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by strken 10y ago
The "drivers can choose" argument is important because it shows that for at least one driver it is genuinely preferable to sleep in his car and work 70 hours a week than do anything else. Clearly, drivers are facing unemployment,
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by strken 10y ago
Firstly, when the initial impression of a language is that it's not fast to code in, people seem to assume that it will remain unproductive in regular use. This is clearly the case with ESR, and is a problem that's relevant to the
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by strken 10y ago
"Expensive" in this case is measured in tens/hundreds of nanoseconds, so it might be okay as long as your Rust code is long-running.
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by strken 10y ago
The really, really important thing about the time it takes to be productive in a language is selling the language to other people. If it takes 3 weeks to learn enough Rust to make interesting projects, then it's going to be absolute he
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by strken 10y ago
I'm not a huge fan of Scrum, but there's a grain of truth in there. If you're forced to use the whole thing, it's harder to creatively misinterpret the underlying spirit by e.g. having one hour "standups" where
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by strken 10y ago
I think it's a bit more complicated than that. Books can't travel to Mars - they can't even move - and yet without the influence of creative works such as books, far fewer people would even want to go in the first place. The
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by strken 10y ago
There's a point where salary stops meaning increased consumption, and starts meaning increased control - not control in the narrow sense that "Rich vs King" discusses, but in the broader sense of being able to push your ideas
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by strken 10y ago
Maybe only a fraction of farm workers understand the entire process at their farm, i.e. some drive tractors, some stick milking machines to cow udders, some are itinerant workers following crop harvests, some fly crop dusters, and none of t
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by strken 10y ago
2. When you ask a stranger about themselves, they put their best foot forward. People are pretty varied. 3. My experience has been that uber drivers in my city work part time for supplementary income. This is a verifiable assertion, but I d
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by strken 10y ago
>The point is that most people as the supplier aren't doing Uber, AirBnB, etc because they like it. They're doing it because they don't have any other good alternatives. How do you know this? The last five uber drivers I&#
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by strken 10y ago
How would we measure the correlation between "willing to ask for more cash" and "willing to advocate a technical decision"? Has it already been done, are you speaking from anecdotal experience, or are you just conjecturi
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by strken 10y ago
By definition contrarian ideas are pretty harmless, since pursuing an idea in a society that disagrees with you is like pushing a boulder up a hill. The results are also very hard to predict - sometimes you think about the weird behaviour o
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by strken 10y ago
The one upside of saying "well just quit" is that it creates a community norm of leaving abusive situations while you still can. The objective reality is that these men would have had better lives if they'd quit. It's un
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by strken 10y ago
A relative of mine has been battling depression for decades. After this person retired, they had a noticeable improvement in mood and energy within months, and around two years later had started a new exercise regime, begun doing low-paying
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by strken 10y ago
I've been thinking about this recently. In a society, people seem to taboo things which indicate a general lack of emotion toward other members of the society. With farm animals, there are social (and religious and legal!) rules around