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by vanniv 7y ago
I'd say it's less about feeling "left behind" and more about feeling like they're being attacked and hated. Whether that's the kind of "attacked" that sounds like Obama saying they "cling to thei
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Feudal dystopias, as you call them, were characterized by minimal capital creation and the lack of rights to exploit that capital leading to both poverty and inequality. On the other hand, the sudden explosion of capital creation and exploi
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by vanniv 7y ago
Sure. But if you choose to work less, you probably shouldn't be surprised that you're not achieving as much.
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by vanniv 7y ago
This (opinion) article seems to be making the claim that separating out all of the top kids makes the group not selected perform worse. (The measurement of "achievement" used is percentage of students failing a rudimentary algebra
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by vanniv 7y ago
It is interesting that we have largely the same group of people complaining at the same time, that: 1) They don't feel like working as hard as people in the past used to work, and 2) They feel they're being screwed by a "rigg
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by vanniv 7y ago
I guess the point is that, when the statistics support their political bent, they decry people questioning the validity of them, and consider not blindly accepting them as being proof of the idiocy of the reader. But, give them statistics t
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by vanniv 7y ago
Yeah, it's true. This cycle, investors realized that OK, maybe we have to see revenues to believe it's a real business. But, if you look at things like WeWork, sure, there's revenue, but there's never even been the hope
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by vanniv 7y ago
The last few years have actually been uncharacteristically wet by historical standards. That's actually why this fire season is so bad. The problem isn't that too many people moved to California, the problem is that California has
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by vanniv 7y ago
If you ever want a lesson in fear of the power of Google, just put your phone on a WiFi network that is also hosting some sort of spamming operation. Once you do, for the next month, three quarters of the internet will show you multiple cap
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by vanniv 7y ago
I have been advocating for this sort of thing for about 15 years -- but, there will be some legal challenges eventually, when highly-profitable companies invest in students that end up feeling screwed. But overall I think this is a great th
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by vanniv 7y ago
I'm sorry. I'm in So Cal, myself, but I'm really trying to escape. Have been starting to seriously investigate options outside of CA. It's just becoming so oppressively broken here.
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Welcome to the third world country known as California, where we can't even get reliable electric service. Used to be the shining star of progress in the world, now this.
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Those companies aren't that different than the dot-com era companies. "We're not $boring_business, we're $boring_business_but_internet" (or, today, it'd be boring but mobile)
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Then you have a lousy business model, and you aren't going to make lots of money, and you aren't going to create lots of value, and, as a result, probably won't get a massive payout.
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by vanniv 7y ago
Luminar is really neat. I've been using Luminar 3 for awhile, and it does some really cool stuff -- but 3 didn't really live up to it's hype. Don't get me wrong, I use it sometimes to clean up and enhance my images, but
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by vanniv 7y ago
I do wonder if, as we keep progressing down the hiring to fill a company with a maximum number of equally-weighted populations by various identity characteristics, if it will some day become trendy and hip to choose your employees based on
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I would go one farther. I won't join a union, and I won't work in a union shop. If my company goes union, I'll go work somewhere else.
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If it is speech, it is free. That's how free speech works. It even applies to asshats.
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Three letter agencies doing whatever evil the feel like isn't really new. MKUltra turned out to be real, after all.
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The ticket is legal, because by the time you get the ticket, they know you've committed the offense. The chalk is only illegal because they have to mark your car before you've overstayed, and at that time, the search is unreasonab