calibraxis

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by calibraxis 10y ago
> This is a small preview of understanding how our emotions and brain chemistry affects our performance. Interesting, what other sources can one look at, to go beyond this small preview?
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by calibraxis 10y ago
People will find things to do, because we are human. But pointless work that goes nowhere is demotivating. http://evonomics.com/why-capitalism-creates-pointless-jobs-d... The question is, what's inspirational work? I t
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by calibraxis 10y ago
"an extreme individualism has stepped in as the alternative—a go-it-alone perspective narrowly focused on getting an education and becoming successful on one’s own merit." It's ironic. Corporations are anything but individual
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by calibraxis 10y ago
"your firm has bought your time for that hour." Tech workers have unusual amounts of wageslave mentality.
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by calibraxis 10y ago
> But even here on HN, with the high quality of debate Maybe the debate here on other topics, from technical to political, is also of low quality? Just with the flavor of "quality", like carefully argued (but absurd) mini-essay
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by calibraxis 10y ago
I like to say hyperindividualism, not individualism. Individualism and collectivism are naturally related: cooperation can bring out our individual potentials. From David Graeber's “The Democracy Project”, about Native Americans: >
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by calibraxis 10y ago
> What Hacker News is: a place for stories that gratify intellectual curiosity and civil, substantive comments. It's "startup news": computing for capitalism. We work on social media without knowing anything about sociolog
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by calibraxis 10y ago
Fortunately, capitalism is a fairly young system & requires a government to provide violence (police & military) to preserve it. Capitalists often ask government to step in and make capitalism viable long-term. That is, keep capital
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by calibraxis 10y ago
The left talks about the Israel lobby. Certainly would not talk about a "Jewish lobby." http://www.counterpunch.org/2006/05/01/the-israel-lobby/ Far more important than some "Jewish lobby&
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by calibraxis 10y ago
> Ah yes of course - racism can only be carried out by white men after all. No one said that. Just that racism is an oppression where whites are the top caste. Blacks can be racist against blacks too, for example internalized racism. How
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by calibraxis 10y ago
Evidence that HN is a right-wing capitalist site (like both US political parties): in a discussion of threats to humanity, an apparently highly-rated comment talks about paying too much in taxes. And fears that solutions to global warming w
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by calibraxis 10y ago
There's a lot of truth to this. There's something in the culture about excluding poor whites from being accepted as an oppressed class. (Literature should soon come out on this.) They're called names. This inconsistency is ru
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by calibraxis 10y ago
It will stimulate the economy to promote more jobs. "There are people whose labor is worth $8/hr but not $11/hr" is a non-sequitur because this fuzzy concept of "worth" varies in time & space. (For example,
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by calibraxis 10y ago
Our own cultures are mysterious to us. Why are we hurtling towards climate change? Why do we sacrifice countries full of people, like in Iraq? Why must we release toxins in water that lower people's IQs? Why do we need to cage so many
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by calibraxis 10y ago
Context: The Washington Post is from the militant nation which overthrew Iran's secular parliamentary democracy, and installed the brutal Shah: ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat ) In
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by calibraxis 10y ago
Yes, it's confusing to some in the US because Democrats are basically what "moderate Republicans" used to be in the 1980's. As even Obama pointed out. ( http://www.salon.com/2016/05/17/noam_
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by calibraxis 10y ago
While magicial thinking is pretty universal, it's true that the US (where GiveDirectly comes from) has ridiculous amounts of it. For example, 42% believe "God created humans in their present form 10,000 years ago." ( http:&#x
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by calibraxis 10y ago
Yes, that's what anthropologists often say. So you have quite some evidence backing you up... And many humans now are excited about exploring space, agitating over how few resources we allocate to it. (That's another rant that man
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by calibraxis 10y ago
DK = domain knowledge?
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by calibraxis 10y ago
Good point. And the middle class damages itself with their lack of solidarity with the poor and minorities. Because the condition of the poor is the threat which keeps the middle class in line.
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by calibraxis 10y ago
These "clandestine courses" certainly exist in rich nations, and are secretly held during lunch and in private homes. For example, to avoid bosses knowing. Skilled human tutors, free from school/university bureaucracy, can ge
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by calibraxis 10y ago
It's a political act to publicly declare something along the lines of, "I quit because of their politics." Fortunately, people like me see such declarations — "Hmm, I'd better now reactivate my paid GitHub subscript
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by calibraxis 10y ago
Braced myself before reading this, but what a pleasant surprise! > infinite number of closing parentheses Nowadays, you can express it with finite parentheses using -> macros popularized by Clojure.
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by calibraxis 10y ago
Corporations are organized internally as command economies, not markets. There are other social logics at play.
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by calibraxis 10y ago
Yes, and they're right. People change genders or aren't part of any; there's gendered dress codes which societies enforce (or people beat you up, you can't get a job, etc); and so forth. Hell, Alan Turing was basically k
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by calibraxis 10y ago
Oh, also Joel Spolsky mentions it too: ( http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000022.html ) (But it's not worthwhile for me to trawl through the managerial lit, so no doubt there's more examples.)
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by calibraxis 10y ago
Don Reinertsen mentioned it. At least in a talk, and maybe in his book "The Principles of Product Development Flow". That's only 1 example, but in my personal estimation he's one of the two most effective management theo
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by calibraxis 10y ago
> You and I may not like it, but the vast majority of the population supports the views and policies of the AKP and Erdogan. Erdogan succeeds in part because he attacks democracy. The whole reason Erdogan (with ISIS's help) attacks
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by calibraxis 10y ago
US expats sometimes sound a bit like recovering cult members. (Probably generalizes to other countries, don't know.) "Oh my god, did they make you 'pledge allegiance' to that fucking flag too!? [1] That was so fucked up
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by calibraxis 10y ago
Say what's honest, and imagine that Californian ideologues [1] are no different from the "religious." [2] Then the downvotes are perfectly expected and normal. It's boo-ing. Anyone who wants to verify this (and isn'

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