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by mbfg 11y ago
We do create new jobs. But you do recognize it's a Ponzi scheme right? Each iteration include a smaller set of highly educated jobs, which will be out of reach for a larger percentage of the population.
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by mbfg 11y ago
Agreed. It's interesting that this thread is almost entirely about low wage earners. Truck drivers were added to the conversation, but the truth is it's not about low wage earning, but about rote working. In 10-20 years, i'd
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by mbfg 11y ago
So your thinking is that people will start making $15/hr and say to themselves, wow, i'm living in paradise! Really?
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by mbfg 11y ago
This is a very sane point of course, and you are right that the consumer, and perhaps the low wage earner (in cases of the McDonald's type restaurants) now loses his extra wage to extra meal costs, so it is self defeating. The problem
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by mbfg 11y ago
I'd be happy to see Sanders pull an upset, but lets not fool ourselves, the democratic party didn't move an inch. They are the same corporatists that they ever were.
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by mbfg 11y ago
the capitalist will soon be able to not hire people at all, for an ever larger meaning of 'at all'
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by mbfg 11y ago
I'm all for raising the minimum wage, temporarily it may help people for several years. The truth is the automation wave is coming quickly regardless of what people are paid. And it's not for just minimum wage jobs. Think about jo
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by mbfg 11y ago
i had a reasonable interpretation of the videos, not 100% i missed the taz, thought he just stumbled, but other than that i thought it was relatively useful to see those body camera shots.
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by mbfg 11y ago
Love DLST personally, don't want to get up in the pitch black in the winter, but want long light in the evenings in summer. perfect.
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by mbfg 11y ago
as long as there are managers, there will always be a a high percentage of 'work in the office' situations. People always talk about the future work environment from a rational point of view. That is not how business works.
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by mbfg 11y ago
it's the 21st century. i use a debugger.
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by mbfg 11y ago
So Nutter saying that having N versions called X.Y is silly, is what got him banned? Did I read that right? Let's hope the other 'abuse' was more tractable.
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by mbfg 11y ago
remove 80% of management
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by mbfg 11y ago
I see these posts all the time and wonder what i missing. Email works perfectly well, and fits many of my needs to a high level. I have no issues with it, and it's not like i don't get much email, given the number of mailing lists
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by mbfg 11y ago
Agreed NASA's funding is directly tied to the concern over war, especially with super powers. You can assume that NASA's budget will dwindle into the future, unless this fear re-emerges.
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by mbfg 11y ago
This was lifted from Numberphile. That's the place to go for cool videos like this.
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by mbfg 11y ago
This use case seems to be highly read oriented, which is fine, but really diminishes the value of distributed 'nosql' stores. The really hard thing to scale is massive writes. Cassandra's big differentiator, for instance, is
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by mbfg 11y ago
How does one debug an application in a web based IDE? That would seem to be a pretty stifling limitation.
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by mbfg 11y ago
might want to checkout lombok. https://projectlombok.org/
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by mbfg 11y ago
God bless the designated typer in the mob. That is a job worse than death.
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by mbfg 11y ago
>> I'm not the kind of person who relishes a schedule, ah... then don't worry about DLST, get up when you want, go to be when you want.
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by mbfg 11y ago
Wow this is disturbing. One wonders whether this is a transitory time for kids that they grow out of, or if the future becomes more dystopian quickly. I also wonder if this is a just a symptom of rich-kid schools. I can only hope your typic
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by mbfg 11y ago
i like dlst frankly, long summer days, long evenings, and not pitch black in the morning in the winters. Never understood the hubbub about it.
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by mbfg 11y ago
All of these problems seem trivial to me. The problem with Optional is that it isn't baked into the API, nor can it ever be, so any use of Optional is after the fact, applied only by the application, which means you need to wrap api ca
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by mbfg 11y ago
agreed. it's amazing how clueless having money makes you.
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by mbfg 11y ago
from the article: Indeed, the likely reasons for users to choose i386 over amd64 today are to reduce memory consumption or to run i386 binaries for which the source is not available - not because they're using 32-bit processors.
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by mbfg 11y ago
The article reads like they are really talking about Java EE, not java itself. I'm not suggesting i buy either argument.
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by mbfg 11y ago
I missed the memo that says we have all been granted amd64 machines. damn.. out of luck again.
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by mbfg 11y ago
dahart: >> has been mistranslated in popular science culture as a thing that somehow opens up the option of time travel. Ah, time travel isn't science fiction. Clearly we have concrete experiments that show this is common place,
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by mbfg 11y ago
I'll buy that your spacetime braids disintegrate at death altho i'd think they be more like the parallel braids of a stone, not like those shown helicoptering out as in the picture. But as for birth, clearly your start branches of

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