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by mtsr 7y ago
But they were likely the zealous type for whom this was plenty justification to classify Maya as subhuman and have no trouble killing all of them.
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by mtsr 7y ago
It’s even simpler: Trains are powered by taxed energy sources. Planes are powered by untaxed kerosine.
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by mtsr 7y ago
Is it really the case that they are only hurting themselves? The effect of targeted advertising on platforms such as Facebook seems to have had a very negative effect on democracy, for example.
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by mtsr 8y ago
Cell and RefCell are both !Sync, as they don't prevent dataraces. You would still need to wrap them in a Mutex to actually make them threadsafe. But Rc<RefCell<Ppu>> would forego the need for unsafe{} here, at the cost of r
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by mtsr 8y ago
That’s right. This way of expressing similar experiences is actually sympathy , not empathy. And sympathy tends to be unhelpful for the person sympathized with, if not actively counter-productive. Imagine complaining about an argument with
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by mtsr 8y ago
Exactly, and when companies do the same thing it’s legally considered perfectly fine. Morally can be a different matter, though.
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by mtsr 8y ago
Tax evasion is, but tax avoidance isn’t.
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by mtsr 8y ago
I've always used ii, jj and kk, etc. These are just as easy, but allow languages/editors without variable renaming to do a useful search/replace on them, because you just know you will at some point.
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by mtsr 8y ago
It looks horrible, but at work I’ve been putting packs of A4 paper under the too low monitor stands of every flex desk I work at.
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by mtsr 9y ago
Sure, but using some other language than js could become attractive to people who avoid frontend because of it. Not that that makes it a good idea, per se.
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by mtsr 9y ago
Indeed and additionally they're taking work away from people with previously reasonably paying work (cab drivers, etc). Some of these really are zero-sum games and the gig economy is destroying pay in these.
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by mtsr 9y ago
Indeed. Combine this technology with something like the video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VZ3LGfSMhA ) from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14101405 . Instant panic.
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by mtsr 11y ago
It just so happens that Piketty is French. Maybe you can find a translation somewhere, though.
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by mtsr 11y ago
Yeah, seems like as good a time as any to pull out Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs .
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by mtsr 11y ago
The I'll-take-any-job crowd might not be very motivated in their work anyway. At worst this will force us to pay better salaries for ALL jobs that have fewer applicants, instead of only the ones that require a higher education or lots
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by mtsr 11y ago
Actually, money worries are some of the worst things your employees can have. An employee without them is happier and more productive. So I would definitely hire the one with the minimum income.
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by mtsr 11y ago
Depends. If every euro you earn there adds to your unconditional minimum income, instead of replacing a euro from welfare, the motivation to work for that new car, or whatever, becomes pretty tangible. Note that €900 (or €1300 for a family)
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by mtsr 11y ago
The problem is that if you're at an income level where you could comfortably save up for something like this, you're also likely to have much higher fixed costs (bigger house, car, etc) and more expensive habits (food, subscriptio