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Is that where "builds character" comes from?

Independently produce creative work that is of massive value to others. I know it's very general and vague but it seems logical to me.

It would seem obvious to a layman that you must be "practicing" to be an "entity" that's allowed to "defend" against "infringement" This has an implicit metaphysics that remains un…

The easy reason is that nobody would know that name and why click on something that doesn't strike your fancy?

Whatever makes us feel better, right? Reality is essentially unverifiable at this point, so ... nuke Russia? It's not that that's what I want, I just can't find a way to know what'…

Where is there to go from non-existence but back into Life?

Do you feel capable of that level of leadership? I sure don't. One of the chief causes of my perennial suicidal ideation is the inability to even take care of myself, let alone be …

Mission accomplished? (Accelerating the transition)

I'm curious about the details of how a trailer in an alley could almost kill you, were you going highway speeds down an alley? How close did you come to colliding with it before yo…

Doesn't every car come with a, "if you crash from not paying attention, we are not liable" The promise of self driving isn't that you can not pay attention, at least not yet. In fa…

I don't mean to insult or claim you're not thinking thoroughly or clearly, but this appears to me to be gross oversimplification of several deep topics wrt developing new technolog…

When someone is identified with an institution, any criticism of the institution is taken as a direct attack on their identity and so they must defend with the same righteous indig…

Well I didn't mention programming skill, I just mean like, the ability to solve one's own computer problems. Knowing how to touch-type, or knowing keyboard shortcuts.

I don't mean at work, I just mean in my personal life I rarely meet women who even use computers in their own freetime beyond social media. Is it offensive to give an anecdote abou…

I would love to meet women who are examples confirming this, but it is next to impossible to find women in my experience that are anywhere near the level of skill I was at a decade…

I couldn't figure your email out, but I messaged you on twitter

I would argue that this is a perspective of someone with power in the job market, and perhaps that perspective is limited to a small portion of workers' experiences. I also find "d…

Using conspiracy theories, bunk science, and outright lies to influence the lower-awareness majority _is_ political action, and evidently it is currently one of the more effective …

Facebook is designed to make you think that when it may not be true, you have to be skeptical of your own mind, and skeptical of your own skepticism.

Worker's incentives seem more along the "do whatever those with resources say to trade your mind and body and time for survival"

What's in a name?

Alarm from Hell === Alarm from Earth

In what way have they changed the definition of the word inclusive?

In what way is the net gain not clear here? It seems clear to me that "even factoring in" means that there is a net gain for the employer, at a net loss to employees.

The incentive structure of unregulated capitalism is "Extract maximum value with minimum expense. As much as possible externalize the costs." The things to extract value from: empl…