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by thrown_22 4y ago
It's not an argument it's a fact that the rich had more surviving children than the poor. Repeat for 5 generations and you have completely replaced the original population with the offspring of the top 10%. That's a century.
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by thrown_22 4y ago
Another part of the training I'm talking about. You need an add-on to get basic functionality from the 90s back.
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by thrown_22 4y ago
Page rank hasn't been used as the google algorithm for over 15 years now.
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by thrown_22 4y ago
This thread is a perfect example of why normal people don't take obvious repercussions. The covid tangent is largely bullshit. You will get it regardless of what precausiosn you take. The point is that in a large number of venues we ha
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by thrown_22 4y ago
One thing I've noticed more and more is that I've been trained to _not_ click links in a page but search for the same thing in google. Hyperlinks are now the navigation bar inside a website and little else. Checking the last 10 pa
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by thrown_22 4y ago
>I don’t see why the southern shore of the river would be easier to keep supplied from those rivers than the northern one. So, if the empire ended there because of supply issues, wouldn’t it end a short distance north of the river? Retre
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by thrown_22 4y ago
Rather the opposite actually. During the 19th century for reasons that have nothing to do with demography the British learned how to use the poor who would have died to do productive work instead. Then for reasons that have everything to do
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by thrown_22 4y ago
If you want a good overview of a bunch of similar ideas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvZlXaGEzwg&list=PLsOFk2nGmz... A course that goes over how everything we think is bad today is good in a world stuck in the Malth
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by thrown_22 4y ago
Navigable for a barge and navigable for a canoe are two very different things. The Danube and the Rhine were the two major rivers that could be navigated by Romans and they were the borders of the empire for that reason: they were the only
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by thrown_22 4y ago
That's a gross oversimplification of the premodern economic system. You could only grow food crops next to navigable rivers, they doubled in price for every 20 miles they were transported overland. This meant that the majority of land
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by thrown_22 4y ago
Remember the people who told us two week to curb the spread? They have a new catch phrase.
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by thrown_22 4y ago
I think covid is when the internet jumped the shark for Joe Average. You would get banned from twitter, facebook, reddit, instagram etc for saying what was official policy until _yesterday_. The sheer insanity of that policy left the termin
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by thrown_22 4y ago
I've yet to have anyone explain why markdown with it's dozen flavours is better than HTML2: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1866 We broke a weird little markup language into something it was nev
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by thrown_22 4y ago
I guess you're right, you need 10,000 JS engineers to change a light bulb.
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by thrown_22 4y ago
If you're serving 40mb a second you don't _need_ a distributed system. Twitter isn't Netflix.
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by thrown_22 4y ago
Back of the envelope calculation: A billion users, each tweeting once an hour with 140 characters. That's 38.147 Megabytes/s. My laptop could handle that raw volume. Increase it by an order of magnitude for all the network nonsens
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by thrown_22 4y ago
All tech companies have been hiring bottom of the barrel engineers who couldn't code their way out of a paper bag. This is just a realignment where where knowing how to put the lego pieces together isn't enough any more.
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by thrown_22 4y ago
If only software devs had setup a union or something. No, we're too privileged to be fired: https://ma.nu/blog/not-going-anywhere Oops: https://ma.nu/blog/bye-twitter
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by thrown_22 4y ago
For the ability to ban anyone who tells you you're wasting your life.
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by thrown_22 4y ago
I've moved to mutt on emacs. I don't want change for changes sake. I want something I can use that gets out of the way.
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by thrown_22 4y ago
Sounds like OP is exactly the type of person who thunderbird should be targeting because it's impossible to compete on UI churn against google/facebook/apple. They have legions of graphics designers who need to do something t
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by thrown_22 4y ago
>Thunderbird’s current UI makes it look like abandonware. The type of person who cares about that will not be using it anyway. Trying to be hip is how firefox when from 30% market share to 3%. Stop going after people who don't care
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by thrown_22 4y ago
From what I hear on the grapevine the people getting laid off today are the people who would have gone on wall street 20 years ago. >now, if google lay off a lot of people... that would be different The culture in google isn't any b
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by thrown_22 4y ago
Python is popular because the majority of programs are extremely simple. Look at how ugly decorators are in python when in lisp you get them for free and they don't even need a name.
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by thrown_22 4y ago
>So I had the idea to explore the lambda-calculus using s-expressions and patiently rebuilt booleans, pairs, lists, recursion and beyond a real complete Turing language, for instance: Syntax is not semantics. The only thing that s-expres
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by thrown_22 4y ago
I have to say that I've never used tiktok on the phone and even on the desktop it's quite engaging. But the only reason why it even exists is because vine was killed by twitter in probably the worst business decision this millenni
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by thrown_22 4y ago
I've ran chsh on top of a (virtual) Guix(SD) installation. It was rather nice but is still _not_ a lisp machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4-YnLpLgtk
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by thrown_22 4y ago
>; and students’ experience of racism and discrimination This is the main reason why I am extremely ambivalent about hiring anyone who hasn't quit university in disgust. The other day I had someone try and call me out for saying &qu
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by thrown_22 4y ago
Yes, I wish someone would explain this to US Marxists. Go to any university and see what the Marxists club is like. >I'm a bi trans demi boy who is disabled due to anxiety and also the president of the society. Anyone who doesn&#x27
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by thrown_22 4y ago
That's been the case for quite a while. Especially US Marxists: >The key struggle of workers is that of getting enough minority representation in corporate board rooms. Like the problem with the Irish Potato famine being that Queen

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