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by win311fwg 2mo ago
We're talking about the link. It refers to pointless work. - "over half of societal work is pointless" - "workers are required to pretend their role is not as pointless or harmful as they know it to be" Companionshi
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by win311fwg 2mo ago
Since you clearly haven't finished listening to the full joke yet, I'll reveal the punchline: What you describe is what Rogers called "trickle up ". "Trickle-up economics" has never been formally used to refer
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by win311fwg 2mo ago
Again, "trickle-down economics" was created by Will Rogers. He was never a policy maker, just a comedian trying to tell funny stories. Nor did he accidentally create a policy in a 10 minutes of rambling standup routine. If you lis
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by win311fwg 2mo ago
That's not serious advocacy as trickle-down economics isn't a policy that can be implemented. The policy associated with trickle-down economics is known as supply-side economics. Trickle-down economics is something created for a c
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by win311fwg 2mo ago
> If the error bars are large, that is important information to know. The data is available. If it were important to the causal reader, however, then those casual readers would have already demanded its presence. But they don't ca
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by win311fwg 3mo ago
For a selloff to happen, investors have to believe there is a better place for them to go. At worst, any bad news right now is making everything look equally bad, so there is no advantage to running away from Wall Street in particular.
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by win311fwg 3mo ago
Oligopolies are unlikely in a free market because as soon as you do anything interesting a million other people will copy what you are doing wholesale and you will have no advantage to see you rise up to form an oligopoly. We find oligopoli
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by win311fwg 3mo ago
The glaring flaw in the theory is that it hypothesizes that jobs are pointless, but in fact they do have a point: Companionship. There are always exceptions, but overwhelmingly those with resources don't like being alone and without so
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by win311fwg 3mo ago
You are not technically wrong that our modern technology has made it possible for land to be capital, like when you dredged the sea floor to build an island, but is a tiny, insignificant portion of all the land. If you are under the impress
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by win311fwg 3mo ago
> Anyone who thinks people work for anything other than money is delusional. I work so that I am given food, shelter, entertainment, etc. at some point in the future in exchange for what I have given. Money is just the IOU that records
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by win311fwg 3mo ago
No, nobody would seriously press a button that does nothing but increment/decrement an integer. Imagine the thought process that would have to go into thinking that was something worthy of one's time and attention. Not even those
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by win311fwg 3mo ago
Land isn't traditionally considered capital. The buckets are normally land, labor, and capital. The closest thing we broadly see to someone whose function is holding capital is someone who owns stock in the stock market. It is likely t
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by win311fwg 3mo ago
> it's not the statistical average of how people speak. How could it be? There would be no mimercicky if it were an average of how people speak. No human speaks like the average.
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by win311fwg 3mo ago
But understanding the GP was never the danger. Incomprehensible posts on HN have held steady for decades. What held the flood back was that producing crap was all the users could muster. Bad comments took seconds to write. The ten percent w
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by win311fwg 3mo ago
The specific quote that we are talking about reads like something I wouldn't find unusual in the works of an individual. Maybe not from someone who stands out as someone who writes things that you'd actually want to read, but from
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by win311fwg 3mo ago
> Who the FUCK speaks like that? If we assume that it is LLM generated, as suggested, apparently a lot of people, as the LLMs were trained to mimic how people speak (write). You might find it to be unusual because you probably have nev
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by win311fwg 3mo ago
Most programmers are of the capital holding class too. At very least they will own a computer, which is all the capital you need for 99% of what programmers do. There are exceptions, but there are also exceptions in farming.
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by win311fwg 3mo ago
I'd even go as far as to say that software people, as a group, are particularly bad at clear thinking. What software people tend to be great at is thinking within a space where the inputs are already clear. But where the inputs start m
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by win311fwg 3mo ago
> Farmers aren't really paid, they sell goods at market prices. "Programmers aren't really paid, they sell services at market prices." — I guess nobody gets paid? As a farmer myself, when I give someone something I
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by win311fwg 3mo ago
It is highly unlikely that big players are even able to emerge in a free market. All big businesses we know are big because they found a so-called moat. But I suppose we'll never know for sure as you have a greater chance of winning th
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by win311fwg 3mo ago
> but wooden posts and barbed wire, it's less clear why those are so much more expensive now. I am seeing way more active paddocks of grazing cattle now as compared to a couple of years ago. The world is complex and there is never
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by win311fwg 3mo ago
Not to mention that "Clean Code" is from the era where many developers were still sticking MySQL calls into the middle of their HTML. It was trying to wrangle an audience that didn't put any real thought into code, trying to
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by win311fwg 3mo ago
Maybe, but the friend list is already exhausted and "cool looking" people tend to not like the idea of you hiring them just because they look cool. Hence diversity hiring: It became understood that attractive women would get the &
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by win311fwg 3mo ago
> Think back to 2024 and how your job has changed over the last two years. The programming language became a lot more terse. I press the keys on the keyboard considerably less now. Otherwise, I don't see much difference. The human
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by win311fwg 3mo ago
> Seniors don’t use SO anymore Did they ever? SO wasn't around during my junior days so I never got to experience it from that angle, but it looked like it would have been an incredible resource for those who juniored in its heyda
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by win311fwg 3mo ago
The same thing they are already doing? Being a companion for someone who doesn't want to be alone. The human touch, if you will, is hard to replicate. Even where AI can convincingly act human, that often isn't enough to satisfy wh
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by win311fwg 3mo ago
> It frames people who don't do "Clean Code" as unprofessional and lazy Well, isn't that the whole reason for the profession? If you want to be professional and hardworking, why are you instructing a computer to do
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by win311fwg 3mo ago
Manufacturers were also in competition with the used market. A small, cheap car was there to try and attract budget-conscious buyers towards something new instead of something used. But then COVID shutdowns interrupted the supply of cars. A
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by win311fwg 3mo ago
Some car companies are purposefully positioning themselves to have fewer customers as they've learned that they are much more profitable selling a small number of high margin vehicles to a few people instead of a large number of low ma
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by win311fwg 3mo ago
> Then deal with each rectangle by going back and forth along the long edge. I prefer to work in lands after I have cut the headlands. Reduces turning stress on the grass and acknowledges that the machine (the one I own, but the design

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