If I put a gun to someone's head and tell them "either you obey or you die", is that voluntary? If I put an economic system to someone's stomach, and tell them "either you obey or you can't feed yourself", is that voluntary?
Economics assumes for some reason that resources never deplete and growth can always continue. Ever since I understood that, I realized that people tellling me to "learn about economics" are not so different from people telling to "learn more about religion".
There are other trade-offs that you can have, like slow compilation times, or ability to get speed only on specific domains. Check out projects like Stalin ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ). And btw, as someone who has an Msc in CS and published an article in an important convention, I know enough "foundations of computer science".
The only thing this addresses is the entitlement of millennials. They think that just because they can access something online, that they are free to use it for anything they want.
Who would have thought that people before the 18th century were actually millenials...
No, the losers are the people who invest their lives into their jobs. Me? I am just in it for the money, and if I get a lot of money for doing shit, I will gladly do shit. Look, I know that programming is a passion for you, but you need to understand, some people just want big $$$
Well, why are you taking with them instead of the people paying them?
Look, we live in a society where you need to earn a living, and sadly, writing bad code earns better than well... almost everything else. Let's say that someone told you that you could get a huge wage for singing very badly, would you not do it?
This, this is our century's crazy illusion, just like "the earth is flat" of the past. A man connected to the internet, who lives in a society of millions who provide him with utilities every day, says that he can exist without social structures. Dude, I am sure that there are people who can exist without social structures. Let me give you a hint, they don't comment on slashdot.
That's bull, most tech jobs will usually call you afterhours, except you to do over time, etc. etc.
The trade off is that capitalism
I get it, you really like capitalism and you are butthurt over what I said. Well, let me give you a stick and a carrot:
Stick - Germany is not like the soviet union, it is a country where workers have basic rights, where people have a public health system, and yet it is not a hellhole like the soviet union. Hell, I'm Israeli, which likely makes you think I am living in a war zone, but I still feel safer here, knowing that even though there's a chance that I will be assaulted by a terrorist (a very low chance, much higher chance to die in a car accident), there is a public health system (with flaws) that will take care of me if I become sick.
Carrot - You think that I'm some kinda crazy leftist? Look again at what I wrote, "INDIVIDUALIST capitalist" societies, nations and families. The left has a responsibility here too, it insisted on ruining traditional structures without reallly providing something else in return except for "do what you want".
Look, I think that every culture has its big mistakes. For many past cultures, that mistake is believing in god, or thinking that the earth is flat, or something like that. For our culture, I think it is the belief that the individual is purely rational, that we can trust his feelings and thoughts because in our base, we are rational beings. Well, I don't think so, I think that we are all prone to irrationalities, I don't think we have 50 genders and I also don't think we should all be allowed free access to guns. It's not a matter of hero capitalists against monster communists, it's a matter of finding the balance between lots of choices, most of them are shitty. Hell, maybe we're bound to fail just because our brains are not good enough for the task of being civilized, history seems to hint in that direction.
Just, don't be naive, don't think that the current system is without flaws, it is, and it has room for improvement.
In individualist capitalist societies, all social structures are broken. Nations, tribes, friendships, romances, families, it all breaks down. The only social institute that remains is work.
This causes people to seek purpose in their work, to identify themselves with it, to hate those who do not work as hard.
This is all very convenient for the ruling caste, a new form of religion, bypassing all stupid rituals, enslaving people directly, while they thank you for it.
Do you find it wrong that more people can write code that works? Are you also upset that the peasants are allowed to write? For good or for bad, and I admit that plenty of times this is bad, this is the natural path of technology, of art. It becomes commoditized, available to the masses, and then it becomes more common, more pale then it once was, at its glory. Still, are you sure this is not better than a world where only a priviliged class is allowed to create?
Are you sure it's that great for literature? I wonder if the correlation between good writers and literature graduates is higher than the correlation between good programmers and CS graduates. I would actually suspect it is lower, considering how postmodernism/PC/capitalism (the first two deny the existence of quality, the third insists that quality only exists in what earns money) messed up humanities.
When, are we going to lean toward the idea that we are responsible for ourselves
When are you going to realize that this never happened and never will? Most people have mental weaknesses, dependcies, issues. A man is not an island, and this includes me and likely you as well.
I am pro gun laws, and yet, my opinions cannot change reality. Just like "pirated" movies and music, there is no way to stop this from being distributed. I
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If I put a gun to someone's head and tell them "either you obey or you die", is that voluntary? If I put an economic system to someone's stomach, and tell them "either you obey or you can't feed yourself", is that voluntary?
She was a jew.
Economics assumes for some reason that resources never deplete and growth can always continue. Ever since I understood that, I realized that people tellling me to "learn about economics" are not so different from people telling to "learn more about religion".
There are other trade-offs that you can have, like slow compilation times, or ability to get speed only on specific domains. Check out projects like Stalin ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ). And btw, as someone who has an Msc in CS and published an article in an important convention, I know enough "foundations of computer science".
