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by wfo 11y ago
It's very common. 99% of tech jobs aren't that hard, much easier than understanding philosophy. Anyone who can do philosophy can do it very well given some training/experience.
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by wfo 11y ago
This idea can be extended beyond simple sexual desire: engineering as it is taught in prestigious universities is an enormous time commitment which dominates your entire life for the prime 19-23 4 years that maybe you should be spending lea
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by wfo 11y ago
I'm pretty sure his post was dripping with sarcasm.
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by wfo 11y ago
You're right, but I think more importantly sometimes data is not data. A white suburbanite will collect anecdotes from other white suburbanites, like for example that the police are to be trusted. Then a study which doesn't proper
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by wfo 11y ago
The definition of all mental disease is completely based on social norms, a mental disease is just something which prevents you from behaving in a way certain people deem 'normal'. People like Szasz have posited it as a method for
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by wfo 11y ago
No, companies rely on forcing obedience from their employees through the threat to remove healthcare and livelihood. They rely on forcing compliance from their customers by hiring a team of highly trained psychologists who specialize in pro
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by wfo 11y ago
Interesting points. I think the harm that's being caused is not in the existence of a new service, but in the transition to a system where our resources are split: the notion that funding dedicated to general transportation is a zero-s
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by wfo 11y ago
It wasn't directed at you, I'm sorry if it came out that way: my claim about transparency was a relative one and not an absolute one and in fact I agree with your perspective that transparency even in government isn't as good
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by wfo 11y ago
Once private companies have a FOIA of their own that applies to their internal communication I'd be happy to examine the exemptions in the two statutes and how they compare. But for now it's so disgustingly false to claim that com
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by wfo 11y ago
In reality, private companies enjoy low accountability compared to government because while they perpetuate the myth of a highly competitive market, it isn't so; they are generally inefficient small fiefdoms. And government isn't
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by wfo 11y ago
I want to agree with you but unfortunately the system you're proposing isn't really feasible. The poor actually are hurt by not having access to Uber as it becomes more and more popular and ubiquitous. We all are in fact. It'
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by wfo 11y ago
Didn't catch that in my first read-through; thanks I wouldn't have noticed it. That adds an interesting dynamic to the whole issue in this case, though I think upon reflection it doesn't really change my opinion of the matter
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by wfo 11y ago
The choice to sign up for the contract isn't really a choice. It's the de facto standard in many kinds of jobs, people are essentially forced into it like people are forced to give their employer their IP, sign a noncompete, etc.
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by wfo 11y ago
Most of them did (including the anonymous woman in the article), but they had to pay for the service somehow and ended up using credit cards tracable to their identity. It's pretty easy to make a fake email address, much harder to pay
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by wfo 11y ago
We don't need more stem graduates; employers of stem workers make the claim to drive down salaries of stem workers. Currently there is no shortage of highly educated stem workers; there is just a shortage of highly educated stem worker
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by wfo 11y ago
The price is high because people expect to get money out of it, and more importantly to edge out other people for jobs because of having it. If people treat it like a certificate that says "I'm allowed to make X money" then i
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by wfo 11y ago
The other thing to note is that much like a warranty designed to cover your machine up until a month before it's expected to fail, the hell they unleash on their employees means most don't make it to 3 years so for most of them ve
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by wfo 11y ago
I think his claim was that the utilitarian analysis is flawed because if you accept it, it may force you to justify Hitler, which is morally unacceptable, so the utilitarian premise that forces you in that direction can't be accepted,
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by wfo 11y ago
Economically, education is a public subsidy that helps private wealth. Taxpayers pay for your worker training for free. In exchange society makes some demands on the educational process, primarily that it spend some amount of time preparing
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by wfo 11y ago
To your last point, I would argue the injustices are not misunderstood they are in fact injustices, and I'm talking about details far beyond racial discrimination, though I don't mean to minimize the consequences of that. The vast
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by wfo 11y ago
You're right; zero public defenders. And rather I don't think they are bad people, just realistic about the nature of the system they work in.
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by wfo 11y ago
I have plenty of experience with lawyers who graduated from high-ranked law schools. I won't claim to speak for everyone, but at least in my experience, discussing moral considerations or moral consequences of the law with them is like
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by wfo 11y ago
Her quote was fairly damning in the face of a huge screw-up, other metrics aside: she didn't consider the possibility that the snafu had something to do with the dip in scores and then after careful analysis decide the effect was negli
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by wfo 11y ago
The article paints Moeser as a villian -- she refuses to accept the fact that their system broke and compromised the integrity of the results on an exam, and instead insists that the students are just getting dumber, the eternal complaint o
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by wfo 11y ago
Well you're right -- the article is all about hard work and ability /to succeed in undergraduate and graduate admissions contests/ -- I would argue that the social connections are for many the end goal, which you receive afte
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by wfo 11y ago
Well you paint a very fantastical and alluring picture but more realistically in the modern day US we ask: is it just to reward people for developing the social connections necessary to succeed, from birth or happenstance, cultivating the c
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by wfo 11y ago
With this attitude, so long as there are people worse off you never have a right to complain; if more people believed the way you do we would all race to the bottom into functional slavery, because, hey, some people are actual slaves, or dy
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by wfo 11y ago
> It's your free choice. No, it isn't. Very few choices in a very capitalist society are actually free, they are free in the sense that choosing to comply or not with a gun to your head is "free". Which is why regulat
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by wfo 11y ago
It's the law of clickbait: any time the title of an article can be answered with the word "no", that answer is both correct and complete.
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by wfo 11y ago
Terms and conditions as a requirement to use a product you've already purchased shouldn't ever count for anything. So I think you should trash any terms. And I'd hope in a civilized country if a company tries to use mandatory

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