buzzkillington

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by buzzkillington 6y ago
Sounds like the writer is scared that their bullshit job is on the line. People have tried outsourcing programming forever. The last visible result was planes falling out of the sky. These jobs are highly paid not because they are done in t
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
>0. Forget about tracking things down to the dollar, or even the tens of dollars. That level of precision is unnecessary. If a coffee here or there is going to break your budget, it's already broken and you need to go in to panic mo
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
>Hey boss can I have another million dollars for my project? >>What's the ROI? >Idk should be good though. >>Here's three million just in case. A conversation that no one has ever had.
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
Yes, if you look up ownership statistics for slaves they indeed followed a power law, to the point where the majority of southern whites did not own a slave but felt having the option of owning one was worth starting a civil war over. It al
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
It wasn't too long ago that there was a power law in owning people. Somehow that inevitability is no longer with us. It's almost like once we broke the political will of the slave owning class we removed the need for slaves too.
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
>Hardly anything with any amount of complexity is shipped like that, especially not cross-platform. Including the JVM. The paths alone.
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
Interesting how all the groups who had genocide perpetrated against them somehow ended up with a double population than when they were conquered with, meanwhile Ireland still has a smaller population than they had in 1800.
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
If having an empire is the definition of being Western than you need to include the Ottomans too. At which point the word means nothing.
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
Winners don't talk about the people they murdered to win. Same thing about Australia, Canada and less so New Zealand. It is also hilarious that the USSR is the only country apart from Japan to successfully industrialize and avoid a col
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
Why should it be the western companies that overcome the cultural barriers and not the indian workers? Asking as an immigrant to the west.
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
You are talking about engineering there, not science. Science is using duct tape to explore the properties of graphene. Engineering is building a plant that can produce 500km2 of graphene a day.
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
>Or maybe we need to raise the global literacy rate so that we have more scientists available. Or maybe we start paying scientists living wages so anyone who can wipe their ass doesn't end up as a quant. Speaking as a quant with a p
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
>The economy is a human invention, there is nothing natural about it. So is agriculture. And we are currently looking at 30 million deaths due to famine this year with what has been done so far. If we continue the lockdowns it will be a
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
We have Lynx already. But seriously, where do you draw the line between enriched documents and apps? CSS? JS used for styling? d3 for visualizations? WebGL? Websites have gotten so bloated that the only sane future I see is serving people u
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
The fastest projections for a vaccine I've read are 15 months to 'never'. When the economy reopens and people go back to work we will see a second wave of infections. Unless you think that we can continue dealing with a 20% u
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
We get the pandemic and mass unemployment.
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
>This was avoidable. Tens of thousands of deaths were avoidable. Multiple countries totally avoided catastrophe, and the U.S. did not. Wait until 2022 and the economic fallout before you praise anyone too highly. https://www.b
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
What happens when the woke takeover of the SFS is finally complete and emacs is re-licensed under a new social justice license where you can only use it if you don't oppress minorities? I don't trust the FSF further than I can thr
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
Trivially, but there's enough C code in places you wouldn't expect that you would never get Emacs running doing just that.
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
It really is. Fields don't exist until something waves in them. Aether was something to be waved.
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
You should read about the famine projections: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/climate-and-people...
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
Try opening reddit on a mobile phone. My home server was more responsive when I was half way across the world.
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
When you've spend a decade acting like a publisher, don't be surprised when the courts start acting like it's one despite big G lying about it.
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
Yes? The point is that no one playing has the highest payout for the group[1]. [1] You can change the +10 to +9 if you want to make it the absolute highest total payout.
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
That's not true, it just needs to cost you more to not play than it does to play. Something like: | | Play | Don't Play | |------------+------+------------| | Play | -5 | +10 | | Don&#x2
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
Wait two years before you make bold claims.
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
The point of the degree is to have it and then pretend it doesn't matter.
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
>There's not much going on in high schools, 15 years old kids living at their parents who can't even buy alcohol. I was doing hard drugs in house parties at 15 and I was one of the older ones. I had a friend who had to have his
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
The government needs to be seen as doing something so it does something. Same reason why the TSA exists. I find it odd that the Liberals are the ones who are falling for health theater after spending a decade talking about the idiocy of sec
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by buzzkillington 6y ago
>We could use our functioning economy so they can avoid unnecessary contacts What economy? https://fortune.com/2020/04/23/us-unemployment-rate-numbers-... The US now looks worse than Greece did in 2008.

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