Shacklz

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by Shacklz 5y ago
> Thus is life. No, such is full-blown neoliberal capitalism, where the only thing that is considered worth optimizing for is profit. Once you accept that there are other variables that deserve consideration and cannot just be abstracted
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by Shacklz 5y ago
Bitcoin can't die soon enough. The initial idea and the ideology behind it is really admirable, but it was done as a proof of concept and failed terribly. But instead of "alright, PoC done, does not scale, let's move on to so
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by Shacklz 5y ago
> I think they will be very successful and become a big, dominant car maker. "Big, dominant" in the same sense as maybe Ferrari: Prestigious cars for a niche audience that are willing to pay a premium for the brand.
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by Shacklz 5y ago
> I, the middle class engineer get fucked by the taxes, and I get fucked hard, and not in fun way. You will be fine. Just like everyone else in pretty much the entirety of the rest of the civilized world.
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by Shacklz 5y ago
TS is probably my favorite language out there, so yes, I definitely did :) But just for "one-off"-scripts, JS usually does the job pretty well. For bigger scripts or scripts where I want to reuse/share parts, typescript is an
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by Shacklz 5y ago
For what I called "plumbing"-scripts above, I rarely ever need any dependencies via npm. What nodeJS delivers out of the box suffices completely. Sure, doing things like http directly with node is a bit cumbersome and having a lib
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by Shacklz 5y ago
I had very strong anti-javascript opinions for the longest of times, and still feel that writing any non-weekend-project in JS is a mistake. That being said, I have grown very fond of writing "plumbing"-scripts in nodeJS. The syn
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by Shacklz 5y ago
> It's way nicer on our side, where we do win-win deals, and know to be happy, the people around us need to be happy. If you would like this world-view to undergo some critical analysis, I strongly recommend Anand Giridharadas'
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by Shacklz 5y ago
As someone not from the US, the whole role of sports in college/universities seems so... weird. Mixing institutions with an education and research purpose with sport tribalism seems like a terrible idea to begin with, adding tons of mo
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by Shacklz 5y ago
> 7. Their pricing seems absurd. I actually really like their pricing model. You can buy years in advance, and they occasionally offer steep discounts (I think I bought two decades in advance around new year?). In a time where more and m
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by Shacklz 5y ago
And I think there are good reasons for that: 1) The energy consumption of bitcoin mining alone is estimated to have reached the levels of entire countries (Argentina was the latest country I've heard it being compared to), while actual
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by Shacklz 6y ago
> But it might just as well have to do mainly with culture. Absolutely not. Fertility rates have been going down steadily for decades in every developed nation - when children are no longer a requirement to have someone that will care f
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by Shacklz 6y ago
> But the world population is already going steeply up - with people starving. The interesting part is that it is only really going up in nations that have not yet the comfort-level of western civilizations. I don't have the exact n
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by Shacklz 6y ago
Irrelevant of the answer, it helps in general if your efforts & hard work towards a better life aren't bombed into oblivion
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by Shacklz 6y ago
Anand Ghiridaradas' Book "Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World" is very insightful in that regard. He held a google talk ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_zt3kGW1NM ) about it that got a
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by Shacklz 6y ago
So much this. I find it infuriating how after every mass shooting in the US, the US media (at least the few US papers I tend to follow/read) scramble to get out info about the shooter, with pictures, names and background-stories. Why g
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by Shacklz 6y ago
> She joined up with ISIS not the best example to bring up. She gave it up there and then. While I do see your point (not British myself, but in Switzerland we had a few ISIS cases as well), I'd like to offer a different viewpoint a
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by Shacklz 6y ago
Yeah, the US is such an exceptional country that you can only have opinions about it when you're actually American - I hope you do see that this view is rather short sighted? Especially given that the US itself has no qualms with inter
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by Shacklz 6y ago
When I started in a project that made use of tailwind, I initially exactly felt the points the author is making here: The HTML is a mess, dev-tools don't play as nice, why would anyone like this? Unlike the author though, I have grown
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by Shacklz 6y ago
The US are such a weird country... on one hand, Silicon valley et al, producing the coolest tech & the shiniest toys, and on the other hand... people who can only afford to live in trailer parks, even with a full time job. It never ceas
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by Shacklz 6y ago
Definitely why I voted against it. When I first heard about it I was all for it - until I realized that the plan was to let private companies handle it. Complete no go, glad it got rejected.
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by Shacklz 6y ago
He might be referring to a few laws/initiatives that passed in the last few years/decades - e.g., the initiative that forbids minarets (even though there were almost none to begin with; it was essentially a political stunt). Or th
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by Shacklz 6y ago
Doing runtime-typechecks really is a blessing, and it would be great if typescript would provide this as a language-feature. There are two more libraries I know which are great for that: * Zod: https://github.com/colinhacks&
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by Shacklz 6y ago
> It's that it's been extensively shown not to work This is going off-topic, but I really think it depends on your definition of "not to work". If people essentially throw in low-cost placebos to cure themselves of he
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by Shacklz 6y ago
As a regular European reader of the NYT, even the stronger left leaning columns from people such as Krugman/Kristof contain mostly opinions that are often considered "common sense" on our side of the pond. Maybe your opinion
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by Shacklz 6y ago
You might be interested in this article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/08/opinion/sunday/us-denmark... (note that technically, Denmark has no minimum wage - but mechanism that essentially enf
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by Shacklz 6y ago
As a Swiss, I never got the insistence on the square thingie... A lot of Swiss flags that people fly on their poles aren't a square either, and nobody cares. Actually, I'd prefer it if it weren't square, it always gives me th
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by Shacklz 6y ago
> If someone is not highly skilled and works low end jobs, he could be left jobless if minimum wage increases. If you made this argument 100 years ago I might be inclined to agree with you, but "reasonable" minimum wages (i.e.:
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by Shacklz 6y ago
> who get paid to flash products in front of their users without disclosing that they're being paid. Which is why it's not just ethically wrong but also illegal in many countries. Why the US allowing such behavior is beyond me.
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by Shacklz 6y ago
Except that it doesn't. You still need someone to put up and maintain ATMs, apps, exchange-sites etc. that allow for quick and easy transfer and exchange of bitcoin. People think this is all easy until things go wrong: Who do you app

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