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by poncho_romero 2y ago
Joining the EU is seen as desirable to these countries, so they work to establish friendly relations with the rest of the EU members and become democratic. The horse and cart are properly ordered.
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by poncho_romero 2y ago
You make a lot of qualifications to your original statement in this follow up! You'd be a lot more successful getting your point across if you wrote clearly to begin with, instead of starting with obviously untrue hyperbole. Another wa
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by poncho_romero 2y ago
I've had lots of very helpful interactions with government employees throughout my life. As a matter of fact, there have clearly been many more unambiguously positive experiences than negative ones. Of course, we are both just playing
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by poncho_romero 2y ago
Please give us some examples
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by poncho_romero 2y ago
Not making a political stance is implicitly embracing the status quo. That’s usually fine because most hot political issues are far away from programming language design and implementation. Others feel differently, that political issues whi
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by poncho_romero 2y ago
I don't understand what you are trying to say here. Serving HTML directly from the backend works wonderfully for almost all websites and web apps. The growing popularity of solutions like HTMX, Hotwire, and Phoenix LiveView is proof
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by poncho_romero 2y ago
Why is it surprising that a backend returns HTML when it receives an HTTP request? That is the web
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by poncho_romero 2y ago
I had to remove a lot of details from the original post due to HN's size limit, but I'm happy to answer any questions/provide more information in the comments
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Ask HN: Junior dev in charge of rewriting 500k line PHP app. Looking for advice
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by poncho_romero 3y ago
I would suggest against an epub. I tried finding one too, only to realize the formatting of the book is ill-suited for anything but its original printed format (it’s far too particular for the epub format). Maybe give your local library a t
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by poncho_romero 3y ago
Fair enough. Still, I would disagree. Communism was tried and failed, its environmental effects (while bad) were therefore limited. Capitalism has endured great challenges for much longer, and despite increasing discontent with the system i
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by poncho_romero 3y ago
Yes I think so. I’m not the original commenter, but I’ve also landed on the idea of limiting wealth to the ballpark of $10-15 million, primarily using progressive taxation. The point is to prevent any one person or small group of people fro
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by poncho_romero 3y ago
Exactly. Tax the profits, thereby encouraging the company to invest internally in higher salaries, R&D, new equipment, etc.
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by poncho_romero 3y ago
And in addition, if we grant the idea that Bezos created those things, it was not the super rich Bezos we have today who did. The parent commenter is arguing for the existence of a Jeff Bezos who is not the Jeff Bezos who exists today—rathe
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by poncho_romero 3y ago
Who said anything about communism? This is a false dichotomy.
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by poncho_romero 3y ago
Why shouldn’t regulatory agencies have expertise in the industries they are intended to regulate? Government by corporation or consultant is not democratic. Without internal knowledge, government will always play the fool because it won’t k
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by poncho_romero 3y ago
If you don’t mind paying for a subscription, I’d strongly recommend MacroFactor over MyFitnessPal’s free version. As a fellow developer and gym devotee, I am continually impressed by how dang good that app is. The developers clearly use the
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by poncho_romero 3y ago
I think that’s right, and I think there’s a third aspect at play, which is that culturally the US doesn’t value jobs in manufacturing, machining, engineering, etc. as highly as it once did (after WW2, say) or as highly as it values finance
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by poncho_romero 3y ago
The entire economy is configured around making quarterly profits for shareholders. Any good that happens to come out for humanity is purely incidental. The US economy is not some fairytale hero.
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by poncho_romero 3y ago
Will “all the latest technology” be available? The expertise the US once had in this area is largely gone, and won’t come back immediately. I think there’s real reasons to be concerned that the US will fall behind countries like China in ar
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by poncho_romero 3y ago
But again, we’ve seen these models spit out verbatim text and images that are copyrighted (many examples throughout this thread). That doesn’t strike me as “transformative work.”
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by poncho_romero 3y ago
I believe they are using the democratic _we_ (as opposed to the royal _we_).
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by poncho_romero 3y ago
What languages do you think it could realistically eat (that it hasn’t already)?
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by poncho_romero 3y ago
Hey, _some_ of it isn’t vacuous!
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by poncho_romero 3y ago
There are a number of comments in this very thread that show that isn’t true
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by poncho_romero 3y ago
Perhaps we shouldn’t consider this country a democracy when so much of our lives today are ungoverned by undemocratic institutions (corporations in this case). Can you feel the representation?
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by poncho_romero 3y ago
Where are the competent people taking the job now?
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by poncho_romero 3y ago
I’d love to see evidence supporting the claim that a free market would make these things come to pass. Otherwise, this comes across as a list of things you’d like to see, with “the free market” standing in as the just-so story that will mag
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by poncho_romero 3y ago
Along these same lines, I would recommend _The Sparrow_ by Mary Doria Russell. An interesting story about religion meeting extraterrestrial life, and the implications thereof. Plus the dialogue, characters, and world building are wonderful!