yTh0

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by yTh0 6y ago
The first PhD was awarded in France in 1150 CE. Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and even Pre-Columbus America had complex cultural customs, art, math, engineering, medicine, language they handed down generationally. University as we know it is a
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by yTh0 6y ago
It could be argued but it’s a large assumption on its own. Stock markets are recent inventions; some hand wavy way of saying “this is exactly the right way to store value!” Why must that ideal be externalized onto others? Why do I have to b
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by yTh0 6y ago
I can’t tell if things like this are real issues or “but think of the horse and buggy driver!” problems. We were teaching kids to read, ethics, morals, long before we had PhDs. Obsession with normalizing agency to abide fiscal concerns is t
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by yTh0 6y ago
It’s been shown that words mean different things given geographical region. One brain is not composed of the same experiential model, and as a result, neurological model, as others. Physics > chemistry -> biology -> humans -> me
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by yTh0 6y ago
Qualify it as such in the original post. Some search engine can come along in N days, weeks, months, and provide that snippet out of the context you intended. Social media is not a friends backyard fire pit. The information peddled here isn
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by yTh0 6y ago
The value they claim to unlock is completely made up. People need logistics to move materials to enable people to do stuff. Not speculative emotional guidance on ephemeral value stores. Most of them are, or are funded by, inherited wealth t
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by yTh0 6y ago
> A rich kid is much more likely to leave an impact on the world A rich person is subsidized by society. Why should we optimize fiscal policy to enable them and let them leave an outsized impact on the world? Especially when the outsized