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Small business is just a propaganda tool. The idea has some allure, maybe because it reminds Americans of their priomordial beginning as settlers, homesteaders, yeomans, craftsmen (or so the stories go).

We all agree about what taxes are. Some just attach more libertarian sensibilities/fears/paranoia to that word.

My mistake. I thought you were upper-middle class.

Your dream has two outcomes:

1. You get outcompeted by other companies that look out for Number One, namely the bottom line

2. You get surrounded by an entourage of corporate sycophants that nurture your lie about how your company is so benevolent that no worker representation is necessary

High-performers (read: well-payed workers) like to complain about the nefarious corrupting influence of unions but seldom consider the case that the high-performers (read: upper-middle class) might have a vested interest in the corrupt status quo where the majority of workers facilitate their high-performing (read: privileged) lifestyles.

Yes, for shame! When will America get to hear the side of the employer?

Mabye the executive of Amazon could be allowed to post a little column in paper like the Washington Post. Maybe the owner of that paper wouldn’t object to that idea.

The meaning is pretty straightforward to interpret.

Vampires suck blood.

Not really euphemism. More of an Orwellian term.

Some people are privileged enough to be able to get jobs where they don’t need collective bargaining to get decently fair compensation and decent working conditions.

> ethics

Debatable.

Do you have a lot of experience with multiple EU countries?[1] Or are you just using “outsized influence” to extrapolate that non-English speaking countries can be neatly categorized as being a homogeneous contrast to English-speaking countries?

[1] The only anglophone EU country is Ireland.

That’s not the case where I live in the small non-American West.

We’ve all seen the American TV show/films where some Mega Loser has failed to move out the year they become eighteen and graduated the year they become twenty-two. Maybe it comes off as a trope for non-Americans.

Westerners are from Saturn, Orientals are from Pluto: Rapsey’s five definitive sociological facts™

I think Spotify insist on using 10% of my drive. I can’t configure it as far as I know (any more). The only solution that I know of is `rm -rf <cache>`.

> I don’t think most people going to 3rd-tier college to study humanities are doing it out of some abstract love of education.

Well, the fact that they are third-tier already tells you that they won’t get some cushy job from the education by itself.

Are they necessarily doing it for the love of education? Probably not. But I suspect that that motivation is more likely to be found in them than the students at the top-tier institutions that will be welcomed by the open embrace of six-figure salaries and social status once they graduate.

You can’t use teacher as a synonym for researcher, they’re two completely different things.

> In many other countries, top academics and researchers are at large public universities.

But that’s not even terribly relevant to the average student. An undergraduate won’t benefit from going down the same hallways as the world’s foremost expert on Nigerian guinea pig digestive tracts. But for some reason having studied at the top university (in terms of research, not teaching) matters a lot.

How is this an example of an efficient market when one of the outcomes is to simply get a “name-brand degree”?[1] Ideally it should just be about the other alternative, namely what you learnt.

Let’s not even get into the problems associated with education as a commodity.

And (further)… let’s not even get into the effective subsidies that private universities can get through things like tax breaks.

[1] Try to justify that without circular logic.

That’s the stupidest theory I’ve heard this week. This is a forum hosted by a startup accelator where programmers and founders (as well as other professionals) gather. It’s not exactly a hippie resort.

Libertarians are also the most ideologically pro-capitalist people that one is likely to meet.

That governments act more in the benefit of business owners than workers was observed by Adam Smith and is still true today. Further that’s a sociological fact and not a “conspiracy theory”, but I don’t have time to write ten sentences to refute your single sentence of bullshit so I won’t bother.

The GC was apparently the reason behind rewriting that particular service. No wonder there are more reasons when you look at all the services across the company.

But you couldn’t help yourself even after being corrected by someone who knows what they’re talking about.

> Edit: On the other hand, Discord could have made the very valid decision that they have an easier time recruiting for Rust than for Go. Which is in fact a good reason to switch.

In other words, discard the technical arguments laid out in the article and just speculate that it was an HR/management decision.

Neither Go nor Zig are spelled ALLCAPS

This is a fine suspicion to have. It’s a fine theory, even. But why raise this suspicion for this particular neo-language case? Why not raise it across the board?

Such a theory is more robust if it predicts how the organization will work in general. Thus one would also be partial to suspecting that neo-languages are declined for political reasons as well -- that a few powerful voices simply prefer to find other solutions, and then find post-hoc technical arguments.

Such a theory works less well if it is only used to explain some particular (ostensibly) technical decisions.

No numbers.

Okay cool. Let’s just make better tooling for existing languages.

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Turns out that languages that are widely-used are difficult to make tools for because of all the pragmatic (real or imagined) tradeoffs that were made.

How can I prototype my tooling when it takes so, so, so much work to make the tooling work for a practical language?

I’ll just make a mini-language to prototype that tooling and then get back to the widely-used languages once my prototype has taught me enough.

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Oh stop speculating about their personal life and stay on topic.

> And that is general global instability. E.g., things sure feel like they've come off the rails recently and things I used to take for granted: that competent people would generally be in charge, has been challenged.

You must have lead a charmed life. :-)

This is pure hysterics. You have to back up what you say with arguments.

Is it interesting? You leave out any argument for the implied statement that the democratically illegitimate government will be better for the Rohingya people. Presumably any coup is better than no coup.

I think that is interesting.