wanderer2323

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by wanderer2323 11y ago
Here you go, using the same word that got "the author" in her situation. 'Deserve'. I don't know whether she - or anyone else 'deserves' to live in SF. But I know that she was not able to - or, at least sh
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by wanderer2323 11y ago
You seem to be under impression that the issue she raises is somehow not 'Talia is an entitled person unable to critically evaluate and plan her life'
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If a child cannot understand the scope and themes of, say, Montaigne's Essais, is this a fault of Montaigne's? The Pendulum is similarly loaded with concepts and ideas.
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by wanderer2323 11y ago
If anything, you are not being cynical enough. This 'letter' can be summarized as "We will use the money for leftist lobbying in our country and establishing a monopoly in other countries AND we're going to say it's
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A Wild Sheep Chase
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"Uber's support staff is good, and any hint of poor performance results in a 1-star review" This is roughly how the market "responded" (0) to Uber in Moscow - Yandex ("Russian Google") rolled out its Yande
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by wanderer2323 11y ago
My thesis is: unlimited money will always buy results. Money is a shadow of power and the point of power is influencing the world. Your solution of "reducing things to a common denominator" which you claimed to be "the only f
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by wanderer2323 11y ago
Nobody says "stop trying to make it more fair". But stop trying to force fairness. Side A picks a pair. Side B picks the representation. Both lawyers are equally mediocre. Side A's lawyer gets the materials analysis/arg
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Lawyer A is the best Lawyer in the country. He is forced to be a "salaried employee of the state". Who do you think 'gets assigned' to his representation list - a wealthy person or a poor person? Your solution works if a
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by wanderer2323 11y ago
The author is scared by the reddit 'basement' and he wants us to think that his position is in such a majority that reddit is doomed. Sorry, Chuq Von Rospach, that's just false-consensus effect talking.
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The downside of "the employee designation" for the business is having to pay the employee (the overtime, the insurance, etc). The downside for the employee is ... "far less workplace flexibility". Yeah, those things are
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I would really feel a need to live in the place with hot water running from the taps, a working in-house plumbing and heating, a serviced waste disposal facility withing walking radius, the electricity service, an internet connection, a spe
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Actually, the amount of work required to, e.g. remove waste/provide drinking water & food and provide access to essential services & information is greater in the "less urban, less concrete, less centralized" environm
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by wanderer2323 11y ago
The "dubiously authoritative", as you put it 'I can't imagine how this will work, qed it can't work' is far far better than the idealistic "the cultural changes will take care of it in the end". Our c
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by wanderer2323 11y ago
That's one classic "pro-social justice" blogpost written in a didactic tone, touting some anecdotes, making a point of a statistic without any references and conflating all sort of social issues (women in IT? college admissio