zarkov99

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by zarkov99 5y ago
Thank you for having an open mind. The book and the author discusses Europe, specifically Holland and Portugal, two countries were I have lived, and that have successfully addressed the issue - and the issue is addiction. The main differen
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I believe you are misinformed. There is plenty of compassion, specially in the cities discussed in the book, that is not the issue at all, nor is lack of spending at all . Please read the book, or listen to any of the podcasts the author r
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Its not black and white. Of course they can use some help, but they also need to face consequences for they own choices. Just read the book for examples of how other countries, like Holland and Portugal, have been very successful addressing
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The issue is not poverty at all . The issue is addiction. This constant framing of the homeless as dispossessed victims, rather than substance abusers with agency, makes it impossible to solve the issue.
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This is myopic nonsense at best and most likely a cynical hit job driven by some dark agenda. Facebook is the natural result of a regulatory and cultural environment that has not yet caught on to the fact that as a species, culturally and b
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by zarkov99 5y ago
Yes, it is a common psychological defense. Rather than suffer the pain of inadequacy one either decries the whole idea of merit as meaningless/harmful or adds enough mushiness to the ranking method as to render it useless. Either way y
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Try Privacy.com that should help you manage your subscriptions a lot better.
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Have you tried Privacy.com ? Even for people with no ADHD the subscription trap is very real but there are technological solutions.
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PopOS has decent power management.
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PopOS. Ubuntu with better power management and a tilling WM.
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Who should save us then? Young activists with nothing to offer but righteous ignorance? Cynical politicians, who believe nothing but their focus groups? Our well appointed chattering class whose hatred towards billionaires is obviously root
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Vetting an information source can be extraordinarily difficult in this day and age, at least for those looking for more than confirmation of their world views. There is an ocean of well funded, profession disinformation out there. Telling B
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Perhaps we should try being honest with each other next time? Certainly lying did not work out very well.
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It is hard to understate the damage. The loss of national cohesion, the exacerbated division caused by the "choose your own reality" consequences of no longer having trustworthy institutions. And maybe worse of all, the self-fulfi
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1% isn't ultra rich.
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They? Wouldn't many here qualify?
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I very much doubt educated workers, and I assume you really mean tech workers, derive much more than money and prestige from their incredibly well paid but for the most amoral jobs. Big tech life is saturated with hypocrisy. Most workers j
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What politics would those be? The last thing I want is to discuss politics at work with my CEO. I have enough meaning in my life that I do not need to look for validation of my ideology during working hours.
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by zarkov99 5y ago
On the other hand, I, a fairly good Engineer, would favor Coinbase over many other tech companies precisely because their CEO had the courage to say what every other CEO is thinking, that is that a company is a place where money is exchange
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Why would that bother you? If they can do the job then why not? Lawyers, doctors and accountants have deep certification moats protecting them, perhaps appropriately, but software development is still relatively free from credentialism.
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Of course they do, that is the point of AP. The question that matters is if the drivers are safer, to themselves and others, than they would be without AP. From what I have read this is undoubtedly true.
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When I was about 15 me and my friends put what little money we had together and send it out I think to England or Germany to buy a license for the Amiga C compiler. 3 months later it arrived in the mail. I could not wait so I actually learn
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by zarkov99 5y ago
RIP. Many a programming career, including mine, was started thanks to Sir Clive. There was a sense of wonder and awe around those machines that is no where to be found these days, even though we have so much power computational power. Somet
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Exactly, its plain as day. It is amazing to me how many noble lies have been told in the Pandemic. Even more amazing is that the people lying cannot see a direct line from the lying to the complete loss of faith in the institutions thy repr
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by zarkov99 5y ago
Who can be trusted with a rational opinion? Why? As to morality and practicality, merit as the optimal way to building hierarchy has worked practically. In terms of morality, what do you have that is better? And why/who says its better
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The great reshuffling that is happening in front on our eyes might very well push those not in the cognitive elite away from all those great places as well. I am seeing it happen around my area, where housing costs have shot up by 20% in on
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Its not that the support structures do not exist, after all they never did and men did fine without them, its that college is suffused with an ideology that is anti-men, anti-merit and, for the most part, useless for anything but its own se
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Hang in there. I had to go through the Leetcode ordeal as well and it gets easier. It feels awful at first, but if you stick to it, read through the solutions, make sure you understand them, after 100 problems or so it all starts to come ba
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As what some would call an old person (~50), I love this. There is so much knowledge in old workers. Not all is relevant, sure, but there is so much that is timeless stuff that every young Engineer will learn, sooner or later, though varyin
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Thanks, I did not know that.

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