jseban

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by jseban 4y ago
People can just have higher salaries and save for themselves for their pension, just like any other expense they have in life. There is no practical need for this to be centrally managed, other than you can't trust people to be respons
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by jseban 4y ago
I don't understand this, this is the way every hierarchy work, and how every single job/management role is functioning. It's to solve the problem of communication overhead growing exponentially with larger groups of people. W
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by jseban 4y ago
> The hard part is coordinating, defining the problem, planning for the future, and communicating the current status of the problem. Yeah the hard part about software engineering is being the henchman of your corrupt manager.
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by jseban 4y ago
You can still be monogamous if some women have more children, not every woman needs to have 2 children to achieve that average. A woman can easily have 4 children and suddenly half of the women can also be childless and still achieve a 2 ch
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by jseban 4y ago
Yeah this is what I'm wondering too, seems like this is the obvious part of the deal that was somehow missed? It makes perfect sense, and it would also be fair and benefit both single/childless people as well as people with childr
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by jseban 4y ago
> How does women entering the work force (from your previous post) equal less freedom? Less freedom for whom? Certainly not women. Less freedom for those who happen to like traditional gender roles, now they are forced to work more and a
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by jseban 4y ago
Sure it's going to work out for some people, but I still think the obvious downside of increased working hours in total is very significant and almost never mentioned. If you raise the working day from 8 to 12 hours, just because you f
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by jseban 4y ago
The issue that I'm having with this, is that child care is still relatively unqualified work, so how can it ever be highly compensated? Parents who are highly educated doctors, pilots etc argue that they should be able to stay at home
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by jseban 4y ago
> Men aren’t the limiting resource here Yeah that's the point, so there really is no need for every man to have children, should it be the norm I'm wondering. Can we get rid of this natural selection, and should we? I don'
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by jseban 4y ago
> Better medical treatments and lack of wars are not child subsidies. Lower education and religion is probably the biggest cause for these higher birth rates. In the victorian era, people would simply not get married if they didn't
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by jseban 4y ago
> It can be very isolating when your childless friends can drop whatever they are doing to go have a good time Yeah parents can't have as much spontaneous fun, but they don't have to deal with unhealthy loneliness of being alon
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by jseban 4y ago
No but some men would have more than two children, and some men would have zero. We balanced this out up until recently by sending men to war and other dangerous jobs that made them die before they had a chance to reproduce. There is an eno
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by jseban 4y ago
Totally depends on the state of society and what the needs are, China had the opposite policy for over 30 years to achieve a declining birth rate. It's not true that more children = better. It's only an issue somehow for pyramid s
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by jseban 4y ago
> Huh? It has to work out that or the human race dies out. I guess you could have a few couples who have a lot of kids instead, but developed societies are really adverse to that. Obviously the human race somehow made it until we creat
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by jseban 4y ago
Yeah, I'm constantly surprised that nobody every says this. With women entering the work force, now the family as a whole needs to work almost twice as much, as before when women were house wives. That's a pretty hefty price to pa
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by jseban 4y ago
> Most would consider the implications of that to be highly immoral. I think it's already immoral how society punishes people for being childless when it's a natural thing and can be 100% caused by characteristics that you are
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by jseban 4y ago
> The majority of humans are going to be parents. Only because of the subsidies. It's hardly "natural" for all humans to reproduce. All living humans come from a long unbroken chain of natural selection and rejection of ba
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by jseban 4y ago
Yes, a team of professional composers who call themselves "producers" who will "make suggestions" for how to change your songs from having potential, to being actually high quality music.
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by jseban 4y ago
Sure, but then the reputation should be "German stability" and not efficiency.
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by jseban 4y ago
> Feels like the whole "German efficiency" trope is mostly a meme Yeah it's really false, Germany is painfully bureaucratic, ceremonial and slow and dysfunctional, compared to other leading western nations. German engineer
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by jseban 4y ago
> I've started doing it recently and it is lovely - no need for a bundler/compile step. Same here, I'm also doing on-demand module loading, it's an enormous productivity boost for me as a developer because of the shor
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by jseban 4y ago
> Vanilla JS is IMHO a very nice and expressive language I agree, and the runtime and browser is also a very nice framework for gui programming.
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by jseban 4y ago
If people would just admit, and adapt to, the fact that the browser won over native, and Oracle won over Sun, we would avoid this situation with armies of Java developers making rube goldberg variations of basic relational, sysadmin, and gu
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by jseban 4y ago
You can just use a service to take care of the estate, you are not obliged to do that at all.
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by jseban 4y ago
Yeah I think this war on consumerism and boomer lifestyle is a bit exaggerated, and I mean, if you take away all the benefits and rewards you have to take away some of the demands too. I can recycle and share and rent and downsize if I can
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by jseban 4y ago
It also requires exponentially more stuff to be active year around, and adapting to a full time work/weekend schedule, compared to temporarily with a flexible schedule. Just the beach walk will require a whole wardrobe of suitable clot
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by jseban 4y ago
If you are always travelling then yeah, I guess it makes sense. The problem I have with minimalism is that it also minimises the activities you can do. Any sport and hobby requires stuff, the more stuff you have, the more activities you can
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by jseban 4y ago
I don't see what the big deal is to be honest, just a harmless hobby to collect random trinkets, it gives people joy, and you can just get rid of it when they die. I don't see what the harm is
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by jseban 4y ago
You're the one who's using the straw man here to argue about why team work itself sucks and bring up that some people can't speak english. The assumption is that you have a proactive team work environment, for example scrum,
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by jseban 4y ago
> There are entire cultures which function this way. Even in the Anglosphere, the far majority of people won't talk about most their issues until designated times and prompted by bosses. Yeah, for example the military and factory wo

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