jahaja

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by jahaja 6y ago
> As a mostly js/frontend/react dev at the time I was deep into React ecosystem for building SPAs. Not to be too dismissive but I think that's the problem. Modern SPAs with React et al are very bloated and imo a massive wr
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by jahaja 6y ago
It's a fckn disgrace that you and globular-toast haven't been banned already. Cancel culture you think? No it's just basic GC to not let a few dozens relics from the 1950s poison the environment with misogynistic bullshit for
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by jahaja 6y ago
I have certainly missed how for example Scandinavian countries fits with this: > In every instance I've seen, redistribution does limit mobility - as well as introduces a middleman (the redistributors that steal/war/lie&#x
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by jahaja 6y ago
I also have a working class background, but in Sweden. The last thing I would like to do is to pull up the ladder that enabled me and so many others a better chance to a secure and comfortable life. The inheritance tax was actually recently
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by jahaja 6y ago
I don't understand why people go to such great lengths to give current injustices the benefit of the doubt ad infinitum, even constructing ridiculously rare and hypothetical scenarios like that. The real outrage here is the millions an
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by jahaja 6y ago
> In every instance I've seen, redistribution does limit mobility Much of Western-Europe show you otherwise, I'm not sure how you could have missed that?
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by jahaja 6y ago
That's just pathological.
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by jahaja 6y ago
Your so focused on your own take on human nature that you ignore obvious evidence disproving it, namely that Scandinavia isn't a hell hole.
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by jahaja 6y ago
I'm sorry but this all strikes me as rather delusional. The reason why functional languages doesn't take off is because programming languages are tools, not an end in themselves. Carpenters that are obsessed with perfecting their
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by jahaja 6y ago
> Because if and when the socialists take over, I can guarantee they won’t afford the capitalists the same freedom. You should know your enemy better than lazily repeating Cold War rhetoric. 99% of all socialists today are firmly democra
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by jahaja 6y ago
Would be curious to know if he has changed his view since then. Also I think that the source code of his projects in Python pretty much validates the point of writing simple code. He has made great user-facing APIs (flask) but as soon you d
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by jahaja 6y ago
The point I was trying to make that "free" and "unfree" isn't as binary as some people like to think. The former slaves weren't free from the economic coercion their destitution entailed. Just because you aren&
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by jahaja 6y ago
A socialist system adamantly defending their intellectual property to prevent poor countries from developing generics? Sounds pretty rare.
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by jahaja 6y ago
> If slavery had been critical to the U.S. economy, you would've expected a massive economic collapse right after the civil war. But there wasn't even a blip. Do you believe that the newly emancipated slaves retreated to their
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by jahaja 6y ago
It's not the same thing?
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by jahaja 6y ago
> When American use the word “people”, it primarily refers to groups of Americans. Should they be more inclusive and invent a term, say, maybe peoplxs, that includes also non-Americans? That’s absurd, of course. Sorry, but this makes no
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by jahaja 6y ago
> Moving the goalposts. I said that planned obsolescence is not, as you originally alleged, a general property of a market-driven economy. I had to ask, because that's otherwise your MO. > Because like I already explained, produc
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by jahaja 6y ago
> It does in the case of the word "latinos", but it only says that the group is not all-female: this is the gender neutral form. And that requires information about a groups composition ahead of time doesn't it? Anyway, I
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by jahaja 6y ago
But "Latin" is ambiguous and normally not used to describe people of Latin-American decent, at least not in Europe, and the emphasis in America seem to be towards Spanish speaking countries rather than the Latin/Romance langu
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by jahaja 6y ago
> It’s like if I started calling you “Swedix.” It would be comparable if English already divided up in Swedish and Swedishess or similar.
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by jahaja 6y ago
Why did you skip the Swedish example? That's the most similar to this. It's just a shortcut. This is English speaking folks that have adopted a Spanish word and are now making it gender neutral by skipping the last letter. The
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by jahaja 6y ago
You seem to be mixing gendered nouns with something that's actually referring to actual people. Two different things. In German for example every job ad title need to be suffixed with (m/w). It would be handy if it was gender neut
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by jahaja 6y ago
It seems to be a bit strange to complain about how widespread the use is of a newly coined term. I assume that much of this "outrage" is some kind of a "culture war" thing. Instead of focusing on important stuff people g
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by jahaja 6y ago
What would be the point of that? "Americans" is already gender neutral?
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by jahaja 6y ago
All this huff and puff just for someone using a gender neutral term? I can't understand why people get upset by something so unimportant. Or to get upset for not using it for that matter.
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by jahaja 6y ago
> Yes, one can cherry pick 8 sources. Most of your sources were unscientific media articles, and most of those from left-wing activist outlets. That was like just the first 8 articles describing it, as I said, there are certainly many mo
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by jahaja 6y ago
> You claim it's cherry-picked while you cherry picked any article you could find supporting your claim. I cherry-picked 8 articles? There are so many articles about it that it's not hard to produce 20 more if you want. Or perh
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by jahaja 6y ago
> You provided no evidence at all Evidence: "one reddit post about a single product, cars, deffo not cherry-picked" No evidence at all: "8 links, including an economics professor and an article form an economic journal in
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by jahaja 6y ago
You just keep replying with shallow anecdotes and telling me that I'm a ignorant layman without saying why. Apparently ignoring the links as well. Apple is one of the most common examples of planned obsolescence, so much so that nation
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by jahaja 6y ago
> It is not obvious at all. There is no evidence at all of a general trend toward planned obsolescence. This is another layman's talking point. All incentives in capitalism encourages quick cyclic consumption, and corporations spen

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