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testpostpls | 5 years ago | on: Social Cooling (2017)

You can definitely talk about it. How else would people know not to talk about it? The behavior that the government penalizes is advocating action against the government.

But people don't talk about it. It's enforced socially. That's my point. You don't talk about Tiananmen Square, you don't gawk at Falun Gong protesters, etc. Even many Chinese expats act like this. It's just something people know not to do because they don't want to be seen as a bad person and lose friends, jobs, and so on.

That happens completely outside the government's influence.

testpostpls | 5 years ago | on: Social Cooling (2017)

Can you find me the law that says it is illegal to talk about Tiananmen Square in China? I'd love to read it.

What actually happens is that when you talk about it, you lose your job, etc. Rarely does the government step in. Which, and correct me if I'm wrong, sounds like what you're advocating as "free speech".

testpostpls | 6 years ago | on: Too Many Companies Drain Value from the Economy

There’s no point for you to see. I asked a question: whether the original poster could see the political climate in Norway realistically scaling.

Maybe they’ve figured out something we in the US haven’t.

testpostpls | 6 years ago | on: Too Many Companies Drain Value from the Economy

The US has 60x the population of Norway on 25x the land.

Honest question: given what you know about politics in Norway, do you personally believe Norway’s complexity reduction through agreement on common standards can scale to a country the size of the US?

Could 60 Norways mutually agree on common standards?

testpostpls | 6 years ago | on: The Anti-College Is on the Rise

I disagree. I think it’s important to take the time to develop a personally meaningful life philosophy. Too few do. None of us is facing starvation.

testpostpls | 6 years ago | on: San Francisco proposes “IPO tax” on eve of Uber offering

The city uses an expanded definition of homelessness that includes people who are "doubled-up" in the homes of family or friends [1]. The survey referenced in the source you've linked counts people dealing with LGBTQ-related issues that, while terrible, aren't what most people think of when they picture homelessness in SF.

The "man shooting heroin on the street" sorts of homeless folks are, in my limited experience volunteering, generally not from SF but some other part of CA.

[1]: http://hsh.sfgov.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/2017-SF-Poin...

testpostpls | 7 years ago | on: We can't judge another programmer's abilities in a 60 minute interview

It depends—when I was at one of the really visible companies, it wouldn’t have surprised me if as much as a third of the people I screened had lied on their resume. I’d ask folks to write functions to count the number of times the letter ‘a’ appears in a string, stuff like that. Did not need to compile or run.

I had a person break down and confess, and we spent the rest of the interview talking about how their codecademy lessons were going.

testpostpls | 7 years ago | on: We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage

The unhappiest people I know are the golddiggers. They cannot escape the feeling that they’re being taken advantage of. That the pie is so big anyways, and they deserve a little more, you know? And oh look, here comes somebody offering just a little more. What kind of sucker wouldn’t want to get paid what they’re really worth?

They’re unhappy because they let other people control their sense of self-worth.

testpostpls | 7 years ago | on: Mapping San Francisco's Human Waste Challenge

The problem is that is exactly the case. There are people who love doing heroin, shitting on cars, smoking meth, terrorizing tourists, and committing minor property crimes and acts of vandalism. It takes a certain amount of activism to enable that behavior. That activism is the opposite of apathy.
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