> How about good ol' morals? We don't need to get rid of capitalism, Yes we do. Capitalism, even at the somewhat attenuated level it exists in the modern mixed economy compared to the original system of the same name, creates too strong of a reward system for immoral behavior to correct the moral problems while preserving the system. “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on hi…
That's true to an extent but I think that problem increases as that salary (or, more likely, capital gain) increases. So just limiting total wealth increases would likely reduce the temptation to sell out.
Well, sure, but that limitation is very much contrary to capitalism. A very good idea, but definitely moving away from capitalism.
There’s nothing wrong with caring about your job and what you do. Just don’t buy into any of the horse shit about missions and so on. The bosses are ruthlessly capitalist so it’s immoral to expect the workers to be any less self interested.
At the end of the day your own life will be miserable if everyone is self interested because of those "bosses".
Just with work. Loads of things to do outside of work. I volunteer for example. Feels good.
Yeah, it's always "wrong socialism" when it's built. But the next one (after the next one, after the next one, after the next one) will be the right one and will not murder millions of people, despite the previous attempts doing exactly that. Please go away already, we had enough of suffering caused by ivory-tower theoreticians unable to perceive the reality.
It's important to remember that when the British Empire triggered a famine in Ireland justifying it using the free market , it had nothing do with capitalism. But when Stalin murders millions with a famine, it's all communism's fault. This is rightthink, and belief in it is the model for being a good little citizen. Wrongthink would be to consider both of these crimes to be separate from the economic system which the…
I know a number of places where you were rewarded for "rightthink" and could be imprisoned or murdered for "wrongthink". Most of them had been countries having "People's Democratic" or "Socialist" or something in that vein in their names. I'm sure that's also a pure coincidence having nothing to do with those systems. Though, to be fair, modern followers of those doctrines made a serious headway to implementing the same approach in countries which don't have such words in their names and even considered "capitalist", so I assume in a short while you'd have another excellent argument - that freedom of speech also wasn't particularly suppressed by totalitarian (which is, all of them) socialist governments, it's just something totally separate. Which always happens under socialism, but that's just a coincidence, and it was a wrong socialism anyway, under the right one it won't happen.
One only need a web server to share gpx files really. Planning routes can be easily done offline with desktop apps. Don't even start with mobile use, I have never seen a web based tool where you could plan a route by tapping on a smartphone screen without pulling your hair out of desperation.
Well, Komoot worked quite well for exactly that use case. I have also only very rarely found tools even in the desktop space that were quite as mature as Komoot for that use case. Also the question remains, what do you navigate the planned routes / gpx traces? What happens if you notice you want to improvise and replan to hit some target on the way you saw in the distance while on the trail? This was (and currently s…
Most people doing this on a regular basis do not use komoot on a smartphone anyway as the battery life of a smartphone with gps activated at all time is very short compared to a dedicated bicycle or hiking computer.
> " A dynamic economy benefits everyone " Everyone is equal, just some are more equal than others. It benefits people who are highly skilled, clever, healthy, wealthy, young, with market-desirable skills in a market-desirable area, with no external family or life problems or responsibilities, and those who own and run companies, more than 95% of everyone else. > " where I can be laid off with zero notice (and I have…
There's no need for either designated probationary periods or notice periods. Social safety nets are a good thing in general but should be provided directly by governments rather than by private employers obeying government mandates. Imposing any requirements on employers beyond basic health and safety rules slows down economic growth and hurts everyone in the long run.
Define health and safety rules, and then define the basic ones that are a subset of the entire ruleset.
If anyone is interested i develop a free and open source alternative to komoot. I am currently using it for a 6 months trip in Europe : https://github.com/Akylas/alpimaps The idea of it is to be able to do everything offline, from map browsing to route computing, elevation profile... I am 99% sure i use the same library for route computing which is the amazing Valhalla computing framework. It propose multiple routes…
The key feature for me -- and one reason why I've used Komoot, is to sync routes with my Wahoo bike computer.
I use Garmin so it may be different, but if Wahoo is like Garmin, you should be able to import a GPX file into their app and then tell it to sync to the computer, without needing Komoot to do the syncing. A bit more work but then you don't rely on Komoot directly to handle this for you.
Podcast with them from October of last year: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/twisting-the-rule... (Transcript available, search for and hit the "transcript" button.) I wonder how they'll do long-term.
> Takeaways: The CTO of Bending Spoons found it completely normal that each team decides on their approach to testing: e.g. more mature products have a lot more automated tests like unit, integration, UI tests in place. New products or less mature ones will still have less.
The article is really really well written, beautiful! Thank you for making it available freely. I'd say it's about time for the komoot folks to organize and create a coop and stick it to komoot. A coop would probably be even more compatible with the dirtbag lifestyle!
Visa sponsorship isn't really a thing in Europe the way it is in the US. Article is written by a US person with limited understanding of Europe.
The article is really really well written, beautiful! Thank you for making it available freely. I'd say it's about time for the komoot folks to organize and create a coop and stick it to komoot. A coop would probably be even more compatible with the dirtbag lifestyle!
Visa sponsorship isn't really a thing in Europe the way it is in the US. Article is written by a US person with limited understanding of Europe.
> Joshua Meissner is a young writer, photographer, and engineer who tours in ever-widening circles around his home in Berlin, Germany.
I don't think that's true. Not even sure what your point is