saschajustin

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by saschajustin 12y ago
Wouldn't a smart student realize that they can't trust their Professors? If you can't spot a dishonest salespitch from an academic, doesn't that make you gullible? Smart people make decisions based on evidence. Gullible
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by saschajustin 12y ago
My thesis is that people who are this naive and manipulable are not actually that smart. But I do get your point and have lived it and seen it first hand. Having said that.. I truly believe that academia is now SELECTING for these types of
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by saschajustin 12y ago
Would your smartest citizens really make such dumb life choices? My professors pushed me so hard to get on the grad school track. I was too smart to do something so stupid. Professors are no longer the smartest people in society because onl
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by saschajustin 12y ago
Household income is not the metric being used. It is income associated with a particular occupation that is used to class order those occupations. I guess you're right about failing to conform to colloquial myths and falsehoods. I tend
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by saschajustin 12y ago
You're reading way too far into it... I never said greybeards are "mean", I said they are influential. Greybeards are more influential on Zuck than vice versa when it comes to technology choice. That's why Zuck chose gre
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by saschajustin 12y ago
Most educated? Yes. Most intelligent? No. Smart people have been shunning science and academia since the 90s. The best and brightest work on Wall Street and they do tend to have kids--their genes for intelligence do pass on. It is very enco
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by saschajustin 12y ago
I'm not contradicting your observations. I'm pointing out a sociological fact. You do not know the definition of lower middle class. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_middle_class http://www.paysc
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by saschajustin 12y ago
Millenials do not have a choice between "elite social status" and "comfortable middle class". They have a choice between middle class and lower class. What you are calling elite is actually just middle class. Millenials
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by saschajustin 12y ago
Linus' beard maybe isn't yet long enough to count as "grey" but, in any case, he's not a millenial. He entered the field circa 1990, whereas this self-proclaimed greybeard author started in 1995. So for the discussi
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by saschajustin 12y ago
As a millenial who is very familiar with capitalist exploitation of myself and my peers, I am 100% in favor of unionization, regulation, and association. It's the boomer and Gen X tech people that I talk to who are the most opposed to
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by saschajustin 12y ago
Zuckerberg dances to the tune of the greybeards just as I do. Did Zuckerberg code the backend of facebook? Hell no. He hired people to do it. What programming technologies did those people use? Styles and methods passed down by greybeards.
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by saschajustin 12y ago
Linus is 45 years old. He's not a millenial, he's a greybeard. Zuckerberg never made any technological advances. His company was a market success but it was based on LAMP... nothing technologically novel about it. Not even the con
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by saschajustin 12y ago
Good lord! Don't confuse envy with hatred. I don't hate old people, I envy them! I envy Wedge Martin who got into tech in a time when it was professionally acceptable and viable to drill down into details. I envy a time when you c
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by saschajustin 12y ago
Blaming this on millenials rather than the training they receive by employers and professors is insane. I would love to dig down into every nuance and detail. I don't have time for that because I'm working 60 hour weeks churning o
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by saschajustin 12y ago
Young people, new programmers, and other groups who have no power are not responsible for the nature of a field. Old people control the nature of every field. Old greybeards are the ones who made computer science this way--it's just th
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by saschajustin 12y ago
It's insane to think that the least powerful members of a field are the ones controlling it. Is the medical field controlled by medical students, or by 60 year old medical authorities? Is chemical engineering controlled by new graduate
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by saschajustin 12y ago
So to summarize... a man born into privilege is annoyed by poor people. The guy equates working for a paycheck with entitlement... how out of touch can you be? Working for a paycheck is something you do out of economic neccessity--for survi