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“It’s an intriguing result, and it may lend some weight to the MOND hypothesis for further study. But it’s important to keep in mind that so far the bulk of the evidence still points towards dark matter, and it’ll take much more work to topple that hypothesis entirely.“
Everyone brought their preferred syntax and there was much less of a “let’s solve the problem, not be clever” sentiment back then.
That said, Python almost makes such things impossible. Decorator patterns are the only thing I can think of in Python that ever made me really think.
6 to one, half dozen to another. How we start out thinking about problems has an impact on what syntax works for us best later on. I’m in my 40s and started in electronics, designing boards that shipped in Nortel kit.
I started with C and little else, not digging into OOP until hardware work went overseas. Perhaps my brain is over specialized to prefer a particular way of visualizing code I need to write.
He also wrote that whatever type of government existed in a nation, it would likely need to enforce equality of condition to avoid what we’d call monopoly of labors agency.
He was openly hostile to extreme division of labor, paraphrasing, it would turn humans into the dumbest creatures to ever exist.
Labor hardly seems free when Fed policy has been to tighten screws on workers, growing worker insecurity, to keep them circling back to that cubicle every morning: https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/27/business/job-insecurity-o...
Look at that. Hundreds of years ago humans realized exactly what humans are capable of emotionally and warned against it.
Reminds of me of the ancient Greeks who, again paraphrasing, wrote they hope the rubes do not some day realize there are no gods atop Olympus. Just men on thrones manipulating their fears.
I moved on from Ruby land right as AWS was blowing up, and admitted I have never worked in Rails.
Maybe it was something with the corner of the Ruby world I fell into, but the syntax sugar options and “cleverness” that enabled was maddening to deal with, and permeated that crowd.
Code bases with mixed styles are a thing in any language, but the Ruby-ists around me found a way to make one project look like half a dozen languages were involved.
Insert Confused Jackie Chan meme.
Isn’t that exactly what the legal system is for?
Surely there are shorter paths to ill gotten gains. Like running for political office.
It’s a science website not a political one
But since we’re on the subject; maybe put less value into financial trade which is the contemporary value store propping up the exploitation of billionaires.
Perhaps buy fewer gadgets that prop up the economy they grift on from the masses agency.
Perhaps be more for raising taxes to distribute wealth to communities that can use it if you’re that worried.
Above all perhaps avoid centralizing authority over agency in private power. A pattern we keep buying into as a species only to realize it rather makes things worse for the majority.
Put your agency into something that tackles artificial social problems (stock values, disposable widgets sold!, not enough money for M4A or community uplift in poor areas) instead of (sad as it may be) human issues that have existed forever, and there’s precious little we can do about it. Even if billionaire sex cabals vanish, are you going to scour the world seeking out every tribal instance? Or are you simply reaching for acceptable semantics from your perspective?
In other words: walk the walk when it comes to pushing back against immoral behavior as you see it. Semantic battles here over specific instances are self congratulatory and empty if we’ll simply equivocate away structural changes.
Giving off a perception of peak performance is trivial for those that know how to shmooze, get that title bump.
We see it all the time with celebrities getting their kids into nicer schools, dads who own construction companies donating to unis, etc. the list of stereotypes is endless.
Biological reality does not really care much for our emotional constructs, as others will always come along with their own.
It was fact that pagan gods controlled reality until it wasn’t. At least those ideologies were backed by fun imagery. Meritocracy is also nonsense, but easier to see as it doesn’t distract by flooding the imagination.
People are hardly working in slaughter houses and coal mines because they want to.
Feminists I know are selling themselves because they like sex, and controlling their bodies time economy is their choice.
One would think on this forum that it’s a gradient of statistics and not black and white anecdotes would be more obvious.
Exploitation of minors is one thing. Though, I do not see many folks lifting a finger over child political prisoners in rancid cages. So I’m left wondering if exploitation is the real issue or the sex part given cultural norms.
Puritan economics seem perfectly accepting of destroying ourselves.
Willingly sell self for pleasure though? Psh
Only if the pleasure comes from that new gadget or next airfare (which is destroying the environment but so it is)
I too prefer to subjectively dictate based upon prior experience.
How someone organizes a project is up to them, and the folks interested in it?
A whole lot of business is simply not blinking or being seen as weak, and simply fixing it later.
I have tinnitus in the city.
I go to the mountains and it’s gone.
Keeping ratings and quarterly growth up is, to my mind, emergent of people who live densely.
Intuiting incorrectly that lots of people moving around organically means life is to be lived on the go.
It worked for the last decade. They’re doubling down, unaware the dotcom 2.0 bubble is not bursting but being left behind.
Apple shipping a SOC that can do it all will trickle into Dells thinking, driven by backlash against privacy invasive grifting we can do cloud work at home.
Concerns over screen time will lead to decoupling from screens. More IOT and voice controls and other input alternatives like smart sensors.
Facebook is not a laptop, or an operating system. It’s AIM. We moved on from AIM but kept computing. The tech industry hasn’t matured. It grifted on last generations addiction to TV.
More imaginative applications are yet to come.
Sacrifice time at digital “salons” and non-essential economic activity.
When 40% of jobs are work from home, strike is a matter of closing a laptop.
Jumping straight to lock and load is ridiculous. SOPA blackout and teacher strikes have gotten results. Police budgets are being redirected.
Encryption is a thing; stay out of cloud services if you do not want to be snooped on. General home computing and k8s+kilo, torrents... teach people to use them in support of the effort. They’re open source; improve the UX.
To be frank, McConnell and the rest are well aware of the French Revolution. Serious discourse in that direction, a show of organization effort would unblock legislative capture.