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But if the rubber ducks can find the problems in the code by themselves then why do we need to pay the programmers

Every single IT platform / service / software package is objectively worse now. Nothing has been improved in the past 10 years.

We need a world symposium on pockets. It will establish standards for the correct size and capacity of pockets, share manufacturing techniques to ensure they don't turn inside out when you're pulling something out, introduce treaties to make fake pockets illegal, and so forth.

It may be triangling outside, but I just finished my first willow basket of the winter!

Looking forward to making lots of these this winter - I love love love that I can make something useful with stuff that grows prolifically in the woods on my farm and one single tool (clippers).

Of course, I can't possibly sell them for a price that makes it worth my time, so I'll just be giving lots away as presents and storing everything in my house I possibly can in baskets...

Buses should be free to use, or at least unreasonably cheap, and be paid for by people who insist on driving cars.

3/6

#3011 - Europa Clipper

There has never been a war on motorists. But we need one now. With no quarter. Planet ruining, noisy, mass murdering petrol head scum have had it coming for years.

The rising popularity of "brioche bread" for everything from burgers to hot dogs to toasties just shows how much we are addicted to sugar and processed food. Bring back proper bread that doesn't taste like cake.

If you get angry at how much train drivers earn, rather than getting angry at how little you earn, you're part of the problem.

(I have to say that, if you listen to the popular 'Rest is Politics' podcast, you cannot help noticing that its presenters, while by no means billionaires, are consuming air travel at an absolutely astounding and grossly irresponsible rate.

We REALLY need to adopt the Swedish practice of #Flygskam into anglophone culture!)

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20190718-flygskam

I get where people are coming from when they say that society would be better if scientists and engineers studied humanities like sociology and philosophy and ethics, but it cuts both ways. I can't help feeling the world could also be improved if more people in charge - and let's be honest, that's usually not scientists and engineers - were better at figuring out what's real.

#bitcoin #btc

@ardgedee As a programmer, sometimes I think I'll be making off-by-one errors until the day after I die

The rich only allowed a welfare state and worker rights to stop the poor from revolting. Now that Communism is effectively dead, they're doing everything in their power to return us to the 1930s.

To put a billionaire in perspective, it's more interesting to think about the income than the capital. You can get a 5% annual return from some fairly low-risk investments (and you can further reduce risk by spreading your money across a load of these). You can often get higher, but 5% is a fairly good baseline.

If you start with $1bn and do nothing clever, you can get an income of $50 M per year by doing nothing. Even with the kind of 95% tax rate that we had for the highest income levels when The Beatles sang about it, that leaves you with $2.5M/year in income.

That's enough to buy a nice house every year, with no mortgage. It's a daily disposable income of almost $7K. It's enough to take a first-class transatlantic flight every day.

And that's just one billion.

Even with a 95% tax rate on investment income and a conservative investment strategy, someone with a billion dollars would have a daily disposable income that's more than the monthly income of anyone in the bottom 99% of earners, without having to work.

Now try these calculations again with real tax rates and Musk or Bezos' wealth.

Sam Altman side by side with Aaron Swartz.

I can't stop thinking about it. One was prosecuted by the US for downloading copyrighted data from 1 source for noble purposes, and committed suicide to avoid prison. The other is widely celebrated for doing this on a much larger scale*.

Edited: *(and not for noble purposes)

#humor #foundontheinternet #genalpha #skibidi #toilet