That's a lazy argument. Obviously tools are tools. But if tool A revolutionized human society and has massively advanced technology (and CAN be used for harm), where tool B's positive impact is a drop in the bucket by comparison and has the potential for an outsized amount of harm, obviously tool B is comparatively a bad tool.
That is an insane take. So according to you, for example, it wouldn't have been justifiable for jews to carry out violent acts against the Nazi regime during WW2? Or any other oppressed people do so?
That's an absurd statement. By your logic, you can't just say that we have the smallpox vaccine "because of Edward Jenner". Because you would also "have to prove we could not do it without Edward Jenner". What does that even mean??
That is naive. 'they need a real government that protects people's rights' and this government will magically materialize out of thin air and institute an island paradise, right? You can't even meaningfully discuss a real 'military' in Haiti, it is a failed state with minimal control of even their capital city.
Exactly, I can't believe the braindead takes being spouted on this thread. Is HN really filled with people that can't think critically the second they leave their terminal?
Would you mind commenting on how it's been going so far? My last consultancy never bought in on .NET web frontend and I haven't had the chance to try it out on a side project, your team liking it so far?
I totally agree with you, but it's pretty obvious why this behaviour exists. At the end of the day, a cell phone is as much a status symbol, something akin to the clothes you wear, as much as it is an actual phone. Would you potentially lower your opinion of someone wearing a strange piece of clothing? The principle is exactly the same.
Looks like the EU finds pricing a non-physical product on a country-by-country basis to be price discrimination against EU nationals:
"When you buy goods online in the EU, prices may vary from country to country or across different versions of the same website, for example due to differences in delivery costs. However, if you buy goods online without cross-border delivery – such as when you buy something online which you intend to collect from a trader or shop yourself – you should have access to the same prices and special offers as buyers living in that EU country." [1]
Look man, nations don't have any obligations to the citizens of other countries. Why would any other country want to take in another uneducated and poor individual?
As a dev that hasn't touched Ruby in his time yet, could you expand on the productivity differences you've seen between Java/C# and ruby devs? I totally buy that a language like ruby can be more productive, but a 3x difference is wild. Have you found that RoR is really just that much more productive than say, Spring or Asp.NET?
Come on man, I know the majority of the time HN can fall into the dropbox launch "I can set that up myself easily" mindset, but this goes all the way back to the other direction. People do not need an AI to "analyse the laundry type and size to inform itself on how much detergent to use", just press a couple buttons. If this is where people's imaginations are going with AI then no wonder some people look at AI like another web3 situation.
Yes, there absolutely are individuals whose homelessness is their own fault - every case is unique, some definitely did it to themselves and the majority did not. But placing all homeless on some sort of pedestal of morality is a really bizarre opinion from my view.