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by yusina 1y ago
Right. And just as little as a refugee can decide their way out of the situation that their home country is in chaos and war, a homeless person rarely can decide their way out of poverty. The latter may have made choices earlier in life tha
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by yusina 1y ago
The step from "it's a choice" to "it's your fault" is very small. There is a whole industry of populists thriving on the lack of distinguishing between these two. Tech people often miss the social connotations
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by yusina 1y ago
It shows carelessness or incompetence or a combination thereof which extend to the entire code base.
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by yusina 1y ago
> I know people who say they're homeless by choice. To me, that's a blatant misnomer. Elon Musk also calls himself "homeless". (By choice, quite obviously.) There is not much to discuss once the term is assigned that
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by yusina 1y ago
Exactly. Thank you.
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by yusina 1y ago
Calling it a "choice" to seek asylum in another country because of war or threat of death in someone's home country for e.g. sexual orientation reasons is beyond cynical and cruel. I truly hope you will never be in such a sit
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by yusina 1y ago
I find it useful that terms have meaning and one can distinguish between what belongs to it and what doesn't. A pork steak is a piece of meat taken from a pig. Once it's made of beans or some mushroom it may still be tasty (and I
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by yusina 1y ago
I'm not sure where all your mentions of the Bay Area come from. I'm writing from a European perspective, and in all major European cities you find homelessness prevalent. And it's not pretty. A millionaire in the Swiss forest
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by yusina 1y ago
Tell that to a real homeless who typically as to be very creative to even just charge their phone. If they have one.
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by yusina 1y ago
I really appreciate the new title. It's doing the topic more justice.
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by yusina 1y ago
And it didn't happen and if it had then he'd have crashed on a friend's sofa. And his laptop and two suits would have been safe in a locker at university. An actual homeless person would have a quite different experience of a
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by yusina 1y ago
That was surely a great experiment. But it's very different from actual homelessness. I would have appreciated if the author had acknowledged that more. It's closer to a backpacker-in-a-tent-in-the-mountains experience than ho
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by yusina 1y ago
Or just ... breathe normally? Your body can handle this pretty well on its own. What's the point of this hyper-optimization? (Unless it cures a condition obviously.)
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by yusina 1y ago
"But they could have just ..." does not take away the fact that the impact on their lives was real. An impact that you caused. Again, discovering this situation via what you call an "experiment" wasn't perhaps bad o
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by yusina 1y ago
Definitely. But it also means acknowledging later on that it was actually harmful to others.
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by yusina 1y ago
That's not a prank, it's just idiotic. We all did stupid things when young, but most of us have by now realized that what they did wasn't actually funny.
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by yusina 1y ago
That's indeed my observation too, in general but also in tech in particular, but I didn't want to straight put insult the typical HN commenter as I'm sure there are also lots of moral individuals around here.
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by yusina 1y ago
> I don't get why people keep thinking it was forgotten Well, I replied to a post that gave a link to a document that supposedly exhaustively (?) listed all alternatives that were considered. Monads are not on that list. From that,
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by yusina 1y ago
News flash, the vast majority of landfills' contents eventually also end up in air, food, kids, schools.
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by yusina 1y ago
The vast majority of landfills eventually leak. It's overall a terrible way to handle this waste w.r.t. environmental impact.
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by yusina 1y ago
It fascinates me that really smart and experienced people have written that page and debated approaches for many years, and yet nowhere on that page is the Haskell-solution mentioned, which is the Maybe and Either monads, including their do
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by yusina 1y ago
How is it evil to displace jobs? Why should we fight for keeping humans in jobs that machines can do? I'm not saying there is no evil, but that argument at least holds little ground.
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by yusina 1y ago
And what makes you believe that engineers have more morals than cable news folks have? Does not match my experience. Most of them got into tech because it's fun and because it pays royaly. Morals have little to do with that for lots of
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by yusina 1y ago
Well, look at the CEO of X, tells you all you need to know about that platform.
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by yusina 1y ago
I challenge you to go through the history of your own posts and count how often you salt your statements of opinion with the magic dust of "I believe". I did. You are not living up to the standard you are demanding of others (and
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by yusina 1y ago
That's one of the best takes on this matter that I have seen in a long time. (Ironically, I would not be too surprised if it was produced by an LLM.)
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by yusina 1y ago
So, it is your opinion that the mere expression of opinion "without anything else" is not allowed in a discussion? And if that is so, didn't you also "just" express an opinion? Would your own contribution to the dis
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by yusina 1y ago
>if a human came out living but with a brain that had zero electrical activity, that would be extraordinary, we normally come out with a baseline of pre-programming. That statement reveals deep deficiencies in your understanding of biolo
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by yusina 1y ago
If 99.9% fail and you see one that didn't, then would it be surprising that it didn't? No! It's not 100%, so there must be some example. For that one it's not surprising. More precisely, it's not surprising that
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by yusina 1y ago
I agree with your description, but the pizza place case is even simpler: Statistics don't guarantee future single sample properties. 70% fail in the first year. So, 30% don't. Why would it be surprising to see one that didn't

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