annabellish

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by annabellish 7y ago
"What we have now is the bad kind of capitalism! There's a different, good kind of capitalism which in theory does all these great things!" is essentially the "communism works great in theory" argument. 100%, both s
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by annabellish 7y ago
>It's OK to just solve the tractable problems in front of us and to get a good couple of decades out of a system. Is it? Is it really ? The point the article is making is that by designing a system which solves the problems in fron
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by annabellish 8y ago
The individual companies likely not, but it's not like those are the only companies doing these things. Human achievements come from standing on the shoulders of giants, not from individual supermen - we see this through history time a
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by annabellish 8y ago
>He is under attack. For tweeting the wrong thing, for not making enough cars, for appearing unstable. Some of the criticisms have merit. Much of it is myopic and small-brained, from sideline observers gleefully salivating at the opportu
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by annabellish 8y ago
It's a... difficult area, for sure. The scenario where some guy and some girl have a one night stand and then nine months later he's on the hook for a whole tonne of money is a Very Bad scenario, because obviously there's no
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by annabellish 8y ago
Making that about women vs men is missing the point entirely, which is part of why i was explicit about alternate childbearing groups. If you have two woman in a childbearing group, then the one who is pregnant has the option to terminate o
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by annabellish 8y ago
I don't think this is a fair analysis of either current feminist thought or the current state of affairs. The reproductive rights of men are important and there's no suggestion any should be removed, but that doesn't mean tha
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by annabellish 8y ago
>It could very usefully try harder to avoid getting into that state in the first place. Am I missing something here? How do you get into a detached HEAD state without explicitly taking an obviously weird action, like finding and checkout
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by annabellish 8y ago
Sure, and there's places other than amazon to sell. That doesn't matter when the Play store, or Amazon, controls the majority of all sales. How much money are people making on APKpure? Is it enough to support a dozen software engi
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by annabellish 8y ago
>The fundamental problem here is that laws and regulations written to deter some megacorp from systemically being sleazy to make a buck apply equally to small businesses. I don't think that's the _fundamental_ problem, because
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by annabellish 8y ago
It's possible that if you did that you might be okay _today_, if your kids are also gonna go to a "decent" school instead of a better school, if you're also gonna get a "decent" house, et cetera, and you happen
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by annabellish 8y ago
What the linked article is trying to explain is that the opposite is true. It isn't that everyone wants to live in the trendiest areas, it's that they _have_ to in order to find a job that has any hope of paying off their debts fa
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by annabellish 8y ago
I don't know if it's fair to call that "the Haskell approach", per-se. That destructors are not guaranteed to run, or run predictably, is generally a property of all fast garbage collectors. If you want a GC that can run
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by annabellish 8y ago
I have yet to see even a concept, never mind a product, that actually uses a blockchain in a net-positive way, especially for "the unbanked". Universally high transaction fees and slow confirmation times on anything that sees leit
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by annabellish 8y ago
Nnnh, only in the really straightforward case. It's often not the case that you can just `new` what you want with no parameters, and _that_'s what the factory pattern covers. To take the archetypical example, let's consider o
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by annabellish 8y ago
In the sense that more competition sometimes produces better outcomes, absolutely. However, going by Amazon's historic behaviour, it's an aggressive move which seems to continue their strategy of just using their massive scale to
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by annabellish 8y ago
IQ is highly predictive of the outcomes of future IQ tests, and to a degree academic performance (though much of academic measurement is based on similar theories, so this is unsurprising) There's much less corellation when you conside
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by annabellish 8y ago
IQ is a garbage measurement that isn't predictive of future results, yes. It's more the hard work and sacrifice part I'm disagreeing with.
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by annabellish 8y ago
I can tell that that isn't your story, because there's a lot of conjecture in there that isn't supported by the data. Even just starting with #1, the ability to pick a degree at _all_ is a privilege not automatically afforded
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by annabellish 8y ago
Do you have any research backing up this position? It seems to fly in the face of every reputable study I've seen, which suggests the opposite is true - average genes, hard work, and sacrifice is not enough to "guarantee" any
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by annabellish 8y ago
>More likely to be implemented In the big guys, sure. "My first drone" bought from some low-end chinese reseller over ebay probably isn't going to do anything which raises costs unless it has to, which is why regulation ex
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by annabellish 8y ago
Do you have a pension? A lot of us do, and a lot of them are just specifically structured investment schemes with some tax incentives, which means they're a seventy year bet that the stock market will "always go up". Historic
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by annabellish 8y ago
I really feel like this is just victim blaming. When financial advisors are telling people they can afford something because prices will always go up and will give them those loans, working out a payment plan they say that is affordable, ho
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by annabellish 8y ago
>Ignorance - developed countries have never sent so many people to university. And yet, ignorance is still a significant problem in society, whether it be today's flavour of bigotry, a continued denial of the dangers of climate chan
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by annabellish 8y ago
The YouTube far-right community is much bigger than one might expect. There's a lot of actual fascists on youtube who get a lot of algorithmic promotion, but leftist youtube tends to be smaller and much less extreme - no "far left
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by annabellish 8y ago
>I imagine today people are more familiar with that concept. You... would be surprised. I've been asked to implement "pixel perfect" designs on mid-six figure projects, and explaining that that isn't how the web works
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by annabellish 8y ago
_Managers_ can be extremely helpful, and I'd argue a good manager is just as much a creator of value. Managers != Capitalists. You cannot be a good manager if you don't trust the people you're managing, whether because you&#x
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by annabellish 8y ago
This attitude that the workplace is a minor, independent kingdom for the capitalists above you, where you shouldn't expect to be treated well or with respect is a scary one indeed. Workers are not untrustworthy beasts that need to be c
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by annabellish 8y ago
"just" The complete agreement of every EU nation is required to un-invoke article 50, because there are no provisions for it. Now, they'd likely do it, but that isn't a certainty, especially as the UK arguably gets a lot
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by annabellish 8y ago
The Surface Go is, on that note, a wonderful machine, though I feel one with too many compromises to hit mainstream right now. At 10" it hits the portability of a tablet, while the keyboard is good enough for real usage, not just in a

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