> This is remarkable because it's hard to imagine most American companies, which are always looking to squeeze out a little more profit to juice the quarterly report
HEB is privately owned and run by the owners. Those are very different incentives than public or VC-backed ventures.
You're still guided by a number. But you've got a different cost of capital, risk profile, and time horizon, as well as room for more stuff in your utility curve. So you will behave differently.
The instructor David Beazley very skillfully weeded out all the non-essential parts and added one amazing exercise where we implemented the lambda calculus and, funny enough, the ycombinator.
Highly recommend it for anyone who desires to learn this material, can't find the time, and is willing to pay $2500 for the experience.
As someone who wanted to ask a similar question to the OP, and didn't specifically know how to word it, the link on mental models really hit the nail on the head.
This is basically what a heavily curated set of reddit subscriptions are. I know others do the same with Twitter except I find that doesn't work for me because you're following people rather than on-topic communities and nobody sticks to the topics you're following them for in the first place. Personally, I kept getting stuck with a feed full of useless virtue signaling with some of what I wanted to see peppered in every now and then.
Personally I think that's why a site like reddit has more staying power than a site like Twitter. Twitter has too much of your identity invested in it while reddit has a place for nearly everyone.
I agree with the Twitter comment but can't stand Reddit. It's a site that promotes trolls and actively punishes people for being civil. Add to that completely tone deaf policies from the owners and I just cannot support that site. The mods there are also terrible cretins that rule over their fiefdoms with whatever bias they feel wont to.
Most people whom have expressed this sentiment to me have generally not been exposed to much more than the defaults.
Reddit with defaults or r/all is a horrible experience. It is what you make of it though, and if you don't make anything of it then it is obviously not for you. The advice I always give to someone trying reddit is to 1. make an account 2. unsubscribe from all of the defaults and 3. search it for whatever interests you. Pretty much everyone can find something for them, and moderation is going to be variable which I think is actually a net positive. A well moderated sub is a gem, such as AskHistorians, but not every sub needs to be moderated to the same extent as AskHistorians to remain useful or relevant either.
I'm not saying that I've never had a positive experience on Reddit. I'm saying that I violently disagree with how they've handled themselves and their trolling. It's saying Well Fargo Bank has some amazing tellers if you can look past their horrendous policies meant to fleece people who bank there. FWIW HN is literally the only social networking site I still find valuable so I completely respect that your experience and value derived from Reddit may be different than mine.
Yep, that's why I am promoting custom filters. There are so many folks on Twitter who post awesome content but I have to unsubscribe so I don't get inundated with their politics.
Anything hobby specific generally has decent enough modding but the value of those depends on the quality of the community specific to the hobby, so for example I subscribe to a few Nintendo-related and Game-related subs. AskHistorians is generally always good. Changemyview is generally enjoyable but each thread can be hit or miss depending on the OP. I like listentothis for finding music, OldMaps, MapPorn and InfrastructurePorn are nice to look at. Neutralnews was pretty decent when I last looked at it but I don't use reddit for news anymore, and DepthHub is one of the few general purpose subs that generally always has something interesting.
As a rule, the more general purpose the sub is, the lower the quality of the community, especially if it has lax moderation. I'm not someone that is into gifs or "memes" so you'll have to ask someone else about those. I don't use reddit or any one site for news because I don't need that in my life, I have other channels for anything that actually matters. Programming subs are usually pretty good resources for whatever tool, language or technology they're promoting that you use or are interested in, but I steer clear from the pointless debates.
I would say search a few of your hobbies, whatever they are, there's probably a decent model train collecting sub but I wouldn't know, and if you want to use it professionally, search it for whatever tools you use. There's self-development subs like getdisciplined and most subs have others you can look for in the sidebar if you really want to dig down the rabbit hole, but go in prepared to unsubscribe from all of the defaults and build up your own personal collection of subscriptions from there.
Same. As much as I would like to move off Facebook, my friends are worth more to me than that. I could still communicate with them if I didn't have it, but it would take much more effort and I'm not the type to reach out that often. For people in my age range, we often make a facebook event, invite all the relevant friends, and it's done. If you don't have Facebook or don't check it, I won't remember to text you an invite. Maybe it makes me a shitty friend but I just assume everyone will see it on Facebook
Badger people for contact details (phone, email, etc.). It’s a good excuse to catch-up with people, and it’s a good thing to do, even if you won’t be deleting you’re account.
Even if this whole thing blows over in a week, Facebook will eventually go out of style for the usual reasons that social platforms do.
Your connections are more important than an ad surveillance network.
While I'm not sure I'd use the word "absurd," arguing that "he won, so it couldn't be absurd to support him" doesn't make sense. Lots of demagogues win elections. Winning an election doesn't automatically make you ethical or competent.
