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by vages 4y ago
Strict georgism emphasizes taxing limited resources, i.e. resources that can be hogged, preventing others from innovating. If what you're using can be made more plentiful, it's not worth taxing. For example, taxing your use of tra
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by vages 4y ago
The Norwegian tax system is not socialist as much as it is _georgist_: Norway taxes natural resource use (mainly extracting oil from oil fields and using waterfalls for power generation) _hard_. This tax policy makes the "more outflows
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by vages 4y ago
The Nordic countries are actually the easiest place in the world to earn at least 30 million dollars (or become billionaire for that case) exactly because of the welfare system: https://youtu.be/A9UmdY0E8hU When you don’t h
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by vages 4y ago
Norwegian here. Not as worried, but “no man is an island”. If the consequences are really bad, it’s hard for any country to escape them.
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by vages 4y ago
Sure. But this is a good replacement when your team is in different physical locations.
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by vages 4y ago
If increased productivity equaled job loss, there would be two programmers alive today, doing the same job as the fewer than 10000 programmers using punch cards as we entered the year 1950. A lot of projects today are not even greenlit beca
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by vages 4y ago
I'd just like to clarify: The “PhD” sentence was more important to my point than the “luddite” sentence I find your comment both thought-provoking and well-formulated. As for the references to the Butlerian Jihad: I read Dune for the f
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by vages 4y ago
Did you miss this paragraph from the same page? > I am not a Luddite. I have been wildly enthusiastic about science, technology, and intellectual and material progress since I was a kid. I have a PhD in artificial intelligence, and I fin
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by vages 4y ago
The reason why you put your eyes on something is probably that someone had the hope of selling it to you. Or that someone paid for it on your behalf. The difference is that machine learning algorithms never (or rarely) leave a single penny
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by vages 4y ago
"Making friends at work or coworking with friends can help support relationships and fun." And one day, it just isn't fun. Who do turn to for support? Will your friends be there when you quit your job? And to the contrary: If
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by vages 4y ago
Not sure if Weizenbaum would be honoured. > Weizenbaum, for his part, turned away from his own project’s expanding implications. He objected to the idea that something as subtle, intimate, and human as therapy could be reduced to code. H
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Movies made sound with a light bulb: Sound-on-film [video](youtube.com)
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by vages 4y ago
My team at work has completely rewritten from Redux with Redux Form to Tanstack query and React Hook Form over the past two years, and we don’t miss a single thing about Redux. We make an app that contacts lots of microservices in sequence
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by vages 4y ago
Be aware that survivorship bias may fool you when comparing the quality of new and old items. The single juicer that lasts 70 years may be the only one of its kind to last that long, the others from the same production year being left to ro
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by vages 4y ago
This article’s main point is that AI technology has economic potential. It goes about this by parodying common arguments against whether such AI can develop into goal-driven beings. One example of such criticism is this five year old piece
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by vages 4y ago
You do not need AI to treat the workers that have historically performed well (as measured on some quantitative scale) better than others. Most businesses just don’t do it, as finding an objective scale is hard and people have good reasons
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by vages 4y ago
Robin Heggelund Hansen (one of the elm/core contributors) launched a fork of Elm this May with the help of 13 other contributors. It's called "Gren" (/gre:n/), which is Norwegian for "branch": https:
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by vages 4y ago
King Harald V of Norway (born 1936) and Queen Margrete II (born 1940) are old enough to remember WW2. So is Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (born 1938, abdicated). I think the grandparent comment’s author forgot to insert a “British” in fr
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by vages 4y ago
TIL. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taskrabbit
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by vages 4y ago
Seems like the author is also the submitter. Shouldn’t it then be prefixed with “Show HN”?
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by vages 4y ago
When I had crypto assets, I came upon this article about “Greater fool theory” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory It made me sell all my crypto (luckily at a profit), and I have not looked back.
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by vages 4y ago
My team also dates its todo items by the date of creation. I have played with the idea of failing building or linting after a specific date, but I have said no. I want to be able to check out a specific commit and have the same experience a
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Testability: Reimagining OOP design patterns in Rust(audunhalland.github.io)
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by vages 5y ago
I know too many people who regret their suicide attempts to let this comment go unanswered: Call whatever service is available in your country to speak about your thoughts. I’m not going to involve myself any further, because I’m afraid I’d
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by vages 5y ago
> outside of serving autoplaying ads NRK is Norway’s equivalent to the BBC. I’m not sure about the BBC, but NRK is not allowed to run ads. More importantly, they have a number of great in-house developers that churn out quality content a
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by vages 5y ago
I work within the train system of a European country (with ticketing, so I’m on the top and not the bottom of things). From my experience with station and onboard crew, I am very certain that the schedules and patterns are still very much h
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by vages 5y ago
I came up with this method a few years ago and have used it ever since. I’ve never looked back; I’m no less comfortable now than before, and I enjoy using less energy even though my hot water use is included in the rent. I’ve had little luc
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by vages 5y ago
It was external, but correct: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLPC_XO#/media/File%3AFreepl...
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by vages 5y ago
Putting on more clothes would be great, but women's established dress codes in offices often have way more exposed skin than men's dress codes: Skirts lead to exposed legs and blouses lead to exposed arms. So it's very hard t
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by vages 5y ago
> If a node can present a lottery ticket of rarity one-in-a-million, the network can conclude the node did about a million lottery tickets’ worth of work, on average. This is not true. You will have scratched far fewer tickets on average

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