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by tmcb 3mo ago
> these types of compliance efforts can mean completely redoing multiple core systems to handle privacy, wipeout, audit, reporting, per-location policies, etc etc. Maybe the phrasing is unfortunate, but if compliance to the law requires
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Monetary Commons – A Trust Fund for Everyone(monetarycommons.com)
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by tmcb 1y ago
Of course not. To me, HN’s content is pretty similar what pop tech websites had 20-30 years ago. One valid question, though, is whether or not you should add more pop tech content to your information diet. That, of course, is up to you. Wha
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by tmcb 1y ago
Well, cargo cult programming is definitely a thing, and has been for a long time. It may “deliver value”, but it is not guaranteed. I believe entrepreneurs have an easier time having AI do the work for them because their value assessment fr
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by tmcb 1y ago
This is industrial-grade FOMO. They will take the jobs of the first handful of people. The moment it is obvious that LLMs are a productivity booster, people will learn how to use it, just like it happened with any other technology before.
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by tmcb 1y ago
I did read the article. I concede that I might not have understood it. Again, I never said it is wrong , but rather that it has a blind spot. I am familiar with Joe Armstrong’s work because I worked on a proprietary (and rather worse tbf)
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by tmcb 1y ago
Actually, now I thought about it, I know exactly what irked me about the approach. I hope the author takes it as constructive feedback: Saying "let it crash is a tagline that actually means something else because the BEAM is supposed t
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by tmcb 1y ago
No need for the snarky comment. If I am wrong, that is fine. Of course Joe Armstrong could explain what I meant, but in a much better way: https://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2003-March/007... (edit
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by tmcb 1y ago
I actually skimmed the article before posting. I have some exposure to Erlang, but not to Elixir. As I’ve already mentioned, I think the author’s covering of application behavior is OK, but there is more to the tagline than meets the eye.
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by tmcb 1y ago
Maybe I didn’t make myself clear. “Let it crash” is not something that should be thought of at the component level, it should be thought of at the system level. The fact that the application crashes “gracefully” or not is not what is really
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by tmcb 1y ago
It is very common to interpret taglines by their face value, and I believe the author did just that, although the point brought up is valid. In order to “let it crash”, we must design the system in a way that crashes would not be catastroph
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by tmcb 1y ago
> But as a whole I'd guess that especially export-focused Eurozone members like Germany would welcome a depreciation of the Euro. Yes, but only if it is guaranteed that their imports would depreciate similarly. Otherwise, say, Germ
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by tmcb 1y ago
> In a capitalist society, wages would rise and conditions will improve as people are willing to pay as much as needed for health care. People also need food, which is a labor-intensive business, and it is one of the main drivers of huma
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by tmcb 1y ago
Give them a shoddy paper based off a wrong Excel formula like the one they used to support austerity measures. Maybe that’ll do. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/04/microsoft-excel-...
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by tmcb 1y ago
I am not sure if I agree with his conclusion, but some economists are of the opinion that countries in Northern Europe used the euro as a political tool to protect their own internal markets by making goods produced in the poorer countries
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by tmcb 1y ago
If the ultra-rich don’t pay their fair share of taxes, yes.
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by tmcb 1y ago
Not the economy as a whole, but there are some aspects of the economy that are. Indeed, negative externalities can be worse than a zero-sum game to those affected. To be frank, this whole “the economy is not a zero-sum game” argument is ki
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by tmcb 1y ago
No, sorry, I didn’t make myself clear. I said that I disagree with that take. Maybe you are not familiar with it, which is something that was raised by some people (maybe jokingly, I don’t know, but it made the rounds in left-wing social
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by tmcb 1y ago
Also, are you available to organize so that we could bring some consciousness to the public about how men are disproportionately affected by workplace fatalities in developed countries? The condition being that we first agree on the causes
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by tmcb 1y ago
Oh, my bad. I thought that the names and pictures of the deceased 66-year-old man and 16-year-old boy would be enough. I guess we can brush this one under the carpet, right? Nothing to see here. Workplace fatalities are a serious issue,
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by tmcb 1y ago
Yes, that sounds like the perfect conversation starter. If that doesn't work, which I believe is highly unlikely, maybe try incorporating elements of speech as those found in this right-wing publication, the World Socialist Web Site:
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by tmcb 1y ago
The OSH Act was passed in 1970. I wonder why it doesn't have "for men" in its name... Pardon my laziness, but this is the best graph I could find on the reduction of workplace-related injuries: https://fitsmallbus
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by tmcb 1y ago
Well, certainly not by threatening to cut funding of humanities research grants. Otherwise they won't be able to conduct research such as this one... But I digress. The "Violence Against Women Act" is from 1994. Most stat
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by tmcb 1y ago
I can’t reply to your other comment for some reason. You got me, I did not express myself well. I should have said “working people”. I framed it as a women’s issue since you said that the solution to that would be forcing men to trade pla
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by tmcb 1y ago
> So will the government mandate that 50% of stay at home parents be men? Well, obviously not. But there is always the caveat that suggesting government providing adequate child care to working women is communism of whatever. Is it fea
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by tmcb 1y ago
It is actually the opposite. I assume there is no inherent reason why people from other demographics with the required skills and merit cannot be found. Otherwise, there must be a reason why they can’t, and people who think that the curre
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by tmcb 1y ago
I know this is not an accurate portrayal of your point, but this sounds very much like the “the left needs its own Joe Rogan” argument to me. The problem with it is that we delegate the duties towards our fellow citizens to the talking head
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by tmcb 1y ago
> I’m responsible for all the world’s injustices and ethnic/gender/sexual preference defines a human. Rest assured you are not. But this could turn out to be true, maybe in a very minor way, the moment your resentment towards
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by tmcb 1y ago
If you are eating too many carbs and you go to the doctor and he says "you should be eating way less carbs", he is not necessarily telling you to quit all carbs from your diet cold turkey. It is safe to say that men are ~50% of an
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by tmcb 1y ago
> I am directly threatened by their program. […] Could the left imagine being a little more democratic and making a few more concessions towards… omg, white males? I am not from the US, I am originally from Latin America. I am considere

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