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by andrenth 7y ago
After working a lot with statically typed languages, I’ve been doing some work recently with a dynamic language, and it feels refreshingly fun ... Granted, I’ve been using elixir and erlang, where the use of pattern matching matching and i
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by andrenth 7y ago
Re statically typed Lisp, I’m keeping an eye on Carp [1] which seems to be a quite active project. [1] https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp
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by andrenth 7y ago
Why would it have too? The claim is simply that there are more people employed now in the industry than there were before automation. That these workers now are able to be massively more productive makes the situation even better. Contrast
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by andrenth 7y ago
The claim is that automation destroys jobs. This has been historically false, despite claims made each time that “this time it will be different”. Among the most viable of all economic delusions is the belief that machines on net balance c
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by andrenth 7y ago
Compare these numbers from the 80s-90s to current data. https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/1999/sept/wk5/art02.htm?view_fu... https://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iagauto.htm
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by andrenth 7y ago
Automation has been in use in the auto industry for decades, and yet it employs much more people than it did before automation was widespread.
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by andrenth 7y ago
“Open source is not safer because people won’t read the source”, “having control doesn’t matter”, and trying to raise doubts about the trustworthiness of the people involved... that’s old Microsoft textbook approach. At least MS wasn’t buil
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by andrenth 7y ago
I feel google is really turning into Microsoft. These are the same anti open source talking points / FUD you’d see in the early 2000s.
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by andrenth 7y ago
Well, the answer is “yes”.
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by andrenth 7y ago
This should be a humbling moment where you realize you should stop talking in the name of society.
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by andrenth 7y ago
Surely the same can happen for politics? Especially when sources of data are preemptively blacklisted?
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by andrenth 7y ago
Don’t we talk here all the time about how algorithms can be biased (even racist) due to programmers being biased in ways they may not even be aware of? Then we must consider the possibility of bias in this case too.
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by andrenth 7y ago
What if you’re wrong?
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by andrenth 7y ago
Are you trolling? The question is reworded in order to make it clear that we are definitely happier than hunter-gatherers, who had a terrible life. Trying to imply the opposite is just naive romanticism.
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by andrenth 7y ago
How do you know what are the collective interests of society? If you don’t know, who does?
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by andrenth 7y ago
> Are we really happier than hunters and gatherers? Would you be happier having to risk your life daily to get food and constantly facing hunger? This is just romanticizing primitivism.
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by andrenth 7y ago
There is no demand for things that have no value. The customers of the companies mentioned above obviously see some value in using their services, otherwise they wouldn’t do so. You seem to be using “is valuable” to mean “is good for”. I’m
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by andrenth 7y ago
If what you’re saying was right, these companies wouldn’t have any customers. Clearly society values these companies above zero.
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Orwell’s “1984”: How to Misread a Classic(fee.org)
5 points by andrenth 7y ago|1 comments
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by andrenth 7y ago
It’s mind-blowing that this comment is flagged. HN is not afraid to go anti-science when doing so fits the preferred narrative.
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by andrenth 7y ago
Pro choice to kill a baby? Yeah, I’m against that.
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by andrenth 7y ago
Is it also not a human being? Is it not a life?
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by andrenth 7y ago
The people who hate this freedom want to tell others what to think.
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by andrenth 7y ago
The next step would be to abolish cash, only allowing digital transactions.
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How to Talk to Children about Climate Change(fee.org)
1 points by andrenth 7y ago|0 comments
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by andrenth 7y ago
Create your own company then.
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by andrenth 7y ago
If you run your own BGP routers you can use Voxility, Incapsula or a number of similar services.
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The Myth of ‘Wage Stagnation’(wsj.com)
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The Neo-Marxist Roots of Modern Monetary Theory(mises.org)
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Principia Politica by Nassim Nicolas Taleb(academia.edu)
7 points by andrenth 7y ago|0 comments

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