redwoolf

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by redwoolf 2y ago
Nanny-fascism because of crackdowns on racist riots?
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by redwoolf 2y ago
Never mind. I’m wrong about everything as usual. How the fuck do I delete my account?
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by redwoolf 2y ago
My thoughts as soon as I read the README: what’s wrong with asdf?
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by redwoolf 2y ago
I’m not mad at what you’re saying. But politicians, in America at least, have no stomach for any such adjustments to the status quo.
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by redwoolf 2y ago
You missed the point. There is no “middle class.” There is the proletariat and bourgeoisie.
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by redwoolf 2y ago
I’m not sure of that. In fact, I hope that’s the outcome. I worry that capitalism has destroyed the revolutionary spirit.
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by redwoolf 2y ago
Back that "most" up with facts. I'm not sure how much we can trust Zestimates.
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by redwoolf 2y ago
> It incentivizes resource allocation most optimally, whatever optimality is within applied bounds. Exactly. And in the current bounds the optimal allocation is more into the control of fewer. Also, capitalism is a zero sum game, thus th
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by redwoolf 2y ago
> isn't the issue that capitalism is amoral? How can you call a system that disincentivizes collective care of one another "amoral"? > but it means we need to augment capitalism What a pithy phrase! You said yourself th
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by redwoolf 2y ago
The middle class is the designation for the part of the population the owning class has duped into thinking they are temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
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by redwoolf 2y ago
I'm in partial agreement with you. But I don't think the middle class will shrink, I think it will disappear. The real threat to humanity from AI is not a Skynet or a Matrix like intelligence. The threat is that Artificial Intelli
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by redwoolf 2y ago
I love the uptake of neo-brutalism in web design. This site is a great example.
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by redwoolf 2y ago
That’s the point. It’s invalid swift syntax, but it takes >40 seconds to tell you that.
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by redwoolf 2y ago
I think this is the correct way to handle this. I don’t know how many times I’ve been stymied by integer arithmetic and precision loss by implicit conversion. How should this be handled? Should the int be converted to a double before the op
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by redwoolf 2y ago
This article is HN bait. This community is full of intellectual elitists who delude themselves into thinking that they are immune to the things that seduce common people. We’re all common people.
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by redwoolf 2y ago
> Because we don’t live in a vacuum? I don’t want to be around erratic, constantly outraged and disinformation fed people. And before you say “well, you don’t have to”, keep in mind that those people hold as much voting power as you, po
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by redwoolf 2y ago
What a bunch of drivel. The way that the body processes sugar as an analogy for how the brain processes information is just wrong. This nonsense is the same kind of horseshit that’s been peddled for years about television and stinks like th
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by redwoolf 2y ago
I mean more that I always have to look it up to double check. But I like the tip to remember by thinking of the sequence and the numerical order. That does help!
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by redwoolf 2y ago
I’ve not come across such a use case as I’ve only ever written applications where we own both the service and the clients. Thanks for the explanation.
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by redwoolf 2y ago
I agree. I’ve never run into a situation in my professional work as a software engineer where there has been confusion about these two terms. The only problem I have is that I can never remember which one maps to HTTP status codes 401 and 4
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by redwoolf 2y ago
I keep reading criticism of JWTs that involves impersonation or replay attacks. With JWT (or non JWT bearer tokens) you use a refresh token. It seems to me that if an attacker gets a JWT they also have the refresh token. So how are JWTs inh
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by redwoolf 2y ago
A good start to fixing the shortage of healthcare providers would be to permit more medical schools, allow more students in per year, and reduce the cost of an MD. Because medical school costs so much, more and more graduates are going into
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by redwoolf 2y ago
> I think the benefits of a capitalist healthcare system are underappreciated What benefits? The benefit of mortgaging your home to pay for cancer treatment? The benefit of having your access to healthcare directly tied to your employmen
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by redwoolf 2y ago
Totally legal. You can have your doctor prescribe 50mg Naltrexone and 300mg Bupropion and you can take them at the same time every day. It's the same drugs in the same ratios. Contrave is not novel in any way. There's substantial
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by redwoolf 2y ago
> Capitalism actually works if you let it. This argument is always that if the government would just step out of the way the private market would provide for everyone and there would be full employment. As though somehow things like mini
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by redwoolf 2y ago
Not really sure what that has to do with anything. It would be easy for the USA to keep Novo Nordisk from doing business within its borders and have a nationalized pharmaceutical company produce the drugs at cost.
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by redwoolf 2y ago
This is a very disingenuous argument. There's a huge difference between a doctor making $300k a year and a relatively small amount of people making millions (or billions) selling easily mass produced chemicals at prices that can't
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by redwoolf 2y ago
When it comes to pharmaceuticals, the patents are ridiculous. Take for example Contrave[0]. It is a combination of Naltrexone and Bupropion, both of which are no longer under a patent. Put them both in the same pill and it's under a ne
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by redwoolf 2y ago
The USA should nationalize the health care industry and all the pharmaceutical companies. Illness should not be a source of profit.
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by redwoolf 3y ago
Start teaching. Join a group that teaches programming to underprivileged folks, communities that are marginalized or underrepresented in the tech world, ex-cons, etc. I teach at a diverse state university and it has rekindled my passion for

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