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by yrimaxi 6y ago
Aha. So you agree.
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
These kind of comments always get downvoted but it is pretty accurate. Certainly people like Madison didn’t want a thriving, egalitarian, democratic, civic culture and nation.
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
The thing is that editing/text-navigation modes are so universally useful that it makes perfect sense to make a supposed “OS-level” text editor. How many plugins, extensions, etc. are there so that people can use Vim bindings in web b
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
Good that it’s working well for you! :)
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
> First, Facebook avoids titles, so there's no such thing "senior software engineer". How egalitarian. Let me guess: you are an IC6, or perhaps IC7? You just give off that vibe.
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
What does it mean to “extend String” in Java? You can’t, of course, literally do that.
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
Land, i.e. the classic example of rent-seeking. The land doesn’t become “valuable on its own”, it’s just used to extract value from other things. > In that original state of things, which precedes both the appropriation of land and the a
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
The point of most things that you can buy should be the thing itself, not its investment-value. If not there is probably rent-seeking going on, i.e. a market failure. All things degrade due to entropy. Things cannot truly become more valu
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
Pretty obvious stuff. Of course GUIDs are more unweildy to read etc. compared to simple auto-incrementing integers. I don’t see a reason to prefix an id with something like `task-`. I would rather leave it to the display logic.
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
I keep getting impressed by the EA-proponents ability and eagerness to frame EA as “true altruism” (an actual quote in this case!), as if EA is some purely-rational approach with no philosophical baggage or assumptions. How utterly self-co
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
You’ve set up a convenient dichotomy where one through pure reason alone arrives at the inevitable conclusion that one should “liquidate and donate any excess they produce”, or else one is merely being driven by pure sentiment/feel-goo
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
Describing non-alienation as “feeling good” (as another commenter did) or “not feeling weird” is a great way to pathologize my observation of how weird it is to work a six-figure, ad/surveillance-optimizing job at Google in order for t
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
What alternative? How is that even a question? The answer is obvious: do good directly, with your own mind and hands, not indirectly. That’s the obvious alternative. Maybe not everyone has the opportunity to do that, just like not every
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
I guess it’s affirming to think that people reject one’s ethical outlook because it would necessitate such an awe-inspiring commitment or burden. Rather than for more analytic reasons.
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
Burn out wasn’t the point. I explicitly disregarded that by putting in the premise that the hypothetical person is not and will not get burned out with that philanthropy schedule. I could have just as well have written that they made a mil
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
Maybe you are pursuing a different point than mine, but my own point was about alienation, not supererogation. I don’t put EA proponents on such a lofty pedestal.
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
> Donating cash instead of physically participating in charity can be alienating, sure... but certainly more effective. Do you have proof? Because whether it “feels good” (or rather, feels like you are actually doing something, rather t
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
A scenario: you want to help people. You have the opportunity to get a very well-paying job on Wall Street (finance or whatever). You reckon that you would optimize your good-output by working more rather than helping directly (you don’t
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
What about bananas? Referring to banana republics.
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
> Because we have a term for the Dunning-Kruger effect, we know to be aware of it, etc. Or rather, we are more accutely aware of how everyone else might suffer from it.
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
No wonder Singer didn’t end up liking Marx. EA is the most alienating code of ethics that I’ve seen.
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
I think we can just end the whole thread with this comment (the parent’s). It’s perfect. To summarize: unions might in general be good or bad, but any talk of tech unions on HN will be controversial because of how massively—and this cannot
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
It is.
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
The we are the power elite, you is everyone else. That there is such a thing as a power elite seems obvious enough. Pick a sociology book at random? Political candidates are (in America) in effect picked by moneyed interests, i.e. gro
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
Flip side implies symmetry.
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
Indent with spaces, don’t align.
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
> If an engineer in 1996 fell into a coma and woke up today, they'd be greeted with an entirely different world. We're driving around in electric cars, carrying around cell phones that are orders of magnitude faster than deskto
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
Indeed the reverse of my point.
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
How about the democracy syllogism: 1. We will pick a handful of people that you may choose from 2. You pick one of them (because there were no other choices) 3. Therefore you freely chose that person and are solely responsible for what that
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by yrimaxi 6y ago
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