ricardoplouis 4y ago
Yeah, I guess the bigger point being missed (by the article and most of the comments) is that there is a whole generation of people having sex but not having kids due to concerns for the future. (Myself included)
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by ricardoplouis 4y ago
Kinda funny that sex is equivalent to reproduction in this piece.
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by ricardoplouis 4y ago
Try to support your local news service first if possible.
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by ricardoplouis 4y ago
Any search engine with a profit motive is inevitably doomed as one value overtakes the other. To have a search engine that works means having one where scaling endlessly in pursuit of profit is discouraged.
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by ricardoplouis 4y ago
The public's interest is a weak argument. I can say it's not in the public's interest to have someone who lost the popular vote in office at all, but that is only my opinion and doesn't speak to the original point. I&#x2
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by ricardoplouis 4y ago
Is there just a different set of free speech rules for the rich and powerful? If I incited violence on the platform, I doubt Elon or Dorsey would be letting me come back after a ban.
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by ricardoplouis 5y ago
As a country that strips away voting rights from felons, it's arguable that we still don't have a democracy until all citizens are guaranteed the right to vote.
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by ricardoplouis 5y ago
Mental health has been an issue for as long as we've known, but Facebook does have a curious way of amplifying societal problems such as this and making it worse. https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-knows-instagr
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by ricardoplouis 5y ago
That's a fair point assuming upward economic mobility in the U.S but statistically speaking it's more likely someone stays rich or stays poor than it is that they move upward into a different bracket entirely https://ww
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by ricardoplouis 5y ago
> Live-streaming service Twitch will ban users for offenses such as hate-group membership or credible threats of mass violence that occur entirely away from the site, in a new approach to moderating the platform, the company said on Wedn
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by ricardoplouis 6y ago
Would be a shame if someone added a..... JavaScript framework to it.