enitihas (u/enitihas)

enitihas commented on The global fertility rate is falling bbc.com/news/health-53409... · Posted by u/NoRagrets

> now if we could just get the robots to pay social security

It's called “taxing capital” and we can (logically; whether we have the political will is a different question.)

enitihas · 6 years ago

Political will quickly arises if there is loud public demand for it.

enitihas commented on The Khmer Rouge: Genocide in the Name of Utopia (2016) openendedsocialstudies.or... · Posted by u/exolymph

walrus01 · 6 years ago

The USSR at least pushed hard for science, engineering and technology education. Political party type and organization aside, the rapid growth of their electrical grid and large-scale engineering projects (hydroelectric dams, airports, nuclear power, hospitals etc) in the post-1945 era was quite rapid.

The Khmer Rouge and its strongly anti-intellectual stance was quite the opposite. You can't return an entire country to an agrarian subsistence agriculture system and literally kill off every educated person that can be found, and expect good results...

enitihas · 6 years ago

The USSR pushed hard for science which could improve the nation's global standing, like space missions.

The USSR was no less anti intellectual in other fields like biology:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism

enitihas commented on The Khmer Rouge: Genocide in the Name of Utopia (2016) openendedsocialstudies.or... · Posted by u/exolymph

mc32 · 6 years ago

I hope this gets thoughtful discussion.

The events are very tragic. I know people whose families were in danger of being sent to the camps —they escaped though laborious trudging through jungle at night, escape to Vietnam and then HK as boat people before moving on to better places.

How does idealism end up in such a dark ditch like this where your own neighbor thinks the horror is so bad they have to go in a clean things up, despite nominally being “on the same side”

enitihas · 6 years ago

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enitihas commented on TikTok Agreed to Buy More Than $800M in Cloud Services from Google theinformation.com/articl... · Posted by u/jmsflknr

varbhat · 6 years ago

Aren't US going to ban TikTok?(i heard something like this previous week)

If US banned TikTok, willn't that decision affect TikTok? (like it affected Huawei)

enitihas · 6 years ago

Unlike Huawei, TikTok doesn't have critical production dependency on the US (specialized semiconductors). Huawei also won't have been too impacted if just their imports were blocked in the US. TikTok will be hurt without US customers, but they are too big in China that they will easily survive. And will easily compete worldwide against any US company.

enitihas commented on Manager Can’t Code? They Shouldn’t Be Your Manager qvault.io/2020/07/14/your... · Posted by u/lanecwagner

paxys · 6 years ago

Managers should be technical enough to understand what is going on, but claiming that an effective manager needs to be coding 80% of their time (as the article says) is idiotic. Why be a manager at all at that point?

I've personally had much worse experiences with managers who wanted to micromanage every technical decision and every line of code vs. those who just trusted their team with it and focused on people management, clearing organizational blockers, roadmapping, project management, communication to executives and other stakeholders, shielding us from company politics and lots more.

enitihas · 6 years ago

I don't think a manager should be coding at all, but Unless they did enginnering work in the past, it is hard to see them providing effective management.

enitihas commented on Manager Can’t Code? They Shouldn’t Be Your Manager qvault.io/2020/07/14/your... · Posted by u/lanecwagner

vikramkr · 6 years ago

There are non software companies with software teams

enitihas · 6 years ago

Yes, and there the software managers normally report to non software executives. Engineers reporting to non software managers who are not at a director or VP level is a bad idea.

enitihas commented on How Late Zhou China Reverse-Engineered a Civilization palladiummag.com/2020/07/... · Posted by u/saadalem

enitihas · 6 years ago

Ancient China has a very fascinating history. I think the world would be very different if the voyages started under the Prince of Yan would have been allowed to continue. China would have discovered the new world before Europe, and history would be drastically different. They really had impressive boats very early on.

enitihas commented on Bringing the print statement back lwn.net/ml/python-ideas/C... · Posted by u/Myrmornis

enitihas · 6 years ago

This sounds like a bad idea. It creates more ambiguities in the language, and will require people to remember a lot more. It works in ruby because in ruby you can't assign a function to a variable like

A = len

But you can in python.

It seems python is adding more and more implicit stuff in every new release.

I think the day we can import braces from __future__ might not be far away.

enitihas commented on Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027 bbc.com/news/technology-5... · Posted by u/doener

ferest · 6 years ago

i doubt you understand the "fact" you are talking about in person, rather than from some "news".

India is not re-educating anyone, but rules out muslim from citizenship? Not even mention the caste system, which is way worse than the color discrimination in US. When India became the 2nd biggest power in the world, all these will become target

enitihas · 6 years ago

Your arguments lack context. India isn't ruling out Muslims from citizenship. While the CAA is a very bad step forward, and has several problems, it is about what criteria satisfying refugees are available for quick citizenship, and doesn't apply to citizens of the country. India is certainly not running anything close to the camps China is running for Uyighurs.

India is actively trying to fix disparities caused by the caste system. It took the US 200 years to get civil rights, India had affirmative action from day one, and one of the biggest examples of affirmative action at that. The caste system is horrendous, but social change can never be brought so quickly ( atleast in a democratic way, we certainly don't want Stalin or Mao style quick changes)

The caste system, while bad, isn't in any way worse than color discrimination in the US. To quote just one example, India has very strong laws against caste based violence.

India has it's own shares of issues, but it's still an order of magnitude better than the Chinese Government.