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I'm from a country that did not create $2 trillion

Home still got ass-busting inflation

As someone who has dealt with humans all your life, do you think humans are trustworthy?

That's the magic with not setting a mathematically verifiable acceptance criteria. You just fall back to that kind of horrible argument

The discussion is missing the point of the original snarky comment

So you don't trust the computer vision algorithm...

But you do trust the meatbags?

Reminds me of the whole discussion around self driving cars. About how people wanted perfection, both in executing how cars move and ethics. While they drove around humans every day just fine

Ah, the age-old practice of fooling God. A classic.
>however, we did try prohibition. It didn't go well

... Because it was already there. The hypothetical would imply a world where people weren't already high functioning addicts

Re:Cognitive load is what matters on Thursday December 26, 2024 @12:43PM (#42516544)
If the developer had time to do it, with him. Otherwise with the company

I'm sure there's some abysmal shit that's extremely hard to properly abstract. Usually the dev just sucks or they didn't have time to make the code not suck

>the number of unnecessary deaths that I'm okay with in order to alleviate the suffering of a few is zero.

"A few" is doing some serious heavy lifting here

Most deaths aren't pleasant nor peaceful. And modern medicine can keep your body alive for a long, long while as you survive in pain even when there's no chance of things ever getting better

Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year on Sunday July 21, 2024 @08:54AM (#41024744)
>would succumb to the easy life of assimilation

Have you considered that perhaps if the idea of integration itself is considered abhorrent by a culture then that culture will very rarely be accepted anywhere?

Or to put it another way: if everywhere one goes smells like feces, maybe one should check their own boots

They want the benefits of being part of the community without being part of the community

Re:My 25-Year Engineering Career Retrospective on Saturday April 20, 2024 @08:14AM (#40096778)
Ah, to be capable of being that optimistic/irresponsible

Money doesn't solve all of life's problems... But it does solve a lot of them, and just paying the bills is a safety factor of approximately 1

Them knowing that it is bad isn't much of a consolation for the dead production

The magic that happen in someone's mind that leads to their actions matters very little for everyone else. Their actions and the consequences of their actions are what everyone else actually cares about

People on this forum often "joke" about dropping the production database as a rite of passage for noobs
I could not agree more

Seems like it'll always be the case that people will chuck the responsibility for X towards people with the lowest capacity to actually be responsible for X

People feel fine with correcting managers when managers reward being corrected instead of punishing it. That's got nothing to do with seniority levels

Re:The "Cheap" Web on Monday December 18, 2023 @03:04PM (#38687456)
>Are you saying you think that someone > should be left uneducated or lack medicine if they don't like running an unsecured browser?

... As opposed to not liking to run an installer for an unsecured program?

App stores have the same issue. You just juggle the trust from some third party to another third party

If you want to do anything more complex than transfering text and images you'll need to trust a lot of things

Re:More product, fewer product managers on Sunday December 17, 2023 @09:10AM (#38672924)
Until you inevitably have a question and they need to get in touch with the expert again

Middle men only improve transfer of knowledge between people under very specific circumstance. Usually they just make things worse

Let children play Chinese whispers, I don't need that in my life