[-] jasory@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago

Hotels are way worse. It's all the same job regardless of how fancy the hotel is, but the more expensive chains like Mariott will have bizarrely elitist staff, mostly front desk and management.

[-] jasory@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago

Splitting individual atoms isn't that difficult, you just need a neutron supply and some material (paraffin wax works) to slow them down and it will eventually happen at least with uranium. Doing it reliably and efficiently is a much harder problem.

[-] jasory@programming.dev 6 points 6 months ago

Mathematicians are good at writing algorithms, but not at the development aspect, which is basically building for different systems, packaging software and documentation.

I would disagree on the performance part, the vast majority of software developers aren't writing high performance software and the ones that are tend to be computational mathematicians or physicists.

[-] jasory@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago

"A deradicalising effect"

I'm sorry what? The idea that smaller communities are somehow less radical is absurd.

I think you are unaware (or much more likely willfully ignoring) that communities are primarily dominated by a few active users, and simply viewed with a varying degree of support by non-engaging users.

If they never valued communities enough to stay with them, then they never really cared about the cause to begin with. These aren't the radicals you need to be concerned about.

"And those people diffuse back into the general population"

Because that doesn't happen to a greater degree when exposed to the "general population" on the same website?

[-] jasory@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago

Price hikes in a manufacturing context are simply rationing with extra profits, atleast until you build out greater capacity.

[-] jasory@programming.dev 5 points 6 months ago

Correct, this is literally how market economics works. The real question is why they weren't able to do it before, since they had the incentive already (and always do).

[-] jasory@programming.dev 4 points 7 months ago

I concur. This is really fucking stupid. The only actual advantage that airships have is loitering time, and solar aeroplanes can already loiter for months albeit with a small payload.

If you really care about the environment, make it an unmanned post and use more efficient (because it's lighter) and abundant hydrogen. Chance of explosion is pretty low, and if it does who cares.

[-] jasory@programming.dev 5 points 8 months ago

China has absolutely zero interest in negotiating arms treaties, they aren't quite in a full arms race with the US. The way arms limitations treaties work is if there is a rival state that will always match or exceed your armament, then you actually have an incentive to stop. If you don't have such a rival then you can always ensure that you are on the top and ignore any treaties.

[-] jasory@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago

"I love how you skipped right past"

Second paragraph addressed that this simply isn't an actual issue.

"Go write an op-ed on all the great profits to be made"

Seems a little an unusual that someone who thinks profits are somewhat immoral (unless redirected towards beneficial goals), is characterised as hyper-capitalist or "management type" simply for pointing out that the narrative of people becoming impoverished due to an increasingly exploitative labor market simply isn't true.

[-] jasory@programming.dev 4 points 9 months ago

"Cops often plant evidence to get convictions"- Police don't prosecute, get your conspiracy theories straight.

"This was a targeted killing"

It almost certainly was, the victim was involved in drugs and probably knew violent people and kept in touch with them.

The real case is far more likely to be "reformed drug addict killed by former acquaintance", than "journalist killed for reporting issues".

[-] jasory@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago

"Assume ultimate legislating ability"- Unless you are whining about Marbury v Madison, what on earth are you talking about? SCOTUS doesn't write laws, they rule on the permissibility of (a small fraction) of them.

"Impractical supermajorities"

Did you just discover what checks and balances are? One should want supermajorities because you don't want laws based on shaky public support. Do we really think the cycle of each president overturning the previous presidents policy is practical?

[-] jasory@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago

Sure but, this isn't about the actual language. For instance I like Ada, there isn't a lot of public support for it and you're mostly left with the RM and GNAT manuals. But none of this is relevant to Ada as a language. Which was really all I was saying, you should probably split complaints about the ecosystem and the actual language affecting viability.

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