knowledge-clay

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by knowledge-clay 11mo ago
European labor regulation and European tax rates have nothing to do with each other. The former is about restrictions on how employers can treat employees. The latter is about funding a robust welfare state. For what it's worth, both a
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by knowledge-clay 1y ago
> Because labor protection costs money Labor protection does not "cost money". It is a limit on the degree to which workers can be exploited.
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by knowledge-clay 1y ago
> Because then the question arises: What if the current way of handling labor protection in the EU (as one of many components) leads to destroying yours and everyone elses standard of living, simply because it's unaffordable? The GD
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by knowledge-clay 1y ago
I'd rather live in a society with strong labor protections than one that is "more innovative", whatever that means.
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by knowledge-clay 2y ago
There are commuter rails that go from NJ to NYC
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by knowledge-clay 3y ago
I’ve used Adelie, which has its own postscript-like notation to render font and graphics inside a tiny VM. I love it https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/adelie.html
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by knowledge-clay 3y ago
Perhaps on an individual level, but on a policy level, it makes sense that the safety standards for flying are higher for flying than for driving.
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by knowledge-clay 3y ago
> What's the back of the envelope on whether the 737 Max is more dangerous than driving? Driving is an absurdly dangerous mode of transportation, so it’s probably not the best comparison.
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by knowledge-clay 3y ago
Drugs did not cause rents in Seattle to triple over the last 15 years
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by knowledge-clay 3y ago
I recently google searched "80cm to inches" and it gave me the result for "80 meters to inches". I can't figure out how it would make this mistake aside from some poorly conceived LLM usage
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by knowledge-clay 3y ago
> This will not bother most people. Most people are willing to use GMail, even though it snoops on their private emails and uses that info for advertising purposes. While I agree with your larger point and am no fan of Google's priv
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by knowledge-clay 3y ago
80% of people in manhattan have no personal vehicle and I would not say they are "living like it's the 1500s". The problem is that most of America has car-dependent infrastructure.
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by knowledge-clay 3y ago
This looks very similar to RRDTool's query language. Is this a fork, or was it just inspired by RRDTool?
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by knowledge-clay 3y ago
There is a lot more software that currently exists written in C than in Dusk OS's forth dialect. The C compiler allows Dusk to run this software (once it's ported over)
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by knowledge-clay 3y ago
It does have a GUI. Not much is written for it yet, though => https://git.sr.ht/~vdupras/duskos/tree/master/item/fs/doc/sy...
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by knowledge-clay 3y ago
I would frame it differently, "collapse" can mean any number of conditions that exist in the world today -- internet access that is limited, censored/liable of being shut down, or nonexistent. Same with electricity. We also r
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by knowledge-clay 3y ago
It's much, much, much simpler and more compact. The core system is about 8000 lines of code. The C compiler is 1400. Its memory footprint is extremely small (1MB to have a C compiler running on bare metal in the PC architecture). From
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by knowledge-clay 3y ago
One of the most interesting Forth projects to me currently is Dusk OS, a 32-bit operating system written in Forth that includes its own C compiler, with various porting efforts under way https://duskos.org/
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by knowledge-clay 3y ago
> arose as efficient Capitalism does not drive towards 'efficiency' in some general sense. It is full of dead weight, destruction, forced scarcity, waste, and bloat. This is not accidental, it is essential to how the system fun
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by knowledge-clay 3y ago
> their need to advertise admissions, how they talk to the media and university rating services, their relations with China, the student lawsuits they face, their need to manage relations with Oxford the political unit This all sounds to
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by knowledge-clay 3y ago
> But we're talking about New York city so you've already granted the port authority wide latitude and restricting your movements and controlling the population. This is a bizarre argument. Cars are heavily policed: they must b
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by knowledge-clay 3y ago
> The problem with small communities is that you don't necessarily have enough competent and available people to run the system reliably. Or worse, the people in charge leave, sometimes taking the servers with them, and no one else
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by knowledge-clay 3y ago
communities can be both exclusive and publicly readable! I know many such examples
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by knowledge-clay 3y ago
Sure, they vacuum things up, but people have agency. They choose to use platforms. They can choose to use different ones. I can't influence every person's choices, but I can choose how I invest my time and social energy, and prese
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by knowledge-clay 3y ago
The solution to a lot of problems is simply to not scale platforms past something like 1000 users. At that level, you can have a community that is guided by individual people and their relationships, rather than anonymized and centralized.
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by knowledge-clay 3y ago
Do you think people are more likely to abuse drugs if they are on the streets, or if they are housed?
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by knowledge-clay 3y ago
My point is simply that policy should be based on what is effective and humane. Keeping people housed only based on the contingency of their sobriety is neither. Under no circumstances is it better for someone to be unhoused than housed. Ho
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by knowledge-clay 3y ago
> I'm open to giving someone free housing if they aren't on drugs Sobriety is not a condition of housing. Many housed people drink and do drugs and don't get kicked out of their apartments for it. Why should we apply a har
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by knowledge-clay 3y ago
- Direct patronage - Nonprofits - Public funding
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by knowledge-clay 3y ago
> Cheapskates will do the wildest of mental gymnastics to justify why they won't pay for the premium option. You're the reason why the internet sucks. Ads make the internet suck

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