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If MMT is real and government expenditure doesn't matter then it should be cut out of GDP calculation.

Seriously - I'd love to have my kids walk but we are 22 miles away (in a rural area).

How much time do you spend reviewing the code it produces? Is this for a commercial product, internal stuff, or side project?

I did realize something interesting when there and it speaks to my previous point: most of the abuse was amongst the workers themselves. A lot of times a farmer/producer will hire "a guy" to do a job, one that acts as a contractor. Almost all the time they were migrants. Most times they were legal, but sometimes not. It was up to them to do the actual resourcing - the farmer/producer has no time for that. It would be that contracted resource doing most of the maltreatment/underpaying/mismanagement, and they would almost always treat the entire group badly. I was lucky in that I was there as a family member to the farmer just trying to make summer cash.

You're never going to not have some population of people with influence and resources attempt to take advantage of people without those things - that is a story that's as old as time. But statistically these that you have listed are all one-offs - that doesn't mean that we shouldn't care - but it does mean that the tone of your first post is very much over-stated.

> Many of the immigrant workers used on farms are treated like slaves, locked up when they aren't in the fields or kept in overcrowded housing without basic utilities.

While conditions aren't what most people consider comfortable, this is at best a major exaggeration. No, there aren't portable toilets out there (some farms do have them) - we'd go off to the side of the field, do our business, and get back to work. No one actively relieved themselves on any product. Most of us kept a damp towel around our necks for cleaning and heat relief, so that's what we would use. Every farm I worked on that supplied to grocers or sold independently had a washing/sanitizing system as part of the operation. So while it's not operating room clean, it's pretty damn clean by the time it got to the consumer. Also, all the mistreatment of migrant workers I experienced was only ever by other migrant workers.

My takeaway is that since users seemingly have more confidence they are able to set their lives on courses more appropriate for them. For instance,

> She hasn’t wanted to have sex for at least five years

Zepbound just uncovered an underlying problem and now she has more confidence to say this out loud. It's bringing the real problem to the surface.

> Monoliths remain pretty good

> Micro-services require justification (they've increasingly just become assumed)

I say the opposite is true. Monoliths have a negative value return with the expansion of an application.

I started to downvote this comment but when you finished with

> There is no longer any cultural center to even deviate from when everyone lives in a personalized media landscape.

I realized you hit the nail no the head. Everyone needs to feel special in their own little world. As far as I can tell this is not turning out to be a good thing. Humans are social creatures: we must learn to cohabitate without denigrating one another. The personalized media landscape has done nothing but lead to fracturing.

Kubota tractors. I've used them for years. Tough as nails, tons of implements, great service experiences.

Everyone else paying attention predicted the same things. A sub-industry was created when companies realized their engineers didn't have the expertise to manage their resources effectively and when cloud providers did not provide good paths for migration (remember lift and shift?). It's largely under control in the places that want it under control.

Cost explorer will help you dig into the usage type and resources used.

Good luck to the author. Having a tractor around just to move things (mulch, etc.) is very useful.

You can generate a significant amount of output in a relatively small space. Two years ago (last year was weird) we netted ~7 gallons of blueberries, 60+ lbs of tomatoes, 25-ish lbs of okra, 20+ lbs of bell pepper, 45+ lbs squash and 10-ish lbs of corn (a storm destroyed 2/3 of it before any popped up). We did all of this on approximately 1/5 of an acre, with plenty of room between rows. It was all for personal consumption - froze and canned everything. We plan to do more this year with some expansion. However we do till, but make heavy use of mulch for weed control. Pest control is handled with neem oil and biological controls (marigolds and yarrow).

Better than I ever have.

Seriously. Life is good.

Chick-Fil-A didn't exist in the 1950s.

I don't think so. I've seen things on here I completely politically align with but find tiresome and overused, even flagging some of it.

Thanks @dang

> the question "which ones specifically are ok?" is generally answered by: the ones that have some intellectual interest that isn't just partisan, plus significant-enough new information so that the discussion doesn't automatically turn completely repetitive

But, as far as I can tell, this is what we're seeing. And also but, as you seem to imply, how can you tell? Honestly I don't have a good answer nor do I expect you to. I like to use HN as an escape from all that even though I'm completely guilty of engaging in the same politically driven nonsense I find so appalling and tiresome.

Maybe the only answer is that we have to constantly remind ourselves to act and respond in good faith, with honesty.

Can we stop with the political posts?

I don't know that it will fundamentally reshape compute as strongly as the Internet reshaped communications, but RISC-V is such an appealing platform. It's so powerful given power demands and cost.

> systematic armed robbery of the harvests from both Russian and Ukrainian peasants...to bring back food for the starving urban population centers

Holodomor sounds like a great justification for guarding against populism or even pure democracy.

A simplistic take on a complicated subject. Some things, many things, warrant a rewrite. There are several reasons why: 1) the system is not used in the way in which it was designed 2) you've learned a great deal more about the problem 3) duct-tape instead of welds in the initial approach 4) technology obsolescence 5) overly-clever code 6) undocumented code, etc.

Now, I think the 'no rewrite' argument has validity at certain levels. Systems will morph (because life/problems change) but the underlying functions may not need to. Composability and interfaces are wonderful tools to address that problem.

> For some reason this reminds me repeat spouse abuse victims who tend to knowingly preference relationships that result in violence

This is a pretty disgusting comparison.

> Reddit

Reddit is the center of toxicity. One dissenting opinion and mods banish you.

These performative "plans" will only backfire on them. Just like with the filibuster and all the idiotic process rules in both houses.

Told my kids that they are spies for Santa.

It wasn't a question of morality - we don't know what the long term side effects are.

Look if it helps a morbidly obese person drop enough weight so that they can get a handle on their A1C, blood pressure, etc. then it's probably (from what we know now) worth the risk. For the slightly overweight person who takes it, and I know a few from the gym, we don't know what that looks like yet.

It will take time to find out if there are long term detrimental effects.

Wealthier people (presumably the ones who have more free time) in first world countries tend to be the healthier ones.

Name a span of time in which there wasn't war, starvation, or economic reasons that would have produced any emaciated set of people.

Economics, famine, religious upheaval, war - all factors that have kept people starving and pushed down the scale.

Agreed.

Anecdotal: I helped my dad a few years ago do a lot of genealogy. He had pictures going back to the late 1800s for one branch of the family that just arrived from Ireland. Most of the men were shirtless and you could count every rib. There was very little muscle.