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by yakubin 4y ago
I don’t know what merit you’re talking about. I don’t think there’s anything to remove. If I was paying for some work done, like healthcare services (separate fee) or application processing costs + documents (>£1k? definitely not), then
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by yakubin 4y ago
Same thing with the visa application fee.
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In that case I prefer bribes. I prefer paying people rather than bureaucracies.
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It is worth it. But it isn’t a compensation for any work done by the government you pay it to. The value was created by people who didn’t receive anything from that money. The government is just the intermediary taking fees for access to it
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by yakubin 4y ago
The difference is I pay for what I get. With the visa application fee, there’s nothing that can be worth £1k there. Note that I didn’t include fees for healthcare and taxes in that figure. It’s just a nonsense fee on top for nothing.
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Honest question: what’s the difference between a bribe and a legal fee? E.g. when you apply for a UK visa, you need to pay over 1k GBP as an “application fee”. Why is this application fee not considered a bribe?
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by yakubin 4y ago
I found out about it when I uninstalled Discord and then installed it again, and it logged me in immediately. Apparently there is no way to clear the data, despite the warning about deleting all data when uninstalling apps.
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Uninstalling apps on iOS doesn’t clear their keychain data(apple.stackexchange.com)
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I’ve never seen a sea, nor a mountain, which wouldn’t be beautiful.
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by yakubin 4y ago
For me, jails aren’t only technically better, but also have better ergonomics. With Docker: - I always end up running out of disk space, because of Docker’s love of immutable layers for everything — my jails just live in a normal directory
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by yakubin 4y ago
Debuggers aren’t only for debugging. They’re also for exploring an unfamiliar codebase, speeding up the process of familiarising oneself with it.
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by yakubin 4y ago
I agree about Elisp and single-threadedness, but disagree about the UI. It’s the best UI I’ve ever used. I wish others apps used Emacs UI concepts.
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by yakubin 4y ago
Filesystem may also run out of inodes, even though there is still plenty of space.
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That’s how you can create a gapless ring buffer: < https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/memoryap... > (see scenario 1 in examples).
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That’s a bummer. Most of the technical books I bought on Amazon were supplied by Book Depository. Are they going to just disappear now?
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by yakubin 4y ago
The reason why originally software was free is that there were no software companies, only hardware companies shipping software with their hardware. It’s good to think whether you’d have a job in that world.
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by yakubin 4y ago
„What do I need to learn to understand you?”
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Not given back to the original authors, but given to the users.
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by yakubin 4y ago
Yeah, I got that. Just wanted to expand on the weirdness of what "spicy ketchup" seems to mean in practice. Fair warning: "Kotlin Extra Hot", although a bit spicy, still doesn't hold a candle to what Indian cuisine
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by yakubin 4y ago
In my experience, "spicy ketchup" is almost never spicy, even in the least. What distinguishes it from other ketchups is that it's less sweet (but still very sweet). The only actually spicy ketchup I found is "Kotlin Ext
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by yakubin 4y ago
OMG: < https://codeberg.org/ngn/k/src/branch/master/a.c > My maths notebook from high school looked like that. I'm having flashbacks. (At least in text files you can't cram 4 lines of
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by yakubin 4y ago
So... noone should exercise this freedom, because doing it is selfish? Then what are you paying forward for? Freedom noone should ever exercise? It feels like a prison with transparent bars.
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by yakubin 4y ago
I’m often called an artist by people who know me IRL, which annoys me for a bunch of reasons. One is that I don’t see myself this way. I just sometimes do stuff that is art-adjacent. Another is that making it a noun instead of a verb reduce
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by yakubin 4y ago
They are part of the language, because they require generics to be implemented if you want to implement them in the standard library. Go didn’t use to have generics, so those constructs were hacked into the core language.
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Yes, but if you demand that everyone pays proportionally to the benefit they get, then the threat of moving capital to another country has an outsize influence on politics within the country. So the rich get even more say about how taxes ar
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by yakubin 4y ago
Those are enforced by courts and police. So you may end up with well-funded police and courts, but defunded public health services, public education and social benefits.
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by yakubin 4y ago
Yeah, but they don’t benefit from public health services, since they can pay for a private insurance with a higher quality of services. They don’t benefit from social benefits, since they have much more efficient ways of making money. They
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by yakubin 4y ago
No? Government is the people currently elected. Nothing to do with courts. And law was decided by previous governments. Giving money to the current/future government to create new law which you like is called lobbying, or bribing (what
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by yakubin 4y ago
That’s settled by law, not by the actions of the current government. If you want to pin down the source of how the wealthy can retain their wealth, that would be the courts and broader law enforcement. So going this way the wealthy would co
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People can’t pay in cash due to other people paying with debt, which artificially inflates prices.

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