qsymmachus

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by qsymmachus 7y ago
Agreed 100%, sometimes the FP community is its own worst enemy. Too many FP enthusiasts seem to think that "real" FP requires mastering category theory, which is cool and all but really just a particular subset of the paradigm, an
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The incredible career of mountaineer Fred Beckey(lithub.com)
1 points by qsymmachus 7y ago|0 comments
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by qsymmachus 7y ago
I was a T-Mobile subscriber twice, first in the mid aughts and then again about 6 years ago. Both times their network had a fatal flaw: I couldn't get a good signal indoors. Could any current T-Mobile subscribers tell me if this is sti
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by qsymmachus 7y ago
"People who excel at software design become convinced that they have a unique ability to understand any kind of system at all, from first principles, without prior training, thanks to their superior powers of analysis. Success in the a
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Sfmta votes unanimously to ban private cars from part of Market Street(kqed.org)
2 points by qsymmachus 7y ago|0 comments
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by qsymmachus 7y ago
Careful! It's easy and fun to make fun of WeWork for calling itself a "tech" company, but we might be throwing rocks in glass houses. How many of us are currently working at """tech""" companies
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by qsymmachus 7y ago
You're right, I totally forgot that it's ok to abuse the illegal ones only, cause they're not really people
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by qsymmachus 7y ago
> We strongly support the rights of immigrants and immigration reform But also > Governments at all levels—federal, state, and local—should have access to the best technology So, we support the rights of immigrants to not be abused, b
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by qsymmachus 7y ago
> There must be a level of economic production that falls below the level of emission that can be absorbed without contributing to climate change You're right, there absolutely is such a level. The important point is that to stay at
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by qsymmachus 7y ago
This is incorrect. Every economic output requires material inputs. > I can create digital goods and services which people buy Your digital goods and services require physical machines to run on. These machines are made of physical materi
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by qsymmachus 7y ago
Really, none. It's justified by a grossly inflated sense of the value of their own time. They just don't want to fly with the plebs. And in the case of Adam Neumann in particular, he wanted to hotbox the plane. In just one cross-c
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by qsymmachus 7y ago
Most "accelerationists" these days are right-accelerationists, because it turns out it only seems like a good idea if you don't actually care about human suffering.
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by qsymmachus 7y ago
Direct action gets the goods!
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by qsymmachus 7y ago
No – as much oil and gas must be left in the ground as possible. Depending on how much of a global temperature increase you're willing to tolerate, there are specific limits (carbon budgets) to how much fossil fuels we can burn. This i
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by qsymmachus 7y ago
As far as I'm concerned, this move is pure greenwashing until Amazon stops collaborating with oil and gas companies to extract fossil fuels faster. https://aws.amazon.com/oil-and-gas/
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by qsymmachus 7y ago
Thanks but I would rather not work for Narcs Inc.
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by qsymmachus 7y ago
WeWork's business model makes more sense when you realize it's probably just a scheme for transferring VC money directly into Adam Neumann's pocket. He owns a number of the buildings that WeWork is leasing: https:/&#x2F
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by qsymmachus 7y ago
Markets != capitalism, markets predate capitalism, and the end of capitalism does not necessarily mean the end of markets.
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by qsymmachus 7y ago
Because capitalism is an optimization function for making money. It doesn't care about anything else.
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by qsymmachus 7y ago
Sure we could ban child labor, but then millions of children would be out of a job. I'm only half joking – the problem with this argument is that it can be used to justify almost any injustice or inefficiency if there is a cost to fixi
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by qsymmachus 7y ago
The alternative is universal single payer health care, paid for by taxation.
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City, Cal envision a bee-friendly Berkeley(berkeleyside.com)
2 points by qsymmachus 7y ago|0 comments
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by qsymmachus 7y ago
I think you're making this sound harder to implement than this really is. > There is no consensus about which of 5 workdays to drop to get there As a company (or better yet as a society), just redefine the weekend as Friday – Sunday
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by qsymmachus 7y ago
It would not be hard to run a B2B business for 4 days if most businesses had a 4 day work week. That's what the author is arguing for, right?
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by qsymmachus 7y ago
Phasing out CFCs was much easier to do because CFCs do not make up the backbone of the global economy the way fossil fuels do. There were some hacks in the aerosol and chemical industries who tried to deny that it was a problem (the chairma
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by qsymmachus 7y ago
So long as economic growth remains the primary goal of most societies, and so long as that economic growth is tied to the use of fossil fuels, then climate change will not be stopped.
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by qsymmachus 7y ago
Maybe, on the other hand, an appeal to "civility" is often used to squelch criticism of bad behavior. There are plenty of business and political figures who, for one reason or another, deserve little more than a "fuck you&quo
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Chinese developers use GitHub to protest long work hours(theverge.com)
4 points by qsymmachus 8y ago|0 comments
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Medicare for All Could Eliminate the $600B Private Insurance Industry(fortune.com)
31 points by qsymmachus 8y ago|34 comments
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by qsymmachus 8y ago
"Dry fast" means you consume neither food nor water, correct? How can a human possibly go "8 to 10 consecutive days" with no water?

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