pottersbasilisk

The exit strategy might be a coastal thing. At wharton, they usually want a rough idea of the exit type as part of the market strategy.

Another step to the balkanization of the internet.

No, my current company comcast has a bunch of diversity initiatives but for core developer jobs you will be whiteboarded, qa not so much.

Yea its clear this is a puff piece to hype the show.

It explains why people arent having kids for sure.

We have billions of people already but antibiotic resistance is increasing.

I can sympathize with the idea we need to be more pragmatic with the amount of money and scientists we have.

Amazing, I just saw the pay gap video a couple days they had on their homepage. What a bunch of hypocrites!

if net neutrality fails would google become an isp then?

Because workers are not executives.

Instead the push for 15 dollar min wages has pushed fast food industries to find ways to replace them.

I doubt it. There is asymmetry in roles and value to a company. Id expect it to lower wages.

Yea, I can tell you its already happening in PA.

why would we even bother? It makes more sense to create perfect humans and clone from them only in artificial wombs to prevent epigenetic defects.

No kidding. I think fake news is a symptom of humanity's social fabric or contract coming apart.

Actually the parent did, I think the reply is a legitimate criticism as the op also simply gave one anecdote then proceeded to strawman an entire populations gender.

Twitter said they wanted to combat abuse. Im thinking occams razor makes more sense here.

Well you took a portion out of context.

" With psychology papers replicating less than 40%, dietary advice reversing after 30 years of fatphobia, macroeconomic analysis working worse than astrology, the appointment of Bernanke who was less than clueless of the risks, and pharmaceutical trials replicating at best only 1/3 of the time, people are perfectly entitled to rely on their own ancestral instinct and listen to their grandmothers (or Montaigne and such filtered classical knowledge) with a better track record than these policymaking goons. "

Ideally our experts should reform their practices and regain lost faith in them.

Nasim Taleb refutes this well.

Basically experts have lost their legitmacy in the eyes of the public.

https://medium.com/incerto/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e...

yes Nasim Taleeb has been arguing modern experts are wrong about alot and have no skin in the game.

This article blew my mind. https://medium.com/incerto/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e...

Yea but telling your kid you regret them or wish you aborted them is awful as well.

Except the fact hes not a normal republican. He ran left of even clinton on some issues.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-donald-trump-is-...

Trump isnt any republican he successfully recreated the reagan coalition.

Its really mindboggling, how he took over the party.

Science has replaced religion for many people and so they expect something infallible or "word of god".

If you are trying to make wide general conclusions from it, Yes.

Its probably due from once trusted institutions getting so much wrong from the health pyramid, replication crisis, even election polling.

Nasim Taleb has a good series on why distrust is increasing.

https://medium.com/incerto/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e...

Sad, and socialism and communism has starvation and death.

The god of biomechanics is too cruel.

America is in a huge amount of debt. President Trump doesnt believe in printing endless amount of money. In his and his supporters calculus the wall will pay for itself and then save money very quickly.

Also both neocons and democrats not progressives want to goto war with russia.

If we dont take the time to understand how and why they think. We will lose again in 2020, and nobody wants a uniparty.

Intellectual humility doesnt get grants though.

Many americans affectionately call their friend assholes.It was a huge culture shock for me initially.

Yes and probably still has them. http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-is-filled-with-abus...

The key thing to remember is most people at uber and microsoft are decent people.

No, unless you want too. I know a ton of non sv companies on the east coast starved for any talent.

Men are often the breadwinner and socially conditioned to provide for their families so they might be forced to stay, even when they want to quit, and you have to stay to even have a chance at a promotion unless you were born an elite like Elizabeth Holmes.