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by ath3nd 2y ago
> you'll realize you are being systematically robbed by taxes that end up eating 70% of your income Where does the water from your tap come from? Where did you or your children go to study? Did you make your own road, that you use t
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by ath3nd 2y ago
There is a name for a system where people pass on their wealth (and titles) to their progeny, by birthright. I am sure the average 99%-er American would love to be back in medieval Europe, where kings and queens, and lords and dukes cared s
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by ath3nd 2y ago
Stop the tsarist/oligarch propaganda then /s. If you don't want to pay taxes, don't be a part of society, don't use public roads, public schools, public hospitals, and public education. If you do want to be a part o
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by ath3nd 2y ago
Nobody is preventing the citizens from digging their own well and ensuring their own water supply and having bad teeth. I like it how when it comes to fluoride in water, that's the nanny state pushing things on people, but when it come
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by ath3nd 2y ago
> Most states do not allow this, nor is it actually feasible for everyone to do this due to space constraints, which is why it’s generally not allowed. You are getting into something there. You understand the necessity of municipal wate
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by ath3nd 2y ago
Nobody's preventing you from going and finding your own water source either. The government is too much of a nanny state for putting flouride in water for public health, but it's just fine for providing water to you in the first p
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by ath3nd 2y ago
I worked in a large-ish org where 20+ python projects, their CI/CD pipelines and their docker images were migrated from `pyenv` + `.python-version` + `requirements.txt` to `uv` in basically a single day. If you are comfortable with `py
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by ath3nd 2y ago
I am with you that when smart people combine their efforts together and build on previous research + learnings, nothing is impossible.
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by ath3nd 2y ago
I logged in to specifically downvote this comment, because it attacks the OP's position with unjustified and unsubstantiated confidence in the reverse. > It's easy to spot people who secretly hate LLMs and feel threatened by th
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by ath3nd 2y ago
Oh, yeah, it's so out of reach to force companies (entities made by and comprising of humans) to not use a packaging that destroys the earth (the place where humans live). - There is the financial solution: taxing the hell out of plast
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by ath3nd 2y ago
> In the grand scheme of things, i bet smokers are net contributors to society as. I do believe you are entitled to your opinion, but it's a measured fact that smokers are of a tremendous detriment to health care, finance, and produ
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by ath3nd 2y ago
Smokers are a massive burden on the healthcare system, smokers also cause pollution of the air (and ground, due to cigarette butts) in public spaces. It's not one's innate right to pollute our shared air in a public space with a c
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by ath3nd 2y ago
The fact that McKinsey directly contributed to the untimely death of a lot of people is widely known. I don't see anything in the HN rules that suggests news of public significance are not an acceptable topic of discussion.
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by ath3nd 2y ago
I find it laughable that the average American can choose to 'believe' something that is simply and provenly not true. That's why there are so many flat earthers, q anon believers, climate change deniers, and all kind of suppo
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by ath3nd 2y ago
Nope, it doesn't work on anything that's not trivial or done before. And if the task is clear enough, that means they have already done a similar task and also somebody went and clarified it, which is time that somebody could have
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by ath3nd 2y ago
Miro to lay off roughly 18% staff
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by ath3nd 2y ago
I am going to go on a sarcastic rant here. Why should I care if Product cares about my architecture proposal? They are not qualified to judge neither the quality, nor the priority of technical architecture decisions. Those are matters for e
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by ath3nd 2y ago
> Anyone who is familiar with either health or defense policy details knows that the US taxpayer is absorbing an absurd amount of cost which enables other countries to do things we cannot That, too, is nonsense. The price of insulin in t
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by ath3nd 2y ago
"Free" healthcare is actually massively subsidized by our own taxes, which can reach as much as 52% where I live. We also have paid parental leave (maternal and paternal), good public transport, paid sick leave, and all the goodie
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by ath3nd 2y ago
> Imagine saying that to anyone born a generation prior and expecting sympathy. The fact that older generations accepted something doesn't mean there are no better ways. In the past, children as young as 7 worked in the coal mines,
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by ath3nd 2y ago
> It’s hypocrisy. Give the money back if you don’t like the way it tastes. That's a very misguided take. The author actually took the money, and spent it in non capitalist pursuits: doing lower paid but meaningful work, helping orga
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by ath3nd 2y ago
> Until a person does this, their words are meaningless. Heavily disagree! The author actually did a lot of meaningful work for less than meaningful money, so they did put their money where their mouth was. They made a lot of effort of d
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by ath3nd 2y ago
> The secret purpose of Scrum is to get rid of managers and empower the engineering team. Then Scrum spectacularly fails in its secret purpose, because it adds managerial type to the engineering team and removes power from the engineers.
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by ath3nd 2y ago
> All this imbecility does is to create competition, and weed out the ones that don't comply. This ten million times. It's about control, and it's about showing you that the only way to be considered to be doing your job,
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by ath3nd 2y ago
> We absolutely learned something since the 90s that was beneficial. Yes, software engineering has evolved, but to attribute its successes to the methodology used is like attributing higher cancer survival rates to better hospital manage
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by ath3nd 2y ago
> Something has to give. If we have fewer longer living people, then we need them to work more years. That's only on the premise that these young people are paying for my pension, which is a falsehood. I am the one who has paid for
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by ath3nd 2y ago
That's a problem of the retirement system and the government/pension funds, not workers' problem. Just say the word that the money I am putting towards retirement are not counting towards MY retirement, and I'd stop payi
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by ath3nd 2y ago
> that they will suddenly stop what they are doing after a certain age and let younger generations pay for their salary This is the worst take I have seen in a while. First of all, in both Germany and Türkiye, we put aside a part of our
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by ath3nd 2y ago
> However, I will say that if that is a demonstrable thing It's demonstratable: https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/05/agile_failure_rates/ > and there was no upside I'd go on a sarcastic
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by ath3nd 2y ago
> while beef produces like 5% of global methane emmissions the oil and gas industry produce much much more... and beef can be solved by adding algae to their feed. It won't solve the problem of beef already occupying too much space

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