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by jahaja 7y ago
This. So much. I would really hope that folks could accept that different languages have different objectives, and that this is good. The problem I've seen is that there's always a feature creep by folks that like more expressiven
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by jahaja 7y ago
I honestly think that any language that enables too much cleverness will inevitably produce a mess given enough developers involved.
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100% Yes.
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Go is such a productive language. Well deserved cred to its authors and community. Please, please hold firm against the inherent pressure from language theoreticians to add more features that increases complexity.
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That is given? Independent of culture and society.
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by jahaja 7y ago
This is after all, and always will be, a symptom of our sick society. In a competitive environment the traits that are socially desirable will be sought after. Currently these are, among others, being attractive, tall, male, white and so on
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by jahaja 7y ago
What? The german WV autoworkers union has just demanded that they refuse to build a factory in Turkey until their aggression stops.
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by jahaja 7y ago
People seem to confuse the workplace with the army, where insubordination is both unacceptable and undesirable. This is kind of army mentality is ofc the normal state of affairs where the workers have neither demand leverage nor an union. T
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by jahaja 7y ago
> Who is disputing that there are clearly worse alternatives? No one, and neither do I. That's why I added inevitable. Because the problem is the false dichotomy of Capitalism or Stalinism. It's obvious that the people calling
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by jahaja 7y ago
> "Capitalism" has spared the Western world increasingly more suffering "Spared" implies that there's a clearly worse and inevitable alternative. Unless we shake off this ingrained cold-war mentality no other alt
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by jahaja 7y ago
What's wrong with employees trying to influence what they're working with?
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The problem with this is; all of the so called gig economy, and this, is that the people that's on the receiving end is not represented here. However, the people that benefits of all these draconian laws are well represented here. As a
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by jahaja 7y ago
The US sets a very low standard. The downfall of the wellfare state in Sweden is very obvious.
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I think it's important to note that most western countries have gone through a neoliberal regime of tax cuts since ~1970. For example the corporate tax in Sweden was 52% in 1980 (albeit with generous deductions for various kinds of inv
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That was the first sentence of my reply. The latter part clearly questions the relevance of the parent comment.
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My kingdom for a single thread criticizing Capitalism without a response like this. People looking for social justice do not want Stalinism. Why would they?
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Protest against imagined slackers? What kind of a dystopia is that?
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Imagine if the current protests against inequality (and thereabouts) going on all around the world would be reported, scrutinized, and debated as much as when any of the established "enemies" have civil unrest. How quickly would t
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by jahaja 7y ago
Even if this is would be true, is the idea that everyone shall work as and end in itself because of a dogmatic growth goal? At what point do we realise that it's based on artificial scarcity?
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No, cruelty is _causing_ the problem. Not being unable hide it.
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In what way? I'm trying suggest to address the root cause, albeit very long term, rather than just moving poverty out-of-sight.
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That's because there are decent welfare systems in most those countries, reducing the scale of the problem to individuals, rather than volunteers trying to mitigate the immediate needs. My point regarding hypocrisy is more important lo
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by jahaja 7y ago
Wow, that article's rhetoric is seething with social darwinistic class hatred. All these voluntary homeless seems to be conspicuously absent in western Europe. At least at this scale. Insisting on, which the author clearly does accordi
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Modern C for C++ Peeps(floooh.github.io)
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by jahaja 7y ago
Looking in from the outside, I just can't see how a project written in most esoteric-leaning languages can scale beyond like 5 developers without becoming an unreadable mess simply due to the expressiveness of the language.
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Isn't FP simply too esoteric to ever become properly mainstream?
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> If we want positive change in our world we need respectful and rational discourse. Posts likes yours actively tear down discourse and makes worse the very problems you mention. This is a very ahistorical take. Tone policing and "m
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by jahaja 7y ago
My intention is not to get in to some sort of debate on when the legacy of Stalinism ended, but to say that authoritarianism is properly shunned within the left movement as well.
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From my European perspective both those parties are firmly capitalist and right-wing. I will never expect anything other that what you described from members of them. Certainly not to do some sort of socialist transformation. The current US
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by jahaja 7y ago
It's a big problem that our current political imagination is so narrow to only allow the false dichotomy of either neo-liberalism or Stalinism. The number of top-down Stalinist within the general leftist movement is tiny.

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