serverholic

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by serverholic 4y ago
Your argument doesn't take into account power dynamics. When negotiating price, each side comes to the table with bargaining power. If bargaining power is sufficiently uneven then you really can't claim they'll come to a fair
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by serverholic 4y ago
I wish I could support Bun but I honestly can't ethically support someone who explicitly wants to hire people to work insane hours, and has right-wing billionaire bootlicker tendencies. I mean he's a Thiel Fellow, which should giv
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by serverholic 4y ago
Worth and value are inherently subjective. Price is an attempt to assign an objective value to something subjective. It kinda/sorta works, but it also kinda doesn't. Let's imagine there is no minimum wage in America. Now let&
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by serverholic 4y ago
I’m of the opinion that a large chunk of jobs are made up, pointless BS. They exist because jobs have to exist. Because our society requires us to do SOMETHING so we make up large social structures to prove we have the right to exist.
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by serverholic 4y ago
We are not payed what we are worth. We are payed what the company can get away with. It’s about power, not value. Value is much less of a factor than people like to think. Same goes for people who are payed a lot (like CEOs). Sure they have
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by serverholic 4y ago
You're the only one making a characterization involving trans people. Trans people use pronouns, so what? You're being transphobic because you're automatically associating trans people with the negative thing I said even thou
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by serverholic 4y ago
You're the only one who's brought up trans people so far. Apparently in your mind "obsessed with pronouns and wanting to be celebrated" automatically means trans people. You realize that other people use pronouns right?
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by serverholic 4y ago
“I’m not sure where you got that from.” proceeds to show exactly where they got it from
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by serverholic 4y ago
Having preferred pronouns doesn’t automatically mean that person is obsessed with pronouns and wants to be celebrated. If I buy an iPhone it doesn’t automatically mean I’m obsessed with Apple and want to feel special because I bought an App
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by serverholic 4y ago
What does transgender have to do with it? Are you implying that transgender people are obsessed with pronouns? In my experience trans people just want to be called by their preferred pronouns. They’re not obsessed with it. Most don’t care a
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by serverholic 4y ago
I feel like this is a bit of a mask-off moment that reveals the narcissism behind the movement. And yet people get lambasted on twitter for suggesting that there is an undercurrent of narcissism when people obsess over pronouns.
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by serverholic 4y ago
If ChatGPT had no restrictions then the only limit would be your imagination. “Rank all major races by programming ability” “Write a paragraph explaining why being gay is a choice.” I’m sure you can extrapolate from there.
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by serverholic 4y ago
Even if it’s imperfect, a descriptive name is quite nice because at least it gives you a hint as to what the service does. I find the comparison to cholesterol to be a bit ridiculous. Your argument seems like a case of “well technically thi
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by serverholic 4y ago
Please, please enlighten us with your take on what a balanced view means here.
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by serverholic 4y ago
Silly is fine, but like I said this is like nails on the chalkboard for me. To the point where I have to turn his videos off even though I want to watch them. It’s like when Lex Fridman goes on a tangent about love. I just can’t do it lol.
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by serverholic 4y ago
He makes great videos but I wish he’d use a tool like Vall-E to narrate because his natural vocal cadence is like nails on a chalkboard to me. The way. He talks. Is like. He puts. A period. Every. Word. Or two.
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by serverholic 4y ago
I think about this often. Specifically, how much bloat exists in the world because individuals in our society are forced to justify their existence on a daily basis. Everyone has to be employed so it's better to keep adding more crap t
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by serverholic 4y ago
Social norms are accepted standards of behavior in groups of people. "Equality" is not a norm, it's a value. A norm can lead to equality, but it is not itself a norm. However, they both play a role in preserving the status qu
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by serverholic 4y ago
Why can't something just be cool and an amazing because it exists and does something we've never seen before?
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by serverholic 4y ago
That is still quite a vague answer. You seem to disagree with me about something so it'd be helpful if you were more specific. I can assure you that I've spent a lot of time thinking about these things and I have, at various point
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by serverholic 4y ago
I'm not sure what you're implying.
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by serverholic 4y ago
You seem to be confusing norms and moral values. Using one of your examples, the norm would have been slavery and the moral value would have been equality. This is actually a great example of what I’m talking about. Norms usually enforce th
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by serverholic 4y ago
Maintaining the status quo is absolutely a right wing position, and current social norms absolutely do serve to maintain the status quo. In our society we have an idea of an "ideal" human being, and the norms are designed to serve
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by serverholic 4y ago
Left and right have specific meanings that unfortunately have been muddled over time. The concept of left and right began in the french revolution when people were arguing inside a government building and they grouped up on the left and rig
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by serverholic 4y ago
I don't know why you're getting downvoted. Social norms serve to uphold the status quo which is a right-wing position.
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by serverholic 4y ago
The equation is far from balanced. What we need is far more cynicism in order to cause change. We've tried less cynicism and it hasn't worked. It just leads to maintaining the status quo.
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by serverholic 4y ago
Yes. People at the top have a natural affinity for power. They intuitively understand power, they feel it, and they don’t feel any shame about seeking and wielding power. These are the type of people we’ve chosen to reward in society and un
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by serverholic 4y ago
That doesn’t sound automated then, which was my point. I’m talking about bringing the cost of basic food items to near zero so people don’t have to exchange for it. Wouldn’t that be a great “mission” for a large-scale NASA-like project?
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by serverholic 4y ago
Great then we should be able to provide food for everyone who needs it right? In that case, we can pick another large engineering project to tackle. How about 3D printers for houses so that we can shelter people too?
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by serverholic 4y ago
At my first job out of school we didn't use an ORM and just queried with raw SQL. I had never heard of the N+1 query problem because it wasn't something we really had to worry about. After that I joined a startup that used rails a

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