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by haswell 1y ago
I do think people will learn/adapt. I’m in the middle of that now. The question/concern is more about what happens during that learning process, and whether or not society has structures in place to facilitate it at scale. e.g. my
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by haswell 1y ago
I agree with this comment. If I’d started from a position where I had a better relationship with work, maybe the whiplash wouldn’t have been so severe and I could have transitioned to something better before getting stuck. My worry is that
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by haswell 1y ago
This is not what I took away from the experience or what I’m trying to communicate with my comment. I’ve elaborated in various sibling comments, but my point is closer to this: regardless of what is possible, many people simply don’t have t
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by haswell 1y ago
> especially since 99% of them don’t even have a sliver of a chance at “fuck you money” like you did. I didn’t have “fuck you money”. Just enough to live a moderately frugal life on the equivalent of median income as long as the market
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by haswell 1y ago
I’ve asked myself the same question, because before taking the break I also had visions of working on important/meaningful/undervalued things on my own terms. I think there were multiple factors. I hadn’t accounted for how much I
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by haswell 1y ago
> I don't believe either of our individual experiences are really a good predictor of universal human experience in this area. Do you? No, and I said as much in my comment. My point was not that my experience is universal, but tha
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by haswell 1y ago
Absolutely. But most retirement planning doesn’t cover 40-60 years of time. Most retirement planning also assumes a period of time when a person is gradually losing their ability to fully engage with society. It’s a whole different ballgame
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by haswell 1y ago
My point is that I was firmly in the “I want to retire early” category, found myself with the means to do so, and that this wasn’t theoretical for me. But the thing I imagined is not the reality that I found. I realize “they” have other mot
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by haswell 1y ago
I think there’s an even bigger issue than this. Many people would not know how to live under such a system. By this, I mean that I strongly believe people would become severely depressed or insanely stir crazy. I’ve been on an extended sa
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by haswell 1y ago
> It may destroy the research ability of the average person In this “post-truth” era, I think this is deeply concerning and has the potential to far outweigh the benefits in the long run. People are already not good at critically evalu
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by haswell 1y ago
Even though I’ve always run Linux in some capacity, I always kept a Windows gaming PC. Fully made the jump to Linux gaming about 1.5 years ago, and haven’t looked back. Thanks to the awesome progress on Proton, I can play just about everyth
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by haswell 2y ago
Kids grow up in a world full of things that are not appropriate at a young age, but are perfectly fine later in life. Personally, I worry about the mental models formed at an early age, and how distorting technology can be relative to the r
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by haswell 2y ago
> but these demands aren't going to go away To me, this just means that we must remain vigilant. The slow creep towards authoritarianism isn’t going to go away either. The solution is not to look for reasonable ways for authoritar
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by haswell 2y ago
I don’t think this particular devil needs more advocacy. Law enforcement agencies currently have more data about each of us and more sophisticated tools to investigate crimes than at any time in human history. > Politicians are (mistake
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by haswell 2y ago
> Are there people who weren't aware of how much people dislike him? I don’t understand the framing of this question. People are protesting because of actions taking place now. Even many of his supporters have buyer’s remorse and
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by haswell 2y ago
31.5% of eligible voters voted for the current administration. 49.8% of voters who voted were in favor of the current administration. Clearly the way people vote matters. But I bristle at the sentiment that protesting against it is “pointle
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by haswell 2y ago
I grew up in a very conservative and controlling environment. My ability to study remotely is one of the things that helped lift me out of that environment. I am far from alone in this experience. I’d have much preferred an in-person educat
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by haswell 2y ago
I suspect we feel the same way about the actual harms of care denial, i.e. they’re unacceptable, immoral/unethical, cause unnecessary suffering and death, are tragic and horrific, and reforms are required. But we disagree about the use
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by haswell 2y ago
That’s understandable, especially in the current climate. I’ve definitely encountered the straw men from the anti-science types too, and it’s incredibly frustrating. As a layperson, I often come in contact with people who believe in science
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by haswell 2y ago
You're describing anti-science sentiment, which is problematic and dangerous. But this is also whataboutism. I'm describing unfounded beliefs many people hold about science based mostly on a lack of philosophical understanding, wh
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by haswell 2y ago
> I think speculative science always starts out as philosophy. This is as true now as it was in the 18th century. Indeed, and Natural Philosophy was the precursor to what we now call Science. I still think the old name better fit what
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by haswell 2y ago
Words have meaning. Care denial is a serious problem that causes much harm and requires a solution, but to call it violent is to make the word meaningless.
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by haswell 2y ago
I disagree with this analogy. Fearing all tattoos is mostly built on prejudice. If you knew the tattoos were gang tattoos, there might be reason for caution. Choosing to engage with the attention economy and optimizing for engagement/r
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by haswell 2y ago
My 70+ non technical parents are not going to have much success with ffmpeg.
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by haswell 2y ago
> I think this misses the 'fuck it, I'm going out like a grenade' aspect. I think this is very separate from the disturbingly popular trend to advocate for violence as a solution.
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by haswell 2y ago
Without defending or justifying the practices of health insurance companies (I’m going through a hellish denial/appeal process at the moment), there’s a major difference between advocating for and resorting to violence as a way of atte
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by haswell 2y ago
I’ve seen people use this argument, but I think it fails to consider the complexity of the situation. The moment a company capitulates as the result of murder, they’ve now incentivized more murder. Such attacks on the people running these c
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by haswell 2y ago
Thanks for taking the time to talk through this and for putting more thought into this than many of the projects in this category.
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by haswell 2y ago
With the recent findings [0] that some of the “free file converter” websites in the wild were actually injecting malware into the results as the first stage of various attacks, I’ve wanted to stand something like this up on a server for my
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by haswell 2y ago
The post is an update on the status of an ongoing project. > This is an update on the progress I have made on my Rust to C compiler. > There still are about 65 tests that need fixing, but they all seem to have pretty similar causes

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