KeyeoH @keyeoh@qoto.org

Últimamente mucha gente me ha dicho que si ganas la lotería, Hacienda se queda la mitad de tu dinero y te arruina.

La verdad es que Hacienda se queda un 20% de lo ganado a partir de 40.000€ y sin contarlos.

Si ganas 40.000€ en la lotería, es decir, por puro azar sin ningún esfuerzo, Hacienda se queda 0€.

Si ganas 15.000.000€, el primer premio del sorteo de hoy por poner un ejemplo, Hacienda se queda...

(15.000.000-40.000)*0,2=2.992.000€.

Te quedarían 12.008.000€.

En ese ejemplo, si has ganado más de diez millones de euros haciendo una apuesta al azar y te parece mal que el estado colecte un 20% para mantener el estado del bienestar, dejándote con dinero de sobras para arreglarte la vida; eres un puto llorica y no mereces nada.

Más si tenemos en cuenta que nadie te obliga a jugar para empezar y que la lotería es, al fin y al cabo, una vía adicional del estado para recaudar dinero desde siempre.

"Developers before and after OpenAI".

“People who criticize new technologies are sometimes called Luddites, but it’s helpful to clarify what the Luddites actually wanted. The main thing they were protesting was the fact that their wages were falling at the same time that factory owners’ profits were increasing, along with food prices. They were also protesting unsafe working conditions, the use of child labor, and the sale of shoddy goods that discredited the entire textile industry. The Luddites did not indiscriminately destroy machines; if a machine’s owner paid his workers well, they left it alone. The Luddites were not anti-technology; what they wanted was economic justice. They destroyed machinery as a way to get factory owners’ attention. The fact that the word #Luddite is now used as an insult, a way of calling someone irrational and ignorant, is a result of a smear campaign by the forces of capital.”

Ted Chiang in the New Yorker.

This tracks.

My next big business idea

Read an article today about why Americans think alcohol has health benefits and it's apparently another "well the French are healthy and they do X so it's healthy to do X."

So here's your periodic reminder that France (and Italy, and Sweden, and Japan, and basically every country you've seen in a "this country is so healthy, what's their secret?" headline) has universal health care.

The secret is access to health care. It's always access to health care.

Scrolling is the cigarettes of our time.

One of my most used git features is the log, which I've aliased to `git woof ` in my .gitconfig. Because the flags spell "a dog" and that's who I am as a person, I guess.

The graph log is really useful to see where your branches are, and also where you have stashed changes.

@tpoisot

The White Power Hour hosted by Fucker Carlson is over, effective immediately.

Kerim Safa - Factory of Nothing #pixelart #gif

"Factory of Nothing" is a manually-crafted digital animation that depicts an imaginary automated manufacturing system that does not produce anything.

[Source: https://www.kerimsafa.com/pixels/factory-of-nothing]

Call me old-fashioned, but you should be able to ring a doorbell, get in the wrong car in a parking lot, or drive down the wrong driveway without getting shot at, injured or killed.

I've learned a lot about statistics from reading papers from medicine. Especially on how to design and analyse clinical trials. Translating that knowledge to my field really helped me to improve how I used statistics. There is a lot to learn by reading papers from other scientific disciplines.

That time - when you're in the zone - and...

The hills are alive w/the sound of the weekend Bonus Drop dancing and singing in the inboxes of those who help fuel the production of the M-F edition.

Bonus Drop #10 (2023-04-15)

Selfie [Hosting] Edition 0.1.0

— Handy Browser Tools;
— Self-Hosted Snippets;
— Telemetry-Free Local Grammarz & Spullingz Checking

For all Drop readers: one section in Monday’s edition will cover the future of the Drop on Substack. They were terrible cowards this week.

Read/sub/support: https://dailyfinds.hrbrmstr.dev/p/bonus-drop-10-2023-04-15-selfie-hosting

The opposite of “return to office” advocates isn’t “work from home” advocates. It’s a rich tapestry of “open offices are distracting” people and “I’ve never gone this long without being sick” people and “commutes are a waste of time I don’t get paid for” people and “I’m an introvert and playing house with coworkers sucks the life out of me” people and “I have a family and appreciate the flexibility” people and “I primarily communicated with coworkers through Slack anyway” people and “no one wa…

I don’t want self driving cars. I want public transportation so solid that you don’t even need to hop in a car unless it’s a taxi situation. I want infrastructure.

I have been a professional Python developer for around 15 years. I am a former admin of PyPI.

I _still_ have a mild brain meltdown every time I run `python -m pip install something` as a I check for typos or squatting attacks.

If you maintain any kind of pip-installable thing, pretty please include an example of installing it. Not because I don't know the command, but because I want to copy-paste from it to minimize the chances of "oops that was actually a keylogger".

Desde la década de 1950 sabemos que es objetivamente estúpido ampliar carriles en una carretera en la que los atascos son frecuentes.

Repito, es OBJETIVAMENTE ESTÚPIDO ampliar la capacidad vial para resolver los atascos. No es así como funciona. Pensar que sí es una postura que va más allá del pensamiento mágico. Es el pensamiento idiota.

Dale una pensada la próxima vez que el político de turno proponga alguna tontería similar.

"But it's only #metadata…" they say.

#privacy #surveillance #thenib