cs137

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by cs137 4y ago
> Over 40% of white students at Harvard are side-door admissions (legacy, donors, children of faculty, etc.). I'm sure it's over 40%. It wouldn't surprise me if it's 70. There are a lot of side doors. My information i
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by cs137 4y ago
There's a certain rhetorical device being employed here where a hopeless situation is being presented, followed by an intimation that, if workers fight for it, things can be different. He's right, on the whole. The Office, the ins
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by cs137 4y ago
> But to get there, office workers must organize, and take the goals and power of the Office into account. It does not want to be flexible, and it cares little for efficiency. If the Office makes concessions, they will be minor, or they
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by cs137 4y ago
This. The other issue with peak oil is that people have been predicting it since 2005 (if not earlier) and the general picture has been, and still is: * we don't fully know when oil production will peak, because it's based o
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by cs137 4y ago
Unfortunately, people like us who respond to that sort of thing like a normal human (as opposed to a brainwashed corporate drone who lives in terror of the master's displeasure) tend not to do well in the corporate world. The trick of
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by cs137 4y ago
Because they're not. One bad professional turn, health problem, or lawsuit and they are thrown out like garbage. They're detested by both sides. The regular poor proletarians see them as kapos (and, quite often, it's the case
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by cs137 4y ago
The good news is that some of this is publication bias, not a devolution of public mental health. Before about 1960, the lower classes had almost no chance of getting their words into the written record. Did 7th-century serfs see themselv
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by cs137 4y ago
Although I think "impostor syndrome" is vague and over-diagnosed, it's a natural reaction to a diseased society such as ours. Capitalism tells you you can be anything you want to be, if you're good enough. Of course, mos
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by cs137 4y ago
Everything you're saying about the Soviet health system is true of capitalism's health system now. The difference is that, in the US, we go into debt for our mediocre care. The main reason for the discrepancy in care quality durin
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by cs137 4y ago
We can't be sure about alternate timelines, but it's a strong possibility that, had the USSR been left in peace, it would have achieved an even greater prosperity by now. The USSR was on a path to moderation: Khrushchev was not St
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by cs137 4y ago
Right. We didn't actually "win" the Cold War. As soon as "communism" (though it was never actually achieved) was perceived as defeated, the capitalists no longer had to justify themselves, which gave them license to
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by cs137 4y ago
This is a ridiculous take. Veterinary medicine is not some capitalist utopia. Most vets are miserable and, unlike doctors, most of them don't even make any money for their suffering. First of all, a substantial portion of the job is pu
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by cs137 4y ago
The fact that private equity firms aren't being bombed for the shit they're pulling now--i.e., the way they're moving into the housing market--is an embarrassment to us as a people. When they were playing abstract numbers gam
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by cs137 4y ago
Which leads to antibiotics being over prescribed because parents don’t want to leave the doctors office without something to do afterwards. You're not wrong, but sometimes this is purely preemptive and might still be a sound decision
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by cs137 4y ago
What you're saying isn't wrong, but there are obvious solutions in front of us. We implement a universal basic income (indexed to inflation, so it absorbs any inflation it causes) to keep the minimal living standard high, we incre
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by cs137 4y ago
Part of the problem is that the way we conceptualize money leads us to treat it as if it's a real thing, as opposed to an accounting system the state creates for various purposes, some of which are desirable and some of which are not.
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by cs137 4y ago
Something I've learned is that most people are only really good (that is, good enough to contribute notably and distinguish themselves) at one thing. A few of us are good at two things, but even there, those two things tend to be relat
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by cs137 4y ago
I'm 39 and disabled in addition to being politically exposed (that is, a bunch of people whom I've never met know me by my real name and, for reasons so silly it is not worth getting into, utterly hate me) so I have some insight i
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by cs137 4y ago
The historical tendency is for the elite to use violence to preserve what they have, in which case it usually becomes necessary to fight back. However, if their will and morale can be corroded to such a point that they accept declining rele
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by cs137 4y ago
The corporate system is running the world off a cliff. The standard of living is falling all over the world and, in much of it, has been for decades. Global warming threatens to destroy the ecosystem. Democracies are turning or have turned
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by cs137 4y ago
So, you would prefer the job be done with a maximum of bloodshed?
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by cs137 4y ago
Not to mention, the gratuitous capitalization and the grammar errors.
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by cs137 4y ago
I'm skeptical, correlation not being causation and all that, but nevertheless I think there's an optimistic message here. The social structure of the bourgeoisie is, in fact, fragile, and that can be used to our benefit. We don&#x
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by cs137 4y ago
It's probably a way for ugly and insufferable rich people to feel better about themselves and their kids. "I have noticed that your son, Phillip von Twattenheim the Fourth, is graying at the temples. Have you betrothed him yet?&qu
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by cs137 4y ago
Chaitin's constant (which is actually a family of constants, one that exists for each programming language) is not computable. It's the probability of a randomly generated program halting. One can imagine it being of interest, at
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by cs137 4y ago
I've been stupid, brave, heroic, et al... and have suffered the consequences. I see the merit in both sides. If you don't know exactly what you're fighting for, and how to fight for it, there's safety in blending in. I d
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by cs137 4y ago
This is the, "I fucked up and I'm going to have cut people, but I'm going to blame the people getting cut because I'm a shit human being" speech. It's never a good sign.
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by cs137 4y ago
Generally, people who get PIP'd don't get severance, even if fired. The real purpose of the PIP process is to grind people down so they make mistakes, costing them what could otherwise be beautiful lawsuits [1], or just stop showi
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by cs137 4y ago
It's really easy to fall prey to this. You become target-fixated on your attention metrics, but it's often the worst content that spikes your numbers. You don't become an influencer; you become a hub of "influence"-
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by cs137 4y ago
It wouldn't surprise me if, within 15 years, the pendulum goes the other way and anonymity is prized again, with the former "influencers" deeply regretting their public exposure. I was briefly (barely) famous in the tech worl

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