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by gen220 2y ago
If you're curious, Martin Luther (of Lutheranism) wrote on this [1], summarized here [2] although the original is quite legible. Mercantilism (i.e. profit-making on the exchange of goods) was a very popular way of making ones' liv
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by gen220 2y ago
Christ gave commandments that superseded the Mosaic law. He explicitly forbade violence in all forms, with no exceptions for retaliation. And he went further to say you should respond to violence with nonviolent love and submission. Christ
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by gen220 2y ago
I don’t know if I would quote from completely distinct sections of the Bible and use the phrase “in the same breath”. Romans 13:1-7 is a controversial section of Paul’s letters, because it implicitly contradicts the teachings of Christ if y
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by gen220 2y ago
Christ preached non-violent resistance. Death penalty was in mosaic law, and Christ deliberately contradicted it. Anybody who professes to be a Christian or follower of Christ’s teachings who supports violence in any form is in fact living
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by gen220 2y ago
There are phases in every developer’s growth, where you transition from asking coworkers or classmates, to asking on stack overflow, to reading stack overflow, to reading docs and man pages and mailing lists and source code. I think like yo
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by gen220 2y ago
In vim, I believe there's a setting that you can flip to make search case sensitive. In my setup, `/foo` will match `FoO` and so on, but `/Foo` will only match `Foo`
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by gen220 2y ago
You can use a tool like ALE (the Asynchronous Linting Engine) to run LSPs in normal-Vim; I've been doing it for years and have no complaints! It's rapid.
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by gen220 2y ago
Even comparatively senior engineers make this mistake relatively often. If you're a SaaS dealing with at most 100GB of analytical data per customer, (eventually, sharded) postgres is all you need.
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by gen220 2y ago
> The 20 cents of marginal utility is used once and [...] not to great effect. I made no reference to UBI. I don't think UBI is a solution to the system of poverty. But we don't need to go there. There are ways to redistribute
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by gen220 2y ago
I’d argue it’s still about marginal utility, but you’re talking about second order marginal utility. That is, by increasing the amount of wealth that’s locked up in equities, you’re “funding progress”. I would still posit that the second or
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by gen220 2y ago
They do get margin called. Usually they don’t do it for all of their assets, but only a portion needed to fund their lifestyles. In huge and persistent downturns there are always a few who get wiped out by this kind of risky behavior, thou
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by gen220 2y ago
Yes, people have lost a lot of wealth this way in market downturns. It’s greatly ironic: in the interest of avoiding minor taxes, they lose major assets to their bankers. It wouldn’t surprise me if the same bankers who profit in the downtur
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by gen220 2y ago
I’ll bite. Of every dollar you contributed to your 401k last paycheck, how many cents of them do you think you’ll actually spend in retirement, on a risk-adjusted basis? For me, the answer is certainly not 100 and not 0, let’s say it’s 80 c
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by gen220 2y ago
I think the extent to which one could say open source software is in decline is driven by the fact that FOSS was recently considered by many big VC firms to be an “investable category” and now that view is less popular. True FOSS has always
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by gen220 2y ago
Respectfully, I don't think Canadian <> American cultural exchange is anything like the Russian <> Ukrainian cultural exchange; beyond potentially passing the "indistinguishable to an outsider" test. The modern an
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by gen220 2y ago
In NYC, the typical non-negotiable broker's fee for a not-disintegrating apartment ranges from 10-15%. That's on top of a security deposit and all the other costs associated with moving. It's a cartel that can only be broken
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by gen220 2y ago
NYC has been in that category for a long time. The 60% of income on rented housing for people whose income would make them otherwise solidly middle class (to me, this definition includes ownership of real estate) is new. Something else that
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by gen220 2y ago
I guess it was closer to a dozen if you add up all the smaller ones. City tower, the Death Star looking one, the Alexa looking one, the 3 or 4 medium sized ones on Gold St, the Brooklyner, the 5 or 6 medium sized ones on Hoyt, the One wit
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by gen220 2y ago
If we loosen zoning, and a half-dozen skyrises go up that are owned by a ~cartel~ group of friendly property developers, with X% of housing required to go to low-to-middle income households with a govt-required vacancy rate on that segment,
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by gen220 2y ago
Meanwhile, I know many people in NYC who spend ~60% of their post-tax income on rented housing. Nobody is happy about it or thinks it's a good idea, but living further out is not perceived as a legitimate option because of the fear of
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by gen220 2y ago
Yea nix is an interesting angle of approach. It rhymes a lot with Bazel (reproducibility, explicit/declarative dependency tree, etc.), but nix approaches the problem from a different, lower layer of abstraction (by replacing the OS-lev
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by gen220 2y ago
The second option is traditionally what people mean by "monorepo" (multiple executables in a repo with a dependency tree). First one you'd call a "monolith" (single executable in a repo). The second one you'd w
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by gen220 2y ago
I usually think of "red pill" as "You learn some piece of information, the implications of which lead to your perception of the world expanding in a large and meaningful way that belies your earlier perception of the world an
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by gen220 2y ago
I do this! I’ve also found it useful to make a calendar event that’s called some variant of “empty” time At peak executive function load I try to do 2 45m blocks per day. This is for browsing HN, staring into space, etc. Sometimes you work
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by gen220 2y ago
Because it takes capital to start a business. People with capital like to retain control over their capital, so they don’t start cooperatives. Coops don’t have the same incentive structure as external-investor-beholden corporations, so they
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by gen220 2y ago
I don't think it's an unrealistic expectation for a hunk of bleeding-edge electronics that costs ~$1k and you interact with for a couple hours each day at minimum. I've had an iPhone XS since 2018/09 (equidistant to 2030
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by gen220 2y ago
The docs are surprisingly unspecific for such a mature project, enough that you often need to read source code to confirm your suspicions one way or another. The style has been redone a few different times now, and most of the old stuff is
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by gen220 2y ago
There was an ad for Navy shipbuilding recently that did the rounds online, targeting gig workers [1]. The snake grows hungry, and slithers toward its tail. :) [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1IZC3t8NRc
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by gen220 2y ago
Just a mild pruning: in natural/wild environments (I.e. not the sterile labs of monocultural agronomy), plants actually cooperate in the resources department, because each species and stage of maturity has different needs and resource

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