>Don't be that guy. Be a better guy. Don't patronize an adult like a child. We have an entire propaganda system from both sides. Even if news wasn't "fake", it'd still be trash by people who know nothing about subjects…
>If software is eating the World, it's important the people building and operating it are as diverse as possible, otherwise there is a risk it unconsciously or consciously becomes biased in its actions and consequences…
They lost the battle when they failed to realize that having power in the real world is better than playing the game of "activist". A meat eating shitlord legislator in Nebraska has a greater ability to put through…
Merry Christmas! But social atomization and poor health turn out to be terrible dance partners for people who expected more hype their age. Our society is too willing to consider the treatment of acute problems as the…
The world has been broken since agriculture. The system has gotten less rigged than its inception. Imagine instead if a middle class existence, you only had a life of slave drudgery. True slave drudgery. The kind where…
Caro's first book on him is excellent and I'm ashamed to say I haven't continued beyond that. Inefficient time scheduling and all that. It's eye opening to see how far and calculating climbing the ladder of power can be…
So what comment of mine tripped the downvote sensors? The first line was somewhat of a half joke, half truth. Have you ever dealt with HR and interoffice politics?
In this day and age, often the same. The older I get, the more I understand Turner's thesis on the frontier. Without a frontier, ambitious people turn into ever-more specialized rentiers, trying to squeeze the golden…
The failure of aspirational thinking was by its own doing. Aspirational thinking doesn't arise in a world where apes look at screens showing the screens where apes... I just see a lot of addicted people who are given a…
How could it not be terrible? Black america is screwed. The rate of fatherlessness is apocalyptic. Especially when you combine that with the fact that single parent households, with the mother as the parent, produce far…
Pre-apartheid: SA has working first world infrastructure Post-apartheid: SA is mired in governmental incompetence and degradation of infrastructure. Not to mention highly elevated levels of murder and rape. :^)
How are they not justified? A cynical understanding of human nature and society serves a person far better than the opposite. People want to do less work than more work. For people involved in acquiring, placing, and…
It's not merely sitting down. It's seeing the code monkeys of life being manipulated by people who are adept at manipulating humans and getting higher status and pay for it. Think of a lot of technical positions in the…
You're not making a convincing argument. Why are the capabilities of plumbers to mentally map various causes and effects and points of failure not subject to the same forces of thought differentials you claim? My…
Schools are for the benefit of of people who rarely have anything invested in the growth of any one student. It's robbing taxpayers, demanding draconian control of kids, both physically and legally. The money that is…
Public Schools are horrific squanderings of societal wealth and innumerable years of cognition. They socialize children into diets that bring on pre-diabetes and diabetes. It's absolute quackery to say that the massive…
>Don't be that guy. Be a better guy. Don't patronize an adult like a child. We have an entire propaganda system from both sides. Even if news wasn't "fake", it'd still be trash by people who know nothing about subjects…
>If software is eating the World, it's important the people building and operating it are as diverse as possible, otherwise there is a risk it unconsciously or consciously becomes biased in its actions and consequences…
They lost the battle when they failed to realize that having power in the real world is better than playing the game of "activist". A meat eating shitlord legislator in Nebraska has a greater ability to put through…
Merry Christmas! But social atomization and poor health turn out to be terrible dance partners for people who expected more hype their age. Our society is too willing to consider the treatment of acute problems as the…
The world has been broken since agriculture. The system has gotten less rigged than its inception. Imagine instead if a middle class existence, you only had a life of slave drudgery. True slave drudgery. The kind where…
Caro's first book on him is excellent and I'm ashamed to say I haven't continued beyond that. Inefficient time scheduling and all that. It's eye opening to see how far and calculating climbing the ladder of power can be…
So what comment of mine tripped the downvote sensors? The first line was somewhat of a half joke, half truth. Have you ever dealt with HR and interoffice politics?
In this day and age, often the same. The older I get, the more I understand Turner's thesis on the frontier. Without a frontier, ambitious people turn into ever-more specialized rentiers, trying to squeeze the golden…
The failure of aspirational thinking was by its own doing. Aspirational thinking doesn't arise in a world where apes look at screens showing the screens where apes... I just see a lot of addicted people who are given a…
How could it not be terrible? Black america is screwed. The rate of fatherlessness is apocalyptic. Especially when you combine that with the fact that single parent households, with the mother as the parent, produce far…
Pre-apartheid: SA has working first world infrastructure Post-apartheid: SA is mired in governmental incompetence and degradation of infrastructure. Not to mention highly elevated levels of murder and rape. :^)
How are they not justified? A cynical understanding of human nature and society serves a person far better than the opposite. People want to do less work than more work. For people involved in acquiring, placing, and…
It's not merely sitting down. It's seeing the code monkeys of life being manipulated by people who are adept at manipulating humans and getting higher status and pay for it. Think of a lot of technical positions in the…
You're not making a convincing argument. Why are the capabilities of plumbers to mentally map various causes and effects and points of failure not subject to the same forces of thought differentials you claim? My…
Schools are for the benefit of of people who rarely have anything invested in the growth of any one student. It's robbing taxpayers, demanding draconian control of kids, both physically and legally. The money that is…
Public Schools are horrific squanderings of societal wealth and innumerable years of cognition. They socialize children into diets that bring on pre-diabetes and diabetes. It's absolute quackery to say that the massive…