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by dondawest 5y ago
You’re missing key information on (2.) Frere-Jones DID put up capital… intellectual capital. He transferred the rights to famous typefaces he had designed, including Whitney, to the company with the understanding that he would be full partn
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by dondawest 6y ago
That movie was based on the Haruki Murakami short story “Barn Burning,” though it did reference Gatsby directly in the dialogue
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by dondawest 6y ago
He reminds me of Ayn Rand hating on government handouts while taking them. He promotes stoicism while practicing the opposite. You can say he’s promoting “logical stoicism” just like Ayn Rand fans can say that “it’s okay to be ideologically
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by dondawest 6y ago
I’m genuinely surprised that getting doxxed wasn’t part of his playbook. It’s not like he went to the greatest of lengths to hide his identity, Bay Area psychiatrists named Scott is a pretty small pool of people. This is pure speculation bu
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by dondawest 6y ago
Where u at bro
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by dondawest 6y ago
I almost spit out my coffee when you mentioned TALEB as a stoic, much less a member of the “big three” He’s as far from stoic as I can possibly imagine. His hairtrigger easily offended argumentative twitter presence is maybe even more sensi
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by dondawest 6y ago
In the interest of intellectual honesty, I just wanted to say that I’m an awesome person and I am literally so cool. This is likely not true for most people.
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by dondawest 6y ago
I think it’s the most direct way to communicate because the connotations are so culturally well-understood. “Wanna get dinner and maybe have sex ?” might be more direct in a textbook way but it’s also unecessary because the second part is
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by dondawest 6y ago
I don’t think he writes or communicates in a vulnerable way at all. “I could be interested in a variety of relationships with you” = not vulnerable, not a question, not direct, not clear. Also I don’t respect this article so I don’t feel co
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by dondawest 6y ago
He’s using the language of self help (“clear and direct communication!”) but interpreting it in a manner reminiscent of the “truth telling sessions” enacted by Synanon: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synanon > &gt
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by dondawest 6y ago
How’s your fitness levels and fitness routine?
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by dondawest 6y ago
> My criticism would honestly be that his writing is overly stylized and lacking in nuance. He inherits the hyperbolic, poetic quality of McCarthy but often applies it to the mundane and the result sometimes feels overwrought and overdra
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by dondawest 6y ago
I completely disagree. I think Don Delillo has an unbelievably cool writing style (especially how he only writes one paragraph per page and makes sure his words LOOK AESTHETIC in addition to conveying meaning). But DeLillo has essentially z
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by dondawest 7y ago
The title is extremely sensationalistic, Occam’s razor points to undetectable(by humans) scent trails that lead the ants to the same harvesting locations every year. There are no revelations about memory or collective consciousness to be fo
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by dondawest 7y ago
I unironically know.
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by dondawest 7y ago
>This is a controversial opinion, but one that's shared by almost every close friend of mine: labor laws for adolescents (I hesitate to call them "child labor laws," because infantilizing adolescents is the thing that caus
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by dondawest 7y ago
Yes, that is exactly the bullying being discussed in this thread
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by dondawest 7y ago
Dude even race is a largely cultural designation. Also, without codifying nerd identity how do you expect the bullying to end?
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by dondawest 7y ago
One crime is legible to the masses, the other is not. The crimes are in no way parallel. Agree the justice system is a farce .
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by dondawest 7y ago
The difference between a subculture and a social class is blurry at best. Many social classes are composed of different subcultures — like the nerd social class.
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by dondawest 7y ago
> It has always been 'safe' to bully the nerds. No other group of people receives this level of public venomous screed. It’s because nerds are too busy following our interests to bother attacking back. Defending oneself in gene
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by dondawest 7y ago
Exactly. Will this new platform provide a safe space for the brilliant minds at /r/fatpeoplehate? /s The problem with all anti-censorship platforms is that they become hate platforms by default, because only people who get de
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by dondawest 7y ago
>A company is something “we” build It is deeply ironic that the company that elucidates this exact philosophy in its IPO is such a good example of a company built by “one.”
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by dondawest 7y ago
I know. Who is he, Johnny Depp? Signing important documents while stoned and drunk out of his mind? Get outta here. “Although I did seem to be present, I do not recall it!” It’s the best dark chuckle I’ve had all year.
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by dondawest 7y ago
>I think maybe you and I are just using "certificate" differently. to me, a certificate is very different from a degree. I agree that we are using this word differently, because to me a degree is a certificate. >there’s de
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by dondawest 7y ago
>the idea of having a meaningful certificate in something like history is sort of ridiculous. I totally agree. But tell that to the universities. >or are you suggesting that we create hundreds of government history certification agenc
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by dondawest 7y ago
Right now, professors. If a government agency, then ... professors employed by government agencies. It wouldn’t be much different except the government would be involved in a different capacity than they already are.
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by dondawest 7y ago
I did
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by dondawest 7y ago
Why do you think Michelangelo’s David shouldn’t exist? That is one of the oddest opinions I’ve ever encountered in my life.
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by dondawest 7y ago
That study talks about teen brains. I’m talking about teen hormones. And that study fails to account for the facts that: Mao’s rise was driven by youthful rebellion in China Many Islamic suicide bombers are teenagers The Amish have rums

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