sebsito

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by sebsito 6y ago
Depending on the language it could be tricky. For example in Ruby everything literally is an object. There are no standalone functions. Not having a class simply makes it hard to use. I can't autoload methods. I could group them in a m
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by sebsito 7y ago
As Smith described, people didn't invent money straight away. First, resources like salt and metals; then stuff you can melt (easily divisible). Then official coins of equal weight to fight counterfeiting and inaccuracy of weight. I&#x
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by sebsito 7y ago
It sounds terrible if you call it “capacity for production” but not so bad if called “ability to fulfill needs of others”
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by sebsito 7y ago
The quality of life, meaning and individual happiness are for individuals to pursue and figure out. It’s very leftist idea to try to solve that on society’s level. The list is focusing on things we can improve on society’s level from an ind
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by sebsito 7y ago
I expected such semi-negative, distrustful comment the second I finished reading this list. Some will dislike the individualistic, anti-collectivist character of it.
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by sebsito 7y ago
There's a big difference between ugly ad hominem comments and saying that your code is bs. > and has no practical downside That's the place when we differ in opinion. It has one direct downside of preventing some people from ex
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by sebsito 7y ago
Speech is not violence. It always contains some information payload. If you felt triggered by it and failed to parse the content then maybe you're overly emotional. For some people who aren't it's going to be useful assessmen
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by sebsito 7y ago
Critique doesn’t have to be peaceful to be constructive
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by sebsito 7y ago
There's plenty of people arguing that logic itself is white oppression mechanism so I'm not surprised. This is a moral / philosophical problem not technological one. We have lots of things opposing each other: - democracy and
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by sebsito 7y ago
I'm not sure if the US freedoms are just talk because all those successful companies which Spain wants to tax were started in US not in EU. So Spain with it's $12B of export can risk imposing tariffs (it's essentially a tax a
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by sebsito 7y ago
According to CEIC Spain had $232B of tax revenue in 2018. The article suggests it's going to bring 850M EUR = $943M to state's coffers so would represent around 0.4% of yearly tax revenue. How come it's easier to impose a tax
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by sebsito 7y ago
One doesn’t have to be exponentially smarter than others in given moment – by compounding smart ideas and decisions one can get exponentially better outcomes in time.
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by sebsito 7y ago
I agree. Every anti-moronic default adds friction. I love that I can play with ES quickly via simple URL without any auth.
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by sebsito 7y ago
Apple's closed and exclusive ecosystem is a product in itself. As long as users can choose different computers (PCs) and phones (Android) there is no monopoly problem.
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by sebsito 7y ago
That's a great point! The pain rule seems a little arbitrary to me. Pain evolved only in some life forms for which it was beneficiary. It doesn't seem to make killing them more problematic than life forms which can't feel pai
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by sebsito 7y ago
First of all we should at least have a common definition what intelligence even is. Even then I'm not sure we'd know what General Intelligence would be because all we know is Human Intelligence or maybe lower level Animal Intellig
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by sebsito 7y ago
It depends on your moral values which can be different. If you skip the simplification vegans are using to justify eating plants (they don't scream and run away when we're trying to eat them) you hardly can eat anything ethically.
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by sebsito 7y ago
Apart from "written in X" is kind of clickbaity I find it useful after all. I think that Go code is clear and readable and so it would be much easier to add missing feature and use if I had such need. Where "written in Rust&q
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by sebsito 7y ago
I think it's big companies' websites which are bloated and slow compared to "kids and experimental artists". > Second, the internet is supposed to be a place of equality, where kids, experimental artists and businesse