wesselbindt

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by wesselbindt 3y ago
The notion of "middle class" is a convenient propaganda piece. Turns out most folks consider themselves middle class. So as a politician, you can score easy points by saying scary stuff like "the middle class is disappearing&
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by wesselbindt 3y ago
Oh my goodness, someone does sarcasm and I don't get it, story of my life! I'm sorry for wrongly inferring your position.
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Where did the extreme programming gurus advocate for 100% coverage? I've never read the original texts, but I'm familiar with some of their writing, and this doesn't quite jive with my conception of their opinions. Do you hav
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by wesselbindt 3y ago
I've never really used twitter much, but as an outsider, sometimes I see things like this and I get the sense it has devolved into boomer targeted fear mongering. Is there still interesting discussion going on in there? If not, is ther
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by wesselbindt 3y ago
I think what your parent meant was that, instead of just asserting that something is true, you provide some peer reviewed research or something like that which supports your assertion. For example, you might want to include a link to some a
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by wesselbindt 3y ago
Democratically elected parties can transparently enact anti-democratic policies. If my local democratically elected fascist transparently has "do not allow group x to vote" as an intended policy, then that policy is anti-democrati
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by wesselbindt 3y ago
I can't answer for your parent, but for me it is the following. The main purpose of a test suite is to detect regressions in intended behavior. In a good test suite, if a test fails, then I can be sure that some part of the actual syst
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by wesselbindt 3y ago
The primary means I've seen it happen by is by being part of a team that does pair programming rather than code reviews. In general I've seen it do wonders for team alignment, integration speed, and ramping up new colleagues, juni
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by wesselbindt 3y ago
Arguments are for the onlooker, not the participants.
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Saying that OP's point doesn't/wouldn't/shouldn't apply to an extremely exceptional case is a tautology (and this is even assuming that Mozart didn't already follow OP's advice in the first place, whi
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by wesselbindt 3y ago
That's quite a poor assumption I find. Most modern leaps in progress have been publicly funded (see for example penicillin, the internet, anything resulting from the space race, and for a more comprehensive list, the entrepeneurial sta
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by wesselbindt 3y ago
I think that's an admirable way of looking at things!
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That's certainly one approach and motivation for doing UBI, but it's not the only one. The idea of replacing welfare with UBI and only UBI is what the more libertarian folks want. But for example, if you look at Thomas Piketty and
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by wesselbindt 3y ago
Some questions: - Why are you mentioning Russia? You do realize they've been capitalist for 30 years now, and that it's transformation to a more fascist state happened in those decades? - Do you think Cuba was a monarchy, ruled by
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by wesselbindt 3y ago
Lenin is not talking about democratic socialism there, but rather the full blown dictatorship of the proletariat, nationalizing all means of production, etc etc kind of socialism. When it comes to democratic socialism, Lenin was not a fan,
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by wesselbindt 3y ago
In referring to recreational drug users as bad people, I think you're conflating morality with legality, which is common, but wrong.
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Oops you're absolutely right. It's like saying drivers have skewed opinions on driving legislation because they're to close to the subject matter.
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Yep, me too. However legislation on x (be it rape, recreational drugs, whatever), still requires discussion, and there's always ifs and buts, and the idea that someone involved in x is somehow not someone to be taken seriously on the m
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by wesselbindt 3y ago
Exactly, I completely agree, it's a very silly thought! What makes drug use different from my example that people aren't able to have an informed opinion on it when they're involved?
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>and are often recreational drug users themselves (i.e. too close to the issue) I think this is an interesting thought. As a recreational drug user myself (I drink alcohol sometimes), I do indeed feel like drugs should be legalized, so a