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by Padding 12y ago
> You're arguing for the legalisation of wage theft on the basis that it might disrupt prices. No. I'm arguing that we're currently labeling something as "theft", that might not actually be theft, and that we sho
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by Padding 12y ago
> But from a market point of view, people are like small firms that sell labor. We don't want a system where people can "go out of business" and be unable to survive, because that's inhumane. You're conflating is
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by Padding 12y ago
> What do you propose? For starters, rational discourse. I don't see much point in being cynical. If there is demand for those overtime hours and people willing to supply them .. and society as a whole is better off for it in the en
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by Padding 12y ago
Is this a joke? The language used certainly seems inadequate. Other than that, aren't there already other "completely relational" systems like Dataphor (and some arcane IBM products) .. that failed to gain traction?
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by Padding 12y ago
> This has spread to multiple industries across many sectors. It’s affected not just minimum-wage workers, but also middle-class workers. I have no idea how much of an issue this is and what the real-world implications for the individual
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by Padding 12y ago
Please elaborate.
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by Padding 12y ago
I agree this is sad. On the other hand however one needs to consider how much is really lost this way. Given the inefficiency/pointlessness of much of the effort involved in compulsory education, I'm not sure better teachers would
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by Padding 12y ago
> It's wrong to do others work for them and let them represent it as their own This is an intricate topic. On what grounds do you claim this to be wrong? What is the alternative and why is it so much better? > It lets them receiv
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by Padding 12y ago
> Of course, I didn’t have time for moral quandaries. As my name became more popular, I found myself with more clients than I had time to help. I couldn’t interview all of them, so I needed to find a way to produce essays faster. My solu
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by Padding 12y ago
People usually think of Haskell when strict type systems come up.. Ada is a "different kind" of strict though. It doesn't do any of the fancy/confusing inference stuff that Haskell does in order to verify that type conve
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by Padding 12y ago
There's no compiler (and standard library implementation) that has faced public scrutiny like other popular languages have. Aditionally, there are no IDEs for Ada comparable to the IDEs of other comercial languages (e.g. C++, C# or Jav
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by Padding 12y ago
This explains a lot. I've always wondered about how insects can survive large falls (e.g. from desks or ceilings) mostly unharmed, yet for humans a fall from a similar height, relatively to the body size, would be certain death.
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by Padding 12y ago
> but if its done in a uniform fashion things should work out ok right? I wouldn't be so certain of this. If the "uniform distribution" of the added weight results in the walls being (proportionately) thicker or denser tha
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by Padding 12y ago
> It is interesting how purity has a very strong allure - maybe our brains are naturally drawn to a reduced state of complexity, and thus energy consumption? Or maybe complicated more often than not is just not a "carefully balanced
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by Padding 12y ago
The real issue here is that the public has no control over the spying. Imho, many would probably be fine with other people listening in on their phone calls, or going over their browsing history, if the only effect of that would be terroris
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by Padding 12y ago
> Would a segregated lane make commuting on smaller vehicles safer? Undoubtedly. Would it be necessary to incentivize biking over driving larger vehicles? Probably not. Because numbers on charts matter more than people on the streets bei
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by Padding 12y ago
That might be quite apealing to some. 60k isn't that little if most of life's necessities (housing, food, clothing, etc.) are provided to you for free. Plus no relatives to ever deal with again, til you retire. I would've pro
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by Padding 12y ago
That's a good question. My guess is that Google is still much too young a company to esperience any of the issues. Maybe once the founders are out for good, and we see more tradtional MBA-style leadership, the traditional illnesses wil
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by Padding 12y ago
Isn't this basically what Amazon does? I've always felt very comfortable and safe when pushing the buy button on their site.
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by Padding 12y ago
Our society has a weird and twisted notion of freedom. Have everyone do whatever they feel like (within the legal limits, of course) .. and no one thinks twice about it. Millions of people dying? Yeah, sure, ressources are scarce - not our
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by Padding 12y ago
So it's necessary but not sufficent? Or neither necessary nor sufficent?
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by Padding 12y ago
> I don't think we "know" anything of the sort. I think this is rather easy to check - just have a look at per capita GDP. > Efficiency, for one, is an empty term. How did you reach this conclusion? > Efficiency with
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by Padding 12y ago
My point was that him simply liking/proposing it doesn't mean much.
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by Padding 12y ago
> It's not their phones. No, it's not - because they have no sensible way for providing for themselves and you have a legal obligation to provide them with the things they need for everyday life. The food they eat also isn&#x27
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by Padding 12y ago
> Suppose my child has absconded, ie gone off without telling me where they're going, I'm about to start my shift at work. Do I miss work and try and find them, or do I use this app and "force" them to respond indicat
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by Padding 12y ago
> accept what fate threw at you, don't sweat what you can't control, and learn to make the best of it. Yes, that's what drew me in at first too. But the details seem sketchy. > It's not even a philosophy of effici
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by Padding 12y ago
> your main meta-goal seems to be "efficiency" No I didn't say that. I said stoicism seems concerned about efficiency. > you are making philosophical choices, and many of those were already made by people before you Th
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by Padding 12y ago
Stoicism is an interesting way to look at things and it certainly does make for some engaging mental exercises .. but I'm not sure how much actual value it can provide to everyday life. One major problem with it, speaking as a 30-year
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by Padding 12y ago
I'm not sure you'd need to introduce new instructions. "user-defined value types", i.e. structs, can already be done today by (ab)using the Flyweight pattern and storing data (possibly off-heap with RAII rather than GC s
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by Padding 12y ago
Yeah, but he was also asking for operator overloading.

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