jevgeni

how petty and myopic can one be?

Thank you! I realized that the left-side menu is actually a TOC, which for some reason I didn't register at first.

is it just me, or is it super difficult to find code samples - even in the tutorial?

You're talking about the Paradox of tolerance. I don't see why it is necessary to provide a democratic platform to undemocratic or misanthropic ideologies. I think it's misguided purism.

I've missed what this guy was saying and jesus christ...

Have to be honest, I didn't know about hate speech laws in Weimarer republic.

But in terms of equality, I'd say what we get in practice *today* in Germany and Switzerland (don't know about Austria) is a society that is arguably *more* equal than the vanguard.

Didn't know that, thank you. I was speaking from the perspective of constitutional law as I know it.

Thank you for the insights. I'll only disagree with the last statement. Weimarer constitution was value-neutral as opposed to Grundgesetz today - meaning an NSDAP leadership or NSDAP as a party was legally compatible with the the constitution back then. Contrast that with Art. 1 Grundgesetz today - "Human dignity is inviolable. It is the task and duty of the state to protect it" - that specifically was introduced to prevent any inhuman ideology from taking hold.

So in legal practice the right to human dignity overrides the right to free-speech.

Just FYI, hate speech being free speech is an American thing. Other democracies in the world have frameworks for limiting/prioritizing basic rights, right to free speech included (take, for example, German moderation laws) and have not become a totalitarian dystopias yet.

One opinion I've heard in Germany is that the free speech absolutism and value neutrality of the constitution of the Weimar Republic allowed NSDAP to take power in the first place.

I think anybody has the moral authority to call out anybody's crimes, if that's objectively true. I'm not going to read the rest of this wordsoup.

No, because your position is indefensible. You argue that only the biggest perpetrator of terrible crimes should be held accountable, and everybody else could be left out. Which is a double standard and you know it, which is why all that you have left is emotional diatribes and ad hominem.

In fact, that's an extremely evil thing to push, because - who holds USA accountable? Surely not Russia or China. So nobody is held accountable. Well done!

And being Ukrainian I have enough moral authority to call out Russia at least.

I'm not even going to read this emotional mental gymnastics.

Right, so it's the other guys who are allowed to do that. Got it.

"Superstate" is not a thing unless the five participants in the "5-eye" intelligence sharing program actually agree to form a state. So to stick with your logic, Assange should be responsible for leaking Australian things only. To be fair, a pretty strange logic tho, since you only allow the perpetrator of the crime to confess as means of accountability.

Your statistics is a function of how you count it. You could, for example, include "use of rape as a military tactic"[1] or "deliberate genocide"[2, 3] - which might have a bearing on the whole thing.

Not to mention the blatant, veiled whataboutism. Just because "USA bad" doesn't mean that countries such as Russia and China can do anything they want and we shouldn't hold them accountable.

To claim any kind of moral authority "calculation" here is perverse.

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[1] - https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20221014-rape-used-in-...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide

[3] - https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/why-russias-war-ukrai...

Assange was leaking selectively for years for different reasons. You can hardly find any leaks on China or Russia. This is why the Surkov leaks went through just random forums and later Suddeutsche. Finding a humanized agenda there is a bit more difficult.

I mean the title should read "Man confuses personal habits with a product design degree"

You must see the contradiction in this comment, no?

Also, russia apologists and very dubious sources. Weirdly, an experience that is very unlike Mastodon for me.

You being downvoted just shows how HN struggles with things like law practice, which are outside this echo chamber.

The first sentence already misrepresents its source.

Jacobin claim: "As of this August, ordinary investors, [...], have lost everything they came to the market with during the pandemic." [source: Business Insider article]

Business insider article: "Retail traders have now lost all the money they gained during the pandemic, according to Morgan Stanley"

So no, Jacobin, they didn't loose everything they came to the market with, but they have lost all the profit in a limited span of time.

Cynically: why would one want a market there then?

that kind of a dynamic is not unique to crypto.

If these companies push humanity forward? Honestly, I'm a bit on the fence about that. Tesla was disruptive in a sense that it made car manufacturers massively accelerate their EV plans. But do I see any continued impact? Not really.

I'm not arguing against subsidies.

But, claiming that SpaceX, Tesla, or Musk personally were uniquely competitive, successful, or disruptive while they had a buffer of 5bn USD in the back pocket is misleading.

While not as profound as you, I think I'm a decent developer. The caveat being that I don't work in software development, but in a role that's on the business side with a mix of management, software engineering, a bit of maths and data engineering and analysis.

A few years ago I was applying to a well-known consulting firm, a role in data analytics. I got rejected due to "not knowing SQL" (which at that point I've used professionally for 8 years) and they hired someone else. A few months later, the same company made me an offer for another team in a more business driven role. I've ended up as a lead solution architect for a pretty involved WASM-based product with them and managing the guy they hired instead of me before. The guy couldn't code a for-loop in Python and I ended up doing all the engineering work for him until we could offboard him.

Moral of the story: perceptions, culture, and internal team politics might play a way bigger role in seeing your value as an engineer than we might acknowledge.

Don't confuse overheated valuations with business success.

Massive gov subsidies.

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-201...

Seing how freedom is a human construct, it makes sense only in context of the human condition. So treating it as something separate from outcomes for people isn't helpful.

pg has a lot of bad takes

Freedoms are limited by fundamental human rights. You have the right to choose your own profession freely. But nobody complains about not being able to choose "murderer" freely.