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Tundinator 12 points ago +12 / -0

That's because you were taught under the previous paradigm, that understanding the foundations gives you a good way to filter out bad patterns.

Nowadays it's low skill programmers from india and people using AI to cargo cult good practices, and so making it dumb for them means more code gets written, which managers like, because they also don't understand code.

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Tundinator 7 points ago +7 / -0

Not only that, there's no tagline other than 'explore the concord galaxy'. Not 'explore the galaxy' because it's a slop shooter, not 'galaxy of wonder' because it's not interesting. Literally just 'Concord? eh uh, it's got lore. Concord lore. yeah, buy it.'

It's really pathetic lol.

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Tundinator 2 points ago +2 / -0

https://youtu.be/O_3_-UrhZH0

The military selects for individuals willing to follow orders. That's why when there are conscientious observers it's always a battle.

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Tundinator 60 points ago +63 / -3

I'm noooooooooooooooooooooticiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing

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Tundinator 3 points ago +3 / -0

While I agree with the thread here in many ways, I will answer In true autistic forum post format.

Can you pick up any book, read it, and understand the gist with minimal repetition?

I've never had to re-read a book to 'get the gist', but I will sometimes if it's interesting (though nowadays it's technical documents, and just to get the wording of how someone else said it exactly as they said). Podcasts and other stuff more commonly I will re-listen/watch, but that's often because audio is less grok-able than text with inflection and other stuff.

Can you infer solid and accurate conclusions based on a small amount of evidence?

This one most people can actually do, it just depends on their experience where and how often they can do this. You can also tell someone has little in touch with reality if they are vocal about stuff all the time and are hilariously wrong consistently, yet still do it.

Is any subject or discipline up for grabs or do you have to have a keen interest in a particular field in order to flourish?

I suppose it could be, but optimizing your talents isn't just 'what are you good at' but also 'what can I get good at with this, quickly'. Doing that has made me a lot happier in life overall, not just professionally.

What is something you are able to do that you know is because of your intelligence -- the proverbial 1,000 pound deadlift of the brain, if you will.

This one I don't actually know, or maybe it's just being this way? Not sure... If I had to take a stab at it, actually explaining the difference between the Abrahamic religions, including the gnosticicm offshoot that we are currently living in the hellscape of.

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Tundinator 14 points ago +15 / -1

Rest in Peace. She was too young.

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Tundinator 9 points ago +9 / -0

I'd probably just call myself a Hoppean

Fun fact I had someone in my casual social group call Hoppe a 'nazi' and I immediately knew 80% of their personality.

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Tundinator 42 points ago +42 / -0

They cheer when they conquer cultural territory - planting a flag on things that were once not theirs, but now are.

Of course they are going to be appalled when they 'lose' that same territory.

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Tundinator 50 points ago +50 / -0

I still can't call people retards on reddit - sad.

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Tundinator 7 points ago +7 / -0

If you honestly believed this (that it was Putin), even at the time, you are retarded. Sorry.

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Tundinator 1 point ago +1 / -0

Hmm, good point. Maybe the individual companies signing on then? baiting ESG moneys is one thing, but actively turning down business opportunities is another.

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Tundinator 1 point ago +1 / -0

Makes me wonder if these types of activist orgs can actually get sued by their shareholders for participating because 'being part of a boycott org' means the company is losing out on money making, and the backlash could damage the company reputation.

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Tundinator 7 points ago +7 / -0

According to article there were several named individually, so sounds like it.

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Tundinator 2 points ago +2 / -0

I don't know what's worse, thinking this will be an eventuality when I'm older or that they will make the number closer to 100 than 42 by then.

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