ElevenLathe

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   by ElevenLathe 4y ago

   I agree. Even just doing exactly what the school secretaries used to do (call out instead of requiring us to poll, and only during certain hours) would be better. But you're right that the incentives are awful. This software worked and
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   by ElevenLathe 4y ago

   My employer was a third-party company, not the schools themselves, but they didn't really "manage placement" beyond providing the software platform. If I didn't log in to accept a job, I would not be working. I should ad
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   by ElevenLathe 4y ago

   I was a substitute teacher for two school years. Remember how mean we all were to subs in school? The really horrible thing wasn't the kids though, but that I was essentially a gig worker (this was before Uber was widespread so the ter
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   by ElevenLathe 4y ago

   To summarize the article: Some people benefit, and some don't. To editorialize: This is how all economic exchange works, and any talk of "the economy" being "good" or "bad" is mystification. The powers tha
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   by ElevenLathe 4y ago

   First you'll need to navigate the time machine to the video rental store.
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   by ElevenLathe 4y ago

   If you heat with open fireplaces, then you can't seal the house unless you have really really good artificial ventilation (which you don't because it's 1840 still when you're building this house), regardless of how the h
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   by ElevenLathe 4y ago

   You don't need it anyway, it's self-driving.
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   by ElevenLathe 4y ago

   I think the valuable part would be the soft skills of thinking and working while having 12 things blinking and beeping for attention a keystroke away. This is how I have to work -- need to be available on Slack, watch out for urgent email,
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   by ElevenLathe 4y ago

   Right, a minority of us are grumpy and claim for reasons of political aesthetics that they don't, but most of us want sidewalks, roads, running water, electrical service, trash pickup, animal control, schools, libraries, and parks.
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    by ElevenLathe 4y ago

    In Andy Weir's /Artemis/, the Moon in on Kenyan time, because that's where all the rockets take off from. This is in turn because they had land on the equator and created something like a Shenzhen (low or no tariffs, fri
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    by ElevenLathe 4y ago

    I come at this more from the (amateur) history of science angle (meaning I am in no way qualified to speak about recent work in this field) so take this with a grain of salt, but it all seems very much in the vein of Turing's late work
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    by ElevenLathe 4y ago

    > most leadership/upper management is poor. Further than this, I think the concept and framing of management as "leadership" is very clearly a scam. The people in charge are in charge -- fine, give unto Caesar and all that
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    by ElevenLathe 4y ago

    Slightly off-topic but I've often daydreamed about a kind of Lisp-driven 3D Movie Maker ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_Movie_Maker ) where you could build movies from a REPL/SLIME the same way you do ordina
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    by ElevenLathe 4y ago

    This is quite a statement. How do you suppose these anatomically modern humans would have made group decisions? Mind control by a warrior king?
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    by ElevenLathe 4y ago

    For AAA games, this is definitely an outdated view. A modern AAA game is about as expensive to make as a modern wide-release hollywood movie, on average (50-100 million USD).
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    by ElevenLathe 4y ago

    > imagine trivial court cases hinging on whether a "reasonable person" would drive a certain speed. Why is this dystopian? It's literally the point of courts to apply judgment.
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    by ElevenLathe 4y ago

    Guess so! Anyway thanks for letting me interrogate you. I've never before had the chance to understand what people who are scared of "cancel culture" are actually upset about.
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    by ElevenLathe 4y ago

    With the note that I still don't understand how these incidents relate to leftism at all, or even with elected Democratic officials, I did look into these two things. ( https://archive.ph/jN2Up is a non-paywalled versio
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    by ElevenLathe 4y ago

    Castor oil was famously used as a lubricant in early WWI-era airplane engines. The fumes would blow in the pilot's face and are also a laxative.
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    by ElevenLathe 4y ago

    Seems pretty clear to me (pretty much an identity) that labor paying more is good for laborers but bad for their employers. Not sure how to argue with that.
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    by ElevenLathe 4y ago

    That's what I get for making predictions! What pronouncements do you mean? Who in the left is making them? What does it mean to cancel someone? I guess you mean things like a celebrity saying something unsavory and then a fan campaign
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    by ElevenLathe 4y ago

    Reagan had an elected vice president. Bush Sr. being in charge instead of Reagan is not what I would call a material effect on our civilization. These guys are all interchangeable, as evidenced by the fact that we change them on purpose at
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    by ElevenLathe 4y ago

    The U.S. Constitution was signed by 0% of living Americans, and only a few dozen people that were alive when it was signed. It only came into effect when ratified by 3/4 of states. What 1/3rd are you talking about?
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    by ElevenLathe 4y ago

    OK maybe if the Democratic Party and all liberal media institutions count as "The Left," then you can say they have societal power. This is a crazy statement because, as I cited, these people being in power never leads to any left
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    by ElevenLathe 4y ago

    I anticipate that you will be voted down (though I might be wrong). For your edification, the line that probably did it is this: > the left has much more societal power than the right If we're speaking about the US (and we are), thi
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    by ElevenLathe 4y ago

    ...but it's a fair thing to think about if the "poweruser" interface encourages creating new macros on the fly. Common Lisp can "compile" at the REPL or otherwise in the live environment.
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    by ElevenLathe 4y ago

    Effectively, yes. Fed is definitely a political entity and its political layer (as opposed to the civil servants/career bureaucrats) is appointed from the same circles of finance industry/DC insiders as cabinet officials (like Tre
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    by ElevenLathe 4y ago

    This is just a guess but I'm sure somebody has analyzed this novel model you propose where they charge more for the streaming service but target it at older, richer viewers and decided it doesn't pencil out: How many people are re
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    by ElevenLathe 4y ago

    I've worked in incident/crisis management for several big, complicated, grown-via-acquisition companies with a tangle of internal systems that were never quite fully integrated. When TSHTF and we need some expertise from the origi
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    by ElevenLathe 4y ago

    I would argue most executives everywhere are "cosplaying", but the ones at big stable companies have a huge headwind in that the company has already figured out how to make enough money to pay their inflated salary. Startup execut