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> What the heck: "You convicted for fraud in the past 10 years?" "Nope." "You liar, you were convicted in 2006!"

Also, they seemed to agree that it wasn't fraud or similar.

Also also, Sunde isn't wanted by Interpol nor was he during the application process. He was wanted in 2012, prior to his prison stint.

yeah, but also a usable currency

Be that as it may, it's possible for the driver to be a lethally reckless idiot and for Tesla to have dangerous door handles.

The hostility coming off of these comments is pretty off-putting. I share some of the sentiments and believe that the authro has some misconceptions.

But I also believe that he makes a lot of great points. Installing and maintaining programming languages is too hard. Going from "I would like to try some $lang" to being up and running is usually difficult and requires you to install binaries, then deal with PATHs, and with CLIs, and REPLs and a bunch of cruft before you can start experimenting and getting to the interesting parts.

The programming language experience comes with a shitoad of stuff that really has very little to do with the language itself.

There is also a lot of potential in more flexible tools that allow me to create small apps with, well, maybe not with minimal coding, but with minimal installations, minimal integrations in my particular OS, minimal maintenance of the installed binaries and tools etc.

like making the choice not to have an accident or being born a certain way?

Tbh I like both the erlang style and the Elixir style and don't see a _tremendous_ amount of difference, e.g.

    foo(X) -> 
        Y = maybe_function(X),
        final_function(Y).

Both, in my eyes, yield a declarative flow without mutations and overwriting variables

In many cases, Erlang has a simplicity that is largely unmatched. I love the pipe operator and it's something I miss in a lot of languages, but just as often I miss the simple form of Erlang as well, being able to just define a series of simple, immutable clauses.

In some sense, two ways to solve the same problem.

In addition to "learning how to learn", esp early schooling offers a lot of social benefits, plus (depending on country etc) food and time away from home, which are important to a lot of kids (unfortunately).

But... favoring a certain class of people _by definition_ means that those people arent necessarily the best equipped. Being favored doesn't just mean reaching the best results due to the best circumstances, it also means being given unfair credit etc.

In my opinion, all talk of meritocracy, when applied, is irrelevant. I mean, it sounds good in principle, but in most applications, there is no simple way of determining the "best" candidate in any given situation.

Yeah, sure, we have some highly specialized environments, such as sports, where we have parameters to select from, but as much as no team has won by selecting players who are good enough, few teams if any have won by just selecting players who are the best in a narrow metric. You need leaders, you need players with specific skill, you need role players, you need people who can inspire etc.

Same when hiring for a job position - Determining who is the "best" candidate is near impossible. The best, according to which metric? Most years spent at uni? In the business? How do you control for biases that have given one candidate undeserved praise and another that has gone unrecognized? How tdo you value social factors, etc?

Are they? Sounds odd that the norm would be for people to take birthdays off.

For any application of meaningful size, "science and technology" cannot be divorced from "ideology and politics".

I'm not blaming you solely but the recurring idea that it can is worrying.

> There's no conversation to be had here.

then why engage in one? If we assume that antiwhie and antiblack are both racism, would you argue that, in the current context, political climate, culture etc, that they have the same consequences?

If yes, then, well, maybe there is no discussion to be had, it would be an inane claim.

If no, some racism has more consequences, then this insistence that "its all racism" is pointless at best - the term is mostly useful to describe harmful relationships and ways to combat that harm.

Maybe your familiar with it already, but Joe Armstrong had some similar ideas about addressable entitites: https://joearms.github.io/published/2015-03-12-The_web_of_na...

you've gotten a lot of replies regarding the lives of milk cows and how they're bred - one other factor athat I didn't see mentioned is that only about half of the calves turn into dairy oows, and the world has very little use for living bulls.

The same issues arise in chicken farming, where it's impossible to have eggs or dairy without death.

I saw some image of genetically modified eggs where they supposedly were able to control the sex of the chickens pre-birth, but in general, you need to kill about half of the animals born.

why are wild animals only used as an ethical measure tape when it comes to animal consumption?

hyenas or old human populations dont have the ability or opportunity to reduce harm

we do

farming animals is bad no matter what hyenas do, that's such a weird counterargument

Basically only message passing. As another poited out, you can use FFI calls and Erlang Term Storage, possibly some other means to communicate, but the central feature is that each process has an ID, and then you send() a message to it.

each process also has a receive() block where you essentially listen to everything that ends up in your mailbox and pattern match on it to take action.

What functionality is missing, in your mind, from Sqaurespace, Webflow, and Wix in order to classify them as UI page creators?

Counterpoint: Tax employers additionally, since they now face lower rent and spend less on office supplies and coffee.

Or, hell, tax high-income earners. For instance bank executives working for shady banks

imo that intention was clear, but atrocious

Yeah might get away with just version control. If my understanding of blockchains is correct, which it almost certainly isn't, then the core features you're after would exist in the overlap between a distributed VCS and a block chain, i.e. a series of commits, where I can verify that my sequence is the same as yours, and that both of ours are the same as the governments.

eh, ive seen pros ("pros") do eerily similar thimgs in production code

it's a bad precedent when workers pay the company they're working for

if you're riding planes that are at risk of >50kph impacts, you should probably move to a different airline

Thats an interesting question for sure. Would need to be calculated against the current energy needs, hopefully an increase in seaweed feed leads to a decrease in soy bean farming.

I'd rather eat the seaweed or soy directly, but this could be an improvement.

Heh, HPL... Fitting name

"Incompetence and dereliction of duty" are cop-outs, in the case that there are underlying causes.

If, say, reduced staffing and increasing demand leads to worsened worker conditions, and that in turn affects their ability to do their work, or impairs their judgment, then it's crucial to uncover those issues.

I'm sure the shipping companies etc. would love to run with the explanation that the workers caused this by being stupid, and nothing else, though.

Microcontrollers aren't really my thing, so this might not be a perfect fit, but: Elixir Nerves is an Elixir project/platform that targets embedded systems.

Might be of use to those of you interested in this.

I haven't read the article - am just about to - so this may be addressed in it, but:

I'd like to add that even if you do suffer from some aspect of SLS rather than crossed wires, medication can be key in enabling other forms of improvement.

Medication can be what enables you to seek other forms of therapy, what gives you enough energy to make it to the next appointment, what enables you to sort out other factors in your life, be it self esteem, socioeconomics, or relationships.

At least a few years back there was a pretty big sentiment against "happy pills" and medication, which I believe is harmful. That said, I don't believe solely in medication either, but want to maintain that it's an important tool that can serve either as a solution, or as the enabler of a solution.