malthuswaswrong

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by malthuswaswrong 4y ago
over the years I have seen a good 30% refuse to do it I'll do reasonable take homes, but I'll often pass on interactive coding sessions. I don't like coding in a browser, and I use my dev tools as a major crutch. "Wh
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by malthuswaswrong 4y ago
There is too much to learn out there It's crazy. I sometimes get the itch to learn a new language like Rust, but I haven't even come close to reaching the bottom of all the languages I already know. They are inventing new thin
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by malthuswaswrong 4y ago
I'm working with a junior dev now and the phrase that I keep repeating is "slow the fuck down". He's completely frantic with the copy and paste. I'm watch him google something, click the first link, paste the code
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by malthuswaswrong 4y ago
There are already self replicating carbon drawing machines. They are called trees.
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by malthuswaswrong 4y ago
Everything is going to be okay.
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by malthuswaswrong 4y ago
>Are you unaware that the Free Software Movement is a political movement first and foremost? Bingo. It is a political movement. One rooted in idiotic ideologies that no thinking person takes seriously. Communism was defeated by taking
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by malthuswaswrong 4y ago
>its possible to convince people of really anything with enough exposure Not really. You can spend days, weeks, and months; millions of dollars; thousands of paid shill accounts; all geared towards selling a single lie. And that lie ca
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by malthuswaswrong 4y ago
>Within reason of course, nobody wants Nazis or Pedophiles to spread their opinions because they are obscene. Who decides what's reasonable? Who decides what constitutes a "Nazi" or a "Pedophile"? If someone tr
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by malthuswaswrong 4y ago
That's a very diplomatic way to say he's crazy and people who put him on a pedestal are crazy for doing it; despite occasionally have a valid point. Also I agree 100%.
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by malthuswaswrong 4y ago
>Do not most free democratic countries practice 'secret ballot' voting specifically because not doing so caused all kinds of problems like voter intimidation? Seems like you answered your own question right there. A faction in
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by malthuswaswrong 4y ago
Public voting is not status quo outside of Debian. In the real world the only places that have public voting are places that are controlled by dictators.
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by malthuswaswrong 4y ago
But it's deceptive and political to complain 3 and 4 are too similar but then not also state that 1 and 2 were too similar. 2 also lost votes to 1 being similar. Also 3 and 4 were not similar. 3 would have changed the constitution to
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by malthuswaswrong 4y ago
But NOTA and Affirm the Public Vote are not the same. Choosing ATPV would have changed the constitution. NOTA would not have changed the constitution. If this were an American election full of idiots and people who have no idea what they
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by malthuswaswrong 4y ago
>If those two were represented as a single "NOTA" option, that option would have won the ballot in terms of votes. Looks like Option 1 and 2 were similar enough to "split the vote" too. What would have happened if 1
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by malthuswaswrong 5y ago
There are exceptions. Mostly in the realm of regulations. Sometimes you pay for programming that you simply have to do by law, even if you don't actually want it.
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by malthuswaswrong 5y ago
>if that were the case we would all run "programs " 24/7 on our computers and produce infinite value. Ever heard of bitcoin mining? j/k :D
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by malthuswaswrong 5y ago
A penny saved is a penny earned. Many programmers are employed to automate tasks and reduce labor requirements. That adds value to the organization. You are splitting hairs by saying "the program" vs "the programming"
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by malthuswaswrong 5y ago
If you work 40 hours a day and you feel everyone around you is moving in slow motion and you need to fill your day with extra stuff just to give everyone else a chance to catch up then you probably aren't supposed to be working a salar
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by malthuswaswrong 5y ago
>because results on other sites aren't trustworthy Reddit is gamed way more than google. Paid posters, moderation of anything against a narrative. Google search may be dying, but reddit ain't doing much better.
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by malthuswaswrong 5y ago
I have to occasionally remind myself that games have not become bad. I've gotten old. I can only imagine what it's like to be 12 and play Fortnight. They can republish Command and Conquer, but that feel will never be real again
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by malthuswaswrong 5y ago
What is a fairer way to allocate resources than you produce for me and I produce for you? Seems to me any other system is open to being gamed. Sure there are people born into generational wealth. But those are like one in a million and ge
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by malthuswaswrong 5y ago
That's one theory. Another theory is that the ad industry is exploiting a human nature that has been there long before ads or industry. How would we test that theory? How would we test if humans have always wanted things or if nobody
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by malthuswaswrong 5y ago
>More likely they hired workers who created that wealth. More likely they hired workers and everyone created wealth together. A worker can't work until someone builds the assembly line, buys the materials, and sells the final produ
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by malthuswaswrong 5y ago
I don't disagree with any of that. People should pursue alternate energy sources. However world governments should not be putting their fingers on the scales in favor of green energy. Legislators who also just happen to have financi
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by malthuswaswrong 5y ago
We don't do that currently because there hasn't been a new plant built in 50 years and the designs of the old plants were specifically engineered to make materials for nuclear weapons. If there wasn't a huge stigma against nu
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by malthuswaswrong 5y ago
Agreed. It could also be real but no where near as serious as they are claiming. Mankind went from the first manned flight to footprints on the moon in 60 years. I'm not losing any sleep about a mathematically insignificant projecti
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by malthuswaswrong 5y ago
Nuclear is totally economically viable. It's not viable in the current regulatorily climate. Investing $1 billion in a nuclear plant that will return profits for 80 years is an easy financial decision. Investing $1 billion in a nucl
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by malthuswaswrong 5y ago
That's how you know none of this is real. If mankind was actually on the brink of extinction all options would be on the table. Especially one that offers free unlimited energy. Mankind does not have an energy generation problem. I
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by malthuswaswrong 5y ago
False. We learned that an agrarian society can resist democracy and nation building. They were incapable of withstanding military destruction. They didn't even last 90 days. In fact they've already destroyed the military infras
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by malthuswaswrong 5y ago
Would you change your opinion if you were presented with hard data proving that 80% of wealthy people earned that wealth by delivering goods and services to people who voluntarily paid for it, and only 20% of the wealthy inherited it and th

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