puredemo

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by puredemo 11y ago
A moderator just a hair left of your current moderation approach on the authoritarianism scale would "flag and remove" PG's entire recent article about income inequality with a note calling it "tedious ideological postur
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by puredemo 11y ago
The internet has already been a massive boon to fighting boredom in general, sure. If you are highly literate (~15%) it's difficult to be bored when all of the world's knowledge is at your fingertips. Even if you aren't hig
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by puredemo 11y ago
I grew up in an area like that. One of my goals if I ever get wealthy is to simply open up something cheap and fun to do in small towns to combat this. Like rock climbing gyms for $30 a month. Or small indoor water parks. I wouldn't
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by puredemo 11y ago
Well, I appreciate the response, but as you might have guessed I disagree with your approach and assumptions. Flamewar material could basically be any contestable subject people get passionate about. Of course people online will disagree a
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by puredemo 11y ago
I don't even like Facebook much, but I still strongly preferred the design of it over Google+. Not to mention Google+ was truly asinine about forcing users to merge their YT and G+ accounts (and even gmail, iirc), it was all just very
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by puredemo 11y ago
What part(s) do you consider dross? To me, "flamewar material" sounds like "stuff many people would disagree with" [1] and "tedious posturing" sounds like, "Unfortunate realities I don't like discussi
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by puredemo 11y ago
I changed the downvote line, thanks.
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by puredemo 11y ago
Might makes right. Or, more accurately: Might muddies the waters enough to do whatever it wants regardless.
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by puredemo 11y ago
>solely to avoid programming for the web? What is it about the web you dislike so much? People can simply be uninterested in certain types of work..
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by puredemo 11y ago
Aliens of the gaps? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps
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by puredemo 11y ago
Sure, that's why every college relies on them for admissions, not to mention everyone taking the GRE / MCAT for grad school. Are applied sciences grad programs not "creative work" in your mind? Standardized tests statis
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by puredemo 11y ago
Considering I managed literally thousands of agents over a period of years, you would statistically be an extremely rare exception to a rather well-examined trend. Did you ever take the SAT / ACT?
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by puredemo 11y ago
"Hire anyone with decent standardized test scores," would be my baseline after managing a large, technical support callcenter where many new hires were simply not able to learn the (imho fairly rudimentary) modem troubleshooting s
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by puredemo 11y ago
snobsolence.com
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by puredemo 11y ago
I still can't fathom how monetizing what are basically just shared network drives, a feature already built into windows, is a successful venture. Hire an IT guy and have him setup network shares, done. But obviously there seems to be
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by puredemo 11y ago
He resold cereal dammit, he's practically a miracle worker. /s
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by puredemo 11y ago
That's a robotics company.
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by puredemo 11y ago
Nothing but Soylent drinks and Slow-cooked BBQ
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by puredemo 11y ago
If I wanted to take it super literally, I'd ask why Pink people aren't considered "People of Color." ;)
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by puredemo 11y ago
>He thinks I'm racist for quoting wikipedia. I mean, I think you buy into and identify with a concept that is explicitly, by definition anti-white.. Is that not racist? -- >This is exactly why I don't want to write about rac
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by puredemo 11y ago
It sounds like you're saying it's fine to be racist against whites, but offensive to do the same thing to your personal "in-group." Little ironic, lol.
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by puredemo 11y ago
Excuse my ignorance but do Asians "count" as people of color? I thought that usually referred to Latinos and African Americans? I know that university admissions PoC don't include Asians, in fact most admissions standards
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by puredemo 11y ago
Nice blog post, though I disagree with the title -- being right certainly pays my bills. ;) The theme is more like, "Learn to pick your battles with clients."
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by puredemo 11y ago
First, it would be trivial to reroute inheritance funds through trusts or protected business assets, so very few wealthy families would fall victim to this sort of tax in reality. Governments have been trying to steal from the rich for a v
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by puredemo 11y ago
How do you remove billions in net worth more than once? It doesn't exist the second time.
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by puredemo 11y ago
Realpolitik is by definition not ideological, while libertarianism very much is. Quite different approaches.
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by puredemo 11y ago
It was actually a well-executed joke. Quite acerbic. Unfortunately many click-bait "journalists" were simply too thick to understand the satire.
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by puredemo 11y ago
1. She's describing "in-group" preferences in most of the latter part of the article, not herd mentality. These are two separate things. 2. Since libertarianism is, by definition, fully supportive of the rights outlined in t
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by puredemo 11y ago
>You are suffering from the just world fallacy. I think you're projecting. He is saying the world is harsh and unfair, and people need to work hard to mitigate that. That isn't a fallacy.
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by puredemo 11y ago
What are you referring to when you say "past performance" specifically? Are you talking about the Great Leap Forward, which killed tens of millions? You realize we're discussing individuals getting hired in a job market, not

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