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Re:We chose Java for our high-frequency trading application by fwsgonzo on Monday October 26, 2020 @11:57AM (#24897557)
No, but there are many things that don't provide any net value that is even more prolific. All the sugary drinks that just give you health issues, the big monopolistic companies that replaced smaller decent-wage shops with big low-wage machines that suck the value out and doles it out at the top. If everything is designed to take value from one place and never give back, is that beneficial? Of course not. If you only look at the product, you see only half the picture.

Evil is everywhere, really. Our brains are not made to really understand these things well. The easiest thing is to resign yourself to at least make you and your familys life easier. Which is acceptable enough.

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Re:We chose Java for our high-frequency trading application by immmmmm on Monday October 26, 2020 @03:56PM (#24900590)
> All the sugary drinks that just give you health issues (...) > Evil is everywhere, really.

i know, i live 10km from Nestlé HQ. and the banks in my country manage a significant part of the cash in this world.

> Our brains are not made to really understand these things well.

Agreed. I was recently reading several text saying that our brains are adapted to small hunter-gatherer communities of 300 ppl max.

> The easiest thing is to resign yourself to at least make you and your familys life easier.

Not now i know how the Earth System react, because a look at the latest IPCC projections doesn't make me want found a family.

> Which is acceptable enough.

Listening to some climatologists, there is a chance i see a world with less than a billion person from my own eyes. My brain cannot accept such a perspective acceptable (without actively fighting it at least).

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