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conviencefee999

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conviencefee999··on Rockstar Games confirms they were hacked by an outside party
It's all about financial incentives and this far down the pipeline it ain't happening. GTA Online is a multibillion dollar business, GTA V Singleplayer not so much.
conviencefee999··on Amazon's Global Quest to Crush Unions
Nope, it's just as bad. The hours of work along with afterhours. Unions themselves are not necessarily good and often act as blockers for minorities. And often force you to socialize with people you don't want any business with. Not to mention the gaps for women in the workforce, most unions are male dominant and extremely unwelcoming to women. Not to mention that they often fail at adequately increasing wages if at all. Strikes are often meaningless as they can easily by diverted by importing the section the workers who are striking from are not doing, basically in a sense unions are an outdated model for helping people in general.
conviencefee999··on So You Want to be a Writer (2016)
I'd advise against following advice from individuals like this for many reasons, one to mention survivorship bias to basic things like being picked up by a publishing house. Advice from people like this is often just kind of useless if not actively detrimental to your quality of life. You can do all the things stated here and fail. The reality is that the way the writing industry works it is a very selective and closed door process that does not allow a majority of those or even a minority into it's industry.
conviencefee999··on Guide to Writing Online
Nope this is actually useless in it's entirety.

It reads like a starter book for a pyramid scheme like rich dad, poor dad. I wonder when this self proclaimed successful writer will start his masterclass series on how to write. Or his private seminars to guarantee that first publication in ENTER BIG ONLINE BLOG SITE HERE.

conviencefee999··on Guide to Writing Online
Except there is no gold and the only opportunities is the next persons 2000 dollar seminar on why you aren't succeeding which they then use to network with other individuals who sell them on their 100,000 opportunity.

You'd be better of hiring people with little to no experience than someone who was taught by these gurus.

conviencefee999··on Guide to Writing Online
This is just how many "writers" make their revenue. Selling adspace and giving tips to lure people to become just like them. It's just a scam the advice here like in many other places is generic and copy and paste and if you aren't a writer who's part of the more private programs you won't notice the difference besides maybe some fundamental basics you can learn at the college level for 20-40k a year. Invitation to these programs are rare and with D&I programs which I was part of the likelihood of the average American joining this program unless their family was already associated with it in varying degrees is zero. Many of the people I learned from have stopped doing it simply because of this. And only talk about it on chance and opportunity, but not really you shouldn't expect a blind monk to guide you. It's a huge time sink that nobody will want to do for free. Which these programs were and are almost never offered.

Realistically the only way to get better at writing is just pure luck in getting into the right groups of people and even then those groups don't really understand it either. Often they come up with meaningless phrases such as writer's block which don't really exist and are rather signs of burnout. But yeah, don't listen to people like this, they tend to use their backgrounds to make false claims using survivorship bias to back it up. Realistically all the best writers I met in my life have only actually sat down to write for maybe 2-3 hours at most at a time of which they aren't even writing for. Like anything writing is a skill which requires mastery that most people do not have the privilege or opportunity to learn. And even those with money and time can still never learn how it works.

conviencefee999··on [dead]
I'd understand and ethics and review tribunal process that is open and transparent but this doesn't look like that at all.
conviencefee999··on We don't know how the universe began, and we will never know
Please stop construing your religious beliefs with sciences. Sometimes the answer is simply we do not know.
conviencefee999··on Who killed nuclear energy and how to revive it
You know that we can launch nuclear waste into space right? The thing that's infinitely large. As for renewables the issue is scale and renewables have limitations that investments in fusion and existing fission do not.
conviencefee999··on Why no Roman industrial revolution?
Innovation never really came from MVPs like this to begin with, Bell Labs is what's considered the founding step to the modern world you'd be in delusion to think it was a bunch of young adults in their dorms, sure they're parents and friends may have given them the patents and ideas to do it but it was never them that did the hard work to begin with or really anything besides take credit.
conviencefee999··on Themes in academic literature: prejudice and social justice
This was done in Japan during the second world war. They unified under the idea of a singular identity similar to in China of the Han ethnicity which mind you is over 2000 years old and for the most part the Han people do not live in China but rather migrated to Korea. When you can pretend ethnic groups do not exist you can systemically and permanently create castes which make those who are visibly different from others into members of an invisible caste which they cannot escape.

In the US the Technology industry made the same mistake when it allowed the Hindu Caste to take over the immigration policies during the 90s to early 80s.

conviencefee999··on Machine learning finds an improved way to match donor organs with patients
Not really, when Black Americans and other minority groups that grew up in poverty rise up in economic status they actually get fatter. Not sure where the statistic on it is but it was a really interesting find.
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