pvdoom

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by pvdoom 2y ago
Climate engineering is pretty risky, and in the current stage, so small scale, by the time we are able to actually do something it will be too late. And relying on just investments and market also wont get us there fast enough. Nuclear is
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by pvdoom 2y ago
Lol, reading this in a call booth at work sure is something ...
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by pvdoom 2y ago
Yes, absolutely
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by pvdoom 2y ago
Re: first law ... one thing I have been thinking a lot lately is just how much like gardening software is. But in gardening we are not afraid to trim the plants and put them in shape as we go. In software we end up just adding stuff on top,
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by pvdoom 2y ago
I think we can look into the notion from complexity theory of attractor states. If you want to make a change, you need to shift your system enough that it moves into another state. In more normal words - the codebase will fight your changes
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by pvdoom 2y ago
During the USSR, the Soviet government pushed the cyclic script on populations that speak very different languages, sometimes forcing them to abandon other scripts, i.e. arabic. Same during the Russian Empire. Some Central European countrie
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by pvdoom 2y ago
Well, rental as another profit-driven thing, that has multiple consequences - it removes property away from people, it prevents people from getting their own place, it creates concentration of wealth, it drives policies that favour landlord
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by pvdoom 2y ago
> A primary root cause of homelessness is lack of affordable housing. Nah, I think that is still a consequence. The root cause is the fundamental assumption that homes should be a commodity that is bought, sold and rented out for profit,
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by pvdoom 2y ago
An alphabet is connected to a language. And controlling the language and its writing, especially related to religion is a very powerful tool. How you do communication, what culture is relevant for you, etc. And that happens even today - ju
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by pvdoom 2y ago
> So, author boils everything down to anti-Western politics a 1000 years ago and insists Cyrillic just got lucky that it spread so wide. It's a mix of accurate and inaccurate. It is based on a 1000 years old anti-western politics, b
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by pvdoom 2y ago
During the time we are talking about politics and religion are one and the same ...
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by pvdoom 2y ago
It's a bit more complicated. The OG cyclic was the the Glagolitic - which is very different from the greek alphabet. The proper Cyrillic, while based on the greek alphabet, was developed then specifically and consciously as a politica
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by pvdoom 2y ago
> It's a different you. I think some inhibitions or blockers fall off, and you kind of run on dream logic. I had some major surgery and my sister was supposed to come in and help out right after it. She came right as they were bring
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by pvdoom 2y ago
I think there is some nuance to it.The absolutely best thing for clean code for me has been taking courses in academic writing. But also why would it activate just the language centres of the brain - especially if you are asked to predict w
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by pvdoom 2y ago
My sister is in SF, and even though she nominally makes a little more than I do, I end up having much more disposable income, and can afford a lot more things, which is ... weird feeling
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by pvdoom 2y ago
Yup, which is probably one of the reasons why those third places get undone
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by pvdoom 2y ago
Yeah, its more of an ideal vs reality thing ....
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by pvdoom 2y ago
> Ideally it's should be a balance between customers and business Nah, I think for it to be a proper third place, revenue and business should really really be secondary to everything.
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by pvdoom 2y ago
Nah, thats not Denmark, thats a particular racist government
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by pvdoom 2y ago
> 55% personal income tax rate? That's not really correct. It is more like 36%. And also it is more complicated than that, as the more you earn the higher it gets, but it's roughly around 36%. The 55% is for example for seconda
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by pvdoom 2y ago
Well do remember that a lot of the recycling plastic, personal responsibility, carbon footprint thing was literally made up as a marketing gimmick by fossil fuel ...
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by pvdoom 2y ago
There is something to be said there about power in society, ruling classes, interests and that German dude with the beard
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by pvdoom 2y ago
Maybe then we shouldn't be putting technologies like the internet in the hands of profit-driven companies. Most of the internet driven technology is inherently un-monetizeable, but also very useful, and ads are actively detrimental to
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by pvdoom 2y ago
I had the exact opposite experience :( Stating things like "what is this shit"or "This is an absolute dumpster" was taken as demoralising colleagues ...
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by pvdoom 2y ago
Interestingly enough, what survives as pumpkin spice today used to be an incredibly popular spice mix - powder douce - going back to the Middle Ages, and used on everything from apple pie, to roast meat, to wine. Mulled wine is basically pu
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by pvdoom 2y ago
I've been rather nerdy on Operations Research. It seems that today it's a mostly unknown field limited to few companies. Maybe it turned out to be too difficult for ordinary managers, who just wanted dashboards, maybe people weren
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by pvdoom 2y ago
> one may make good progress tuning one part of a system only to discover that a larger constraint prevails as the true bottleneck. In my latest job this was exactly the case. We were modernising a good old big ball of mud. And we made v
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by pvdoom 2y ago
> Sadly, most of modern management refuses to make these changes, and too many folks in the trenches don't want to take ownership of their work and just want to be told what to do. Interestingly enough this is something I see in ma
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by pvdoom 2y ago
- Be very mindful of the "level of recursion" you are trying to express - i.e. how many trees to include when it should be a forest. - Look into the C4 model - that is great for expressing architecture. - Have a Miro board with mu
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by pvdoom 2y ago
> Should each owner run around and tell each employee globally how to do their job, what is the goal, budget, restrictions, rules, timelines etc? Of course not, but there are many useful ways to organise this. Hell you can still have man

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