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by yogthos 7y ago
I mean US income inequality is highest level ever recorded, but sure I'm the one who's unreasonable here. https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/income-inequ...
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US income inequality jumps to highest level ever recorded(markets.businessinsider.com)
48 points by yogthos 7y ago|5 comments
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by yogthos 7y ago
The claim that there's declining interest is absurd, and that's what I'm arguing. Google trends are simply not a measure of anything interesting in practice. It's about as useful as throwing around TIOBE rankings. >To
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by yogthos 7y ago
People seem to forget the basic fact that markets are run by greedy psychopaths. And I don't mean this as a hyperbole. Capitalism directly selects for psychopathic behavior because it's a system of Darwinian competition. The syste
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by yogthos 7y ago
The recent Clojure/north conference [1] focused specifically on commercial usage of Clojure with plenty of companies presenting why and how they're using Clojure to solve their business needs. There are tons of new libraries and t
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by yogthos 7y ago
>It has a small active community with many abandoned libraries, no killer app, and painful tooling. I like the language in spite of that, but size of community matters. To your point, as a hosted language you can make up Clojure's d
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by yogthos 7y ago
I really don't understand why people obsesses over popularity so much. The only question worth asking is whether the language has a big enough community to be sustainable, especially when dealing with a hosted language that leverages t
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by yogthos 7y ago
So they should just sit there and wait to die is what you're saying?
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by yogthos 7y ago
>Where are you coming up with this nonsense? Let's see the numbers. Where do you think all the people working in Amazon gulags come from exactly. You think people work 12 hours shifts pissing in bottles because they enjoy it. >Oh
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by yogthos 7y ago
There's nothing misleading about it. One percent of the population in US owns more than half the wealth in the country. Majority of the population lives in impoverished conditions without access to basic needs such as public transit, h
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by yogthos 7y ago
Dude, people in your country die regularly because they can't afford basic medicine like insulin or have an easily treatable medical condition.
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by yogthos 7y ago
Have you been to Flint where there's no drinking water?
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by yogthos 7y ago
US on the whole is also fairly poor. For example, 40% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck can't afford an unexpected 400 dollar expense. And China has far better support for the poor than US with things like healthcare, educat
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The Origin of Complexity(medium.com)
4 points by yogthos 7y ago|0 comments
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by yogthos 7y ago
Agree completely.
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by yogthos 7y ago
I mean yes we literally don't know right now. I'm just saying given where our civilization is at, I think it's pretty safe to assume that we have a lot of room to grow here. Once we've done computing for a thousand years
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by yogthos 7y ago
We already know you can use individual atoms as transistors [1]. So, clearly we can go a lot smaller than 5mm here. Obviously there are challenges in scaling these new substrates up to create useful chips, and creating the infrastructure to
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by yogthos 7y ago
It's kind of silly to assume that what we have now can't be improved significantly. We've only been doing this for a very short time in the grand scheme of things. We're certainly nowhere close to hitting any limitations
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by yogthos 7y ago
ah appears that I did
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Crux JDBC(juxt.pro)
1 points by yogthos 7y ago|0 comments
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by yogthos 7y ago
It's odd that the presentation doesn't discuss alternatives to using silicon. Ultimately, this is akin to saying that there are limits on how small a vacuum tube we can make. We already know of a number of other potential computin
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by yogthos 7y ago
Except, I don't find using SQL more laborious, and it if is then I'd suggest that's a problem with whatever language makes using SQL directly laborious.
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by yogthos 7y ago
I wholeheartedly agree with the article. Every time I've used an ORM I've regretted it. SQL is already a great DSL for working with relational data, and there is no reason to create a leaky abstraction on top of it. The reality is
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by yogthos 7y ago
I find that I have the opposite problem myself. With Clojure, the code tends to be more declarative and it tells me what it's doing. Meanwhile, Java leaks a lot of implementation details into the code, and I find it much harder to deci
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by yogthos 7y ago
This is true literally for every language out there. My team maintains a Java application from over a decade ago. It's an utterly incomprehensible mess that nobody understands, and it's incredibly difficult to make any changes to
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by yogthos 7y ago
https://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/13899 https://www.commonfrontiers.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Ju... https://fair.org/home/media-delegitimize-venezuelan-
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by yogthos 7y ago
In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell is a timeless classic on the subject: http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html
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by yogthos 7y ago
I pretty much agree with everything you're saying here.
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by yogthos 7y ago
Nope, just pointing out that it's more productive to focus on fixing your own country instead of worrying about China. If you have exact same problems, but you ignore them and obsess about China instead then you're not helping any
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by yogthos 7y ago
Of course, the style of control is different, but the effect is the same. In the West we have an illusion of freedom and choice. We get to say whatever we like, we get to go an vote for any approved candidate, but at the end of the day the

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