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shellothere | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Do you feel psychological safety at your job?

Interestingly there seem to be (at least) 2 schools of thought popular in the US:

1. I have no right to a job. I should earn one myself, or make my own thing. Pull myself up by my bootstraps. Etc.

2. Business owners and landlords are the ruling class. They have an obligation to support us in the form of jobs or housing. Etc.

shellothere | 3 years ago | on: Wetsuit Shaming in San Francisco Divides Bay Area Swimmers

Unmentioned but likely related: the northern CA / SF surf culture, an adjacent group at least, has a huge contingent of shitty salty man-children intent on replaying their mediocre high school experiences of in crowd / out crowd nonsense and petty localism.

(There’s plenty of great folks too of course. But the sheer volume of garbage is surprising).

shellothere | 3 years ago | on: An intutive counterexample to the axiom of choice

There are countably many finite strings of a fixed, finite collection of symbols. That’s the point the author is making — it becomes more intuitively obvious that there might be trouble “choosing” when you design the set you’d like to choose from to consist solely of the “nameless” reals.

shellothere | 3 years ago | on: When Truman Capote’s lies caught up with him

His wild and delightful caricatures are often so absurd it’s comical to imagine someone reviewing each under a microscope seeking evidence of exaggeration or falsehood… that’s sort of the point!