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871.
by rhelz 3y ago
I was just pointing out (obviously in a too indirect of way!) that nobody seems to care about the UBI that somebody inherits from their parents.
872.
by rhelz 3y ago
chuckle it was a joke man. Most of these types who complain about UBI are trust-fund babies.
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by rhelz 3y ago
Yeah, its a bad idea just to give money to people so they don't have to work....it has all kinds of corrupting influences on them. Make 'em work. That's why I support a 100% estate tax.
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by rhelz 3y ago
The "ecosystem" would just be, e.g. the suite of ASIC place and route tools, or FPGA synthesis tools, provided by each company. They pretty much all have TCL built in, for to help script them all together. Each individual script
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by rhelz 3y ago
I'm glad you brought up the calvinism angle. The first book ever written in America which the Europeans took seriously is Johnathan Edward's book 'Freedom of the Will' (which argued there is no such thing.) It was just
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by rhelz 3y ago
Thank God. Almost nothing we see is trustable in the first place.
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by rhelz 3y ago
Its coming true already....
878.
by rhelz 3y ago
Back when psychologists didn't even bother to make up results which looked statistically significant.
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by rhelz 3y ago
We all used to have steady jobs which paid the bills.
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by rhelz 3y ago
> Which companies? Software companies for sure, but I was working at a Stock Brokerage/FinTech/Media company in NYC when covid hit, and pretty much everybody from admins to sales to execs were working remote--and were actually
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by rhelz 3y ago
You can call it a FAANG salary if it makes you feel better, but if you can't afford your own place, you are not in the middle class, you are living in poverty. > moving to some other place with possible salary reduction Well, we jus
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by rhelz 3y ago
Well, I’m glad we can agree that the current situation is unacceptable—my grandfather, who was a janitor, would have been ashamed if that’s how his family had to live. OTOH, my other grandfather, who belonged to a union, fought hard so th
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by rhelz 3y ago
The reason I have a hard time with the luck theory is that companies are far more profitable, and workers are far more productive today than they were back then. So why all the advice for tech workers to just accept that they have to live i
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by rhelz 3y ago
Two points: 1. Most of the companies on that list are more profitable now than they were back then, and 2. My grandfather was a janitor, who never made more than $50 a week, and his kids never had to share a bedroom. He was able to buy a
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by rhelz 3y ago
You can have 10 kids as a single parent. Doesn't mean its a good idea.
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by rhelz 3y ago
So I commute 3 hours a day, to a job I work 10 hours a day, 6 days a week for, while my son and daughter are sharing a room... When I left grad school in 1997, the biggest problem me and my friends had was figuring out whether or not Micros
887.
by rhelz 3y ago
Exactly how are you supposed to buy a house without a steady FAANG salary for 30 years?
888.
by rhelz 3y ago
Big clue: the trouble came when he was helping an overcharged customer. At the same time, he must have been exposing bad management (or even fraudulent management) which caused the overcharge in the first place. Ergo, he must be discredit
889.
by rhelz 3y ago
Just because we won't play stupid games doesn't mean we're dropping out.
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by rhelz 3y ago
I was writing a theorem prover for higher-order modal logic. All the theorem provers written in C or C++ were tens of thousands of lines, and even at that they had only a fraction of what I needed. What's more, they were all like 100
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by rhelz 3y ago
I forget who said it, but a good programming language should have two features: 1. Make simple problems easy. 2. Make difficult problems possible. Python is an outstanding language on both scores. Prolog, alas, is much better at #2 than
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by rhelz 3y ago
Great post, showing how these coding guidelines are showing their age. So much boilerplate comments, which clearly are not pulling their weight. A simple coding guideline like "eliminate all singleton variable warnings" would se
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by rhelz 3y ago
I, for one, welcome our new Amish Overloards.
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by rhelz 3y ago
Can somebody explain to me why a declining birth rate is so horrible? Gov debt? If we are worried about debt for any reason, we should just reduce the deficit. I'm old enough to remember when we were running surpluses--I actually rea
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by rhelz 3y ago
I haven't seen any stone tools with perpendicular sides. In fact, I don't know of any other 90-degree stonework until the T-stones at Gobekle Tepe. If you could point me to some examples I'd be very much interested in knowi
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by rhelz 3y ago
What struck me is that the two pieces of wood were found notched together at a 90-degree angle. This has got to be the first-known 90-degree angle in history. Virtually nothing in nature has a 90-degree angle. This is an invention of the
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by rhelz 3y ago
I wonder when it's going to sink in that Twitter isn't a business.
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by rhelz 3y ago
I've talked to both parties: the successful tend to give the lion's share of the credit to themselves, the unsuccessful tend to give the lion's share of the blame to circumstance.
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by rhelz 3y ago
New tech and new software is never going to be as comfy as your favorite text editor you've been using for the past decade.....
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by rhelz 3y ago
If what you are building isn't an actual house, or an actual game engine, then how could anybody claim they had build that particular house, or that particular game engine? If what you were working on--for the entire time you were

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