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by 0thgen 7mo ago
How much of a standard is it though, really? To me it just looks like "Call your docs SKILLS and organize it like this". And if you're just making docs and letting your models go buck wild in your shell, doesn't an overs
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by 0thgen 1y ago
In what type of society do I not have to do that? Even if I live in a society where everything is collectively owned, I’m still forced to work for the collective (of which I have one share among the population, essentially giving me about a
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by 0thgen 1y ago
What is the difference exactly? Being forced to work for the democratically elected government versus being compelled to work for private businesses?
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by 0thgen 1y ago
I think the fact that people can pick and choose which contracts to engage in, can back out at any time, and in many cases if you live in a rich country, opt out altogether. Even if there are "pressures" (either socially induced o
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by 0thgen 1y ago
When you say "weaponized to", it makes it sound like there's some actor attempting it. Don't ideological bubbles form naturally? (People like to hear what they agree with) In the case of controlling election outcomes, ho
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by 0thgen 1y ago
A lot of the counter arguments people have made seem to be: "no one can choose whether or not to participate in the system, therefor it's serfdom". I'm curious why people don't just extend this to everything then? I
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by 0thgen 1y ago
Isn't "work or starve" just a fact of nature? In what system do people not have to work to survive? (aside from a system where robots do all the labor)
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by 0thgen 1y ago
Can you explain how feudalism in the past had a far milder impact on individuals?
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by 0thgen 1y ago
I guess one difference is, the factory workers pushed towards engaging in brutal labor actually had it rough. It's unclear whether the current system bring "horrible conditions" that need addressing. I don't want 9000 em
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by 0thgen 1y ago
"You can control the people of the entire world with computers. Their socialization, their education, their culture, their employment, the very flow of money, all of it is controlled by computers. It's easier than ever and you don
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by 0thgen 1y ago
"You're just worshipping the billionaires" is not a good rebuttal to the author's arguments. You haven't addressed "Try getting a job without LinkedIn. Try buying a phone that doesn't run android or iOS.&q
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by 0thgen 1y ago
Sure, there are pressures for resource procurement that influence our decision making. The difference is whether the hierarchy is baked into the legal system and less difficult to vertically navigate.
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by 0thgen 2y ago
interesting! that's a mathematically provable statement? or do you mean, most data can be represented as a graph? (I'm not asking antagonistically; I'm genuinely interested in the statement you made)
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by 0thgen 2y ago
one benefit (idk if it applies here) is if the select/put/delete statements didn’t require loading the data in memory; so you could query massive data files with limited RAM and not have to solve that problem yourself for each dat
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by 0thgen 2y ago
I like the idea of using select/put/delete (sql-style syntax) to query non-rdb data storage. It sort of raises the question of, could there be 1 universal language to query relational databases, text file storage (json, csv, etc),
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by 0thgen 2y ago
r should just transition to being a statistics package for the python ecosystem.
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by 0thgen 2y ago
I doubt most users care enough (even if this is a real issue). So it seems like the only way this practice could be mitigated is if it somehow is unaligned with OS vendors' (apple, android) interests. Like, maybe it harms Apple's
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by 0thgen 2y ago
Fair enough. Then it seems that should be the lawsuit rather than murder though
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by 0thgen 2y ago
wouldn’t you also have to sue car drivers, consumers, and everyone else who touches the fossil fuel industry? (which is everyone) also, what about lives saved / sustained through the use of fossil fuels? Do you subtract each climate re
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by 0thgen 2y ago
I have never needed anything more than pip in 8 years of development, and have always run into issues with r packages (every new version of r seems to break 30% of existing tidyverse packages)
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by 0thgen 3y ago
Id second this. I used to lose a lot of productivity via desktop tweaking, and have now converted to sticking with gnome defaults (as people have said, gnome really does "stay out of your way"). hypercustomization is cool, and I l
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by 0thgen 3y ago
any advice for what developers should do given you think workforce reduction is on it’s way?
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by 0thgen 3y ago
Ok. But should "purpose" be redefined as "outcome", as the parent comment suggests? My thought is no, and that's why "purpose" and "outcome" aren't synonyms in the english language
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by 0thgen 3y ago
fair enough; I agree with that
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by 0thgen 3y ago
I'd say you're right here that private prisons are an example of a "bad actor" causing a major problem, and I'd even go as far as supporting abolishing private prisons (though some crime would still likely exist reg
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by 0thgen 3y ago
Fair enough. It'd be impossible for me to argue that there aren't bad actors doing very bad things But to what extent are problems due to (a) bad actors, versus (b) structure issues, resource scarcity, trade-offs, collective actio
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by 0thgen 3y ago
so one solution (especially in the case of private prisons) would be to disband the bad actors But do you see the value that comes from thinking about this as a structural problem? Until we completely cut off the pathway that gives private
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by 0thgen 3y ago
fair points, and in another comment I point to tax service companies lobbying for complicated tax laws in the US. I'm fine admitting that bad actors do bad things now, to what extend do you think the majority of the world's proble
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by 0thgen 3y ago
fair point, and there are more real-world examples we could list (big tax services lobbying for more complicated tax codes) I guess the question then is: what major world problems can be fixed by eliminating / preventing bad actors, an
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by 0thgen 3y ago
is the purpose of chemotherapy to make people lose their hair?

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