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by yzhengyu 13y ago
Article comes across to me as a very preachy, high falutin, very warped perception of what constitutes a modern economy. If the end outcome of increasingly rapid automation means that a significant percentage of humanity ends up being unabl
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by yzhengyu 13y ago
It will not be the first organ of the state to morph into "a state within the state" though it is surprising to see it happening in a liberal democracy. Or perhaps we were encouraged to look away from the curtain all this time.
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by yzhengyu 13y ago
As a Singaporean who just spent the last hour or so rapidly scanning through Turkey's history, it seems the situation in both countries is the entrenchment of political power within a single party. As for corruption in Singapore, well, let
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by yzhengyu 13y ago
I am skeptical of any value in having "standards" agreed for this for consumers which would be any different from having third party plugins. If you want your content to be protected, fine, you can go back to using third party plugins. Then
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by yzhengyu 13y ago
Yes, it doesn't sound sensible. But you are already biased by the situation presented. But look at it from a perspective of a Indian instead of just a poor person. In India, plenty of social standing comes from willingness to spend on lavis
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by yzhengyu 13y ago
I have observed that it is far easier to naturally empathise with one who has many similarities to you rather than empathise with another who is radically different from you. The latter actually requires conscious effort.
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by yzhengyu 14y ago
TBH, it could be anyone in the chain with sufficient authority to trigger it and hoping to impress someone who can reward him in a tangible manner. And the sad thing, it is not limited to bureaucracies or government organisations. I have se
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by yzhengyu 14y ago
As someone living here for most of his life, yeah, Singapore has become very expensive. Doesn't help that inflation has been around 6% ~ 7% per year. The .gov here has been playing with the exchange rate (rather than interest rates) to help
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by yzhengyu 14y ago
Singaporean here. The article is a typical outsider view of our system, which isn't as perfect as it sounds. In the first place, the majority of Singapore's successes is largely due to a pro-business policy which has attracted massive amoun
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by yzhengyu 14y ago
From what I have observed, Objectivism's problems lie in the fact that its "me" message is inherently attractive to people who probably need psychiatric treatment for their tendencies which trend towards sociopathy. Most people who buy into
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by yzhengyu 14y ago
I would point out that one man's 'riot inciter' is another man's 'community leader'.
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by yzhengyu 14y ago
I think no one has issues with say, the German subsidiary holding onto profits generated in Germany. The primary observation now is large corporations channeling their reserves and holding them in various locations that is friendly to capit
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by yzhengyu 14y ago
Well, I am in total agreement with you, since I come from a country (Singapore) where the unions are so "completely in harmony" with employers that they might as well not exist.
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by yzhengyu 14y ago
You should know that you are barking up the wrong tree. Both Japan and Germany are both famous for having labour friendly environments. The latter should be lauded for moving its manufacturing into the 21st century, with unions and SMEs pla
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by yzhengyu 14y ago
Well, having worked with various 4GLs that were meant to improve productivity and produce re-usable code, ones that are being used merely add more accidental complexity rather than reduce it. And a diagram (in such a 4GL) does not help when
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by yzhengyu 14y ago
I can't remember it, but there was an interview where Gosling said it was for simplicity. And rather amusingly (and if I remember correctly...) the char data type in Java is not really the equivalent of char in the other C derivatives.
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by yzhengyu 14y ago
Very few people I know are aware of statistical research and how it is to be done to avoid bias, etc. I would not be surprised that Senator Webster is unaware. Especially since he has spent most of his working life as a politician.
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by yzhengyu 14y ago
Being Singaporean and living in an environment which resembles a real corporate state, I can assure you, countries should not be administered like a company.
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by yzhengyu 14y ago
Ah. Be careful where you are stepping. Yes, its one choice. But personally, I find that to be rather too smug / elitist and smacks of "Oh, its HIS/HER choice - there's nothing DEFICIENT or FLAWED with the current setup" rather than recogniz
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by yzhengyu 14y ago
I really wish them all the best, since I have seen the 4GL movement sputter and grind to a halt and only remaining in enterprise software dedicated to BPM, ERP, etc... And as greenyoda pointed out, the last time this was done, it was driven
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by yzhengyu 14y ago
Well, you may call it inertia. But really, once you add up all these challenges, it tends to be quite substantial. For example, say, you are a skilled plumber who owns a similar business repairing/installing plumbing in Shanghai, China. The
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by yzhengyu 14y ago
Well, if you have done your architecture reasonably well, you should be able to have your mobile app rely on the same service layers as your website.
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by yzhengyu 14y ago
Shrug Even more people are surprised that Excel is Turing complete.
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by yzhengyu 15y ago
It is an evolutionary trade off due to how human beings instinctively handle cognitive dissonance. It is very amusing and somewhat depressing on how the most intelligent of individuals can be reduced to a frothing reactionary if you know hi
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by yzhengyu 15y ago
Democracy will never work because it can only work if EVERYONE is educated enough and by default humans are notoriously stupid and unaware of their own stupidity. In this case, I would not call it stupidity - I would call it inherent, (ve
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by yzhengyu 15y ago
There are many side effects of having an entire strata of impoverished people. A minimum wage is actually one of the mechanisms that is available to the state which it can use to re-internalize many of the social cost (i.e. externalities) o
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by yzhengyu 15y ago
Actually, outside of software startups, several software houses I can think of and the established tech giants, what has been described here is pretty much the rest of the world. I guess to use something that I saw on HN the other day, it's
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by yzhengyu 15y ago
People should try negotiating first. If that fails, then start looking for a new job. Unfortunately, what I gather from the behaviour of my peers is that they lack the spine to do so. They can't muster the courage to draw a line in the sand
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by yzhengyu 15y ago
As I see it, its not really crocodile tears, but the end result of evolution, becoming the apex predator on our planet, and with a society based on our innate dichotomous nature. Someone else bears the true costs - example, say some random
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by yzhengyu 15y ago
Yes. It can get this bad. I keep getting questions on whether node.js is better than what we have (Netty (Java) and Twisted (Python)). I told them there shouldn't be any major differences with our existing use cases (primarily pub-sub) but

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