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by esarbe 3y ago
Spain? https://www.pv-magazine.com/2015/10/09/spains-government-app... The tax was repealed in 2019, but still.
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by esarbe 3y ago
Sounds you're making the fallacy of the slippery slope. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope There are no credible efforts to introduce anything like a "social rating" in the EU.
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by esarbe 3y ago
Nothing in these discussions is about "outlawing" smartphone usage. I do support regulation of production, trade and disposal of the products you mention, though.
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by esarbe 3y ago
No, this is about limiting smartphone screen time. If that includes setting up new barriers between information and readers then that is a undesirable result, but it is not what these discussions are about.
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by esarbe 3y ago
These laws - as I see it - are primarily about framing. No, they won't stop parents from buying smartphones for their kids. But just as with seat belts or smoking indoors, they will frame giving one to a kid as harmful. This will give
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by esarbe 3y ago
> I honestly can't wrap my mind around how people think regulation is going to do that job for them. It works pretty well for alcohol and for tobacco. With regards to tobacco, there's been a clear trend towards less tobacco us
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Apples and oranges.
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by esarbe 3y ago
It's not about censorship.
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by esarbe 3y ago
Good. Smartphones and excessive screen time are damaging, for adults and even more so for children. I'm perfectly happy to deny the companies proliferating these unhealthy habits any chance to make profit. There should be no legal mean
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by esarbe 3y ago
> You're misreading your sources. They say 300,000 - 500,000 jobs per year. It seems that this sources is not consistent, so I'll disregard it. Thanks for pointing out this obvious incongruity, I should have noticed that myself
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by esarbe 3y ago
> So I reiterate, that the culprit is slowing productivity growth. You should continue reading the paragraph you cited. Because it continues > but that may not be surprising in view of the enormous economic losses that were precipitat
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by esarbe 3y ago
> Income growth has stagnated because of growing centralization. All of this socialism you claim we need is contributing to that centralization. That's an unsubstantiated claim. The material you referenced points to other sources as
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by esarbe 3y ago
And yet income has stagnated [0], income inequality[1] has let wealth coalesce into the hands of a few oligarchs[2] and those rich have the lowest tax rates in about 80 years[3]. Which is not surprising, because they enjoy almost excursivel
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by esarbe 3y ago
I'm not that surprised; HN is techno-utopian libertarianism. Doctorow's egalitarian, syndicalist and somewhat socialist tendencies don't usually play well with that crowd.
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That's the myth that tech people willingly participating in this exploitative behavior tell themselves; that they are going to be part of the elite - that's what they get told by upper management. That way "upper management&q
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by esarbe 3y ago
It's part of an oligopoly. Let's treat oligopolies the same as monopolies, because they behave almost the same.
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by esarbe 3y ago
Nice. Now can we please add Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta to that list? And while we're on it, how about breaking up all the oligopolies that sprouted up over the last 40 years or so? It's high times.
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by esarbe 3y ago
> Few school rules come with the deprivation of your property though. You obviously never used a super soaker in class. There's plenty of stuff that will get confiscated if you use it in class. For good reason. > there really was
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by esarbe 3y ago
That's a very silly question. "No phones in school" is no different from any other rule the teachers have to enforce in class. Let's try the same question, with another rule, to make the point; "Imagine a teacher st
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by esarbe 3y ago
That sounds more like a problem with schools in Poland (or with your school in particular) rather than a problem with schools in general.
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by esarbe 3y ago
Every nation has a different education system and in many nations each region has its own education system. I don't know in what kind of a horror school you went to, but the schools I'm involved with my kids and the schools I went
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by esarbe 3y ago
Check out Scala's type system. I don't think you'll miss anything that TS can offer there.
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Or getting their phone confiscated and not being able to use it for a week or so will teach them the cost of ignoring laws. A useful life lesson in any case.
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by esarbe 3y ago
You can always make notes, check later and then confront the teacher the next time you have class. Still not a reason for a kid t have a smartphone in school.
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by esarbe 3y ago
TS's type system is nice but to call it "the best type system among modern mainstream languages" is a bit of an overstatement.
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by esarbe 3y ago
> But no, you made said point in support of a larger point (a new understanding of human sexuality). Since said point is irrelevant, and incorrect, it doesn't support the larger point. That's how reasoning works. Let's hav
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by esarbe 3y ago
> Please, keep the pedantry, and the laziness, to an absolute minimum. I think this would be a good opportunity for you to get off your high horse; to me, all these responses of yours are pedantic rants about the correct use of "a
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by esarbe 3y ago
> Several dozen unit files whose dependencies need not be listed in the files themselves Where else would you expect to declare the dependencies other than the file which defines the service? That's where I would expect to find (and
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by esarbe 3y ago
It might well be that most of the boilerplate is a "solved problem" - then the question becomes; is this solution used at all? Let's have a look at a recent init file, from current Debian. I again just picked the first thing
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by esarbe 3y ago
And then you don't have dependencies anymore, so you're back to square one. I don't see how this is supposed to be more comprehensible or even "simpler" than a 12 lines unit file.

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