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CU on Urbit. :)

Yeah, I'm sure you are making such a sacrifice, working from home, having to eat doordash delivered food instead of a proper restuarant one. So virtuous. Here, have this medal.

When exactly did our societies became so cuddly, childish, weak and pathetic to even ask these questions?

How would this society fight any large scale war? Or make any large scale sacrifice like people fixing up consequences of Chernobyl disaster did?

People used to rather die for honor, than live in shame. Had duels, took risky lifestyles, discovering new things and so on. Fought and died for their ideas.

And now what? Wrap yourself in a blanket and lie scared on the bed?

What's the point of living, if we're too afraid to die to actually live?

I am pessimistic on changes of survival of western civilization.

I take that bet. Easily. 1/ 1000? Ha! Anytime. If it means my kids can go to school, economy doesn't have to crash hard and I don't have to waste a year or more of my life, it's an obvious choice.

1 year is ~1.25% of my life that I will not get back no matter what.

Now, anyone is free to stay in their pod and eat bugs, if they're scared.

Mozilla doesn't owe you anything. You think you can do better? Go build a better browser that's free yourself.

Oh, not so though now, are you?

The moment every complexity imaginable were shoved into the web "because user experience", it became impossible to develop and maintain a competitive browser project by a non-profit company. More and more websites simply do not work correctly with FF, because companies don't give a shit anymore. "Just use Chrome". And if you install any anti-tracking software, they just break and you can't get any stuff done.

So now bend over and get used to Googlenet, where in just couple of years you're only going to be allowed to visit content "fact-checked" by Google's Ministry of Truth, and you need to sign an EULA that require you to wear an anal probe at all times when browsing the web, and half the screen is always an ad.

Good job everyone! You destroyed the WWW, and turned it into oppression tool, because what we needed was SPAs, dynamic content, 4 versions of CSS, 4 versions of HTML, and so on. Google & other corps embraced, extended and extinguished web and we were cheering.

Thanks. OK. That might be different. If they did already have a very low presence, then they might have just suppressed it and border controls and low traffic prevented seeding new cases from abroad.

Elsewhere in the world we're seeing similar 98% drop in flu cases, starting even before the preventing measures.

Seriously, the discussion in comments in https://twitter.com/kylamb8/status/1317246961255370752 is really good, no matter the ones particular viewpoints.

People chearleading lockdowns here, are completely misguided. There's really no evidence that it were masks or lockdowns. (There's really no evidence that mask and/or lockdowns do absolutely anything to COVID or flu, now or in the past, BTW).

It's more likely that COVID just out-competed the normal flu. https://twitter.com/kylamb8/status/1317186379483406337

You can call it whatever you want. It doesn't change the fact that it calls for these intelectuals-yet-idiots who are unaccountable, unelected, who couldn't tell a bubble even after it already hit them, and can't even admit what ridiculous mess they made out of the financial system and economy, to have more power and more or less directly tell everyone what to do, how can they can or can not accumulate and store their wealth, invest and pretty much live their lives.

No, thank you. You can keep it if you like. It's not Bitcoin people forcing their shit on anyone.

> They have to accept their role as central planner.

That's the whole argument. Since everything that central bankers were doing is not working and falling apart, we need to take the dial to 11, and introduce a full central planing. A proper enlightened communism, for the people, by our omniscient leaders, who by precise control of asset prices and such will make sure everybody has exactly as much money as they should, according to their position in The Party, and prices of everything are "fair".

Gov bonds yield below inflation levels. In such conditions anything that can give you any return is worth extra. Stock market valuations are extreme because the monetary conditions are extreme.

> Is that the new euphemism for the gig economy?

Mostly just the fact that most of people are not going to work on a shift in factory. But in a way... yeah... people might need to be a part-time driver, part-time YT broadcaster, part-time online influencer, and contractor. As crappy as it sounds, the times of mass employment in big industrial factories are over, and completely different values and skills are needed.

Public education in its present shape was created during XIX century industrialization with a purpose of freeing parents from having to take care of kids and go work in a factory, and producing next generation of obedient workers, that industrial economy needs.

For some reason despite most of western economies heavily de-industrialized, and economy shifted to more creative and free-spirited arrangements, we never reformed education system. Anyone that does not fit the "obedient worker" is penalized by the system, and for decades we are shown plenty of high impact "geniuses" who in their childhood struggled in schools.

Out of time to look for better sources: https://qz.com/1314814/universal-education-was-first-promote...

https://adnauseam.io/ ?

> im surprised it hasnt been flagged

Yes, we should most definitely send some authority to punish this awful display of mocker of our religion. It's real science we're talking about here!

> they almost always compile and run

Same in Rust. Actually, it's quite better than in C. The only time Rust projects fail to compile is when they pull in some C library and something there (like configure.ac) messed up. :D

And if this C project does anything interesting it pulls in bunch of C libraries that came precompiled with your OS, and might be stale and contain unpatched security vulns.

