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by vacuity 3y ago
> I'm pointing out that Amazon isn't where they are due to overworking people. I don't know enough to weigh in on if this was a thing in past Amazon, but if Amazon isn't willing to lose, say, 5% profit to ensure that
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by vacuity 3y ago
Zero sum is likely an exaggeration, but the conditions can get quite bad.
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by vacuity 3y ago
So Amazon can't afford to provide sanitary, safe restrooms and not overwork its employees? I don't think people go hiking because they're running from a bear or wildfire; they do it because they feel like it, and so they plan
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by vacuity 3y ago
I don't think it's unfair to make him divest some of his shares. I suppose there could be leeway there, but having over $100 billion in shares certainly seems excessive. Hey, if taxes are paid as they should be, working conditions
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by vacuity 3y ago
Sorry for the mischaracterization. Your position sounds interesting. When it comes to how the means of production should be structured, I envision a microkernel kind of model: enforce strict protections for worker pay, fairness, and whateve
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by vacuity 3y ago
Why do we have to overwork people anywhere? But certainly it shouldn't happen at Amazon, seeing as Bezos makes so much money. If not that alone, then maybe the fact that Amazon has used many unethical business practices. Unbridled capi
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by vacuity 3y ago
If there was such a button that had no side effects, perhaps it would be best to press it infinitely, as you say. But clearly "economic growth" doesn't lift everyone up equally. Somehow, there are still many poor people even
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by vacuity 3y ago
We go with species such as the dodos. I mean, they're never going to be exposed as Nazis now!
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by vacuity 3y ago
First of all, there's already much to be said on how encouraging private citizens to amass wealth at all costs is highly dangerous to society. Clearly, there are massive problems that our current model has. Second, we don't need t
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by vacuity 3y ago
While I am sympathetic to the idea that we need to burn e everything down, baby steps, first. If we're talking halfway realistic changes, let's get stuff like this wealth limit in place first, and once those been established for a
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by vacuity 3y ago
Some people aren't better off for it, like the people who are being overworked at Amazon.
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by vacuity 3y ago
Aside from that, it's not obvious to me why we need a Bezos to achieve this. If people were capped to $5 billion (which seems absurdly high to me), would AWS never come into existence?
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by vacuity 3y ago
Hoarding gold isn't inherently bad, but many super rich people who arguably don't deserve nearly as much wealth as they have (worker exploitation, buying politicians, inheritance money, etc.), especially when juxtaposed with the t
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by vacuity 3y ago
Being able to quit a terrible workplace doesn't imply that one has achieved a reasonable standard of living and is just making more money. Indeed, if people continue working at a workplace where they're subjected to conditions the
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by vacuity 3y ago
You did just imply that peeing in bottles is fairly reasonable for certain hectic environments. Perhaps so, but you'd need another explanation for why it's reasonable for a workplace like Amazon's warehouses to embody that. I
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by vacuity 3y ago
Yeah, my family lives very comfortably in the US, all things considered ("upper middle class"??), but still far from having $15 million in total wealth.
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by vacuity 3y ago
Even if that's true, I think a lot of people have a long way to go before reaching $10 million in wealth, and there always would be, so it's not like there are just a few "chosen ones" who could do so much more if they w
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by vacuity 3y ago
There are probably orders of magnitude in difference between hardware design output and programming output. At least at the time, seL4's verification was quite impressive for a codebase on the order of 10,000 lines. But we should work
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by vacuity 3y ago
If the policy of the OS is to for programmers to only use libc for syscalls, perhaps that's a valid caveat to asm syscalls, but I don't think Linux is such an OS.
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by vacuity 3y ago
Does avoiding userspace being trampled by the kernel mean avoiding a context switch? Does the kernel write to userspace-accessible memory that the spinlock guards? Unrelated, but what does "open-coded" mean? I never seem to find a
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by vacuity 3y ago
But the internal details of libc leaking is accidental, not essential, complexity for the problem at hand. There's the baseline level of difficulty with writing assembly language, but the libc influence is imposed on top of that.
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by vacuity 3y ago
You shouldn't be using a comma in that position! You could use a period or semicolon instead!!! How can an esteemed HNer not know basic punctuation?!
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by vacuity 3y ago
While I like bashing on capitalism as much as the next guy, I don't think it's very relevant here. For the general phenomenon of spam and trolling, I don't think capitalism matters at all, and for the scams on eBay and Amazo
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by vacuity 3y ago
The general problem solving approach. What the two sibling replies to yours are talking about.
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by vacuity 3y ago
So Nix keeps track of different versions of shared libraries?
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by vacuity 3y ago
Interesting. I try to do something like this, but way simpler and my productivity is low right now. Maybe more practice will help. Would you say you're usually good at doing this and getting results?
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by vacuity 3y ago
But what if the cave walls glowing misleads the observer and they get lost further? Then it wouldn't seem to be intelligent. In any case, the light source being intelligent occurs in the context that there is an intelligent observer wh
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by vacuity 3y ago
In the context of a person being trapped in a cave, is some aspect of light shining distantly intelligent? It's reducing uncertainty about where a viable exit is, after all.
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by vacuity 3y ago
Sometimes threads will veer off into opinionated fights, but there's something wonderful about the threads where people chime in on a topic and keep building on the content. I often learn something new from those.
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by vacuity 3y ago
I read the article and I have to say, it's disturbingly compelling. Although I think that while we are unable to demonstrate intricate puppeting of real, conscious humans or something like that, there's some "truth" or &

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