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by njepa 7y ago
I don't think it has much to do with money. These companies either have or are already burning trough a lot of it. It is about careerists avoiding accountability. That is why you hire contractors, have open offices and host in the clou
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by njepa 7y ago
Not 10 years ago. Maybe 30 years ago. There were a number of 40-50 floor skyscrapers being completed in the '90s.
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by njepa 7y ago
I think it is mostly a funding issue. In Sweden there is municipal adult education. About 4% of the population ages 20 to 64 attended last year, with the median age (at least previously) being around 30. It is however tuition free and grant
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by njepa 7y ago
I don't think it is the "Business Stuff", though that can be troublesome. It is the hidden costs. You often have to be significantly more successful running your own business for the same "deal" to make sense, which
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by njepa 7y ago
> Western democracies have now overly partisan political system where most of the effort is spent in just cancelling out each other. I would suggest almost the opposite. I think the West suffers from having too much similar politics. Ove
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by njepa 7y ago
I think you are right to some extent. Democracy as a shallow concept is mainly good at handling despots. The 0.1% can't get much power even if their influence is relatively large because the other 99.9% is against their one sided inter
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by njepa 7y ago
From a democratic perspective the doctor can in theory earn much more as long as that doesn't grant them more influence or rights. Someone having a sports car isn't in isolation a democratic problem. Access to education, communiti
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by njepa 7y ago
I have ever only heard the quote from Neil deGrasse Tyson. I guess that is his sense of humor. I do think it makes sense. Things rarely are as you want them to be. I am not saying that things shouldn't be fair. I am saying the opposite
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by njepa 7y ago
> In general, I agree with you. I would not use the current US as a stirling example, historically, though the US system has been largely successful. We probably disagree on the level of success though. That is sort of the point. People
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by njepa 7y ago
I don't think the would, or at least hopefully could. De facto egalitarianism is to a large extent a democratic ideal. An authoritarian or a libertarian don't in general care about equality, but that the inequality is fair. They w
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by njepa 7y ago
I do think things are better in general. But as I said, if the lesser corruption doesn't deliver then it doesn't matter. The West can keep pretending that increasingly not delivering cost effective housing, education, health care
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by njepa 7y ago
I don't know. Seems like we are the ones in the trap. We make more money, but we generally don't get more for it. 20 years China couldn't produce cars, at least not as far I know. Now they bought Volvo. They bought KUKA robot
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by njepa 7y ago
I don't disagree with democracy. It is just that the system isn't its idea, but what it delivers. Most people never looked up to the US because it was the most democratic, because it wasn't. But because it delivered relative
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by njepa 7y ago
While I agree with your overall point, I am not sure I would attribute defeatism to the rest of the world so much as the West. It is the West that is set to remove any form of commonality and turn to a state of legalized corruption and nepo
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by njepa 7y ago
> That's a strong opinion. I'm not going to argue for lack of time, but suffice to say that 99% of my interactions with my computer and sometimes with my phone is with a shell scripting language. Shell scripting is awesome. It
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by njepa 7y ago
I think the challenge is a bit misunderstood online. The challenging part by far with forming something like a trade union is to gain the influence, not how to wield it. It is having a high participation rate, a strong organisation, institu
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by njepa 7y ago
That does seem interesting. I could definitely see that as something I would want to use for the functionality rather than the "underlying feature". The story around this is pretty weak in most language ecosystems from what I have
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by njepa 7y ago
I don't disagree. I am just saying that thousands of dollars to bring a farmers business online to consumers shouldn't necessarily just be seen as a success thirty years after AOL.
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by njepa 7y ago
There are many things that can be done, especially online. The question is if you can do it in a way that make sense. I am sure there are many people from New York on tindie. It is just hard to make it into a full time small business if you
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by njepa 7y ago
No, because the money would be going into the business of serving an entire nation of farmers with these services. The cost for each instance of doing the fundamental thing, having a farmer sell to consumers, would hopefully be low.
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by njepa 7y ago
It is an apples and oranges comparison because they are. Python exposes it's feature fairly readily in a relatively similar context. If I can open "Erlang Studio", plot my nodes, write my recursive functions and run them to s
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by njepa 7y ago
You probably need to look somewhere were that amount of money would actually makes a big difference. It just doesn't go very far in many places today. Or you need to provide some other value. Edit: Don't know why this is objection
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by njepa 7y ago
I mean that if you want to do something with e.g. python it is pretty easy to access what is good about python. You can make a script, make it "pythonic", use some modules and package it. And that sort represents a good, useful, p
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by njepa 7y ago
It is sad because it doesn't really go into the core business. He spends thousands of dollar on marketing, domains and suppliers just to have a farmer sell to consumers. It should almost be two clicks on "etsy for farmers".
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by njepa 7y ago
Right, but that is a factor of your supply chain. In Shenzhen you might make hundred boards, go down to the market and buy a hundred boxes and leave them with the shipper. Boards don't work? Re-work them or make another hundred. Box do
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by njepa 7y ago
True. You could to some extent. I think part of the story is the opportunity though. The domain name, the boxes and the time are all things that grant him the opportunity to do it. He probably could have sold them in plastic bags on eBay (s
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by njepa 7y ago
I think the application of the language is quirkier than the language. There is a fairly high barrier to doing something ideal. In languages like python or c you can pretty much just write a few lines and you got something representative of
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by njepa 7y ago
It was a fun read. But also a bit sad that it takes thousands of dollars and a lot of available time (which many people don't have) to do something as fundamental as this.
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by njepa 7y ago
I don't disagree. I think the point "deogeo" was trying to make was that YIMBY often say that zoning should be removed so the market can take care of housing. But in effect the market already says that it doesn't value a
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by njepa 7y ago
No, I don't think that is the same thing. In this case they are specifically lowering the standard of living. If the standard of living returns to a more normal state, where more traditional accommodation becomes more affordable, their

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