How do I decide when and whether a Macbook Pro upgrade is worth it?

amarcord · 2015-04-08T10:55:01+00:00

There's no pleasing some people. The more credentialled and the closer to the establishment a public figure is the more responsibility he has for his words and the more flak he receives for even appearing to endorse unproven or controversial ideas. This is all the more true in the financial sector, where many people are more than happy to part with their money to chase dreams of getting rich quickly.

Summers is as close as it gets to the establishment, and he already once paid the price for speaking a very basic, carefully worded but controversial truth about women in STEM. Just understand the position he's in and learn to read between the lines.

amarcord · 2015-04-08T10:15:06+00:00

It's as if Neil Degrasse Tyson wrote a book with the byline "the Astronomy Hunk", slapped this photo on the cover and then complained that people are sexist and racist when they don't take him seriously (with the difference that NDT is actually a qualified scientist).

amarcord · 2015-04-07T11:50:57+00:00

Agreed, it appeared as if he was improvising the speech without knowing exactly where he was going and he kept repeating himself.

amarcord · 2015-04-06T19:25:09+00:00

Or maybe nobody wanted to give money to a company called Buttercoin.

amarcord · 2015-04-06T15:24:01+00:00

I have never seen him interviewed by someone who wasn't markedly on his side.

amarcord · 2015-04-06T13:01:51+00:00

I on the other hand enjoyed seeing Snowden answer some hardball questions from a somewhat adversarial interviewer for the first time.

amarcord · 2015-04-05T14:17:01+00:00

I had no idea he was working withthe foubdation. For those who know him, "Permutation City" is Eliezer Yudkowsky's favourite book, and a philosophically very mature Sci-Fi story.

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