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vietthan commented on Speedrun   educationprogress.org/p/s... · Posted by u/barry-cotter
vietthan · 2 months ago
In a way, is the author advocating that the best way to get out of the rat race is to win at it?

Also, looks like the author is very different from the typical high school aged person. The author is clearly intelligent and highly motivated, they're also able to maintain good relationships with the people around them (teachers, internet friends, etc.), but if it was so easy, we would see more well-adjusted early graduates of the education system.

vietthan commented on Most Scandalous Frauds of 2024   acfe.com/fraud-resources/... · Posted by u/vietthan
vietthan · 3 months ago
TIL there is an organization for fraud examiners and that they have a podcast!

Top 5 frauds apparently:

1. Boeing to plead guilty to fraud in US probe of fatal 737 MAX crashes [1] - btw apparently criminal charges being dropped by DOJ [2]

2. Truong My Lan facing death row after embezzling $12 billion from Vietnam's bank SCB [3] - btw apparently now it's only 30 years [4]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/boeing-pl...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4ge0lpqpyro

[3] https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/06/asia/vietnam-truong-my-lan-de...

[4] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/vietnam-death-sentence-tycoon-t...

vietthan commented on Schools   insideschools.org/... · Posted by u/vietthan
vietthan · 8 months ago
"We visit New York City public schools to give you the inside story you can't find anywhere else."
vietthan commented on Doom in Space (2024)   youtube.com/watch?v=zthss... · Posted by u/vietthan
vietthan · a year ago
Hey guys, I sit next to George who is a real driving force in anything he does, including this one. He's letting me have the upvotes for this one but the GitHub project page is: https://github.com/olafurw/opssat-doom/tree/main
vietthan commented on A math professor who objects to diversity statements   theatlantic.com/ideas/arc... · Posted by u/moose_man
roenxi · 2 years ago
Well, 'slippery slope' is a logical fallacy. The issue here, more precisely, is that without something to push against the US is inculcating ideas into the next generation of leaders that make ex-Soviets think "wait a second, this looks like home!".

It isn't a slope, this is literally rebuilding the dangerous parts of authoritarian bureaucracy - people who can't think and are then given unearned and easily abusable power over others by an objectively dumb system. The US is already there (as I like to point out, about half the US economy is government spending these days - that isn't a free market, it is some sort of mixed open-command economy); it is only a question of how far the ripples reach.

vietthan · 2 years ago
Hey, looking for a source for "about half the US economy is government spending these days". I've searched online for 2023 and I'm seeing a pretty okay 23% for government spending.

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