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I'm not sure taxing them more heavily will actually result in significantly more tax revenue in the long run. Think about it: to pay for this tax, the rich will need to sell their …

Test cases being nonsensical and not testing any real world cases was extremely common even before AI, in my experience. When teams rely on metrics like code and branch coverage, d…

That is precisely what Valve should do. It is unfortunate that we need scalpers, simply because companies are bizarrely unwilling to adjust their pricing based on market conditions…

You're right. It's not just about willingness to pay, but also how much someone deserves to own a Steam Machine, which we determine by their ability to pay. It's not a perfect syst…

That tracks. Active vocabulary means the set of words that someone knows well enough to actually use in their speech or writing. That's always going to be smaller than the set of w…

Even more unpopular opinion: universities don't exist to create an educated populace. People don't need universities to learn, they can read textbooks on their own. Universities ex…

Nobody said it is their fault. But it is their responsibility. United States immigration policy is supposed to benefit the United States. It doesn't need to be fair. The US can bom…

What websites a person is allowed to access should not be a matter of debate, it is for the individual to decide. Other people's opinions are not relevant. Even if 99% of people th…

Legal reform is needed to prevent American companies from complying with foreign censorship laws. What happens if a tech company decides to follow EU law worldwide, just because it…

How do you know it was the SSRI? To cherry-pick a quote from a review of SSRI studies: >the magnitude of symptom reduction was about 40% with antidepressants and about 30% with pla…

The fight is not just about privacy, it is about freedom. Age-gating websites violates the freedom of people who are under a certain age. Young people have the same rights to free …

Try giving this prompt to your favorite LLM: "Write unit tests with full line and branch coverage for this function: def add_two_numbers(x, y): return x + y + 1 " Sometimes the LLM…

How about instead of taxes, we have a $10,000 per year subscription fee to live in society. Maybe different depending on area, like $20,000 a year to live in NYC but only $2,000 pe…

Neither. Tests should be written by developers only when it saves them time. The cost of writing them should be negative. Instead of writing hundreds of useless tests so that the c…

The main benefit of writing tests is that is forces the developer to think about what they just wrote and what it is supposed to do. I often will find bugs while writing tests. I'v…

That sounds like it would penalize renting in favor of homeownership. I'm not in support of that, renting offers people flexibility and is not inherently worse than owning.

Ticket prices going up is actually good for mass adoption. If they are too low, you will see people riding the train who are only using the train because they are too poor to affor…

Is that just an LLM thing? I thought that as a society, we decided a long time ago that competence doesn't really matter. Why else would we be giving high school diplomas to people…

I think it's 5. I was very impressed when I first started using AI tools. Felt like I could get so much more done. A couple of embarrassing production incidents later, I no longer …

Labeling content as SFW/NSFW is the first step towards censorship. Seeing a butt never hurt anyone, and we shouldn't try to sanitize the Internet just to make it safe for children.…

You're confusing the concept of free speech with the First Amendment. Any time a person is prevented from expressing themselves is a violation of their freedom of speech, even if t…

Ideally your employer would support paying your salary using electronic cash. Or you can offer goods and services in exchange for electronic cash.

We need exactly the opposite: it should be impossible to determine the location of an Internet user. The fact that a user's IP address generally reveals their country is a massive …

You think that common sense legislation is a more realistic solution than crypto? You can never rely on governments or corporations to have reasonable policies. Any payment system …

Humans also do not have a self, merely the illusion of a self.