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yellowbuilding··on The ABCs of Jacobin
Jacobin is one sharp publication. Baskar runs a tight ship, and somehow the books are even in order! Who would have thought?
yellowbuilding··on Unions Did Great Things for the American Working Class
Not really. Worker co-ops. Otherwise, the union just needs to implement the right policies as they do in Europe. The problem with unions in the US was largely that the big ones were often very integrated with the government and company owners; not a project so much of the workers.
yellowbuilding··on Unions Did Great Things for the American Working Class
I don’t think that had much to do with it. There was a lot of conflicting propaganda at the time and conditions in Soviet Russia in the late 1920s were good. Regardless, communists weren’t so easily persuaded.

The exodus was partly a reaction to poor conditions in Russia and the fact that Stalin, as opposed to Lenin before him, did not believe in pursuing worldwide revolutions. Stalin withdrew efforts to support communist parties worldwide.

But the main thing that encouraged withdrawal from the communist party was The New Deal.

yellowbuilding··on Unions Did Great Things for the American Working Class
This was a different situation. The union organizing was mostly done in the 30s, alongside voting FDR into office, then the war happened. When veterans came home with the VI Bill a lot of them went to college and got involved with the new science money (military industrial complex, etc.). In addition to the Kaynesian New Deal investments, America was just on top of the world and happened to upon the closest thing it had ever known to socialism.
yellowbuilding··on Explaining Online US Political Advertising [video]
Of course you still have reason to be skeptical. The point is not to lend flourish to your political discussions. It’s to increase the labor supply and effectively pay lower wages.
yellowbuilding··on A Woman's Rights
>Crimes Against fetuses are no different from crimes against a newborn

>I would be willing to compromise on annotation; allowed for extraneous circumstances

And thereinlies the contradiction. Does 2 wrongs make a right or doesn’t it? The answer is unclear and difficult, which leaves room for not only interpretation but personal expression. I gather you have a heart for victims of violence, but not for victims of poverty, despite all the measurable causal relationships between the two.

Pregnancy is an especially trying moment for any person, and by any logic concerns questions that both supersede that of carceral punishment and occupy capacity for managing decisions. If we want to prevent these horrors you describe, we need to concern ourselves with the material challenges of impending motherhood and healthy childhoods.

yellowbuilding··on 911 emergency services go down across the US after CenturyLink outage
It is, of course, appreciated that you clarify this is satire, but the fact that you need to is alarming.
yellowbuilding··on Ask HN: What should I do when I'm bored with my career?
Can you share some info about ‘career consulting’? How does one go about finding a career consultant? Do you work for clients direct? What are the deliverables? Meetings by the hour?
yellowbuilding··on An Epidemic of Loneliness in America?
This suggests that I want more money or consumption, and that’s wrong. Nor do I want popularity. Quite the opposite. Popularity and attention are really the main problem, if anything. Who we are is defined by what we have done more than any time in history. Every day that passes is further locking ourselves into our cages of individuality. How can popularity and followers, like you mention, be our only hope for change when they are also the ties that are trapping us to our current trajectories?

Specialist vs. generalist gets more at the problem I think we were talking about, but even the fact that it is such a debated concept seems off. Something seems wrong on a bigger level. Sometimes you need a specialist and sometimes a generalist, and we are highly adaptable creatures. It is strange this thing leads to so much anxiety. I think people are just worrying tremendously over which one are they to an unhealthy degree, and because they are scared to death of failure. Who can blame them?

I’m sure some love popularity and never want to do anything else with their life, but that is an unrealistic bar we have created for everybody in our society. So I guess that seems like a thing to look at.

yellowbuilding··on An Epidemic of Loneliness in America?
I don’t think “following dreams” actually describes what I mean. I just mean doing anything except the safest thing to do, or making any sudden moves that requires a new start. Watching friends try to change careers has been cringeworthy. You have to be willing to lose everything. I think that takes all the fun out of life. It makes you feel absolutely trapped. Maybe i do love my life just how it is, but it’s hard to say when I cannot even visualize working toward anything else. I am just so much more fulfilled when working toward something. I don’t really get much out of just trying to save money so that’s I can risk it all at some point down the road. That feels like a trap. My happiest times have always been when I can be relatively confident I will not lose everything and I am in a place to contribute to something with other people. That is what I mean by “dream” and I currently have one of them, but it’s not a dream. It was once, or, it was at least a goal. I think “goal” is what’s I really mean. I want the ability to have goals in life that are not mere consumption, but that do not require overwhelming risk. The goals can be lame or common everyday things, but more real than a hobby and less deadly than risking homelessness.
yellowbuilding··on How to Save the Web
Easy for some to say. Billions of people rely on the current web, because it’s functions have replaced the previous traditions and infrastructures. Highly mobile folks will pack up and go elsewhere, leaving the masses to suffer under the list of features you mention. I think what we should be saving is the functionality society as a whole depends on. This is not so easily done.
yellowbuilding··on Gut bacteria may offer a treatment for autism
I am new to having these symptoms but this is very useful stuff!

