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amp180 | 5 years ago | on: The Vaccine Had to Be Used. He Used It. He Was Fired

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.

amp180 | 5 years ago | on: Pipenv: Python Dev Workflow for Humans

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.

amp180 | 5 years ago | on: Pipenv: Python Dev Workflow for Humans

Does poetry still only work for libraries or does it work well for apps too now?

amp180 | 5 years ago | on: US has 'moral imperative' to develop AI weapons, says panel

Yeah, no.

amp180 | 5 years ago | on: Study claims there are links between facial features and political orientation

'personal observations' lol k

amp180 | 5 years ago | on: A family with no fingerprints

Good catch on the 'disease' bit. Pure ableism.

amp180 | 5 years ago | on: Am I Disabled?

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.

amp180 | 5 years ago | on: The problem of prosocial lying in the economics profession

Agree on everything else but climate change is real, it will screw us over, and we are not doing enough.

amp180 | 5 years ago | on: Investors Extracted $400M from a Hospital Chain

I don't think the communists want an investment fund...

amp180 | 5 years ago | on: Ubisoft CCO Serge Hascoet resigns in wake of sweeping allegations

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.