aaron-santos

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by aaron-santos 5y ago
What a weird section on professionalism. The social construct of professionalism re-enforces the neoliberal hegemony. Who the hell would want to do that?
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
No apologies needed. The internet gives people a platform to speak without the same(but not necessarily less) social accountability that exists in meatspace. The change in accountability implies a change in the access that participants have
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
Thanks for explaining. Today was my day to not get a joke on the internet :)
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
Help me out. How does that imply war?
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
Why would you conflate hostile foreign power and being at war? There is a difference here between necessary and sufficient conditions. The presence of hostile foreign powers with whom we are not at war is evidence enough.
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
The propagandist wants the opponent to be strong enough to be a threat but ideologically weak enough to defeat. That should be enough for anyone to pause and think hard about what's really going on.
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
With the celebrity example I got more of a caricature effect. Excellent illusion.
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
My gut says that random trades have the same expected value as the underlying asset, but increased variance. I'm not a finperson, so learning why this could be wrong would be a learning opportunity.
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
> For decades we've been dealing with misinformation campaigns Yes and no. Now that the labor for executing misinformation campaigns is outsourced and presented in a new way, the old wisdom of "don't trust the media",
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
You might be surprised to learn that there are even whole books about the topic complete with reading groups, speaking events, and discourse.
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
I have to hand it to you. It's clear that you're adept at creating confusion around ideas by "just asking questions", and creating cohesion around fuzzy concepts by stating opinions as facts. I've participated in to
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
Why use utility an a measure to begin with? I think we're going to have to agree to disagree simply because of the number of assumptions being brought into this discussion.
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
I guess I'm ok with nuance and gray areas and anti-colonialism in a way that doesn't feel like a contradiction. Sorry that's hard for you.
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
> The economists and politicians can't conceive of trying to restructure the economic model to the lived reality Yeah, I mean that's the definition of thought hegemony. People think that moving the moon is easier than changing
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
Surely you do not work at Purina.
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
It is. And this answer is why I alluded to exit interviews. Understanding the structural reasons why this standard advice exists is the first step in a line of questioning that leads to some uncomfortable conclusions for HR and businesses,
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
I love how asking people why they are leaving is not on the list. Instead it's gathering metrics and data. If you treat people like numbers, that's sort of the explaination right there. Anything to avoid actually building a workin
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
I'm less and less confident that is possible, not necessarily because personal interactions and online spaces themselves form an inherent contradiction (though they might). But because the incentive, and ability to commodify, and capit
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
You would have to be familiar with the 2016 libertarian party presidential debate and the obsession with toast-related licenses in order to truly know for sure.
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
Closing the border certainly affects citizens. It affects who I cannot do business with.
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
I don't need a government telling me where I can or cannot go. Absolute tyranny. What's next, a license to butter my toast?
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
This feels like a personal attack, bud.
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
Right before that there is a huge difference.
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
I'll add to the list. Be aware of org/process changes. For example, I was working for a company who had been acquired a couple of years earlier. They were transitioning from analog to digital, but were slower than most competitors
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
Why would I want nodejs? All of that to avoid writing C for simple things?
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
It sounds like your saying "life is unfair so we have no obligation to try." I want to give you the benefit of the doubt, but it's difficult. Maybe you meant something else.
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
We can't blame the lords, they are a fundamental property of feudalism.
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
It's a fantastic way to get top comments here though.
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
When they determine the choices I have to live my life. Yes. That is the definition of freedom.
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
The market. I want to be free from it a la Freedom from the Market: America’s Fight to Liberate Itself from the Grip of the Invisible Hand by Mike Konczal[1]. As much as small government-types don't want to experience government in the

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