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For anyone interested, Wikipedia provides some arguments against meritocracy.

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

Meritocracy is argued to be a myth because, despite being promoted as an open and accessible method of achieving upward class mobility under neoliberal or free market capitalism, wealth disparity and limited class mobility remain widespread, regardless of individual work ethic.

I totally agree.

IMO the notion of merit is an illusion. It hides the assumption that people can be ranked and compared, but do we truly want to live in such a society?

Also, is that even feasible?

It's impossible to objectively compare humans of similar "skill level". For example, think of Plato and Aristotle, they have been dead for thousands of years and their work has been studied but millions of not billions of people, yet people still argue who was the best philosopher of the two. How can we have a meritocracy if we cannot evaluate merit? You may be able to distinguish experts from beginners for a certain skill, but, when considering roles of influence/power, there are multiple skills and attributes to be considered, and the same principle applies.

It's easier to cheat a merit metric than to evaluate it. Any algorithm that makes a decision based on merit will need to either evaluate or compare it. Both are going to depend on the presence of absence of features that once known to a cheater they will be able to fake them. That makes evaluation and cheating a competing game, where the evaluator and the cheater contiously adapt to one another, with the cheater being much able to adapt much faster.

Any meritocracy will have to be open about it's evaluation process. If it's not participants with merit cannot know how to demonstrate it and the process is prune to corruption.

Personally, I believe making decisions based on trust is much better. It's hard to build trust and it cannot be cheated. Of course, cheater may try to influence decision makers with bribes or blackmail. But, once this is found trust is destroyed and they get rejected.

Got anything to share? source/screenshots/roadmap/feature-set/mock-ups

I would say fuck to-do lists but I need them to remind me to hate on them... btw you may want to look into PDA.

For context, I like working with people that I am on friendly terms (like go out for drinks Friday after work) and I have the privilege to be able to avoid work environments where that's not possible.

IMO I don't think it's about the words, but the meaning of what you say. You can say a coffee is hot, but say that about the new receptionist and you deserve jail time (sexual harassment is a serious issue). The worst things someone could say don't involve any "bad" words, like a male colleague turning to the only woman in the meeting after making a remark about motherhood.

Context is always important too, once I heard someone say "the motherfucker keeps pooping allover the place" referring to a service that was particularly nasty after an update (programmer lingo).

Personally, I hate passive aggression, I am autistic I just speak my mind, and I don't understand it when others don't.

While I am in no position to understand the paper, the possibility of AuDHD being a different pathology is exciting to me.

It makes a great point on why we should pursue a dual diagnosis instead of focusing only on one side of it, regardless if that is ADHD or ASD. It's a different problem and there is no guarantee that remedies for either pathology are going to help AuDHD people.

It's disappointing how little research there is on AuDHD, and hopefully findings like this are going to help us get more attention to our problems.

Found it! https://www.wosonhj.com/scholar/643225xs.html

I tried the nexus bot, but it couldn't find it. The article is pretty new (30/12/2023), so maybe it will take a moment to be uploaded? Not sure how Nexus works exactly, it's supposed to have access to publishers.

this is a method, and always was a method, I just wanted it to look like an attribute for aesthetic reasons

I think "aesthetic reasons" is an oversimplification. There are certain assumptions a developer makes when reading some code that uses properties. While these assumptions are not clearly defined and may differ per developer, I think there is a common core.

(1) There are no side-effects. The object is not mutated (or any other object), no IO takes place.

(2) The time and space complexity is O(1).

(3) The result is consistent. Consequent calls to the property should return the same value unless there is a mutation between them.

(tried to delete this comment but somehow didn't work, I re-read the article and have a different outlook, sorry for the low effort comment)

The question is a bit misleading but I understand the desired output is an ordering of the children based on the information provided and our own personal values.

I will start with some thoughts on each child:

1. If they are not doing anything while waiting to be accepted, then they got to work on themselves. They could be starting personal projects, learning new things, exploring new hobbies, volunteering... whatever being frozen like that feels sad.
2. They are true to themselves, and I applaud them for that.
3. No problem with working for the mob, there are far worse things they could be doing.
4. I would need to know their intent behind what they are doing, ethics are not black and white, maybe they see some merit to their endeavours and maybe they are right in the end. The specific example would send them to the very bottom of my list (ACAB).
5. I am willing to bet there is a phobia for that, I would try to give them the support they need to find their calling.
6. I am not against progress, it's not their fault that people will lose their jobs. In the first place it wouldn't have been an issue if people weren't so dependent on our capitalistic overlords.
7. They are taking a break, it makes sense to me, keep it up pall, in no time you would be finding new ways to create a better world for all of us.

Overall, I feel the descriptions are too judgy, people are doing the best they can, and you got to give them that.

If I had to choose a single child I would go with #7.

Overall my ordering is 6,7 > 2,3 > 1,5 > 4

Start a religion, I guess?

That got me good, thanks for the laugh!

To be fair, I’ve seen some Linux desktop configs that were pretty fucked.

That's the reason I named it the "rule 34 of linux desktop configs". In the past 2 years, I have observed a friend's journey to a fully automated setup. It started with a bash script, which was then converted to an ansible playbook, then a python script, and now a ublue config.

The depths some people will go to fuck (figuratively) with their machines is inspiring!