The Bell Curve has been widely debunked. A quick glance at the Wikipedia article gets you countless citations and counter arguments. For the lazy, here’s a fun video summarizing them:…
I work closely with transportation dispatchers, and this applies almost word for word
The Act of Killing
And one million dead from a pandemic!
Or better yet: realize you have more in common with factory workers than silicon valley billionaires, and organize for better labor rights.
I'm not an engineer, but...Twitter doesn't seem to be doing all that well.
People fought and died in the streets to get OT pay and 5 day workweeks in the US. The CIA has assassinated union leaders in the Global South for decades. You tell me.
Classic American mentality. "If we don't have it here, it can't work anywhere else."
What's DS&A?
Last weekend I got free beers for knowing the band on a bartender's shirt. We shot the shit about music while I waited for my friends. Made my day. Pubs started as "public houses". What's the point if you don't know the…
One can dream.
Well they're certainly better than we were mass harvesting their hands, but that's a low bar.
How do you think we're getting all those rare earth minerals? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/31/the-dark-side-...
Totally. We've had Q4 labor screw-overs since Jack Welch. Now this added humiliation. "AI" might enable mass automation. But it will also enable this CEO tactic: "Look shareholders/VCs, I namedropped the hot new thing,…
As someone who has spent a lot of time in the NYC classical/art music scene: I have many, many of those personal experiences.
Shostakovich did this a lot in his later work. His violin sonata starts with a long slow atonal dirge, then suddenly slinks into this little tonal waltz. It gives a “haunted music box” vibe that I absolutely love.
Says the McKinsey employee.
You’re arguing that feeling like everyone (or neurodivergent people) is mentally disabled is not an example of superiority complex, right?
What you call a "superiority complex" is the exact attitude neurodivergent people face constantly
MBTA administration is day camp for the adult children of Boston Brahmins. The operations department, OTOH, is full of the hardest working and most passionate people you’ll ever meet. Naturally, those operations jobs…
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While I love the UX improvements, MuseScore 4 is unusably laggy. On every machine I’ve tried, it takes 10+ seconds to respond after a few phrases have been entered. I was hoping they just rushed out a buggy release, but…
The Bell Curve has been widely debunked. A quick glance at the Wikipedia article gets you countless citations and counter arguments. For the lazy, here’s a fun video summarizing them:…
I work closely with transportation dispatchers, and this applies almost word for word
The Act of Killing
And one million dead from a pandemic!
Or better yet: realize you have more in common with factory workers than silicon valley billionaires, and organize for better labor rights.
I'm not an engineer, but...Twitter doesn't seem to be doing all that well.
People fought and died in the streets to get OT pay and 5 day workweeks in the US. The CIA has assassinated union leaders in the Global South for decades. You tell me.
Classic American mentality. "If we don't have it here, it can't work anywhere else."
What's DS&A?
Last weekend I got free beers for knowing the band on a bartender's shirt. We shot the shit about music while I waited for my friends. Made my day. Pubs started as "public houses". What's the point if you don't know the…
One can dream.
Well they're certainly better than we were mass harvesting their hands, but that's a low bar.
How do you think we're getting all those rare earth minerals? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/31/the-dark-side-...
Totally. We've had Q4 labor screw-overs since Jack Welch. Now this added humiliation. "AI" might enable mass automation. But it will also enable this CEO tactic: "Look shareholders/VCs, I namedropped the hot new thing,…
As someone who has spent a lot of time in the NYC classical/art music scene: I have many, many of those personal experiences.
Shostakovich did this a lot in his later work. His violin sonata starts with a long slow atonal dirge, then suddenly slinks into this little tonal waltz. It gives a “haunted music box” vibe that I absolutely love.
Says the McKinsey employee.
You’re arguing that feeling like everyone (or neurodivergent people) is mentally disabled is not an example of superiority complex, right?
What you call a "superiority complex" is the exact attitude neurodivergent people face constantly
MBTA administration is day camp for the adult children of Boston Brahmins. The operations department, OTOH, is full of the hardest working and most passionate people you’ll ever meet. Naturally, those operations jobs…
[flagged]
While I love the UX improvements, MuseScore 4 is unusably laggy. On every machine I’ve tried, it takes 10+ seconds to respond after a few phrases have been entered. I was hoping they just rushed out a buggy release, but…