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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
> He found that experts could be split into two broad categories, the first of which he called Hedgehogs. A Hedgehog had one big idea like free-market capitalism (or nordic model capitalism or demand-side economics), which they used as
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
Only if grandma works as an insurance agent.
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
> I hear this argument a lot but maybe that's just me but I don't forget much. I don't have perfect memory, far from it, but remembering my thought process when faced with my old code, even decades old is not really a prob
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
It depends. One, two, three or four wheels?
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
That, and with respect to: > Alzheimer’s sounds like a good candidate, or near-fatal diseases (6-month-to-live cancer) - you literally have nothing to lose! But others have a lot to lose. No matter how experimental the application and ho
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
It can work in a well regulated market with healthy competition.
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
Yeah the difference between the things we know we should want, and the things we actually want in the moment. Its incredible in how many ways the brain can be annoying ;-)
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
I strongly believe that gaping holes did exist in peoples souls waaaay before ads were invented. Don't know, though ... when I asked the all-knowing internet if "gaping holes did exist in people's souls before ads were invent
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
It'd just be nice to have a little more control, for starters. So advertisers try to figure out what we want by what websites we visit and are not too good at it. They could also just ... ask? I'd like to have an ad service that I
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
But then it seems the problem is not ads, but the gaping holes in peoples souls?
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
We'll never get those things right at first. That's why - specifically the more complex code you talk about - stuff should be isolated with clearly defined interfaces, known or no side-effects etc. Only then its possible to reorga
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
Newbie can also be yourself looking at your own code a year later. You will have forgotten a lot and will have made it harder for yourself to re-understand what you were doing. There's a difference between learning stuff and applying s
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
> So you end up with lots of scenes where one character has to come across as clueless so that the other character can explain things to them (and to the reader). This is not how normal conversations between people at mission control wo
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
I really hate that saying "its simple until you make it complicated". No! I really like the distinction between "simple" and "easy". Writing a little script that does some job is easy. Then you add lots of extr
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
> Software developers spend years training (or self-training) to use their brains to solve complex problems, which involves continuous learning, constantly making "tactical" decisions, and quickly gaining understanding of the b
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
> Now suppose we could have an alternative version of that tool, written by a skilled developer using a more performance-oriented language, and placing greater emphasis on runtime performance even if it means sacrificing some readability
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
The examples you gave are exactly the ones I mean with generic solutions. Stuff you can apply to many things, like lambdas. Such things exist in many programming languages. Yes, that's stuff people should learn and keep up with. But us
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
> But what if the junior member can't understand OOP, functional programming, has no idea of abstraction and can only produce duplication and duplication of code ... then this person obviously did not pay attention in class and shou
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
> it's self-inflicted dumbing-down. I really don't understand where this rampant support for antiintellectualism comes from I don't think it is about dumbing-down or antiintellectualism. It is about knowledge. No matter ho
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
> Assuming you get a political majority to approve it. If you do, the costs will indeed be transferred to others, but I don't think it's politically feasible. > Current society is fixated around short-term profits, and has l
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
Well, the EU is pretty heterogeneous, so I would expect different politicians saying and wanting different things. Still seems like its worth it, though, on an economical level at least. England, for example, did only join the EU back then
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
> Problem is that those changes will be prohibitly expensive for a lot of people. There's this idea that we introduce a carbon tax, and pay out the money to people. Seems like this could be designed in a way those people don't
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
> Most of our so-called leaders come from a completely different class than the rest of us, or were inducted into that class through their networks. Yes. And some are not, and we could vote for them to give them more influence. I bet onc
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
> we (as in Europe as a whole) took too many immigrants without any consideration of how to manage them So in Germany, we are actually quite successful in managing the million that came in 2015. Most got a job and pay taxes. Actually qui
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
Except when Söder closes the border (again) g Oh wait, he doesn't do the immigrant thing any more, and for a while he and his politics were actually making sense. Seems like that's over now, but had some (two? three?) good years
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
> "giving my children a better future, so that their lives aren't as hard as mine" Although they'll have a pretty hard live if we don't do something against climate change. And yes, many people do not have the re
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
> It's the ordinary masses that will lose the ability to travel abroad (and probably be limited in their ability to travel within their own country), who won't be able to see their friends and family so much anymore, who will l
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
They're not more expensive. And of course it changes something when enough people change providers, as those providers then have more money to invest in renewables, just as you said. If enough people switch, coal power plants would hav
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
> If we had a proper carbon tax That would be awesome :) > Your entire argument relies on the false premise that the will of the people is translated into policy. I can only speak for Germany, where it does. Right now, the Green party
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by j_wtf_all_taken 5y ago
> So in theory you could get (50+epsilon)% of the votes in each of 51 seats, and 0 votes in any of the other 49 seats and hold power, despite only getting ~25% of the overall vote Ah ok, got it. However, probably an unlikely scenario eve

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