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azta6521 | 4 years ago | on: Eliminating gifted programs won’t make education fair

I attended a school for gifted children (e.g. most of your school has at least IQ 130), it was the best experience - not being bullied for being curious - it's such a simple thing and helped me a lot.

Even today, I am occasionally bullied for being engaged in a topic, and even as an adult I hate it - but I learned to live with.

I think there is a hard tendency towards trying to shrink whatever you are not able to understand - and correspondingly shrink your vis-a-vis, if they appear smarter than you.

azta6521 | 4 years ago | on: Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return

Exactly - and FB itself knows that there is no wave of exits following a scandal. They learned that. They can have a conversation with one group and know the other group / the business is not really touched by any of this.

azta6521 | 4 years ago | on: Facebook is an addiction treadmill most may never be able to quit

Did not even noticed it was down. I think the problem are the people - Zuck just making bank on the weak.

azta6521 | 4 years ago

I wished facebook would have been down for a week and people would get a glimpse into a different world.

azta6521 | 4 years ago | on: What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp?

I'm always try to side with Occam, but let me speculate here: This may be a sign of resistance from within? A hacker group so good, they were hired by FB only to carry out a huge, clandestine hack that results in FB being down for hours, if not days?

azta6521 | 4 years ago | on: Web Scrapers Claim to Sell Personal Data on Facebook Users on a Hacker Forum

True, but my last paper phone book did not have 1,500,000,000 entries.

azta6521 | 4 years ago | on: Futarchy: Robin Hanson on prediction markets

If I had 500M to manage, I may just buy a lot of real estate in a specific place to drive up the prices in that area. I want prices to increase and with money I can create circumstances that would favor my preferred outcome.

azta6521 | 4 years ago | on: What can be learned from studying long gone development practices?

Yes and no. I'm too amazed by a world which longs for so many software developers. I mean do they all know that all that software has to be maintained? That software is one of the most expensive human artifacts today and that software rots like hell?

azta6521 | 4 years ago | on: An old hacker's tips on staying employed

I have a job with about 100% job security - but it would kill me if I were to do just that - it's too boring.

azta6521 | 4 years ago | on: An old hacker's tips on staying employed

There is something sad in a world of abundant productivity that people have to care about job security and ageism. I enjoy programming and learning so I hope to continue to do that, but I save every penny, just in case it will be over soon.