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rtz12 | 5 years ago | on: How to Leave Work at Work

Same here, but I suspect many "career" people here on HN, who grind away in startups imagining they are designing the next big thing that'll save humanity, don't want to hear this.

rtz12 | 5 years ago | on: I Am Deleting the Blog

This might be a controversial opinion, but I have just one word to describe most journalists nowadays: "scum".

They seek exciting and sensationalist stories without regard for any consequences in the real world. They twist their stories to manipulate the readers towards their viewpoint.

But worst of all, they have the gall to present themselves as the upholders of morality and the paragons of democracy. Any criticism you may have for these people is deemed "anti-democratic", which in most peoples heads already is a trigger word for "evil", no amount of arguments can sway them.

rtz12 | 5 years ago | on: White nationalist group posing as antifa called for violence on Twitter

> what matters is what the term used to mean 75 years ago?

You got it backwards.

The only definition from that page that is not related to some extremist marxist/anarchist movement is this article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-fascism

And even that one uses the logo of the Antifaschistische Aktion. None of the other historic Antifascist movements described in that article are in any way relevant today.

Today, "Antifa" is synonymous with "Antifaschistische Aktion".

rtz12 | 5 years ago | on: White nationalist group posing as antifa called for violence on Twitter

> some Europeans have pushed the American meaning of "antifa" into the term "anarchist".

Let me cite the German Wikipedia:

> Antifa (Akronym für Antifaschistische Aktion) ist der Oberbegriff für verschiedene, im Regelfall eher locker strukturierte, kurzfristige autonome Strömungen der linken bis linksextremen Szene.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa

Here, Wikipedia describes Antifa as an umbrella Term for "autonomous groups" in the far-left extremist scene.

"autonomous groups" being:

> Als Autonome (altgriechisch: αὐτονομία, autonomía, „Unabhängigkeit, Selbstständigkeit“) oder autonome Gruppen werden heute Mitglieder bestimmter linksradikaler[1] unorthodox-marxistischer beziehungsweise anarchistischer Bewegungen bezeichnet.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonome

Describing them as members of "unorthodox marxist/anarchist" movements.

For all I can remember, this was the definition of "Antifa" here in Germany. Despite constant whitewashing and overton-window shifting attempts.

rtz12 | 5 years ago | on: White nationalist group posing as antifa called for violence on Twitter

It might not be problematic to call yourself an anti-fascist in Europe, but specifically Antifa? I don't know in what kind of bubble you live, but to me and most people that I know, this would be outing yourself as a militant Anarchist.

There is a big shitstorm on Twitter and an edit war on Wikipedia right now, because the left wing of the German Social Democrats have appealed to Antifa.

rtz12 | 5 years ago | on: White nationalist group posing as antifa called for violence on Twitter

"Antifa" is not just "anti-fascism". It is short for "Antifaschistische Aktion" and is an umbrella term for loosely related groups of extremist Anarchists/Communists who share the same symbolism, rethoric and tactics.

This is the definition of the word, no matter how much lefists try to whitewash the term and shift the overton window.

rtz12 | 7 years ago | on: Retiring Retirement

Gee, I wonder how people did software development as a hobby before AWS was a thing. Totally impossible, way to hard!

rtz12 | 8 years ago | on: Countries with more gender equality have fewer female STEM grads

Countries with more gender equality are richer. Countries with less gender equality are poorer. In poorer countries, you are more inclined to choose careers based on paycheck, less on personal preference. In richer countries you are more inclined to choose careers based on your personal preferences and less on for the paycheck.

It's pretty easy.

EDIT: A good counter example to this correlation could be Japan. Low gender equality but also low female participation in STEM fields.

Why? Because Japan is a rich country.

rtz12 | 9 years ago | on: Nissan says self driving cars are impossible today

Using public transport to get to work for me, would mean:

  - Walk to the next village
  - Take a bus to the next city (bus comes by every 2 hours)
  - Walk to the train station
  - Take the train to the next city
  - Take another train to the next city
  - Walk to the outskirts of the city to where I work
And I live in Germany, which is presumably the public transport heaven.

It would also take me several hours every day.

My car costs me maybe a maximum of 90€ every month and takes me to work in about 15 minutes.

I know what you will say. "Just live in the city and use a bike to get to work, faster and costs nothing! (apart from the bike)". But that would not only reduce my quality of living (let's face it, the countryside is nicer) but also let my rent costs skyrocket (average price per m² more than doubles).

rtz12 | 10 years ago | on: Pull request acceptance of women versus men

> men do hobby programming and women don't.

This is also something I have observed in my job. I am in a typical enterprise software shop and I feel like women are more likely to see programming as "just a job", while men are more likely to put more passion into it. But most people in general see it as "just a job", so maybe hobbyist female programmers are just rare because female programmers in general are rare.

Who knows.

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