strikelaserclaw

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by strikelaserclaw 2y ago
I'm not saying people without any background or connections can't be successful. I'm saying that it is like winning a lottery to be even born to parents who even read books about how to make their kids successful. With that k
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by strikelaserclaw 2y ago
I always wonder how many people could have replicated similar successes if put in similar positions and i always feel like it is a lot. Like i can't imagine you taking someone from the same time period as newton or einstein and replaci
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by strikelaserclaw 2y ago
in what way though? she seemed like she was pretty much plugged into the silicon valley ecosystem from birth - her dad was a professor at Stanford, google was founded in her garage ! I willing to bet there are a lot of people in silicon val
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by strikelaserclaw 2y ago
"You still load up the ads so the website owner gets an ad view, no harm done." - not quite, without other events like taking a user to advertisers page or linking sales to this particular ad, i think this website will have its ad
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by strikelaserclaw 2y ago
if you think from the perspective of people who can't really build any wealth and are just slaving away with nothing to show for it - you can understand why they see it that way. Lets be honest, 80% of building wealth is just what time
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by strikelaserclaw 2y ago
we need to replace humans at the helm with robots.
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by strikelaserclaw 2y ago
humans will always take the path of least resistance to spike domaine when given the option - that is why we banned drugs and most of these apps with short form info like tiktok, reels, instagram, twitter - these are pretty much like drugs.
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by strikelaserclaw 2y ago
in east Asia, education is a commodity for material / societal success - we should not emulate them.
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by strikelaserclaw 2y ago
this makes sense as schools mostly exist just to create an educated workforce to can run the machine. Even science is big business these days, just keep cranking out papers of dubious value and reproducibility
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by strikelaserclaw 2y ago
It is not the same thing but probably related to whatever mechanism in the brain causes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-group_homogeneity - The people in a position of power regularly interact with the ceo, so they c
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by strikelaserclaw 2y ago
This phenomenon is a function of attributing all the positive developments within a company to the C-suite executives. Just as shareholders profit from the productive work of many employees, the C-suite executives often receive credit for t
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by strikelaserclaw 2y ago
math is just formalizing ideas into symbols and creating rules to manipulate and understand the ideas further. It is really the "ideas" that are important but all school really teaches is the manipulation aspect of it which is a b
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by strikelaserclaw 2y ago
i mean you are a small cog in a giant machine, what else can you expect?
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by strikelaserclaw 2y ago
because most of these companies are (run by?) sociopaths - as soon as low interest rates dried up DEI initiatives got slashed even though these companies are still making record profits.
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by strikelaserclaw 2y ago
once interests rate went up all DEI initiatives dried up - these companies don't really have integrity or beliefs beyond doing what is politically correct at the current time.
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by strikelaserclaw 2y ago
i don't think women should be discriminated against in whatever profession they want to go to if they have the ability but i also believe men and women are different in terms of interests and women and men will never reach 50-50 parity
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by strikelaserclaw 2y ago
every group tries to fight for equality and once thats achieved or close to achieved, they try to fight for an advantage, it is unfortunately rooted in the selfishness of human beings. Women seem to be attending college in greater numbers t
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by strikelaserclaw 2y ago
YES! Apple user base is very very valuable - in general the apple user base has money and is willing to spend it on shiny stuff
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by strikelaserclaw 2y ago
employers care about employees feelings in so far as employees being happy is actually valuable to the company. Since we are in an employer market, they will essentially do whatever they want.
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by strikelaserclaw 2y ago
it probably is a bit of a virtuous cycle but i'd argue that richer people generally demand more accountability and have more power to enact change from their local government than poor people - whether this is due to richer people bein
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by strikelaserclaw 2y ago
i mean, San Mateo is like one of the richest counties in America - i'd hope they would be able to do basic things like what you stated.
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by strikelaserclaw 2y ago
if its organized like a chain, it is either a chain or intends to become one.
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by strikelaserclaw 2y ago
and why does thought have to have one form? I think in both language and visual representations and i switch between them depending on the task and i even pipe the input from one representation into the other representation.
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by strikelaserclaw 2y ago
the american system is setup to increase stock prices, whether ceos have talent or not, being in the middle of this setup can help them justify their own salaries.
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by strikelaserclaw 2y ago
the feeling that you are the "man" and will hit the jackpot with a startup is a hell of a feeling.
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by strikelaserclaw 2y ago
depends on what society you are from, in America usually people who have a lot of knowledge and are innovative and work hard can succeed. If you come from a corrupt third world country then yea, the only thing that has value is power, nepot
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by strikelaserclaw 2y ago
the salamanca family
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by strikelaserclaw 2y ago
by my estimation gpt latest is only a little better than gemini. i have no loyalty to chatgpt, i'll switch to whatever free service fits my needs.
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by strikelaserclaw 2y ago
most of these teenagers already come from upper middle class (professional parents) backgrounds, they don't need the money, they know that winning it is a guaranteed admission to MIT or Harvard. Getting admitted to top schools today is
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by strikelaserclaw 2y ago
due to growing up in cut throat dog eat dog culture, a lot of people from asia don't really teach their kids about ethics and morality even whilst living in western societies, many times they encourage the opposite.

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