BanTheBastards

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by BanTheBastards 3y ago
> Effective altruisme is a smoke screen term to make legislators and the public believe that tech companies have humanities best imterest at heart. I think it's a smoke screen term to convince wealthy people they have humanity&#x2
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by BanTheBastards 3y ago
> They are registered as a 501(c)(3) which is what people commonly call a public charity. Why do they do that? Seems ridiculous on the face of it. Nothing about 501(c)(3) entails providing any sort of good or service to society at large.
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by BanTheBastards 3y ago
No. Proper "reform" entails reorganizing our economy. We will all die before this happens.
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by BanTheBastards 3y ago
I completely disagree; discipline is only optional in C++ if you want to ship broken code. Even the top poster in this thread that actually cops to the productivity overhead of C++ admits (albeit obliquely) they still make memory errors
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by BanTheBastards 3y ago
Doesn't really matter after compression unless the bulk of your code can be culled from the end product. Tbh the largest business value this has is slowing down people trying to use your internal APIs.
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by BanTheBastards 3y ago
Speak for yourself: I'm not returning to the world of "discipline" (aka lost productivity) without a damn good reason to carry on existing codebases. It's just a waste of a good coder and certainly of good time.
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by BanTheBastards 3y ago
I'm pretty surprised to see Scott mixed in with these folks. I love me some Alien, but his other works have a noticeably looser quality and shallow worldviews. As a director or to a lesser extent as a producer I suppose I tepidly agree
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by BanTheBastards 3y ago
Penrose is obviously wrong and has been repeatedly criticized for his shoddy thinking when it comes to cognition.
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by BanTheBastards 3y ago
It would help if anyone believed Silicon Valley was capable of producing a non-profit of any value to begin with.
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by BanTheBastards 3y ago
Hat tools does any of us plebs have in this country have to compel reasonable behavior from board members? As far as I can tell in this country you're not even legally allowed to be on a board if you're not a narcissistic, antisoc
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by BanTheBastards 3y ago
I mean that's at best a wildcard when it comes to saving us from our own laws; it's not like our judicial system has literally ever consistently demonstrated good judgement. It's by far the most conservative and reactionary o