bamfly

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by bamfly 3y ago
> I'm genuinely puzzled why so many people believe in collectivism The topic wasn't collectivism. You keep trying to make it about that, I suppose because that's what you wanted to argue about.
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by bamfly 3y ago
Failure to embrace/invent capitalism sooner isn't the main reason basically all graphs measuring anything related to humans start to shoot up in 19th century. Lots of factors contributed. There must be (given it happened ) reas
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by bamfly 3y ago
Fair. I don't find HN correctable when it veers off of tech topics—confidently-wrong and often ideologically-fixed while lacking basic education in a topic is a bad mix; some folks try, but it mostly just adds to the noise or ends up..
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by bamfly 3y ago
Free markets do a fine job of justifying their value with straight facts, no need to reach like that. Apply whatever you're considering free markets to other places & times, and it wouldn't have had the same outcome. It took a
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by bamfly 3y ago
I'm finding the responses in this whole thread a strong argument for making STEM majors take more social science courses. Econ too, probably, especially behavioral. Way too many are a freshman-level bad "reading" of the situa
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by bamfly 3y ago
This is a fine position to hold, while excluding more-useful ones as "condoning bad behavior" or "excusing bad behavior" or whatever, if you want to judge people but not solve any problems. It's true, and also entir
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by bamfly 3y ago
A behavior being bad, and a system being arranged such that it selects for that bad behavior, are separate things. Observing that fixing the latter might eliminate most of the behavior doesn't mean you think the behavior's good.
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by bamfly 3y ago
Move to New Zealand. It'll be kinda OK, the government's stable and democratic, and they aren't gonna be machine-gunning waves of climate refugees (or else getting overrun and seeing QOL plummet) like most other democratic co
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by bamfly 3y ago
True—it usually wasn't an amazing living. But it was a not-totally-implausible direction to go, if perhaps not the best move. Isn't even that, now. IDK what the equivalent poorly-paid-but-is-a-career-in-fiction-writing move is n
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by bamfly 3y ago
My (Boomer) parents made a bunch of serious and expensive mistakes, and my dad didn't properly start a career until he was almost 30. He had a high school diploma. He was literally raised in a barn (the girls got to sleep in the very-s
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by bamfly 3y ago
For a time, you could make a living writing short stories for genre rags. A matter of a few decades, but still. Without needing to be a household name, even. They're still the only places that pay non-famous and non-trendy people any
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by bamfly 3y ago
> We believe in abundance because of millennia of life experience incorrectly or not. It's only not been near-universal to experience at least one severe famine that kills many people you know, in a full human lifespan, in the Weste
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by bamfly 3y ago
Oh thank god. These kids of mine were getting expensive.
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by bamfly 3y ago
The luddites lost, sure—but industrialization did make an absolute shit-ton of people miserable until the labor movement clawed back some of those productivity gains for the workers and curbed the worst abuses committed by capital. If we
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by bamfly 3y ago
> Also specially in the US with all the school shootings, banning kids from having phones that allow them to call for help seems like a really bad idea. Run the numbers. This isn't a justification for much, really. They're a sh
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by bamfly 3y ago
Teachers want to treat cell phones like gameboys, but parents won't let them. They throw an absolute fit. Hell, parents call their kids in class just to chat .
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by bamfly 3y ago
Anyone downvoting: talk to some teachers. Maybe start with junior high teachers and see if you can even stand moving up the grades. Your skin'll be crawling in no time. If you don't share this view, you don't know what's
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by bamfly 3y ago
Exactly. That's why I made my kids chain-smoke cigarettes for a month, then told them they couldn't have any more, but kept a pack in the open on the kitchen table. Gotta teach self-control.
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by bamfly 3y ago
You'll need to move to a very few, probably-expensive places, or scout private schools. Probably not the cheap kind. :-(
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by bamfly 3y ago
Mine can have one when they can pay for the phone and the plan. I reckon if they can maintain enough income to cover that, they're ready for one. Still can't have it late at night, though. And if they do anything too dumb with it,
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by bamfly 3y ago
> The first capitalists hated rent. They wanted to replace the “passive income” that landowners got from taxing their serfs’ harvest with active income from enclosing those lands and grazing sheep in order to get wool to feed to the new
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by bamfly 3y ago
> I would love a car that does not have a single display and just connects to my phone or pad for setting things up and streaming audio. You need a big screen for cameras and such, because visibility in a lot of modern cars is about th
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by bamfly 3y ago
Sure, I'm just not assuming it's entirely accurate :-)
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by bamfly 3y ago
To be clear, I'm not complaining about FAANG/finance comp rates. Anyone taking a bigger paycheck instead of that money going to capital is doing god's work (plus, building a foundation for future capital innovation, if you
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by bamfly 3y ago
Are we expecting colder, or warmer weather in NY and New England from this? It's not clear to me from reading some of these articles. The expected effect for Northern Europe—that I understand.
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by bamfly 3y ago
> The current technology is not so adequate in this area yet.. We use google workspaces/chat and meet. I curse it every week.. I think this is the one place AR/VR is almost ready to really help out. "Teleport" your
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by bamfly 3y ago
> it isnt “easier” to get an offer at lower ranges, those companies think they are taking a risk with their comp ranges too The trick is not to job-shop in bad markets. "Expensive" and "risky" to a startup in, I dunno
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by bamfly 3y ago
> low-paying For high values of "low paying". $150-250k TC, instead of $300-500k.
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by bamfly 3y ago
Future routing protocols (already under development) that include end-to-end route verification will be the end of it, I expect. "Democratizing" part of the Great Firewall and building it into the 'net itself. Only way around
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by bamfly 3y ago
Truly, unproductively fucking around with broken tools and terribly-designed libraries/APIs/SDKs is like 80% of the job.

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