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by blippage 6y ago
I'm hazy on the details, but in the 70's in the UK, there was a car manufacturer (British Leyland?, but probably not) that was taken over by the workers. The idea was that there was to be no class separation within the workforce:
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by blippage 6y ago
I am often suspicious that green initiatives exacerbate rather than ameliorate the environmental damage we cause. Green products cost more, and are generally more complicated than traditional ones. I doubt that many people sit down and weig
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by blippage 6y ago
Here's the wisest economic saying I have ever heard: governments should run the economy like a housewife runs her household budget. That was Margaret Thatcher. The second-most insightful saying on economics I have ever heard: The curio
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by blippage 6y ago
As one hedge fund manager put it: what exactly is "fair" anyway, and how will you know when you've attained it?
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by blippage 6y ago
As the saying goes: To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer. -- Paul R. Ehrlich
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by blippage 6y ago
Why did Haskell wane? IMO, it's partly the ecosystem. There's regular Haskell, Haskell Platform, Cabal, Stack. It ends up being an alphabet soup of possibilities, and it's not clear what is depending on what. And then there&#
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by blippage 6y ago
I'm from the UK, so I don't understand how some things work in the US. We don't have cheerleaders in the UK, because what's the point anyway? I was working under the assumption that cheerleaders were just a bunch of teen
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by blippage 6y ago
Values have changed. Universities were one only for the rich. Students were only of slightly above average intelligence (Jordan Peterson mentions this). Some time in the 20th century (I'm guessing 50's or 60's) we recognised
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by blippage 6y ago
Tricky. Are we talking about using a computer, or programming a computer? It seems that the article conflates the two as being the same. The former is basically just an administrative function, hardly justifying the use of the word "ST
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by blippage 6y ago
It was OK, but it was the thin end of the wedge of many things bad about computing since then. I'm referring to product activation and updates. The internet and operating systems have had an evil feedback loop. To quote from The Outer
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by blippage 6y ago
Here's a simple heuristic for determining if a company has a monopoly: if they say that they have a monopoly, then they don't; if they say that they don't, then they do. Original author unknown.
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by blippage 6y ago
I've never written in Ada, but I did come across m2os the other day: an Ada-based system for Arduino Uno microcontroller (and a couple of others) that features a simple scheduling policy. This is actually quite intriguing: a language t
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by blippage 7y ago
Couldn't that thinking be flawed, though? I mean, it's only not exponential now because of effective containment. You have to maintain containment until the disease no longer exists. If you don't do that, and the disease exis
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by blippage 7y ago
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. -- Winston Churchill
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by blippage 7y ago
Progressives think that the alt right is toxic, and vice versa. So then the question is: whose view of toxicity is right? The answer we have so far is: whoever protests the loudest or whoever controls the medium. Although it's the answ
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by blippage 7y ago
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