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by osdiab 6y ago
The GiveDirectly trial in progress now (been a few years) is the closest to what you're talking about - 20k people in 197 villages in Kenya getting a basic income covered fully for 12 years. https://www.givedirectly.org&#x2F
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by osdiab 6y ago
Posted above but I'll copy here: I think that the work that needs to be done, will still get done but it'll be better rewarded (ie it'll be more expensive) - jobs that people don't want to do need to get paid more becaus
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by osdiab 6y ago
I think that the work that needs to be done, will still get done but it'll be better rewarded (ie it'll be more expensive) - jobs that people don't want to do need to get paid more because employers can't just rely on ec
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by osdiab 6y ago
The GiveDirectly trial is a 12-year long one - not whole life, but also not insignificant.
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by osdiab 6y ago
I just use ESLint + auto fix on save and I've never had to worry about semicolons for years, and even if i did it's not an error in JS.
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by osdiab 6y ago
I use the no-explicit-any Typescript ESLint check and tsconfig no-implicit-any, never turn them off unless absolutely necessary, making this is a non-issue. Not that I’m not interested in Reason for other reasons though!
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by osdiab 6y ago
I develop on a 2018 dual core 16GB RAM MacBook Air, which is a lot crappier spec-wise than your gaming rig (but not crappy enough that text editing ought to be a problem). Often typing in VSCode on a large TypeScript project can take hundre
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by osdiab 6y ago
There’s other problems too - all components need to be runnable serverside (which adds complexity to otherwise simple operations on the dom), forcing yourself to put all state into a redux store even if you’re not planning to share it is mo
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by osdiab 6y ago
People who use React tend to want to use modern browser capabilities - and anyone who does will need transpilation because browsers have different API support - the cost of not having an all-controlling monopoly. People developing on other
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by osdiab 6y ago
Agreed with this - I think it all stems from the browser standards issue, which to me is a general issue about distributing control. It’s design by consensus, which naturally takes a long time, and forces updates to web standards to be cons
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by osdiab 6y ago
On that I agree, I do wish there was a better cross-platform application UI platform. But it doesn’t exist, so as such beggars can’t be choosers.
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by osdiab 6y ago
What do you think HTML is for? If you want the hypermedia-concept of mostly static documents with links to each other, feel free to turn off Javascript or not use React. If you’re using the web as an application delivery platform that works
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by osdiab 6y ago
I personally find “the HTML is a function of its inputs, internal state, and nothing else” to be a much more predictable model for writing large web applications than, “anybody anywhere in your code can pull the rug from under you arbitrari
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by osdiab 6y ago
Not OP but here’s my personal opinion (and I’m sure many may disagree): There’s a bunch of parts of learning a language (a few more for Chinese character languages like Japanese) and learning one often doesn’t help you that much with the ot
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by osdiab 6y ago
IMO most app-based services like Duolingo will help you to learn basic grammar rules and random vocabulary but learning a language requires speaking it under time pressure to living humans about changing topics with shifting social context,
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by osdiab 6y ago
FYI I started an empty repo on Github and made some RFC issues to collect ideas for what this can be - would love if you guys have any thoughts! https://github.com/osdiab/libremember/issues
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by osdiab 6y ago
I wonder if this will have an impact on other parts of the computer besides CPU/GPU - for instance, connecting an iPhone/iPad to Airpods is buttery smooth, but my experience connecting to them on a last year Macbook Air is as crap
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by osdiab 6y ago
If I get started on one I’ll let you know!
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by osdiab 6y ago
Anyone have suggestions for the lowest latency VoIP providers?
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by osdiab 6y ago
Given that I’ve wanted to make apps for learning languages but always get lost in the weeds of various spaced repetition algorithms - would love this kind of open source resource. If anyones interested in making this kind of thing, I’d love
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by osdiab 7y ago
I always liked Twist and Spectrum for their threaded first nature. Is the goal of this radical UI choice to make multiple conversations visible at the same time or something else? It looks overwhelming to me while those felt fine for most u
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by osdiab 7y ago
What's mostly resulted in Javascript land is people using opinionated (and often severely constrained) boilerplate generators like create-react-app, with opinionated linters like Prettier (alongside transpiling Javascript from other la
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by osdiab 7y ago
While I detest the enormous wealth inequality in our world today, governments aren’t shaping up to be an appealing alternative. I can’t speak for other countries but US government seems to systematically undervalue making and executing deci
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by osdiab 7y ago
While the internet is full of garbage writing, I don't feel like telling people that they shouldn't say anything wrong or potentially unimportant is the right way to go. That's a perfectionist attitude that stifles people&#x2
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by osdiab 7y ago
My company uses Node with Typescript on the front and backend; we’ve strongly typed our APIs and thanks to the excellent io-ts library we’ve also automated the marshaling and unmarshaling data as it crosses the network boundary so that we c
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by osdiab 7y ago
Or if like in some other parts of the world public transit companies can profit off the development around train stations, and then treat the trains as marketing that literally funnels trainloads of people to their profit centers.
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by osdiab 7y ago
One half of your point is that the US government is too incompetent/malicious to actually care for or remunerate its own residents, even as the richest country in the world. I can’t wave that problem away, and it contributes to my poin
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by osdiab 7y ago
It’s too bad that the potential to do the obvious thing - build trains to the transit deserts - is not an option even worth mentioning. This is the state of US infrastructure.
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by osdiab 7y ago
For every user like you who is using unique, securely generated passwords in a manager, there’s 10,000 people who are using the same, easily compromised password on every website they’re registered on. You’re not the target audience for the
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by osdiab 7y ago
It's 旧金山 (jiu jin shan), but otherwise you're right.

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