SpaceCadetJones

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by SpaceCadetJones 10y ago
I'm confused, how does "serverless" play into this? I opened this expecting something about p2p architecture
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by SpaceCadetJones 10y ago
Last I tried there were a couple of issues with autoindentation with the fsharp plugin for emacs, but they're well aware of the issue and have been working on it last I checked.
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by SpaceCadetJones 10y ago
I don't see why you dragged minimum wage into this? The above poster is correct. Employee productivity has increased immensely the past 40 years, while wages have remained practically stagnant. Meanwhile costs of housing and education
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by SpaceCadetJones 10y ago
I mean that's only if you have some over arching entity that does all of the planning that commands from the top down. Some people argue for planning at a regional level and cooperating on a larger scale as needed, or organizing work i
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by SpaceCadetJones 10y ago
Wow, it really is a small world, I can't believe you replied to my comment. You're one of the only aliases I still recognize from those days as I was about 12 at the time. SCAR and the other scriptable clients were a huge spark fo
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by SpaceCadetJones 10y ago
Definitely have to agree with you. I do believe it possible to have a functional capitalist society, however it will always devolve into something like the present day as groups natural accumulate large amounts of capital and use it to tip
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by SpaceCadetJones 10y ago
Note: I'm not an advocate of central planning. However, I do believe that technology could make it viable. Our purchases in markets are used as inputs to companies so they can plan and allocate resources. I don't see any reason th
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by SpaceCadetJones 10y ago
Income inequality is just the symptom, capitalism is at the heart of the problem. This is what happens when you get a saturated labor market and employers have all of the bargaining power as the vast majority of people are unable to obtain
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by SpaceCadetJones 10y ago
Reminded me of the SCAR tool many of us used to use back in the day for botting on Runescape. Will have to look into this for QA automation, as Selenium isn't always too fun when you've got a hairball of ASP.NET WebForms, Vanilla
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by SpaceCadetJones 10y ago
Great empty platitude there. Socialism is about economic democracy and worker self management + ownership, although the term has become increasingly nebulous in recent years. Classic socialism, as in what was spoken of by those like Marx an
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by SpaceCadetJones 10y ago
Agreed. It does not address the high concentrations of wealth which allow a small minorty of people to be in direct control of the majority of our resources and economic activity.
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by SpaceCadetJones 10y ago
Fair enough, I'm definitely with you on the point of people not giving themselves enough credit. Unfortunately society tends to beat independent thinking out of us, and where I grew up it was definitely hammered into your mind that you
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by SpaceCadetJones 10y ago
"I did it, so anyone else can"
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by SpaceCadetJones 10y ago
Do you have sources on this? Because from what I've learned in my cognitive psychology / neuroscience classes and talks, the brain works very much like a processing machine. Incredibly different than the electronic deterministic o
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by SpaceCadetJones 10y ago
I'm probably getting this wrong since I haven't looked into it, but I think they're talking about the idea of an infinite number of universes that contain the totality of all that is possible. When one dies, they only cease t
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by SpaceCadetJones 10y ago
I wonder if a software shop structured as a co-operative would be good for this. Let the employees themselves control the workplace and set it up as they see fit. I know I'd personally be a lot more invested in my workplace if I had a
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by SpaceCadetJones 10y ago
Because they're an ancap. From what I've gathered they seem to believe markets should essentially determine everything
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by SpaceCadetJones 10y ago
I'm not sure what you mean. Could you explain?
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by SpaceCadetJones 10y ago
I don't think it's so much goal post moving as a lot of us never claimed it buys elections. My assertion has always been that generally speaking if you want to be competitive politically you need to scratch the backs of elites to
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by SpaceCadetJones 10y ago
Are you sure it wasn't a mental issue? How were you measuring fat? 5'9 and 148lb isn't close to being overweight. I'm just under 140lb at 5'9 and I'm quite thin. It looks like I have some around my stomach due
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by SpaceCadetJones 10y ago
I imagine this would be a non-starter for a lot of people, it definitely is for me
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by SpaceCadetJones 10y ago
This could very well be it. I was about to comment that I've been using OS X for about 10 years and I'm pretty sure I can count the number of kernel panics I've had on my fingers. Most of those happened a long time ago.
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by SpaceCadetJones 10y ago
I haven't extended my use of org-mode outside of simple outlines for taking notes and todos, but for that it's been wonderful. Something always irked me about Microsoft Word, it didn't work quite right. I didn't like a n
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by SpaceCadetJones 10y ago
Thanks for clarifying, this makes a lot of sense.
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by SpaceCadetJones 10y ago
Reviewing the common nature of the disagreement in replies is also a good way to practice presenting unpopular opinions. There's a lot of pitfalls I've learned to avoid when being tactful
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by SpaceCadetJones 10y ago
Yes, with technical writing I (generally) just want the author to help me get the information into my mind with minimal cognitive effort. There are times where being poetic can help, such as selling me on a new programming model, but most t
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by SpaceCadetJones 10y ago
I'm a bit confused, where does the effectively paying less come from? I suggested they increase their pay while also giving them a discount at the store to give them an incentive to spend their new income at the store.
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by SpaceCadetJones 10y ago
It's not a bug, it's a feature! Just because it can be taken advantage of doesn't make it a bug. There are reasons these features developed, they were/are evolutionary advantageous. Things like bias are important because
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by SpaceCadetJones 10y ago
You mean to tell me a subject still in its infancy, studying some of the most complex and dynamic systems, has some bad findings? Shocking As someone who studied psychology, I've always recognized a lot of it is a bunch of wankery (as
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by SpaceCadetJones 10y ago
I wonder if this is different for companies like Walmart / Costco / Meijer where they carry the majority of goods you need day to day. What if they started paying their employees higher wages, meanwhile giving them discounts at th

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