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by gtsop 5y ago
With all the respect, but you've got your economics wrong. That's alright though, i don't mean to be disrespectful by saying that. The bedrock of prices is human time spent (yes there are exceptions, but they are just that, e
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by gtsop 5y ago
> Programming is a skill sure, but it does not create value, it creates programs. Economic value is created when a human being spends man-hours to produce an artifact that other people need and thus are willing to pay for. Programming is
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by gtsop 5y ago
This! I didn't even have thr chance to read the full article. I am never solving a google captcha again on my non-work devices. It's a lost cause, I can't pass.
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by gtsop 5y ago
It's funny how a post highlighting how hn crowd dismisses opinions... is being dismissed :D I empathize with the OP but I can't possibly agree HN is "toxic". It is a place were clearly a lot of legitimae conversations sp
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by gtsop 5y ago
The author would benefit greatly by reading Karl Marx's Critique on Political economy. In this article they are mixing the notions of use value-cost, price-money. One example is open source. Open source code has by definition 0 exchang
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by gtsop 5y ago
Not one single thing changes the course of history on it's own. A bunch of factors need to come together to make that happen. Has literature (and arts in general I would add) been one of those factors? Totally so.
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I just said it should be done with care
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by gtsop 5y ago
@dataflow but then you are dipping into the issue of artificially modyfing biomes. Putting forests where they didn't exist before, again, i don't know, but i would assume this could alter the local ecosystem and it should be done
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by gtsop 5y ago
The rate at which new trees grow. The ratio of carbon absorbed by a mature tree over the carbon another new tree (or trees) can absorb occupyig the same space on the ground
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Is that a sustainable practice you think? Just asking
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Not sure if I should upvote this, could make his case worst :p
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Two concerns, if anyone can answer: 1. Does it look like the production process can scale big enough? 2. Would that mean even more incentive to chop down trees?
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by gtsop 5y ago
Most of this post would be irrelevant if you actually talked about Free Software as in FSF's definition. Free as in GPLv3, not just open source. Is permissive non-gpl software worth working on? For me, the answer is no. Is Free (gpl) S
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by gtsop 5y ago
I onced decided to structure my cv as a json and write a js script to automatically fill in such forms. Wasn't perfect but surely saved me time. Why not standardise cv's in a json format and have companies accept them?
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by gtsop 5y ago
An analogy of what I hear: A surgeon having a nearly dismantled body in front of them, thinking "hmm maybe I should have put a hanzaplast on that poor fella, maybe would have saved him" Surgeon being the "economists", bo
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by gtsop 5y ago
Do the people of your country have great control over what their government does and have the legal right to remove them when they are unhappy? What country is that, i wanna move there :)
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by gtsop 5y ago
Although your statement is alright, the big thing here isn't nazis' free speech in particular, but censorship on a platform that is being sold as a privacy saver. Local laws may change from place to place. What is maybe reasonable
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by gtsop 5y ago
> First off, the daylight cycle is an obvious concern and there still isn't a great way to store solar energy during the day for use by cities (or generally large consumers) at night. Not to say it's not possible, but people ar
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by gtsop 5y ago
Well, same as facebook and US.
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Regardless of who is right here, these stories demonstrate the value of voting people as representatives.
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by gtsop 5y ago
Wait, but the case for TOR isn't to hide you are using TOR, but to blend in with the crowd of TOR users. Does my TOR browser give a different fingerprint than yours?
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by gtsop 5y ago
> Not everything has to be a metrics based, data collected thing Very true, that's why my very next sentence prompted for a hunch, or some sort of reasoning. Nevertheless, when data are absent, you need theories, and then you try to
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by gtsop 5y ago
Totally agree with your sarcastic comment, but you shouldn't fall into the fallacy of condemning his ideas just because he doesn't follow through with them. let's answer critically. Do we a have such a right? Some comments in
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by gtsop 5y ago
I am really lost with this web3 thing. Is there a good resource that lays out the evolution of this concept in a "history-like" manner? Reading descriptions of what web3 is right now doesn't help me. The same thing happened w
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by gtsop 5y ago
Haven't we reached a point in programming with sufficient abstractions and syntax such that ordering of parameters shouldn't matter?
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by gtsop 5y ago
How many years away are we from GARaaS (google account recovery as a service)? "You pay, we scream on social media to get some googler to respond"
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by gtsop 5y ago
Listen to yourself. Government back loans inflate price of degrees? Is that some sort of unescapable physics here or do the corporate parasites increase the price of degrees because their friends in government are backing up the loans? Dont
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Isn't it funny that the piece presents a sense of socital need to have some people work in some particular jobs? It's as if the invisible hand of the market doesn't handle this corner case (esle why would one appeal to the wi
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by gtsop 5y ago
The layers of irony in this self-contradicting educational system that preaches against it's own doings... This is just too much for my human brain to deal with. Maybe that's the point?
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This just in: Can't grow infinitely within a finite world.

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