sockpuppet_12's comments

I'm not convinced that he's not being raked over the coals just for finding and executing a legal way to extort insurance companies for more money than they want to spend.

Wikipedia isn't a "global source of truth" anyway, so i'm not sure what they're worried about. They've got serious biases and underrepresentation, and they're kind of under the control of a cabal of elite Wikipedian feudal lords who shove out the majority of outsider attempts to introduce content that doesn't fit their worldview.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideological_bias_on_Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Systemic_bias#List_o...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_studies_about_Wikiped...

Hopefully they'll let the farmers repair them when they inevitably stop working at some point.

What a time to be alive!

Hospitals do this with the flu vaccine as well, every year they require employees to get vaccinated, the employees don't, so they have to fire them because the regulatory penalties aren't worth it, even at the cost of the the brightest researcher or doctor. They usually hire them back after they get vaccinated.

Source: my So worked in a hospital which did this and was there to see 177 people get laid off for missing their shots

Genes themselves aren't sentient or self aware, they themselves don't want anything, they can't be described as feeling purpose or direction.

DNA is an inert chemical chain encoded with linear and non linear data which is acted upon and maintained by nano machines manufactured with the instructions it contains, which do you think came first?

I suppose if an explicit declaration of authorship is the only thing acceptable to you then you could always see the opening statements of many of the Bible's books. They're quite clear about who composed their contents.

Nehemiah 1:1 "The words of Nehemiah..."

Isaiah 1:1 "The visions of Isaiah..."

Joel 1:1 "The word of Jehovah came to Joel..."

But most Bible writers acknowledged that they wrote in the name of Jehovah, the God of the Bible, and that they were guided by him.

Some of the many examples: Amos 1:1 "The words of Amos..." then Amos 1:3 "This is what Jehovah says..."

Micah 1:1 "The word of Jehovah that came to Micah" then Micah 2:3 "Therefore this is what Jehovah says:..."

Nahum 1:1 "A pronouncement against ninevah: The book of the visions of Nahum..." then Naham 1:12 "This is what Jehovah says:..."

If its true that as they say, they're all receiving instructions from the same source (God), then the author of the Bible's message is God, not the 40 men who were used to write it over 1600 years in their own styles.

Of course you'd have to believe that were true, and I'd contend that there are good reasons to. On the site I linked before, there are some good resources for anybody interested in learning about what the Bible actually teaches and how to apply its wisdom to make your life better. Speaking from personal experience, it works, it's quite incredible.

> Please provide two examples from the Bible of clear and explicit claims about it's "author"

Not the op but here are some claims made by the Bible about its origin.

2 Tim 3:16 "All Scripture is inspired of God and beneficial for teaching, for reproving, for setting things straight, for disciplining in righteousness"

2 peter 1:20-21 "20 For you know this first, that no prophecy of Scripture springs from any private interpretation. 21 For prophecy was at no time brought by man’s will, but men spoke from God as they were moved by holy spirit."

Exodus 34:27 "27 Jehovah went on to say to Moses: “You are to write down these words, because in accordance with these words, I am making a covenant with you and with Israel.”

The Bible does mention that it's been written under divine inspiration at God's request. By the hand of men, but motivated and helped by holy spirit, as the scriptures say.

If interested, have a look at some of the frequently asked questions about the Bible that the Bible answers itself. This website uses only the Bible itself to answer questions about the Bible, which is a refreshing take.

jw.org/en/bible-teachings/questions/about-the-bible

I'm sure you'll find it informative.

The reason the situation is the way it is now is precisely because the code being made easy for non-coders increased the popularity and reach of the products. Probably because non-coders also found it easy to pick up and start working with it.

> Maintaining existing services

Everything a capitalist market teaches us is against this, if they don't obsolete themselves before somebody else can then they will fall into obscurity and ultimately lose what they've built, just like other companies before it who didn't.

FAANGS companies aren't at fault for when they're winning a game which is rigged from the start.

Cool.

What a ridiculous thing that is. Thats so clunky and unappealing. Somebody should just write some software to simulate direct gaze into the camera or something more elegant than attaching a periscope to the top of your poor laptop.

This seems like a case of trying to cram the ruinous practices back into pandora's box, which has been leaking for a very long time. Transport companies have had a long time to optimise their extraction of value from cheap, easily exploitable employees from overseas.

The easily exploitable workers aren't available anymore, so the companies who exploited them will have to change their exploitation habits if they want to fill their positions from the remaining labour pool.

Of course a landed citizen isn't going to sign up to be treated unfairly if they don't have to, they're not as desperate and therefore not as exploitable. I imagine they're reading the terms of employment on these positions with disgust, and so they should.

If you use https://search.marginalia.nu/ to search for blogs, you'll find all that kind of thing he laments is missing.

I know right? Only people who have something to hide would care if some bespectacled reprobate snaps down-shirt shots of them on the subway to share the 'experience' with their fellows.

Often the excuse used to do things properly the hard way even though you're just starting out, is to prepare for unexpected growth.

But I like the sentiment with this, and it does seem advantageous to get used to reforging new systems every so often when you reach a certain threshold of demand, rather than spending all your money on building the perfect foundation of a building you might not be able to finish.

I was referring to the Bloomberg article, you can turn off that incredulity-drive now.

>It's not the recommended devops tool for any cloud provider.

What is the recommended devops tool for azure in your opinion?

I think he's more angry at ARM templates than anything else. I'm learning terraform to work with Azure. Primarily because one day I might need to work with any other cloud provider and I don't want to learn 3 different DSLs when I might be able to get away with learning 1. But even that sounds like wishful thinking as I write it out.

In usual circumstances, free work is generally appreciated. But I imagine it's a bit different with code, as most people prefer writing code to reading it.