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professor_x
·昨年·議論
Learning from history and still ending up on the side of almost every issue that is considered unspeakably cruel a generation later.

Slavery, segregation, women’s suffrage, child labor protections, labor rights, Social Security, interracial marriage, homosexuality, civil rights legislation, same-sex marriage, the Vietnam War, the Iraq War, prohibition, environmental protections, public education expansion, healthcare reform, voting rights expansion, immigration rights, disability rights, reproductive rights, minimum wage laws, workers’ compensation laws.
professor_x
·2 年前·議論
How is it any more or less rent seeking than property ownership?
professor_x
·2 年前·議論
Its not the coolest thing but idk if it’s unexpected or scandalous
professor_x
·2 年前·議論
This sounds like a non true scotsman. If large societies buying into a story doesn’t qualify it as a success, what does? M
professor_x
·2 年前·議論
Im just someone interested in geospatial. Im a regular SWE. Seems like <1% of SWE jobs have even a nominal geospatial element like putting pins on a map.

Any tips in general? Not just for breaking in but what you wish you knew
professor_x
·2 年前·議論
Safe relative to what?

Being a Venetian banker or Chinese tea exporter wasnt that safe. What about prospecting for gold in Colorado river valleys where bears hang out? Moving trains of camels thru the Sahara? Chasing whales around for years at a time without going home.

Today is way better.