Sure it is, if there's a 30%/70% split of viewpoints then the 30% viewpoint is a mainstream viewpoint as well, not some weird niche - it's also considered normal and conventional (though less popular than the 70% one), shared by a significant part of the people, known / acknowledged by almost everyone including the opponents.
Supporting any US President of the last century or so is morally dubious(if you consider mass murder and toppling democratic regimes morally dubious). Like Chomsky likes to say, if US Presidents were held to the standards of the Nuremberg principles, they would all be executed. In that regard, Trump has so far done less harm than most recent Presidents.
Yes it is. When you support Trump, you support his vile brand of leadership. The majority in this the country do not support this man or his ideas. They simply don't. The base that supported him and made this presidency possible is collapsing by all reported metrics (as in they are literally dying off, and younger people neither support Trump's ideas nor are they as religious). So while Trump's base may have squeezed out a win last time, their chances of a repeat decrease significantly as time goes on.
Time is not on their side, and I suspect History is not on their side either.
As disgusting and obnoxious as Trump is, there were enough perfectly good reasons to vote for him as a vote against the other major candidate.
Until people start actually voting for (a) third party, I am afraid that rather than being a last squeeze, we will be getting candidates like this more often, not less.
It is entirely possible to support someone's form of leadership without entirely supporting all of the person's ideas.
That's why I specifically said Trump's vile brand of leadership. It's OK to agree or disagree with his ideas, but leadership is far more than having good or bad ideas. Leadership is ultimately about people and having a selfless, coherent vision for the people you represent.
I've lived in the east coast, the west coast, the midwest, and the south all for extended periods in my life. I've lived in so many states in this country that I know intimately the diverse viewpoints and diverse culture that exists across America.
Sure it is in the way Thiel did it. It was absurd for him to go on national television to make statements with 0 impact. Trump didn't win most places in the country Thiel might want to live. Trump lost on the entire west coast, Colorado and NY. He alienated himself and for what? He couldn't even help Trump win CA.
You need to zoom way the hell out, or you will miss the forest for the trees. Whether or not Trump is personally racist or sexist or whatever is basically immaterial. The very fact of his election, and his continuing popularity despite events, is direct manifestation of deep-seated cultural problems in the USA.
Simply dismissing the concerns of tens of millions of americans as "racist and sexist" is not helpful and in fact perpetuates the problem. I am not a Trump supporter, or a Thiel supporter, but it's not self-evidently bad that a person with some means chose to work with the guy in charge to try to make a difference. This kind of lazy dismissal is part of the problem.
Not to mention money laundering. Look, the charges against Trump can be argued, what cannot be argued is the attack by Russia against our country and Trump has refused to say one single bad word about Russia, while simultaneously having a public record of praising Putin and getting financed by Russian oligarchs. This is a matter of public record and fact that is beyond dispute.
Lastly, both houses of congress passed additional sanctions against Russian with super majorities, beyond veto proof and Trump refuses to enact them. We are living in a constitutional crisis and for some reason every move Trump makes seems to benefit Russia.
No, he isn't. Democrats said the same thing about Bush, and they're saying the same thing about Pence. Anybody with an R next to their name would get the same backlash if they were president.
I can’t speak for everyone, but this isn’t true at all for me. I have disagreed with large chunks of the policies of every president in my lifetime, and voted for presidents of both parties. I’ve never doubted that any of them loved this country and took their oath of office seriously.
I have zero faith that our current president cares about anything beyond himself and his image. Zero.
And I’m not alone. A shocking number of conservative writers and thinkers believe Trump represents a fundamental threat to democracy. Behind closed doors, even many of his ardent public supporters have no respect or faith in him.
I didn't agree with Bush's economic policy, but I didn't think he was a particularly dangerous politician and I generally supported him in the years after 9/11. Then we invaded Iraq based on false pretenses and with no plan for what to do in the days following the fall of the government. It was deceitful, disgusting and incompetent and a waste of lives and resources. So I decided Bush is a POS. It wasn't a predetermined partisan opinion. It was based on how things actually unfolded.
I still think that in terms of damage done Nixon was the worst we've had and Bush comes in second. Trump is dangerous in my opinion, but nothing so far comes close to what Bush did. It's strange that you make dislike of Bush sound unreasonable. It's perfectly reasonable.
Scientists generally pursue truth whereas politicians spend most of their time pursuing power by building a constituency, trying to get and stay elected, raising money, etc.
And I'm not saying "scientists are bad politicians". I'm saying what the two groups do don't overlap a ton.
For a gross example, most scientists will have to learn to lie to be good politicians, because all good politicians play fast and loose with the truth.
HEB is privately owned and run by the owners. Those are very different incentives than public or VC-backed ventures.