whateveridunno

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by whateveridunno 10y ago
I have to wonder if tenured philosophy professors are any more or less unhappy than, say, newly tenured literature professors or economists or chemists. I ask because 1, 3, 4, and 5 seem like the most persuasive reasons, but they're al
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by whateveridunno 10y ago
My question is why did the entire affair take over two hours.
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by whateveridunno 10y ago
So let me get this straight: your solution to labor's subservience to capital is for all the millions of working poor to get jobs as security guards while earning degrees in theoretical physics? I get what you're trying to say, bu
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by whateveridunno 10y ago
I agree it's an unfortunate word choice, but I couldn't think of a better way to word it without making the post significantly longer and I assumed most people would understand what I meant. If you have a better way to phrase it,
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by whateveridunno 10y ago
The fundamental issue with that line of thinking is that deal-making only works when one of the parties is not under duress. If your life is on the line, you will take terrible deals, because you have no choice. Capitalism is a system where
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by whateveridunno 10y ago
...which is exactly his point. People will do things that are objectively not in their best interest (become scientists, poets, or French poetry critics) because we've been strongly inculcated in that whole "do what you love"
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by whateveridunno 10y ago
>The good stuff that has happened to poor people since 1945 mostly comes about through private innovation. Would really like a citation on that.
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by whateveridunno 10y ago
I thought it was illegal not to have read Hamlet by 21? Seriously though, give it another try. Shakespeare's wide-ranging enough that there's likely to be something to your taste. And with his comedies, especially, I'd reco
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by whateveridunno 10y ago
If it was just a small minority of men in my program, I would have agreed with you, but this attitude seemed also prevalent- and I could be wrong about this- in companies and the larger tech world. One thing I noticed in particular, was tha
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by whateveridunno 10y ago
She didn't say "all women", she said "many women." I attend the University of Texas at Austin. I started out as a CS major, still am, but no longer want to work in the field. One of the reasons was the fact that alt
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How a global board games giant exploited Ireland's Magdalene women(littleatoms.com)
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by whateveridunno 10y ago
>"Are selective schools overrepresented, or are nonselective schools underrepresented?" Those aren't the same ideas, but they're both true. >"A significantly larger number apply" True, but that number is
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by whateveridunno 11y ago
I agree. However, my- or anybody's- personal opinion of a place should have no bearing on whether our judicial system decides to take an independent media outlet down during a court case involving one man. Let me put it this way: I don
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by whateveridunno 11y ago
Personally, I think that while Gawker wasn't right to release the tape, fining them $115 million isn't right either. $115 million could easily sink Gawker entirely. I'm not exactly the biggest fan of the place but it's a
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by whateveridunno 11y ago
Systems wherein the wealthy are the primary allocators of 'funds for common good objectives' have already existed. They were called 'aristocracies'. They did not result in improved lives for the non-wealthy.