akhilcacharya

I don’t go on Blind, I don’t really see the appeal. You seem strangely unhappy about your own situation to be this fixated on Amazon

I legitimately, from the bottom of my heart, don’t care.

The ones you haven’t gotten for a year? Doubt the perks at Intel were much more impressive.

Don’t get it, why is this the response when Google did the same thing and the comments there defended it?

Oops, my bad y'all!

I got an email yesterday and it was reforwarded by my skip level manager. I’m surprised you wouldn’t get it.

They do though, they pay me around $180 a month for an unlimited transit card (that I can’t use) and a transit debit card for Uber (that is currently capped because I also cannot use it). For most other folks that pays for parking.

Wait, has the Cambridge Microcenter had 3080s recently? When do they restock?

I've heard of lines in the morning at other Microcenters but don't know much about the one next to me.

The obvious answer is they probably didn't, this is probably a pseudo QAnon/Pizzagate conspiracy theory where people were "censored" for the harassment of a random person.

It's interesting that these encounters keep happening off the California coast - is the naval presence there unique compared to other regions?

Honestly, anybody that passes a certain bar is probably fine for me. We already have that with medical licensing, board exams, residency matching, etc. If anything we could probably loosen the bar, since residency spots are artificially scarce because of the residency cap.

To be perfectly clear, I don't dispute ability exists - I just don't think that should be the ideal organizing philosophy for society.

That's around my line of thinking, pure meritocracy is both too subjective and far too harsh to the people who aren't in the lucky egg club, especially in increasingly global winner take all games (an inevitable consequence of globalization).

I'm a failure by meritocracy by nature of losing at all of the tests we use to judge success and merit - test scores, elite school admission, elite institutions etc.

I'm becoming convinced by the idea that meritocracy itself is bad and a terrible way to organize society. But perhaps I'm biased by being a failure in the meritocratic system.