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by z0r 8y ago
"Instead of watching TV at night alone at home people could walk over to their friends place or go out to a cute restaurant or well groomed park." No thank you. As much as I like my home town, I don't want to pay a fortune (t
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by z0r 8y ago
I don't want to sign up for any more web apps or web only services. They keep shutting down
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by z0r 8y ago
Could you sell it as desktop software with replacable plug-in data feeds for each source of information?
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by z0r 8y ago
You trusting a lot of _well regulated_ industries and government run services is one matter. Blithely grouping them all together at all, let alone comparing them with software, is another thing altogether. Setting aside the comparison you&#
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by z0r 8y ago
Friends don't let friends depend on web apps.
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Web apps are programs running on other peoples machines that you have no control over. If you enjoy the use of software and you don't even have the power to choose to downgrade when you don't like an upgrade, you're in a very
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by z0r 8y ago
I don't think it's a stupid question. I'm not an economist either. It's debatable (if you use Google, you can easily find a lot of environmental and economic papers talking about the subject) but GDP growth is probably a
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by z0r 8y ago
I think your idea for reducing the birth rate in the US even further is poorly considered. As for immigrants, I'm certain that their children end up with the same decreased rate of childbirth thanks to economic pressure. Optimization f
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by z0r 8y ago
The economy is fueled by population. Any decrease in the US birth rate will be more than compensated for by increased immigration.
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by z0r 8y ago
Got curious (tempted to maybe try it) and found this - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27222217 Looks like it may impair your working memory if you have normal cognitive function.
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by z0r 8y ago
stay off your phone in bed. read those books you're collecting. if you're doing nothing at home, clean up a little. if the question were advice for a 20 year old me, the list would probably be longer. but i think at 25 these 3 thi
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by z0r 8y ago
I didn't use any hyperbole in my response, but you're projecting a lot onto mine. Let me give you a realistic personal example, something that might happen to me at least once or twice a week. I'm 20 minutes into establishing
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by z0r 8y ago
If you're a manager and you're getting compensated for keeping the wheels greased for your team, that's great. But if you're a regular IC being selfish about conserving your limited attention and energy isn't immora
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by z0r 8y ago
The vast majority of people are airily dismissive of the logistics of other peoples lives.
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by z0r 8y ago
i've used a mix of ides and text editors over the years but i've committed entirely to emacs for the last 6 or 7. the value of having a tool that i can adapt to my needs and use anywhere for anything greatly outweighs any capricio
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by z0r 8y ago
That's not what happens. Population growth is outsourced to the third world (immigration, manufacturing, etc.) The planet (biosphere) will be hollowed out beyond repair by our ever growing economy. "Wealth inevitably follows a par
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by z0r 8y ago
Raising children being relegated to luxury status is a symptom of an oppressive and/or failing economic system.
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by z0r 8y ago
keep in mind they also pay engineer salaries to work on stuff that gets contributed back to the kernel (and other projects). of course that's with a healthy dose of self interest, but this 500k isn't the real bottom line
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by z0r 8y ago
This is a depressing post on multiple levels. I don't think it deserves downvotes, but maybe people are downvoting to help because it seems that you are violating option 4 by posting your story here. You might want to take the post dow
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by z0r 8y ago
Often the time invested in writing an automation script far outweighs the time spent doing it manually, even when you account for every time the script will ever be run. And it can still be worth it if the script never makes a mistake that
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by z0r 8y ago
Plenty of engineers hit their cap at L5 or thereabouts (I'm sure if you look at the distribution of levels at your local bigco you'll see there's a sharp decline in numbers at some point), and not everyone is going to be part
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by z0r 8y ago
That path is as rarified among software engineers at bigco as software engineering at bigco is among software engineering at large as that is to the general population.
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by z0r 8y ago
When the majority of written communications are composed from a few selected branches, the potential storage and transmission savings are huge!
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by z0r 8y ago
I'm not sure how true your observation really is, but I sympathize with the sentiment. My personal fear is a future where the only freedoms left are to work and consume.
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by z0r 8y ago
Want to stem the tide? Pay more. I miss Toronto but I won't go back unless my visa situation falls apart.
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by z0r 8y ago
Wouldn't the unreferenced Future, once fulfilled, be garbage collected?
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by z0r 9y ago
It is well worth reserving some things from being subsumed directly by the economic system. I don't understand the distinction ihsw2 is trying to make with the repeated argument about removal of consent, but I would agree if they simpl
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by z0r 9y ago
There are degrees of exploitation and levels of compulsion throughout all society. This doesn't mean that people have to be either okay with all exploitation and compulsion or none at all.
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by z0r 9y ago
Is your editor written in elisp?
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by z0r 9y ago
I was spurred to make a sizable donation to the EFF by recent news (in addition to my regular per-paycheque) donation and I encourage anyone else reading this to consider donating as well.

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