luminaobscura | 1 year ago | on: Google gave investors a $70B buyback,and laid off 12,000 people
Passive shareholders bought the shares at IPO. IPOs are the reason why we have these large public companies. Passive shareholders deserve the profits.
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luminaobscura | 1 year ago | on: Google gave investors a $70B buyback,and laid off 12,000 people
yes. Capitalism is the best system. Even in communist china, only after transitioning to market capitalism they got tech companies producing prosperity.
We also allow forming other kinds of companies. You can create worker cooperative tech company that has more diverse goal instead of just making money.
luminaobscura | 3 years ago | on: Airbnb removed my negative review
Woow so if airbnb sees this thread they may ban me ha?
luminaobscura | 3 years ago | on: Airbnb removed my negative review
i wrote the review after receiving an email from airbnb:
"You can leave a review for your host even though the trip was cancelled"
luminaobscura | 3 years ago | on: Airbnb removed my negative review
They actually requested a review after cancelling this stay due to cash deposit issue. Whole thing is bizarre.
luminaobscura | 4 years ago | on: Reversing hearing loss with regenerative therapy
I lost one of my ears in a high fever episode when i was a child. I guess what you wrote means i shouldn't get my hopes up for these kind of treatments :(
luminaobscura | 4 years ago | on: Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack
I seriously think declaring something "far-right dog whistle" is a leftist dog whistle, signaling good progressives should oppose that something. After saying this, usually no serious arguments are given. Because they are not needed after declaring an idea the enemy.
Cycles in history is of course not "of course not true". in any complex system, there are oscillations. Most famous is economical boom and boost cycle.
Meme is not without merit. The reason we are able to discuss things like gender/race equity in marine corps promotions is precisely because these are good times. And this lack of focus may lead to bad times eventually.
luminaobscura | 4 years ago | on: On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness
Who said Bodily autonomy is bad? They are just explaining the consequences of it in human species.
Access to women's body obviously important for men (sex, kids etc.). Why is this even a question?
luminaobscura | 5 years ago | on: I Am Bezos
If I make an invention that provides $1000 value to 100 million people, the work i put in is worth $100B. It doesn't matter if i did that in a day or decade.
luminaobscura | 5 years ago | on: Uighur camp detainees allege systematic rape
donation page reads:
"Your support will allow us to:
- Provide emergency humanitarian relief for Uyghur refugees
- Interview concentration camp survivors and help tell their story to the world
- Campaign to end "business as usual" while Uyghurs are suffering crimes against humanity"
Which one these do you despise exactly?
luminaobscura | 5 years ago | on: No More Free Work from Marak: Pay Me or Fork This
"take more than you give" is not an accurate description. free exchange is a positive sum game.
luminaobscura | 5 years ago | on: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
there is also a hip-hop version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZobf0MiWpE
luminaobscura | 5 years ago | on: Tech Journalism Is Less Diverse Than Tech
So they are a sub-group of whites. they have distinct culture and also some distinct genetic make up (look for Ashkenazi Jewish Genetic Panel)
If this sub group has more privilege, don't we want equity for other sub groups?
luminaobscura | 5 years ago | on: Young U.S. men having a lot less sex in the 21st century, study shows
It shouldn't be surprising. It's established that IQ correlates with less sex. especially in west.
luminaobscura | 5 years ago | on: In 2019, there were only 13 PhDs in CS granted to African Americans in the U.S. [pdf]
If a group has "fewer resources and more stresses" "when growing up", we should try to address that directly.
This doesn't mean universities doesn't present equal opportunity.
The reason someone is not as capable may be just bad luck (bad parents etc.). But still, society should give positions to most capable ones.
luminaobscura | 5 years ago | on: In 2019, there were only 13 PhDs in CS granted to African Americans in the U.S. [pdf]
If it was all socioeconomics, you could see that in the data. You would control for parent's income and/or education, and you would see disparity disappear.
I don't know what is the primary cause of disparities but i wouldn't assume it's all socioeconomics without evidence.
Maybe different groups are valuing things differently? For example, an Indian may try to migrate to US using PHD as a gateway. So they may be more willing to sacrifice and work hard. Or maybe for some groups PHD (or education in general) brings more prestige compared to others.
luminaobscura | 5 years ago | on: Is a trillion dollars’ worth of programming lying on the ground?
Google for example has large offices in Europe. Like in London or Warsaw. They pay significantly less there and find no difficulty hiring people. What i don't understand is why Google still have majority of their engineers in US. Why not hire more in abroad? Makes zero financial sense to me.
luminaobscura | 5 years ago | on: Talking about white privilege causes reduction in support for politicians
Don't know about Hollywood but NBA is both. Meritocracy selecting privileged genes.
luminaobscura | 5 years ago | on: Talking about white privilege causes reduction in support for politicians
Being white has advantages, that's true.
Being black can also have advantages (affirmative action).
But no one uses "black privilege". Because everyone is aware that most of the blacks are, in sum, more disadvantaged compared to median citizen.
Some of the whites are also more disadvantaged. If I were one of them, i would be equally repulsed by "white privilege"
luminaobscura | 5 years ago | on: Talking about white privilege causes reduction in support for politicians
Yeah, I think a better framing is "black disadvantage". Whites won't object to this.
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