There are still people who imagine that Brexit was a bad thing.
UK is censoring wikipedia - https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
The only thing this addresses is the entitlement of millennials. They think that just because they can access something online, that they are free to use it for anything they want.
Who would have thought that people before the 18th century were actually millenials...
Petah Tikva, Hanegev st. 271, come and visit.
You're really lonely, aren't you?
I've never done either of them, and yet I had to do over time.
No, the losers are the people who invest their lives into their jobs. Me? I am just in it for the money, and if I get a lot of money for doing shit, I will gladly do shit. Look, I know that programming is a passion for you, but you need to understand, some people just want big $$$
And if there was a way to make them as nutrition and healthy as real food, I would be all for them.
it's all on them
No, it's on their managers, that's why managers and CEOs get are supposed to have much higher wage, because they have more responsibilities.
Well, why are you taking with them instead of the people paying them?
Look, we live in a society where you need to earn a living, and sadly, writing bad code earns better than well... almost everything else. Let's say that someone told you that you could get a huge wage for singing very badly, would you not do it?
I can well exist without social structures
This, this is our century's crazy illusion, just like "the earth is flat" of the past. A man connected to the internet, who lives in a society of millions who provide him with utilities every day, says that he can exist without social structures. Dude, I am sure that there are people who can exist without social structures. Let me give you a hint, they don't comment on slashdot.
40 hours per week out of 168 is for work.
That's bull, most tech jobs will usually call you afterhours, except you to do over time, etc. etc.
The trade off is that capitalism
I get it, you really like capitalism and you are butthurt over what I said. Well, let me give you a stick and a carrot:
Stick - Germany is not like the soviet union, it is a country where workers have basic rights, where people have a public health system, and yet it is not a hellhole like the soviet union. Hell, I'm Israeli, which likely makes you think I am living in a war zone, but I still feel safer here, knowing that even though there's a chance that I will be assaulted by a terrorist (a very low chance, much higher chance to die in a car accident), there is a public health system (with flaws) that will take care of me if I become sick.
Carrot - You think that I'm some kinda crazy leftist? Look again at what I wrote, "INDIVIDUALIST capitalist" societies, nations and families. The left has a responsibility here too, it insisted on ruining traditional structures without reallly providing something else in return except for "do what you want".
Look, I think that every culture has its big mistakes. For many past cultures, that mistake is believing in god, or thinking that the earth is flat, or something like that. For our culture, I think it is the belief that the individual is purely rational, that we can trust his feelings and thoughts because in our base, we are rational beings. Well, I don't think so, I think that we are all prone to irrationalities, I don't think we have 50 genders and I also don't think we should all be allowed free access to guns. It's not a matter of hero capitalists against monster communists, it's a matter of finding the balance between lots of choices, most of them are shitty. Hell, maybe we're bound to fail just because our brains are not good enough for the task of being civilized, history seems to hint in that direction.
Just, don't be naive, don't think that the current system is without flaws, it is, and it has room for improvement.
In individualist capitalist societies, all social structures are broken. Nations, tribes, friendships, romances, families, it all breaks down. The only social institute that remains is work.
This causes people to seek purpose in their work, to identify themselves with it, to hate those who do not work as hard.
This is all very convenient for the ruling caste, a new form of religion, bypassing all stupid rituals, enslaving people directly, while they thank you for it.
Do you find it wrong that more people can write code that works? Are you also upset that the peasants are allowed to write? For good or for bad, and I admit that plenty of times this is bad, this is the natural path of technology, of art. It becomes commoditized, available to the masses, and then it becomes more common, more pale then it once was, at its glory. Still, are you sure this is not better than a world where only a priviliged class is allowed to create?
Are you sure it's that great for literature? I wonder if the correlation between good writers and literature graduates is higher than the correlation between good programmers and CS graduates. I would actually suspect it is lower, considering how postmodernism/PC/capitalism (the first two deny the existence of quality, the third insists that quality only exists in what earns money) messed up humanities.
Just like their bosses, whom american society glorifies as "successful entrepreneurs".
When, are we going to lean toward the idea that we are responsible for ourselves
When are you going to realize that this never happened and never will? Most people have mental weaknesses, dependcies, issues. A man is not an island, and this includes me and likely you as well.
Haskell uses checked exceptions. The clang code base also used them (error classes with destructor that asserts if they are not checked)
In b4: "No, you don't understand, we don't have real capitalism yet, it's not perfect, we must copy the true scottish model".
No need to ban books, just make sure that nobody has the attention span to read them.
I am pro gun laws, and yet, my opinions cannot change reality. Just like "pirated" movies and music, there is no way to stop this from being distributed. I
The real reason that wages are so low is that there are too many people here with more coming each day
And yet, for some reason, the right wing is mostly pro-life...