A fifteen year old cashier at Target can make the same value claim, minus the four year time investment and student debt.
Which I think is the author’s point.
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Which I think is the author’s point.
This screams stubbornness and a lack of willingness to push past a small barrier to me. Maybe unwarranted, but that also makes me less willing to accept his ideas. Who knows what evidence, lead, etc. was met with the same laziness?
Not at the moment but best of luck with the product.
Rereading my initial comment came off more hostile than I wanted, so thanks for the level-headed response :)
How did this make it to the front-page - it’s basically nothing more than an advertisement at this stage? Am I misinterpreting something?
The ego in this response and complete ignoring of the advice given to you is off putting.
And I’m quite younger than you ;)
And there was no conference - this was in 2020, so the entire thing was virtual. No refreshments either. Also, every staff member I met was a “volunteer”.
Work paid for it but still - what an absolute racket academia is.
That’s great but not representative of average customers at all.
The worst bit is that this is often learned during trying times in ones life, when stress makes it easier to overlook.
https://mlu-explain.github.io/
Fun, easy on the eyes, and informative.
Severs newsrooms also do a good job at graphics, though those are widely known. I like finding interesting little nuggets of dataviz.
This seems like an easy way to rob their childhood of fun memories, interest (watch how much more they care about Christmas movies when they think it’s real),curb creativity, and produce a child who’s overly skeptical.
Kid will also probably ruin Christmas for other children/parents, garnering a reputation as a know-it-all and possibly alienating themselves socially.
Still always cool to see something new(ish) out there.
1. Leaders (executives and management) at top companies almost always come from these top universities you rave about, and many with degrees in Liberal Arts. Yet they still always put profit > the ideals you just spent three paragraphs praising.
2. ALL students in the US receive a Liberal Arts education via general education requirements. On the contrary, only a select few take anything over remedial math/science.
This also puts “leading experts” on a far higher pedestal than deserved. Take Robert Reich, a famous History professor at Berkeley. Despite raving about affordable housing and equality in courses, on Twitter, etc., he actively votes against such legislation [0]. Did his liberal arts education at Dartmouth, Oxford, and Yale fail him?
0: https://www.econjobrumors.com/topic/robert-reich-tries-to-st...
- https://github.com/jwilber/roughViz
- https://github.com/rough-stuff/rough-notation
One comment: some items aren’t rendering properly on my safari (eg checkboxes)
“ I go home absolutely drained and i didn’t even do anything. I wake up with the worst existential dread I’ve ever experienced. I cried for an hour straight. Not because amazon specifically, but for the broader state of labor in general.
Sometimes id rather die then suffer until I die from an illness inevitably. I power through my break down. Leave for work to drive through a horrible storm. I ended up being a single minute late. I already get one point against me. Then I’m told if I’m not at my station by 7:05 I’ll get another point. I was never told where to report to. So I asked. In the rudest way possible they say they don’t know. I walk a little bit. 7:05 hits. And I just turn around and go home.
I did everything I was supposed to do but got shit on before I even officially hit the floor. From the time I applied to when I walked out. I tried so hard to be optimistic, but that was the worst experience I’ve had getting a new job. I can’t help but feel disappointed with myself. I’m not in a good financial situation, and my girlfriend is not going to be happy. But with it being a shit show the entire time I just don’t see how that was gonna work, especially at a company like amazon. “