techpeach

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by techpeach 2y ago
“You need people like me who are sick in that way and who don’t lose any sleep making tools of violence in order to preserve freedom,” Luckey said in an appearance last year at Pepperdine University.
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by techpeach 2y ago
I’m not saying that this interview was conducted at gunpoint, but I might make a connection between Wilmore’s views on Trump and Musk? And who has control of Wilmore’s entire future at the moment.
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by techpeach 2y ago
It’s sad It felt like this one started out bipartisan and eventually devolved like everything else into the culture war. Not to get all conspiracy-y, but it does t feel like there’s a good reason to do this if you’re not trying to inflame t
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by techpeach 2y ago
According to this article, 200,000 kids are injured every year on the playground, and 15 die. I definitely romanticize some the past, but as with most things, it's probably mostly romantic. https://www.brainline.org/a
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by techpeach 2y ago
What will the impacts of this be, or I guess it says first quarter? Which is 2/3rds over? Are we seeing the impacts of this?
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by techpeach 2y ago
I suspect that Social Security is not long for this world and the results will be tragic. Anyone think we’ll manage to maintain it in this age of low societal cohesion?
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by techpeach 2y ago
Just thinking about writing this makes me think about how messy this stuff is. But like, is there some long-term goal that there is world peace? And in that long term goal of world peace, is there some kind of international governing body?
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by techpeach 2y ago
Something I find odd about pluralism - and maybe this isn’t strictly left/right but issue dependent. Is it seems like the left is more sensitive to the paradox of tolerance. Like, well broadly speaking try to include everyone, but at
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by techpeach 2y ago
Maybe it was just sort of professionally coming of age for the rise of Silicon Valley in the early 2000’s
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by techpeach 2y ago
Observing my own brain for a second, it seems like one of the risks of reading a lot of history is you can get the impression that we’re much more wise about how to deal with geopolitics than we are, because you are necessarily reading some
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by techpeach 2y ago
I would sort of argue it probably is a conservative phenomenon, but small-c conservative. It serves to entrench or protect a set of views and not allow a classical liberal approach, whether or not that’s from a “left” perspective or a “rig
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by techpeach 2y ago
Maybe our media diets are different, but all i remember hearing is criticisms of cancel culture. In fact, you sort of emphasized my point, I never even hear criticism of cancel culture anymore!
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by techpeach 2y ago
I would imagine the logic from the HR director is something like “the reason you’re not as successful as me is you don’t know how to manage your time well”
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by techpeach 2y ago
I think the problem is that like the business culture in the US is so cutthroat and stressful, and people generally so self-centered. That like, they literally can’t imagine a type of life or stress that isn’t solved by muscle through it o
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by techpeach 2y ago
It feels like we went from an era where people were valued for being contrarian/independent, to one where people find value in being conformist. What changed? And I don’t mean this in a strictly partisan way, like its not popular to h
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by techpeach 2y ago
I don’t know how this is in more established languages, but in my experience there is a big problem in conflating versions. In Elixir, I constantly get code with API calls that conflate different versions. As amazed as I can be in some con
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by techpeach 2y ago
I wonder if most of this talk for CEO’s is external using their own anxieties. Sergei Brin talking about 60 hour weeks, Mark Zuckerberg going extremely hardcore at Facebook. They’re sort of trying to drive fear into their software engineer