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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 h…

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…

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…

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"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 pa…

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. L…

we need to replace humans at the helm with robots.

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, r…

in east Asia, education is a commodity for material / societal success - we should not emulate them.

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 dubi…

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 regu…

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 …

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 tea…

i mean you are a small cog in a giant machine, what else can you expect?

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 pr…

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.

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 in…

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 bei…

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

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 whateve…

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 …

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.

if its organized like a chain, it is either a chain or intends to become one.

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 r…

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.