aaron-santos

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by aaron-santos 5y ago
What about economic tyranny? Shouldn't we be fixing that first?
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
That's disappointing. I was more interested in deducing the implications of power assuming scarcity was eliminated.
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
Sorry, still struggling to understand here. Today power and status is derived from scarcity. What is an example of power or status not derived from scarcity?
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
I'm stuck in this quagmire and have been for 18 months. Right now it's manifesting as a React on GraalJS project written in Clojure. I've learned a lot, but actual progress is, of course, elusive.
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
I'm not sure I follow. Private property exists right now to enable the accumulation of wealth. In a post-scarcity economy, what is the value of wealth accumulation?
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
Yes, one second per second.
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
Who said HN was strictly about tech?
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
What do you think the context is?
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
Context.
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
If businesses simply acquiesce to employee demands unions would not be necessary. However and instead, the moment organized employees submit their demands, they are met with resistance so both sides have to engage mono a mono until the enti
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
I miss Meebo. For a brief year at university it was glorious. It of course got sucked into the Google behemoth and killed along with all of the other messaging apps that populate Google's graveyard. Google's history of killing me
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
Smart people are also better at rationalizing their behavior than they are at listening.
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Epistemic Trespassing (2019)(academia.edu)
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
What's the limiting factor in wind turbine size? Is it regulatory, construction capital, materials technology, supportive infrastructure, something else?
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
Being apolitical implicitly supports the status quo which itself is a political position.
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
What about this table makes it periodic?
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
Help me understand "not particularly unusual or scary, because worse things have happened before." Is it more that people have survived worse, so we can survive this? Or more of that people's response to fear should be consta
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
It is unclear what your argument is. Are you making the argument that because something induces fear it is therefore incorrect?
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
If you internalize this cursed knowledge, you will see how language[C]-evangelists cherry-pick which dimensions to measure the value/success of a programing language. Don't proceed. It will make you frustrated, cynical, and disill
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
No, just validating my assumptions. What sort of evidence would change your mind? Accounts from language designers? Expert testimony? Reference material? Interviews?
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
It might help if you could restate what argument you think I'm making. It feels like there is a mismatch between us in that way.
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
Google is obsessed with surveying me on why I keep responding that I feel like my data is not secure with them. It's 100% backed in the fact that if the government NSLs Google, there's nothing Google can do about it. As long as NS
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
Ok. What do you think the history of OOP development, it's focus, and goals with respect to mutating (or non-mutation) of state is?
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
Understanding the history of OOPs development, what motivated it, what problems it seeks to solve, it's guiding principles, and design semantics, are not invalidated by copy on modify Uri classes (or Strings!).
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
I enjoyed finding "counterfeit consciousness" for artificial intelligence. To me it evokes a kind of science fiction that's shown up occasionally on HN[1]. [1] https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
> without doing a deep dive and learning the field itself. My response would be to ask about the employer's continuing education program. I could see myself taking a Russian studies program and get that report back in 2-3 years if
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
Ok, car designers, and bio medical engineers then. Hope that makes more sense for you.
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
When working with data, I like to avoid stateful data mutations at all cost. OOP's focus is mutating state. These are at odds. The identity semantics I hold for data are not invariant under transformation.
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
> Systems level thinking is unpopular. It is. Moreover, the most pressing problems we face are in fact systems level problems. At the root of this exists a fallacy of composition where the argument is that if each individual is virtuous,
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by aaron-santos 5y ago
As much as it's nice to provide a solution along with evidence that something's broken, it isn't a requirement. Knowing something is broken is a different skill than fixing it. It's the reason we have mechanics, doctors,

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