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by pdonis 2y ago
Perhaps we need to stop believing that government intervention can solve problems. The elites taking most of the benefits of increased productivity, to the extent that it's happening, is happening because of government regulations, n
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by pdonis 2y ago
> Worker protections do not reduce productivity To the extent that they protect workers who are genuinely productive, of course they don't reduce the productivity of those workers. But to the extent that they protect workers who
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by pdonis 2y ago
> proper regulations that ensure labor protections Don't. Regulatory capture is a thing. > The relationship between employee and employer is fundamentally adversarial In general, no, it is no more so than any contractual rela
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by pdonis 2y ago
> companies don't collude to suppress salaries If companies treat employees as commodities, which is largely the case, they don't have to collude to suppress salaries. The basic economics of commodities is enough. The only
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by pdonis 2y ago
If the company is committed by law to honoring a published salary range, it can't make a private exception for you even if you can show them that you bring more value to the table. That reduces your bargaining power.
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by pdonis 2y ago
> Tesla annotators make $20 / hour. That $20/hour is coming from wealth that Tesla is creating. It's not taken from someone else. Indeed, it's helping those people since without Tesla those jobs would not exist and
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by pdonis 2y ago
> the ultra-wealthy accumulating more wealth? People like Elon Musk aren't "accumulating" wealth. They're creating it. > At what point does extreme wealth come at the expense of the poor? Wealth that is creat
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by pdonis 2y ago
> wealth buys power Actually, it does so a lot less in our current world than it did in the past. > If Bezos can afford to buy a rocketship every minute, he can afford to rearrange the society you live in No, he can't, becaus
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by pdonis 2y ago
My father made me learn touch typing when I was a teenager. One of the best things he ever did for me. (As a bonus, he had me learn it on his old Olympic typewriter--"old" as in older than I was at the time--whose keys were so sti
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by pdonis 2y ago
> By constantly rereading, you're depriving yourself of the enjoyment of the new, of novelty. Rereading has diminishing returns So does novelty. Sometimes it's better to experience the familiar than the new.
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by pdonis 2y ago
> Unfertilized eggs have the purpose of turning into fertilized eggs The article doesn't say or imply this. Unfertilized eggs aren't persons, and the article only says every person has a purpose. > I think if fertilized e
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by pdonis 2y ago
How does a server using WebAuthn know that the client it is talking to is the right one? For example, say my bank wants to use WebAuthn instead of a username and password to let me access my account. How does the bank's server know tha
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by pdonis 2y ago
Such as?
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Not phising resistant compared to what? Bear in mind the saying: it's impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
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by pdonis 2y ago
> The text color in those snippets is pure white Including the syntax highlighted parts? I don't think so. > I don't think the problem is with the website. I don't think you have fully considered the situation.
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by pdonis 2y ago
> in general, closures don't make things faster. Compared to what? Compared to doing the logic that picks which specific comparison function to call in every iteration of the inner loop? Closures will certainly make things faster
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by pdonis 2y ago
As the last sentence of my (2) shows, the article itself is black on white for me too, but the code snippets are white (very faint white that I can't read without serious eyestrain) on black.
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by pdonis 2y ago
I don't understand why it's necessary to generate bytecode for this. In Python you can write functions that define other Python functions (i.e., using the normal Python def statement) and return them. Why can't the query obje
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by pdonis 2y ago
Note to article writers: (1) Black on white is much easier to read than white on black. That includes code snippets in blocks. (2) If you insist on ignoring (1), at least make your white text bright enough that it can be read without seriou
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by pdonis 2y ago
The article says every person has a purpose. As I said before, people's opinions might differ on exactly when a person exists during the human developmental process, but as far as I know nobody has ever argued that unfertilized eggs
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by pdonis 2y ago
> Low-cost index funds don't protect you from ill timed trades. Nothing can protect you from ill timed trades. However, trades can only be ill timed if they are made. If you just pick an index fund with an appropriate time horizon
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by pdonis 2y ago
> A few 401k (or 403b) holders have done very well, however, if their plans offered low-cost index funds I think it's more than "a few". For one thing, many 401k-equivalent funds that government employees can make contri
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by pdonis 2y ago
> what's the chance of something like this happening with a much bigger asteroid. Negligible. As I noted upthread, objects large enough to be do significant damage if they hit Earth and are on trajectories that could bring them cl
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by pdonis 2y ago
Not really. What the article fails to tell you is that there have been many, many, many more than nine times that asteroids have been spotted, often years in advance, where the initial data had wide enough error bars to make an Earth impa
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by pdonis 2y ago
> There's some boundary But there's nothing that says that boundary has to be birth. It would depend on when you think a person exists. Some people would say that happens at conception. Others would say it doesn't happ
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by pdonis 2y ago
> Some interesting implications of this Not really. The article only says persons who exist have a purpose. It does not say that persons who do not yet exist must be created because there is a purpose waiting for them.
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by pdonis 2y ago
The article doesn't say your niche has to be how you make a living. Consider, for example, the Breakup Whisperer.
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by pdonis 2y ago
> Thinking narrowly about jobs, there are a lot more people that want to be artists than people that want to buy art, causing art to be a pretty hard industry to make a living in. The article does not say that your place has to be your
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by pdonis 2y ago
> The implication here is that everyone has one best place No, just a place. There could be more than one, and they might not even be comparable in a way that would let you say one is better or worse than the other. The article talks
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by pdonis 2y ago
> If the electron starts with zero energy at infinity...it will become bound to the proton Even if that's true (I'm not sure it always is--see below), that case is extremely rare. A much more common case is Bremsstrahlung, wh

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