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Re:The Vaccine Had to Be Used. He Used It. He Was Fired on Friday February 12, 2021 @03:59AM (#26111820)
Consumer surplus is not the only human good and infact discounts good done for humans who do not have money.

This not liking vanity thing is interesting but if you tie it to economics then anything that helps people that doesn't make money --things like free software and participating in charities-- could be considered 'vanity' too despite the good they can do.

I got similarly worked up over 'virtue signaling' and people only doing good things for personal prestige when I was an angsty teen but later realised it was better to believe that some people want to do good things sometimes because reasons.

Re:Pipenv: Python Dev Workflow for Humans on Friday February 05, 2021 @10:34AM (#26037409)
No like if you want to put a webapp in a virtualenv in a docker to run somewhere.

I remember pipenv used to support this pretty well but it was out if scope for poetry.

Edit: there's a 'poetry run' command now so it might be fixed. Don't remember what was broken.

Re:Pipenv: Python Dev Workflow for Humans on Friday February 05, 2021 @08:09AM (#26035871)
Does poetry still only work for libraries or does it work well for apps too now?
Re:US has 'moral imperative' to develop AI weapons, says panel on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @04:52AM (#25926219)
Yeah, no.
'personal observations' lol k
Re:A family with no fingerprints on Saturday December 26, 2020 @02:57PM (#25545977)
Good catch on the 'disease' bit. Pure ableism.
Re:Am I Disabled? on Friday December 11, 2020 @05:01AM (#25384067)
That doesn't follow in the the general case though.

You can be disabled and sometimes force yourself to do things without accomodations via willpower, but it may have consequences for your mental/physical health and shouldn't be expected of anyone.

Eg. Chronic fatigue. If you push through the boomerang effect can hit you like a truck.

Re:The problem of prosocial lying in the economics profession on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @05:54AM (#25207913)
Agree on everything else but climate change is real, it will screw us over, and we are not doing enough.
Re:Investors Extracted $400M from a Hospital Chain on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @08:43AM (#24836626)
I don't think the communists want an investment fund...
I don't think Sarkeesian could even possibly be the problem if Ubisoft HR changed their definition of harassment to allow sexual harassment and non-gamer journalists are reporting on it.

Companies have "woke" consultants in to make speeches all the time but it's performative and it never changes anything.