aisengard

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by aisengard 6mo ago
It's like everyone forgot that "lines of code" as a productivity metric was a running joke for a decade-plus. The real bottleneck in our work isn't producing boilerplate code, it's producing more or less the right k
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by aisengard 6mo ago
It's almost like an emergent feature of a tool that's literally built on best guesses is...guesswork. Not what you want out of a tool that's supposed to be replacing professionals!
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by aisengard 8mo ago
That's the thing - we already know that each given interest group has common interests. That's how you build coalitions, by finding those common interests and tamping down on the differences. The problem with the youth vote that w
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by aisengard 8mo ago
The lesson is that making your sole priority driving youth turnout is a losing strategy, for reasons that are not that confusing. The Bernie lamenters would do well to learn lessons from his failures, rather than blaming everyone else.
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by aisengard 8mo ago
Gonna have to force-feed them enough pizza, maybe tricking them that it's causing the other three great pains to give it to them. Fortunately, it's been shown that these people are very easily tricked.
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by aisengard 8mo ago
I mean, they tried that in the primaries and young people still stayed home. If they actually came out in force for Bernie like you said they would, he would have won every primary. Young people simply don't vote because of a lot of di
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by aisengard 8mo ago
I feel like you shouldn't get to criticize protests for not being violent enough if you're not already performing sufficiently-violent protests. "Firebombing a Walmart" meme really is evergreen.
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by aisengard 8mo ago
Well, some people can win. Other people will simply die of massive blood loss. As long as it's not you, right?
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by aisengard 8mo ago
Don't you know, this is a vibes-based economy now? Numbers are meaningless when compared to feelings.
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by aisengard 10mo ago
There is zero guarantee that these tools will continue to be there. Those of us who are skeptical of the value of the tools may find them somewhat useful, but are quite wary of ripping up the workflows we've built for ourselves over de
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by aisengard 1y ago
As opposed to the implication that Robinson is somehow a leftwing activist, confidently claimed by every GOP politician from coast to coast? Also, even if it were, as you say, "misinformation", that is now somehow taboo on televis
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by aisengard 1y ago
You literally only had to read one more sentence: "With Monday’s announcement universal child care will be extended to every family in the state, regardless of income. This amounts to an average annual family savings of $12,000 per chi
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by aisengard 3y ago
Maybe a comet?
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by aisengard 3y ago
Or, you know, we can do both at the same time? Also, once police are no longer occupied ticketing motorists, I hope cyclists are prepared for actually being held accountable to laws. The police budget isn't going to refill itself.
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by aisengard 4y ago
Of course, this is not really a useful (or provable) criticism as long as the actual obstructionists are obstructing! Much more useful to oust the obstructionists, then you can work on holding the alleged lip-servicers accountable.
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by aisengard 4y ago
Yeah, the horrible pay in private school is proof enough that the "free" market is the absolute wrong way to go if you want better teachers.
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by aisengard 4y ago
Well, if you get to teach a lot of well-off kids who have a lot of extra support at home and you can siphon off the undesirables onto others, you get good marks when most of them inevitably "succeed". If you have to teach the kids
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by aisengard 4y ago
Here's a good way to think about it - there is no world where education improves if teachers are not a well-paid profession. It's a race to the bottom, as we're seeing today. So if you want to get better, you have to create i
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by aisengard 4y ago
We price in externalities all the time. A lot of the time it's priced in as the cost of complying with government regulation, like food safety and labeling. Other times it's priced in the other direction, like subsidies for green
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by aisengard 4y ago
The only thing that burned up in the atmosphere for the Space Shuttle program was the fuel tank. All the other components, including the booster rockets, were recovered and refurbished for reuse. The innovation here isn't about reusabi
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by aisengard 4y ago
Actually, mere mortals pay tax eventually when they cash out their investments to pay for the things they want. The wealthy get to take low-interest loans against their investments to pay for the things that they want, without ever having t
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by aisengard 4y ago
Pretty sure he already has: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/10/elon-musk-tells-twitter-staf...
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by aisengard 4y ago
Doing literally nothing would have already led to a better outcome than whatever waves hands this is.
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by aisengard 4y ago
I know this is a troll, but I'll respond anyway. If someone can prove he's discriminating against institutions on the basis of religion, he can be sued. Whether he takes money from the government or not doesn't matter in the
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by aisengard 4y ago
>>> “let’s avoid abortion, if we can” >>> I see little argument to allow abortion in a logical sense This is akin to saying "let's avoid major surgery, if we can", and then arguing that this leads to the log
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by aisengard 4y ago
Sure, maybe in tech, which had been in an unsustainable bubble for a long time. But unless everything changed in the last few weeks, we haven't seen this in the overall labor market, which remains as hot and labor-friendly as ever. Onl
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by aisengard 4y ago
This has nothing to do with WFH, and more to do with how conditioned we are to rely on offices and employers to give us direction in life. It's like when you graduate high school and go to college, no one is going to proactively check
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by aisengard 4y ago
Factories don't shut down on the weekends, they just have different groups of people come in for different shifts. A 4-day work week would just mean that they have to hire more people to fill the hours. Productivity wouldn't fall,
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by aisengard 4y ago
And then you would promptly get run over because your voice is not nearly loud/attention-grabbing enough.
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by aisengard 4y ago
> So a crisis was invented. Are you saying that the millions upon millions who died (not to mention the untold millions who are suffering long-term health problems), didn't actually die? Or that what they died from (a highly contagi

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