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Today, the ditch digging s done with small excavators, not with hordes of guys with shovels...
by lgieron 11y ago
Today, the ditch digging s done with small excavators, not with hordes of guys with shovels...
- ethanbond 11y agoWelp I guess that yields the whole point moot.
- hendzen 11y agoToday's ditch digging is done with emacs and vim, building useless CRUD apps
- sp332 11y agoLaying single-mode fiber with emacs?
- jwdunne 11y agoThere'll be a plugin for that.
- wallmani 11y ago*major mode
- Apocryphon 11y agoLaying single purpose modules with npm.
- jakub_h 11y agoWell, Emacs is still single-threaded, if I'm not mistaken, so it's a good fit. :)
- chriscappuccio 11y agoYou need to use shovels in quite a few scenarios, specifically when you're working around existing infrastructure
- chriscappuccio 11y agoYou need to use shovels in quite a few scenarios, specifically when you're working around existing infrastructure
- Houshalter 11y agoThis is a good point. Technology replaces labor with capital. I remember reading controversy over the stimulus program, that hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent for every job created. Those people would have been much better off if the money went directly to them, instead of indirectly through jobs programs. But that's not politically popular (with the right.) Alternatively the government could subsidize wages. Agree to pay x% of the wages for certain industries. Which is basically what we already do extensively with tax breaks for companies that create jobs. But that's also not politically popular (with the left.) As automation replaces more and more of the unskilled workforce, we should just accept it and adopt a basic income.
- knieveltech 11y ago"As automation replaces more and more of the unskilled workforce, we should just accept it and adopt a basic income." Maybe. There are still vast pools of unskilled jobs that exist globally. They're vanishing in the US in no small part because our industries are forced to compete with business concerns that can take advantage of what equates to slave labor in less developed parts of the world.
- Nutmog 11y agoBe careful, industry subsidies can violate WTO rules and get export markets closed off. America has treaties with lots of countries promising not to do that. Those other countries also promise not to do that. If America violates it, their trading partners will too and the global economy will be hurt, including America.
- dredmorbius 11y agoGood. There remains a hell of a lot of fiber needs laying.