slt2021

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by slt2021 2y ago
I would argue there is connection to nazi regime: 1. ICC and ICJ's accusations of genocide by israel 2. israeli government led by Kahanite leaders like bezalel smotrich and ben gvir. Kahanism was recognized by USA and EU as a terrorist
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by slt2021 2y ago
Golda Meir told explicitly to NOT send poor, old, sick, and Holocaust survivors(!!!)) Because zionists wanted only healthy strong and ideologically zionist people to settle the land. Zionists even signed agreement with Adolf Hitler (at the
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by slt2021 2y ago
there are several flaws in your typical zionist argument: 1. jews as a minority have lived in the lands of Filistine and Jerusalem peacefully and coexisted just fine for millennia, before the zionist project. 2. the fact that small minority
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by slt2021 2y ago
destroying hamas was never a goal, Hamas has been Israel's ally in subverting movement for unified Palestinian statehood. As long as Hamas exists with maximalist demands to erase Israel, Israel's fascist right (Kahanites) has excu
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by slt2021 2y ago
We are already living and working like ants in a colony. Human corporation is not much different from ant colony. Ants have queen, humans have CEO. Ants have spec: worker/warrior/support, humans have work specialization: sales&#
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by slt2021 2y ago
Because humans are not interchangeable economic units. The position that all humans are just interchangeable resources where you can have 80 lbs of human resources or 180 lbs of human resources, like a coal or oil, is ultimately a nihilisti
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by slt2021 2y ago
ultimately its because skyscrapers dont attract customers, they are occupied by employees. Employees will always come to the office, they dont make decision whether to walk-in based on building's aesthetics. buildings where you want cu
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by slt2021 2y ago
You have constructed and debating a strawman. Everything involving human judgement will be subjective, yet we still can distinguish between good and bad decisions and discuss tradeoffs about being less wrong while being subjective
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by slt2021 2y ago
are you making a claim that sexual identity and race (two most common DEI factors) are part of the job ? how is being a black lesbian part to any job whatsoever ?
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by slt2021 2y ago
Nobel prizes are strongly correlated to the educational institution (research school, supervising PI) where research is done. The best predictor of winning nobel prize is whether your academic supervisor/lead have won Nobel prize previ
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by slt2021 2y ago
I have a mixed opinion on this. There are cases when nepotism fires back via poor job performance and quickly self-corrects itself. But there are cases when nepotism is a job requirement, as in being connected to a powerful network is job d
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by slt2021 2y ago
we can go from the other side. If you want to hire the best, you need to stop looking at skin-level shallow factors and stop hiring decisions based on skin/race/sexual identity/ethnicity. Just fair competition and pick the be
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by slt2021 2y ago
it is predictable because they are hired and promoted because of their sexual identity and gender (which has no connection to job duties), not merit. The moment you start hiring based on identity, instead of merit is when things will go sou
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by slt2021 2y ago
I have eyes, I can read news, and I can see the results of their work in LA.
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by slt2021 2y ago
just look at the LA FD: what are the chances that 3 top leaders in FD are lesbian women? Given the fact that the rest of the fire dept are white males, the chances of this happening at random are minuscule. This is the proof that people who
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by slt2021 2y ago
enforced top-down from leaders and decision makers by the "commitment to diversity" and hiring of unqualified people based on diversity representation, not merit. the most recent example is Kamala Harris: she had the worst primary
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by slt2021 2y ago
> if the population of people you hire is out of proportion with the general population. why it should be in proportion? This argument is flawed as it ignores that not everyone in general population has the same abilities. You can look a
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by slt2021 2y ago
the problem is that DEI is not regulated by law and fundamentally is a discrimination. veterans hiring is encoded in Veterans hiring preference Act, disabled people have protections against discrimination in ADA act. There is no law that en
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by slt2021 2y ago
>what the conservatives think DEI actually is Speaking as part of a video that aired during a commercial break for the FOX show 9-1-1 about firefighter capabilities, Larson said, "Am I able to carry your husband out of a fire? H
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by slt2021 2y ago
Oh it is absolutely labor vs capital. I will answer with a picture: https://aneconomicsense.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/real-... you can overlay in your mind chart of FAANG stock total return or VC to
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by slt2021 2y ago
arguably they acquired them so they dont build anything further with this tech, as it threatens renewals of their existing enterprise contracts
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by slt2021 2y ago
* note to myself: build a successful product that threatens large slow moving legacy provider and get quickly acqui-hired
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by slt2021 2y ago
I would argue its about improving labor productivity. What you are saying is American corporations want labor with higher productivity and even willing pay more for more productive labor (by paying immigration costs). Thats why SWE salaries
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by slt2021 2y ago
its about relative change in power dynamics, not only absolute position. American Labor should never support policies that will harm labor and benefit capitalist class (at least without some negotiation). US citizens should not support poli
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by slt2021 2y ago
> Labor needs to start voting in better politicians. who and where they are? these so called "better" politicians? I think we cannot vote our way out of this and only next level solutions like revolution or protest or "Lui
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by slt2021 2y ago
and why should US citizens support policies that actively harm them, by voting for politicians that want to impose such policies?
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by slt2021 2y ago
Why American corporations like automakers can lobby to impose tariffs and extract more money from American consumers, but there are no protections for labor? If Tesla/GM are so good in this beautiful global market, they dont need no ta
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by slt2021 2y ago
You need to talk to any fresh American undergrad senior about their struggle finding forst job, especially in CS. Just do a mental exercise: do you want your children to compete with the whole world For their first job out of college? Look
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by slt2021 2y ago
Elon musk was on H1B when he was working for a startup. I think it is valid to allow startups hire H1Bs. Mind you today it is extremely hard and a lot of early atage atartups dont even bother to hire h1b due to uncertainty if the lottery
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by slt2021 2y ago
High COL areas will take all the visas at the expense of low COL

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