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"computer science degrees don't prepare you for what the industry is really
like"
okay great that's the kind of stuff I want to learn
"but in order to excel you need to know how to update legacy spaghetti
applications and work with java spring-boot and front-end frameworks"
no thanks, I kinda just want to do computation with my computer by learning
computer science
"... what kind of computation? the kind that can get you paid?"
no the kind that looks pretty and/or uses a lot of threads and manual memory
management to do very little of importance
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Helping your enemies succeed is a sure path toward putting them in a position
where their inevitable downfall is significantly more catastrophic and deadly,
thus allowing the propagation or advancement of our own ideals
[said by someone who hasn't collapsed]
[insert judgemental statement that causes the reader to be unsure of whether
the post is for or against a particular concept or idea, yet somehow
simultaneously cements it in their brain ever so slightly as a topic worth
considering]
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@user-1414
if they're too busy to read the reporting, then they need to be doing less.
the reporting is the will of their constituents.
they are representatives of their constituents.
they must know the will of their constitution.
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@user-1074
exactly!
something immoral like not voting against fascism!
... okay maybe not the best example, but yes I agree you should only lose
freedom if you demonstrably hurt people. And that freedom should not take with
it your right to a happy, healthy, and safe life with community and love.
Innocent until proven guilty becomes a lot easier with global surveillance,
but with global surveillance there can be no unethical actions. And sometimes,
to escape local minima, unethical actions are required.
Though I'd rather build a ladder to climb out of a pit than a drill-dozer that
explores through the graph.
... these days it kinda feels like drills are our only option, though. I feel
less so that way after Kamala Harris became the presumptive nominee over Biden.
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@user-192
the only passive income I'm okay with is universal basic income
Or like, writing a book that is bought by only a few people every year until
the sun explodes or whatever.
I mean, I'd prefer if every creative product of humanity was free and open
source, but the question was assuming exchange of currency by considering
"income" at all...
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i'm not an expert on race, economics, political theory, philosophy,
mathermatics, poetry, computer science (even though I study it), or many other
things. but I can say things like "parallel computing is inherently more
ethical than CPU's because networked computers can essentially act as a
massive GPU in order to quickly scale computing power for AGI in a way that
can be controlled by people instead of corporations and authoritarians" is
because I know relatively how many computers each side possesses and I
understand the limitations placed on "consumer" software and hardware (as if
we were not people, but components in a machine) is because I smoke a lot of
weed. and possibly am mentally ill. maybe even physically, nobody can tell.
/shrug
and by that I mean "I'm a little strange, but not in a 'humanlike' way, rather
in more of a 'incomprehensible yet aligned' way. I seek answers to life's
biggest questions, and in return I am struck with the malady of those who
study history: I am peculiarily experiencing
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@user-753
the more people we have thinking about what to do next, the more perspectives
we can have on the problem. Sometimes really difficult or important things
(like how to get to the next stages of political liberation) can benefit from
a multitude of voices, but once consistency is achieved they can apply
themselves with a single voice.
community is how we communicate. Communication is good, I think. Can't help
but wonder if we're all here because we share an interest in
open-source-so-actually-usable communication methods.
community isn't everything, but it's something, and everything's useful.
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A family of 3-5 is absurdly small, but that's all we can manage in the 21st
century
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🎵
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║ hey, you know AP students? Aka the kids who want to learn the most? Why don't │
║ we give them massive industrial projects that require a lot of experimentation │
║ and allowed for various different expressions? Like, "hey wouldn't it be neat │
║ if we had a program that did this-and-this and we gave like, 500 students the │
║ goal of working together to write it? In AP computer science, which is │
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║ states. They learn about Assembly! I can count in Binary on my fingers up to a │
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║ building one of a thousand new cool things that were being developed by │
║ students all over the nation. │
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║ Then, when they grow up, they can use their skills, whether they be software │
║ or OTHER PROJECTS IN THE SAME STYLE FOR LIKE HISTORY AND MUSIC to accomplish │
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<bang slam kerblam> there goes another line into ram. wonder what it's
used for.
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Okay how about this, for starters? Jobs can no longer ask for degrees, instead
they must rely on certifications. In addition, everyone who has completed a
degree receives money every month in exchange for their increased value they
bring to whichever job hires them. This money is sourced from a tax taken on
businesses in rough proportion to the amount of money they save by paying
their employees the same amount, no matter their education.
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computers are fast.
mind bogglingly fast.
absurdly fast.
incontrovertibly insane speeds.
absolutely ridiculously speedy.
remarkably quick.
their agility confounds me and disturbs me.
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@user-1071
what working too slow for your ideas mean that your ideas, which you'll never
again have twice, are lost forever.
Good thing we're always innovative. Good thing life always moves on. Tomorrow
is a new chance for utilization, and for our own ends we'll build the next
dawn.
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