C/C++ developers pointing at other languages about dependency hell is a curiosity.

cargo-crev is one

> This might sound harsh, but Common Lisp fans should stop whining about what everybody else is doing and start making some killer apps to bring back some life into their language.

They can't. They are all busy implementing another Lisp in Lisp.

We need to get it to 99.99%, and then maybe they will all switch to some honest business model!

> but if someone down the line once again claims climate change or a pandemic is a hoax, the council would respond with full force using whatever political mechanisms we grant it.

"Whoever disagrees with our priests, shall by severely punished!"

Hahaha.

Bleh. When you need a in-browser tool to use a library, you really know it's messed up.

Isn't there anything like structopt https://docs.rs/structopt/0.3.19/structopt/ for Python?

More informative for people interested in the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVDJJVoTx7s

> The facts are that white collar employees that are union members have higher pay[2], better benefits, more time off, and report higher life satisfaction[3] compared to their non-union peers.

Of course they do. Because Unions drive competitiveness down, decrease efficiency, increase costs and so on. A lot of people would be very satisfied if they didn't have to work as hard and their paycheck would be pretty effortlessly guaranteed, and competition within the industry was kept in check.

But everybody else have to pay for it . And then naive socialists who advance labor unions forget about it, and start another campaign on why can't blue collar workers afford any white collar services anymore. Why are public teachers collectively not doing great job despite second in the world spending per student. And then riot on the streets why some cops are shooting people for no good reason, after years of people reporting their abuse. (I'm not saying that unions are the only or even main reason, but they sure do contribute to the problem).

> The current 40 hour workweek we enjoy and the weekends we have off are because of the organized labor movement in the US.

Arguably it was achieved first and foremost because increase in productivity caused by capital investments actually made it economically possible.

I mean, I don't deny that 19th century capitalists required a little bit of a "push" for it to actually happen, but it's debatable if it was actually necessary and wouldn't just happen naturally.

> class consciousness

That's a part of political opinion, that I just don't share. I was born in family of a blue collar family of a coal miner and school janitor, now I'm a intellectual worker, and in a way I already joined "evil capitalist class" and hope to entrench myself in it even more with time.

Thinking in people having assigned "classes" is just so a low-resolution way to look at complex reality, that it is just not helpful.

> If your choices are between working for one of several capital-owned tech conglomerates, or accepting their money for the runway to compete in the current business climate, can you really call that an even playing field?

I just don't think labor organizations help with anything. What helps is having more options (competition), better social mobility (access to education and knowledge) and general economic prosperity that allow entrepreneurship (taking risks). Labor unions typically work against all of it.

I do know that field is not level, but I just think naive ways to trying to level it make more harm than good.

I don't know who, and I agree that in theory they could.

In practice though, I fear, they will be overtaken by parasites, will advance bureaucratic BS, political opinions, protections for people who game the system, start mandating nonsense technological choices, hurt the efficiency, and just drive the well-paying industry into a ground, forcing capital to just move software companies into places that are better for business.

(Lack of) Control and overseeing management in public (and private) companies is a whole another issue entirely, and it affects all the shareholders alike. I don't think unions help here - they just make everything more complicated.

But the point is - if the company granted me some equity, than I participate in the upside and even if certain decision seems not perfect for me as a employee, and they "just benefit the shareholder", I am too a shareholder, and at least I might get some dollars to wipe away my tears.

I agree that negotiating power is not equal and situation is not perfect. Part of the reason is people being unaware, naive etc. to negotiate such a clause away in their contract.

But a law like in CA is much better solution for cases like that, than dealing with Unions, IMO.

Unions are just another idea that sounds great on paper, only if you don't consider second and third order effects. They don't serve the workers, they serve themselves (like pretty much any organization).

Tech workers are in so much demand that they don't really suffer such a disparity of negotiating power, like workers in other industries.

Many software companies offer equity, which makes employers the shareholders. What's good for shareholders is also good for a lot of tech employees.

Also, barriers to entry in software are almost 0. If you can't get someone to treat you well, you can have your own software company paying your bills in 6 months, or VCs funding your startup.

Given all that I personally think the downsides of unions in tech would be much higher than the upsides. I would rather see more laws universally protecting intellectual workers like e.g. non-enforcability of non-compete clauses and alikes.

> How many C implementations/compilers are there?

I can compile same source code with pretty much any C compiler. I might be wrong, but the lisp compilers are all "slightly different". I guess scheme ones can be the same? But are they really?

One thing I'll never understand about Scheme/Lisp is why they need so many versions (of the standard, and of different compilers).

There's fundamentally no difference between them.

They are both crappy tools for humans to write anything in and are better as a tools for machines to exchange data, which is accidentally human-readable in case debugging is neccessary.