nivenkos (u/nivenkos)

_vbnz commented on Who Would Choose Socialism? reason.com/1978/05/01/who... · Posted by u/barry-cotter

aww_dang · 3 years ago

>To find out what percentage of people especially want to live under socialism, we need a situation where people have a reasonably attractive socialist option and also a reasonably attractive nonsocialist one. If it is not precisely the optimal experiment to answer our question, the Israeli experience with kibbutzim comes as close as the real world can.

_vbnz · 3 years ago

Yeah, but I think kibbutzim is really extreme, and not how even socialists would want to live.

It's a full commune - more like a cult than normal society. So it's quite a strawman in that respect.

nivenkos commented on Startups Are Scooping Up Big Tech’s Cast-Off Workers wsj.com/articles/startups... · Posted by u/lxm

Demoloto · 3 years ago

His responsibility?

Due to moral and ethics of course. I can't go to a burger flipper restaurant without a bad feeling if I know that the person working behind the counter is basically a modern slave and also works 40h but doesn't have any rights at all.

It's hard for me to say 'i want worker rights' and ignore everyone around me.

And as a backup mechanism: guess what? It can happen to you. But also your family or friends might be in the position. So it is also beneficial to fight for this for your friends and family.

It's the same shit with equal pay: I would have less strss if my wife would earn similar to me so I don't have the pressure to always work in my job to make it for my family.

And yes we're is your proudness for your country when you know there are people who can't afford going to the dentist and have to wait for a year with a rotten teeth to get it fixed 3h away in a sports gym because there is the once in a year free dental service event?

Proud American ey?

nivenkos · 3 years ago

But those jobs should be automated so no-one has to do them.

And that process should be supported by a high minimum wage - hitting the employers, not taxing productive work to provide tax credits to subsidise such terrible jobs.

Automation leads to more high-tech jobs and investment, and higher productivity, which leads to higher wages as companies compete for highly skilled employees, etc.

Economic mobility and productivity is the key to prosperity.

> And yes we're is your proudness for your country when you know there are people who can't afford going to the dentist and have to wait for a year with a rotten teeth to get it fixed 3h away in a sports gym because there is the once in a year free dental service event?

This is sadly the same in Europe, as dentistry mostly isn't covered under public healthcare in the UK and Sweden for example. So we pay almost 50% tax just to be in the same position!

But I support universal healthcare (including dentistry and opticians), it's a critical part of economic mobility. People can't move jobs or take risks if they'll lose healthcare coverage.

nivenkos commented on Startups Are Scooping Up Big Tech’s Cast-Off Workers wsj.com/articles/startups... · Posted by u/lxm

Demoloto · 3 years ago

Then move if you don't like a social government...

You do understand that USA rich people living of the life's of the poor?

No proper health care etc for people cleaning their flats or flipping their burgers...

nivenkos · 3 years ago

I'd love to move, but getting a green card is a nightmare.

I don't want to work for 5 years trapped with one employer and facing deportation with a matter of weeks if I lose my job, on an L-1 visa (and to do that I'd still have to find a position to move to in my company).

_vbnz commented on Who Would Choose Socialism? reason.com/1978/05/01/who... · Posted by u/barry-cotter

aww_dang · 3 years ago

As the article demonstrates, there's nothing preventing socialists from voluntarily choosing to live in socialist communities, inside of the context of a market oriented economy. The conclusion is that most people simply prefer not to.

_vbnz · 3 years ago

But what is a "socialist community" in that respect?

The only thing I can think of that's achievable is worker co-ops, and a lot of start-ups are like that for early employees and founders.

nivenkos commented on Who Would Choose Socialism? reason.com/1978/05/01/who... · Posted by u/barry-cotter

avereveard · 3 years ago

I'm ok with high taxes for sale and redistribution, but I don't think they have such large impact on economic mobility, at least at the top. After all real tax pressure on companies has been steadily going down, but the rate of change in the fortune 100 had been steadily increasing

nivenkos · 3 years ago

I mean economic mobility like making it easy for people to switch jobs, move city, work for startups, etc.

So separating healthcare coverage from your employment is one important step, as is providing modern, in-depth STEM + Medicine education so people are able to work in highly skilled jobs where we really need them.

That's a big part of driving disruption and progress.

_vbnz commented on Who Would Choose Socialism? reason.com/1978/05/01/who... · Posted by u/barry-cotter

_vbnz · 3 years ago

Seems weird to pit socialism against free markets.

There's nothing about disallowing private ownership of the Earth's common resources, natural monopolies, etc. that stops having free markets everywhere else.

If anything, allowing that is what corrupts free markets - as even with privatisation, you never have a real free market on the railways, highways, or electricity grid because we can only build a limited number of them and can't support multiple disjoint networks. But those corporations can then use that captive market for an unfair advantage entering other markets / verticals.

I think the best solution would be free markets and liberalisation, except in natural monopolies, and a lot of taxation against accumulated and inherited wealth (not income) to provide a level playing field and economic mobility.

_vbnz commented on Startups Are Scooping Up Big Tech’s Cast-Off Workers wsj.com/articles/startups... · Posted by u/lxm

_vbnz · 3 years ago

American engineers are lucky to earn enough to be able to save up and do stuff like this, like on $200k you can save enough to really try a start-up for a year or two.

Whereas in Europe we're lucky to get $80k in the same jobs, and then the state steals half of that :/

nivenkos commented on The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals mazzzystar.github.io/2023... · Posted by u/mazzystar

the_doctah · 3 years ago

People who use ChatGPT to spit out code as a method of learning software engineering are going to be seriously deficient in fundamentals like performance.

I've already worked with way too many engineers who copy/paste code without understanding what it does.

nivenkos · 3 years ago

But the awesome part is that you can ask it to explain parts and it usually does pretty well.

I was using it for debugging WINE - where I have no DirectDraw4 / DirectX6 experience, and it's much nicer than trying to trawl through ancient MS documentation myself.

nivenkos commented on Scientists Use GPT AI to Passively Read People's Thoughts in Breakthrough vice.com/en/article/4a3w3... · Posted by u/daniel_iversen

bandyaboot · 3 years ago

Your point is well-taken. But also worth considering is that people with, say, ALS might have quite a different perspective on this.

nivenkos · 3 years ago

Or even arthritis.

nivenkos commented on The rise of ChatGPT-enabled GitHub spam mastodon.social/@danluu/1... · Posted by u/luu

nivenkos · 3 years ago

Sad to see people always use tools maliciously, I found ChatGPT quite helpful for rubber duck debugging. Give it some log files and code excerpts, and it can help grab API docs, causes of similar issues, etc.