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by thoms_a 5y ago
Hmmm, I wonder if any Goldman Sachs execs did time for all of the proven fraud they committed, which led to a stock market crash? Nope. They just got bailed out by the Fed, and given bonuses. This is how you know which profession runs the
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by thoms_a 5y ago
Just have to chime in and state that this extremely sage advice that is rare to find on HN, where credentialism is (rightfully so) looked down upon. Whether we like it or not, credentials are a very powerful social signal in our society, wi
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by thoms_a 5y ago
You can take solace in the fact that "whites" will never again command such societies in the future. The exaggerated "colonialism" narrative comes off as pining for a long-lost era of dominance, but in a socially accepta
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by thoms_a 5y ago
The "bunch of rules" are guidelines laid out by the supposed creator of reality, who loves you and wishes for you to live in congruence with your true nature. You can ignore the guidelines, but that will come at a cost (mostly to
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by thoms_a 5y ago
What I've found is that building a relationship is like building an orbital spacecraft: there are an infinite number of ways to do this which leads to failure, but very few which leads to success. Our extant societal memeplex makes it
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by thoms_a 5y ago
It depends on your perspective. The extant reality is that we are all alone, although we perform incredible feats of mental gymnastics to convince ourselves otherwise. OP has decided to simply rip off the band-aid, and accept reality. This
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by thoms_a 5y ago
A classic is/ought distinction error. Observing reality is not the same as prescribing a particular course of action.
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by thoms_a 5y ago
I recommend spending some more time understanding the second law of thermodynamics.
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by thoms_a 5y ago
The perpetual motion machine analogy is quite apt, because fighting aging is ultimately fighting entropy. Both are doomed to fail in their quixotic battle against thermodynamics.
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by thoms_a 5y ago
You'll find that HN, just like any other community, is largely conformist on major social/political issues. It came as a shock to me at first, but now I simply accept that people are wired for self-preservation via cognitive compa