| ▲ | rf15 11 hours ago |
| the scariest engineers are financial and legal engineers |
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| ▲ | chii 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| That's because they don't need to follow the laws of physics, so anything that can be imagined is possible. |
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| ▲ | rf15 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | well arguably they are still trying to wrestle with theorising what they can get away with, so there are clear limitations. | | |
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| ▲ | kotaKat 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| No, it's the pick-up artists. They're the ones that know how to find ways to get around saying "no" to touch what they wanna touch even if the rest of us didn't want them to. |
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| ▲ | godwinson__4-8 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Scary in what sense? Those are certainly among the most interesting engineers. For example, what were the American Founding Fathers, if not "legal engineers" (and certainly many of them were also "financial engineers", given this was one of their most pressing needs). I guess if you find yourself preferring the status quo all the time they might be scary but given I can't think of any time in history where the status quo was totally desirable I'm not sure what there is to be scared of exactly. Could you be more specific? |
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| ▲ | willy_k 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | My interpretation was that they’re referring to legal/financial engineers in the context of corporate butheshareholderism, where rather than trying to e.g. build a good nation, the goal is to maximize profits. | |
| ▲ | mym1990 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | These are two types of engineers that, at some places, aim to find loopholes that immensely help themselves while immensely hurting others, maybe as collateral, maybe by design. The fact that you’re so gung-ho about this…is alarming. | |
| ▲ | zargon 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | What is the word for this type of troll that feigns lack of understanding? | | | |
| ▲ | qs1ykyusPlate 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | found one | |
| ▲ | Razengan 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > Could you be more specific? They're shifty fuckers enabling greedy scummy fuckers to make everything shittier forever for everyone in the world except themselves. | | |
| ▲ | rf15 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | The biggest magic trick of the people that make the world burn is to convince themselves that it's not worth looking out the windows of your home. |
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