copacopab

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by copacopab 11mo ago
If I elaborate on this, I might find myself in El Salvador by the end of the week. And I need to close my Seed. Choosing silence.
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by copacopab 11mo ago
Your point here being "people who care about credentialism are herd animals"?
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by copacopab 11mo ago
A college where in order to get in you have to show you've been diligent on grades, extracurriculars, and testing for 18 years straight. Ofc exceptions to this, like Trump; but most of the student body of such a college would fit this
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by copacopab 11mo ago
Trump extremely clearly got in as a nepo kid, so I'd discard him in this argument. Personally, I find PT's argument sincere that good colleges do measure something important -- even if you disagree with his takes and arguments. I
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by copacopab 11mo ago
Yeah, I actually think PT is sincere in his take that prestige actually does matter and so does school as a measure of IQ and ambition, even if you disagree with him -- but I think his larger posse has translated that message to "you s
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Peter Thiel on College and Credentialism(twitter.com)
2 points by copacopab 11mo ago|11 comments
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by copacopab 11mo ago
Useful clip that clarifies PT's sincere position on the importance of college and elite credentialism.
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by copacopab 1y ago
Haha... it's crazy. And I have friends at META who've been trying to help, and they themselves get in a customer support hell as well. It's wild. $1.9T company.
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by copacopab 1y ago
I have been locked out of my account for 5+ months -- and customer support has been a Kafkaesque nightmare. I am still locked out. (Oh, and I've spent $1M+ in paid META ads...)
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by copacopab 6y ago
IEEE Spectrum is the closest thing that comes to mind ... but the literature on hard tech is indeed scant.
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by copacopab 6y ago
"cycle of epiphany porn" is my favorite new phrase
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by copacopab 6y ago
Data Science via https://www.codecademy.com/learn/paths/data-science (really want to get good at web scraping!) and Figma via Youtube videos. Anyone have any fav tutorials on Figma?
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by copacopab 7y ago
Lol —— CANCEL THEM ALL! #RickyGervais2020
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A Brief History of the Lie Detector(spectrum.ieee.org)
2 points by copacopab 7y ago|0 comments
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by copacopab 7y ago
In the most respectful way possible, the argument of this article is dumb. And clickbaity.