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I would be interested to hear of any in my nation that would have me, seems like quite an ask to allow a stranger to join your community when they bring little of value. That's not…

> These days, anyone can get a free K-12 education, and then loans for college. Generational wealth is not required. Our system is based around competition, where advantage compoun…

Because she believes that the economy is closer to zero sum than you do. One person having a lot means another person has less, not just in terms of material distribution either, b…

> (b) most people could simply opt out, own nothing, and go live in the woods if they wanted to, but would strongly prefer not to. Almost every single person I know would rather do…

These comparisons are tricky, because software in particular has always been a bit weird about what it means by "engineer". The article gestures at this, the majority of the people…

If you make a "Are we X yet?" website, surely the answer must be yes or no, or at least something equally terse. That's the joke right, reducing something complicated to a simple y…

> one that doesn't just boil down to "a billion is really really a lot of money". Why? That's the point. It's too much damn money for one person to realistically earn. We all know …

> To be fair, reality is a special case Thank you, you made me laugh in earnest. This is one of the funniest things I've read today.

Winnings.

Surely you can see that not trusting mainstream economics shouldn't be as controversial as the hard sciences. Mainstream economics consistently fails to make correct or replicatabl…

> If it was unfair, they would presumably reject the offer outright. My word do people actually believe this. What theoretical econ 101 textbook are you living in?

Which was not contradictory, as they were saying they wanted to quit. I also want to quit all social media, including hackernews, in the same way I want to quit eating Mcdonalds an…

Dead on. If we could wave our magic wands and ban "harmful social media" without negative externalities we'd probably do it, but we can't. Sometimes I think legislators think laws …

I'm really torn on this. On the one hand I agree with you 100%, whilst on the other I have little faith that our government will implement in a non-damaging way. However, I'd almos…

It surprises me when people think engineering, software or no, isn't about the physical world of humans, psychological, imaginative, aesthetic or otherwise. Everything I do uses "h…

It's practically guaranteed. Most people will have no more need to learn how to perform miscellaneous knowledge tasks well if at all, and thus won't.

In every case up until now, a jump in abstraction has moved us forwards in ease of understanding the underlying artifact at a conceptual, human level. High level languages are effe…

> it's really hard to imagine why you think you'd have a better take on this than Google. Do you mean this as an appeal to Google being the home to great talent, or more as an endo…

They are absolutely deniable. Huge swathes of people deny them.

Perhaps you have framed this overly strongly, but I think I get what you mean. I have worked in companies where "X is not complete" would be logged as a bug. Even beyond that, non-…

I liked this article (although I found the scrolling effects distracting) > If you want somebody else to care about a thing, you have to care about it, too. This has always been th…

I still struggle to accept this when my colleagues are producing implementations with AI assistance that are consistently broken and don't do what they think they do. As yet I can'…

I am anti-gun despite guns being extremely effective at propelling metal at high velocity. I am not anti high-velocity metal, nor do I believe guns should never be used under any c…

I find it hard to agree that the stdlib is poorly designed and implemented. In my entire career it has pretty much worked entirely to spec. Yes, it can exhibit non-optimal performa…