I have been taking the peppermint oil tablets from helpforibs.com and they are good for temporary comfort here and there but my gastroenterologist has not recommended the things mentioned here. He has written off probiotics as useless and also downplays dietary adjustments for some reason. It’s really wild. I have found fiber and grains are great for me and eating rice every day is an enormous help.

yellowbuilding··on Gut bacteria may offer a treatment for autism
Can you recommend a brand?
yellowbuilding··on An Epidemic of Loneliness in America?
Maybe. A friend who I spoke to for the first time in a long time made a pretty good point to me the other day. Neither of us are liberals, btw. Both of us are into so many of the same things. We just have different careers, and we are approximately equally jealous of eachother’s careers.

We talked about what we have been doing while feeling lonely and we each had different stories of why we were not able to spend time around people we wanted to be around. He couldn’t afford to live in the city anymore and had to move to the Midwest where now he makes a wage that will probably never allow him to move back. I, on the other hand, can never leave the city because there are no jobs for me elsewhere and I would not be able to come back. Neither of us are comfortable investing in homes because we both feel unhappy where we are.

Job wise, we both have problems with our companies we work for, but like our coworkers. We feel very distant from what we are doing and recognize that the inability to change careers or better our situations gives us a lack of hope. His situation is slightly different because he is in a higher management position, but neither of us feel we can talk to anybody nearby about these things or we will be outed as not being this imaginary committed perfectly obsessed careerist type.

Basically, everything we have depends on our entire stories, everything we have ever done. We don’t have the privacy to have a multifaceted life without feeling like some fraud. He relates this to our society being so obsessed with individuals instead of letting us just be ourselves, separate from our jobs and our income and wellbeing. We don’t have the option of dreaming because the risk is just too great. We have seen our friends lose everything by taking risks.

Ultimately, I have to agree. We have let this obsession of making our personalities our lives get the best of both. It’s the core idea behind individualism, which we are taught is a great thing and I always believed it. I still do in most cases, but now i feel stuck inside my individual self, lonely like alll the other individuals.

We are so obsessed with ourselves as individuals, we lose sight of ourselves as parts of greater wholes, like families and neighborhoods.

I am not sure I can separate this from politics.

yellowbuilding··on Pipenv: promises a lot, delivers very little
“Not as good as pip, but it’s more reasonable than Pipenv. Also, the codebase and its layout are rather convoluted. Poetry produces packages instead of just managing dependencies, so it’s generally more useful than Pipenv.”

Can anybody confirm which codebase is being described as convoluted here?

yellowbuilding··on Why Do Hospitals Hate Sleep So Much?
Yeah, that’s what she meant
yellowbuilding··on Why Do Hospitals Hate Sleep So Much?
I just showed this to my mother, a nurse. She laughed and said “it’s pretty stupid, but they would rather fix it with a pill if that’s an option”.
yellowbuilding··on Tumblr will ban all adult content on December 17th
As a photographer who does not care much for using nudity in my photos, this is no problem to me. But yeah, I think you’re right.
yellowbuilding··on Three academics are launching a new journal for arguments to be made anonymously
We have authorities willing to persecute. The difference is just that such authorities are no longer owned by the public. Social media companies are the authorities.

To elaborate a bit on why I say this: Since Social Media became uniquitous as a communication medium, I have found no more helpful way to process this in just political terms than to recognize the role of social media as a virtual urban plaza. For the last 7-8 years that I have used that metaphor, it has persisted in leading me to what I believe is the most respectable and ultimately healthy assessments of the terms it should operate under.

Interestingly, the plaza had a more complicated relationship with anonymity and pseudonymity because, outside of one’s community, one could not be recognized or traced. Nonetheless, learning about the history of this is surely helpful here.

yellowbuilding··on Python Interview Questions – Senior
>DO NOT USE ABC

I get ABC, and can theoretically imagine it being useful for somebody somewhere, but cannot honestly imagine where that is and that it would not also be overkill. And you can usually just do the same thing some other way.

My question is: Why is it good in Java?

yellowbuilding··on Python Interview Questions – Senior
>I would seriously expect most beginners to have some idea about modulus, but next to no idea about key features.

As someone who began learning with Python, I knew many key features before learning modulus, and I don’t think I have even used modulus in a project yet.

>For general questions, I like things like "What are the key features of the language?" but I phrase them as "What are your favorite parts of the language? Least favorite parts?"

And, picking up where I just left off, this change in phrasing would have made a world of difference at the time haha.

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