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by jseban 5y ago
Yeah I agree with you, and it's because writing a test suite to simulate the users and verify (all) the use cases of your system, is really complex. I think the test advocates make it way too easy for themselves when they always just
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by jseban 5y ago
The reason why cars are prioritised is because they are objectively the most useful vehicle. By far. A bicycle is really a joke in comparison when you actually consider the usefulness, and even though I love to ride my bike sometimes when t
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by jseban 5y ago
I don't understand what you're trying to say, the work day has already been successfully shortened to 8 hours, so why couldn't it be further shortened? Seems like a natural progression as technology improves, and this solutio
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by jseban 5y ago
> What is? Do you think free food, free housing, free education and free healthcare is too much? Do you think power to the people (not parliaments) is too much? What about libertarian communism (anarchism) disgusts you? Haha, no comment.
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by jseban 5y ago
Whatever rules exist at the moment, just decrease the time by 25%. Not sure exactly how to make such a change though, probably hard, just suggesting a solution like was asked for
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by jseban 5y ago
Here's my suggestion: change from an 8 hour work day into a 6 hour work day. Pretty simple really, I don't think we need to uproot society here...
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by jseban 5y ago
So how many large scale experiments with communism have we had during the last 100 years, and how many of them have ended in success? It's starting to get pretty ridiculous to argue against that kind of body of evidence. I have full re
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by jseban 5y ago
The people who are happy with the union will be people who are underperforming and/or belong to the mainstream majority of the people in the workplace. Just like always, the majority will benefit at the expense of the minority, so it w
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by jseban 5y ago
This is exactly what happened in the recession in the 70s in Europe which caused a crisis in the industry in for example Sweden, and the reason why Thatcher had to push through the unpopular neoliberal reforms in the UK. Unions caused stagn
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by jseban 5y ago
I think she's totally reasonable in saying this, and I think it's normal that after you've achieved the goal and finished a project you've been working on together, you would move on to the next project. And the big proj
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by jseban 5y ago
I totally agree, and I also don't think it's a good idea to choose sides here and start to deny the pleasures of accumulating material comforts as something stupid, after all, accumulating nice things IS fun and meaningful! Even t
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by jseban 5y ago
I don't understand how you can wake up with nothing to do and panic over it. I would always have some hobby or sports project going that I know I'd always want to work on, I seriously can't understand how someone can run out
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by jseban 5y ago
This is something I test candidates on during interviews, I make a small mistake, or disagree with an opinion to play devils advocate, just to see how they will tell me. Are they going to be nice about it, or become nasty, and how will they
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by jseban 5y ago
Of course if you include the option of fleeing to another country where there are more jobs and opportunity, it's real easy to create a successful welfare state. This is always how leftist politics work, there's always some extern
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by jseban 5y ago
Try writing this in another language: wget http://server{1..5}.com/file.txt >> /tmp/data.txt & wait && wc -l /tmp/data.txt There's some pretty serious stuff going on there
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by jseban 5y ago
Dealing with files and directories? Best option. Dealing with calling multiple other tools written in different languages and/or network calls, and combine, store and do some basic operations on the data? Best option. It's a job c
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by jseban 5y ago
Finish people emigrated to sweden after WW2 to find jobs...
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by jseban 5y ago
Yeah I hope this debate is started soon. I think if a company offered 6 hour working days and private offices, it would be a whole different story.
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by jseban 5y ago
Yeah but all these sucessful policies driven by strong unions happen in the aftermath of winning a major war, do you think this is a coincidence?
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by jseban 5y ago
I think it's a perfectly healthy and normal attitude to have, but the thing is that it's only your perspective as the employee, and to avoid being short sighted and irresponsible, you have to also to some extent consider the persp
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by jseban 5y ago
It's not just the money, you also save time and effort which in my opinion really accumulates to something significant and distracting in the long run. It's just nice to be able to focus on your work and have someone else worry ab
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by jseban 5y ago
The push for working from home is just two other things that have become taboo to debate and is manifesting through the work from home "movement", which is the loss of private offices, and the debate about reducing hours of work.
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by jseban 5y ago
Yeah and also to mention the elephant in the room: people work much more when they are stuck in a room with others, and have eyes on them. And they work way less if they are at home and nobody is watching. This is just the truth, regardless
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by jseban 5y ago
I'm not sure to be honest, but for sure they were not involved in WW2 as much as other allies, and also I'm certain that the middle class in Denmark and Finland have very humble incomes/lives compared to for example the UK
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by jseban 5y ago
Similar situation. And any time you use the nordic countries as an example, you have to realise that the middle class takes a huge hit for financing the equality. Sweden has implemented a LOT of trickle down economy tax breaks for the wealt
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by jseban 5y ago
This is what has happened to all of the failed communist countries.
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by jseban 5y ago
Yes but norway do fund their welfare state with oil, which is why they didn't have to make as many budget cuts in the 90s as Sweden did. And Sweden financed its welfare state by being neutral in WWII which meant they had intact industr
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by jseban 5y ago
Yeah but my point still stands: the more you redistribute, the less incentive people have to work, and the less money you will have overall. If you redistribute too much, you will lower your overall productivity and not have enough money an
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by jseban 5y ago
It could be and also could not be, it depends on where you draw the line. You want to incentivise strong people as much as possible (freedom), and also help weak people as much as possible (redistribution). If you tip too far over to either
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by jseban 5y ago
Personally I much prefer System 2 and I'm happy that I have 60k instead of 50k. Money is just a tool to give me freedom, and 60k means more freedom than 50k, so I'll take that deal any day. The rich guys who have 10 houses or what

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