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Did you miss the part where I was talking about effects on the margin , not just an arbitrary global change like 'they "just" stop doing it'? If the volume of that work were to drop by, say, 1% in value, product might d
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"Vast oversupply"? Wage levels/compensating differentials say otherwise. Plenty of highly-skilled (even STEM) workers are non-engineers, and they get high wages.
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That majority of work only accounts for a small portion of value on the margin . You could reduce that work quite a bit with very little overall effect. In fact, this could even increase total product since the unskilled do tend to be h
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Eta is a better choice, if you care about Haskell compatibility in the strictest sense. Frege doesn't really pursue this, but the flip side is that it optimizes for working as smoothly as possible with the JVM ecosystem.
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Research actually suggests that memorable experiences do yield sustained happiness, whereas transient ones or simply material goods do not. A handful of Facebook likes would probably not make you very happy in the longer run, but having yo
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by 0815test 7y ago
Does Clojure lend itself idiomatically to any style other than quick-and-dirty prototyping, though? There are real benefits to many features of Java when it comes to long-term maintainability, even though it also has some very real pitfa
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BTW, if anyone's looking for another language that stresses immutability on the JVM, you might want to check out Frege, a Haskell-like language with some "tweaks" that make it work well in that environment. https:/&#x2
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Hopefully we'll start seeing some Rust rewrites in the future then, since the pitfalls of C++ are widely-known by now, and few people would claim that they don't impact long-term maintainability. (And the Rust Evangelism Strike
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Most likely, something is occasionally going wrong with the whole "Super" part of supercharging. Quick-charging a lithium battery is a lot more fiddly than just slowly feeding it a trickle of charge, and the Superchargers push th
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It's not horrible, but it's not Stoicism either. The notion of eudaimonia (which is what you talk about) is found throughout the schools of thought of the Western classical world, and similar notions pop up all over the place in
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No surprise there - the "living like nature" part was the whole schtick of Nietzsche's philosophy. More like an Epicurean with a healthy dose of Cynicism than a Stoic, if we have to make that kind of basic comparison. He
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The pattern with "the racist+fascist assholes" typically is that the craving for power (and sometimes for brutal violence) comes first , and then ideas are sought in a bid to normalize it. A position of authority, or purposely f
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> it isn’t really functional programming languages Except that the goalposts keep moving all the time. It used to be the case that having first-class functions was enough to be considered FP, but even function objects in C++ or Java give
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> Surely there's a segment of the population with similar personality traits predominant to police officers that don't become police officers. One would think they'd also have similar incident of domestic violence Funny en
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That "refrigerator" theory didn't posit anything on the same scale as actual narcissistic abuse, though. Narcissistic/psychopathic abuse doesn't feel like a refrigerator, it feels like a dumpster fire that's c
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> My grandfather made windows as part of his business in the 1950's, most of his customers were farmers. ... There was no contract, just a handshake, and he never had to worry about the farmer taking the animal straight to the butch
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> "Daddy said don't ever trust nobody, they always tryin' to get ya" ... Or else "My father always said to just trust people, and they'll trust you back" But in fact, both of these are wrong! Our abilit
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> What does "validating emotions" even mean. It's a bit of a misnomer for the process of explicitly acknowledging the emotions that someone else might be feeling, trying to understand the causes of that inner feeling, and
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This is one of those comments that the remark "not sure if serious..." was made for. You do know that C has an abstract machine, too? The C standard tells you all about it. Please don't troll or flame bait so blatantly, it&
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You specifically said that management doesn't involve "talent", "problem solving", "intelligence" or "creativity". And often the best managers are people who are just as familiar with the physica
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Well, Spectre is a largely-theoretical class of vulnerabilities, that doesn't even apply to chips that don't do speculation in hardware, and that is purely about information disclosure via side-channel mechanisms. It might be a b
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It's weird that this comment has been so controversial. It's like we've all forgotten that old wise saying - play stupid games, win stupid prizes!
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The fact that these folks are actually striving to get things like plastic surgeries so that they can achieve their goal of overcoming lookism and achieving social success, would seem to argue against it being like a cult - they're p
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Kids will value what you compliment. If you compliment their smarts, they will simply work towards always being "the smartest guy in the room", and making everyone else in that room constantly aware of this in the most obnoxious w
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Management and leadership involve plenty of problem solving! It's genuinely hard work, not just faffing around - that's just the stereotype that prevails among people who have never been in a management role in the first place.
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It's not supposed to be a punishment at all! If anything, the whole policy of "challenging" gifted kids is something that should be done in an unusually benevolent way, since the whole point is to visibly teach them that i
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> telling a coal miner Or a journalist. Guess what, your four-year college degree didn't do you any good, they should have taught you the skills that have actually been current in the real world for the last 20 to 40 years. Whoops
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Being able to reach "flow" quickly when setting out to work on something is what matters, even more so than "work ethic" or "grit" alone. In the longer run, relying on the latter just sets you up for burnout a
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And yet, many SJW's and Berniebros are white dudes... Self-hating, perhaps? Or maybe the whole narrative that "the right is powerful because White guys are furious about having to give up their inherent power!" just doesn&#x2
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Historically, the nazis were neither liberal (favoring liberty and broadly-shared social/economic development) nor conservative (favoring the preservation of existing social arrangements). What they were was radically authoritarian, t

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