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TotalCrackpot··on Ibiza locals living in cars as party island sees rents soar
Can you be more specific than just writing "high prices"? By asking to "quantify" I asked for some quantity.
TotalCrackpot··on Ibiza locals living in cars as party island sees rents soar
Can you quantify the amount you can get per month by working there and in what types of work? Sounds interesting.
TotalCrackpot··on How to embrace asynchronous communication for remote work
Non attendance should imply you don't count in the decision. You should have a deadline of 1 or 2 days for the vote, if someone doesn't vote they don't matter in the decision.
TotalCrackpot··on Cystic fibrosis breakthrough has given patients a chance to live longer
Ok, so how do you practice in practice? What specific actions do you do to make yourself more attractive to prop shops?
TotalCrackpot··on Cystic fibrosis breakthrough has given patients a chance to live longer
How do you practice for becoming a quant outside of the academic system?
TotalCrackpot··on Cystic fibrosis breakthrough has given patients a chance to live longer
I don't really see how you become a quant on Wall Street before you finish the CS degree, they I think look at credentials a lot, can you at least give the name of the prop shop that hired you without a formal education? Did you have any good results in algorithmic competitions or math competitions in high school? And how did you learn programming without an actual computer? Did your parents buy you a computer when you were young?
TotalCrackpot··on Cystic fibrosis breakthrough has given patients a chance to live longer
That's interesting - does your career require any formal education? Or were you able to develop some crucial skill on your own? Can you share what is your career about and where you started and where are you now? For example - do you hire employees or are you a landlord now, or are you an employee?
TotalCrackpot··on Punk is dead and so are we
If by anarchy you mean freedom of association, then sure.
TotalCrackpot··on Punk is dead and so are we
Libertarian socialism rejects representative democracy, they favour horizontal institutions with instantly recallable delegates instead of representives.
TotalCrackpot··on Punk is dead and so are we
It's probably best to watch some YT videos by Anark https://www.youtube.com/@Anark or Andrewism https://www.youtube.com/@Andrewism on Youtube. Anark is very pedantic which I like, while Andrewism is more chill. Take your time especially with Anark's videos, cause they are veeeeery pedantic and can overwhelm with their information content.
TotalCrackpot··on Punk is dead and so are we
Alternative would be libertarian socialism, with economy of some mixture of cooperative economics, decentralized planning, gift economy and library economy.
TotalCrackpot··on Punk is dead and so are we
There are actually 2 libertarian socialist/anarchist-inspired revolutions happening in the world right now - Zapatisas and Rojava. There are even more horizontal projects of this nature, you can check the list here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W1wWjWNXhvHjMzzyxT5z5Es_...

If you want to learn more about Zapatistas and Rojava you can check those videos:

https://youtu.be/tqjfqy-2Wv4?si=rVFyuH26G_QVXMTR

https://youtu.be/_BQVHb5NYe8?si=vDUuVdWf_nkNvKKJ

TotalCrackpot··on Kurds are fighting against genocide by Turkey and are considered as terrorists
Kurdish organization fighting against genocide by Turkey is considered a terrorist group by NATO, Turkey is in NATO.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_of_Kurdish_people...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial_of_Kurds_by_Turkey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_Administration_of_N...

TotalCrackpot··on Yazidi woman held by IS for 10 years freed by Kurdish fighters in Syria
What do you mean? Turks are fascists, Rojava is a democratic confederalist society which is a type of libertarian socialism very inspired by an anarchist thought.
TotalCrackpot··on Yazidi woman held by IS for 10 years freed by Kurdish fighters in Syria
Just for people to read to see how messed up are Turkish fascists, they do indeed try to genocide Kurds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_of_Kurdish_people...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial_of_Kurds_by_Turkey

TotalCrackpot··on Yazidi woman held by IS for 10 years freed by Kurdish fighters in Syria
Yeah, NATO supports fascists Turkey, because Turkey is in NATO, Turkey is trying to annihilate Kurdish nation. You are probably a Turkish bot and you perpetuate falsehoods to justify the genocide of Kurds by Turkish fascists.
TotalCrackpot··on Yazidi woman held by IS for 10 years freed by Kurdish fighters in Syria
I do think people should learn about Rojava - Kurds are doing a libertarian socialist revolution and they care about ecology and feminism which is very unique. I'm just afraid that fascist Turkey will destroy their project, but if not then they are a strong demonstration of anarchist/libertarian socialist ideas - they already have much higher standard of living then the rest of the Syria.
TotalCrackpot··on A Nigerian professor who makes more money welding
It seems to me like the movement of worker cooperatives is growing and they seem to be on average much better workplaces than the normal workplaces.
TotalCrackpot··on [dead]
Schizophrenia is actually not that bad, given that John Nash had it and still created game theory, one of the most important theories of applied mathematics that for example has use cases in economy.
TotalCrackpot··on Citation cartels help mathematicians-and their universities-climb the rankings
I know that at least in AI/ML there are reproducibility challenges, I even had a course during my masters where we had to reproduce a paper. Not perfect, but some disciplines try to address that. AI/ML has a nice feature of publishing almost only in open conferences/journals, there are not that many closed publishing venues in this field.
TotalCrackpot··on A Nigerian professor who makes more money welding
I wonder if you know that there are ideologies like market socialism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_socialism, they too have a market, but they change the relation of ownership of a workplace from some specific owner class to actual workers in the workplace through changing workplaces to worker cooperatives among other postulates.
TotalCrackpot··on A Nigerian professor who makes more money welding
Not surprising given how the political class is connected to the capitalist class, at some points basically interests of the capitalist class determine the value of a labor in the current system. So labor that naively maximizes the corporations profits is more and more the only labor that has better than disgustingly low value in capitalist society. That's the magic of "free market" for you - the game is fundamentally rigged because of structural, systemic reasons.
TotalCrackpot··on Richard Wolff: How You Are Being Exploited [video]
The video has funny animations but it's right. Unless you can critique it based on it's merits?
TotalCrackpot··on Richard Wolff: How You Are Being Exploited [video]
Richard Wolff is promoting cooperatives at: https://www.democracyatwork.info/about_co_ops
TotalCrackpot··on Why Hierarchy Is Fragile and Anarchy Is Antifragile
Maybe you are right here, but you didn't really seem interest in even trying to understand it. Unfortunate, maybe I am wrong and some day in the future some more convincing argumentation will change your opinion towards considering at least some anarchistic arguments. And maybe you are right that I was rude for no good reason.
TotalCrackpot··on Why Hierarchy Is Fragile and Anarchy Is Antifragile
Anarchy is about rulers, anarchists are fine with coming up with agreement and with delegating tasks to other people.
TotalCrackpot··on Why Hierarchy Is Fragile and Anarchy Is Antifragile
Why? Maybe something heavy landed on your heard and you are dizzy? I think he explained it very elementally.
TotalCrackpot··on Why Hierarchy Is Fragile and Anarchy Is Antifragile
Not for anarchists, anarchists are fine with voluntarily agreeing with an expert.
TotalCrackpot··on Why Hierarchy Is Fragile and Anarchy Is Antifragile
This is not a hierarchy if that person doesn't command other people and has to convince them. Being charismatic is not bad.
TotalCrackpot··on Why Hierarchy Is Fragile and Anarchy Is Antifragile
I think this becomes less and less true given how ridiculous are the social inequalities and how much are they a result of internal contradictions of capitalism and artificial scarcity that is an inherent part of this system.
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