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That's the point of the new legislation. If the business discriminates against you because you're not willing to work outside of your scheduled hours, the business faces penalties.

It's the same principle as not requiring unpaid overtime to get ahead etc. The government sets a regulatory framework, and businesses have to compete within the rules.


Sure makes me glad cryptocurrencies were invented to set us free from the totalitarian nightmare of everyone using cryptocurrency.


CBDCs and cryptocurrencies have virtually nothing in common.


A centralized and permissioned digital currency is not a cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrencies rely solely on cryptography to authorize transactions. There is no legal access-control based on identity and governed by a central authority.


I'm a mid-30's white male. While I agree that large numbers of males unemployed, failing in education, not going to college etc is bad for society, it's uncomfortable to read a call for more funding for the purpose of helping men succeed.

Women are still paid less than men, and hold fewer positions of power in politics or business. They still far outnumber men as victims of sexual assault. They are still expected to carry the burden of unpaid domestic work and care.

If women as a whole are achieving more than men, despite the disadvantages they still suffer, then good on them. That funding should be going towards educating men so that women can walk down a street at night without a completely reasonable fear of violence.

The tone of the article comes off uncomfortably close to the whole incel thing.


I hear what you are saying, and I believe you are correct under the perspective I assume you are taking. That said, I would propose to you to start thinking of men (and importantly boys) in smaller groups than by those of age and race: a significant portion of men/boys are not involved in the achievements you noted, and are not doing well at all.

One area I think this is evident is mass shootings in US schools: primarily carried out by boys, mainly white (oof, walked right into grouping by age and race). What is happening to boys to lead them down that path? Another area are deaths-from-despair [1] (the graph is from the UK*). What is leading men towards suicide? One more stat, violent deaths are, by a wide margin, mainly carried out by men on men [2]. What is driving men to be involved in violent deaths. Altogether, and I think you agree here, men are not doing well in important areas.

Above is collection of red flags and calls for direct help. And the current public conversation revolves around balancing opportunities for women (which is necessary, good for society, and I give credit to those that have brought the subject to the fore). But men and boys need more as well, perhaps in different ways than wages, positions of powers, etc. (granted how much can be determined by income bracket). Homicidal boys are likely different from the ones that grew up in households of mental/emotional/financial/stability. And men dying by despair are likely different than those in positions of power or wealth.

The crux of my argument is this: there is a difference between boys and men of wealth, power, and privilege. And ample attention by governments or communities should be offered, for a better overall society

One last point, on the point of incels: what is happening to boys to create a large enough group for a label (and the ridicule) of incels?

[1] https://archive.ph/xW50c [2] https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/global-stud...


I switched back to a flip phone, CDs, point and shoot digital camera, and I love it.

It's not always as convenient in the moment, but I find it has a positive effect on my relationships and mental health, and it saves me a bunch of money. And I have actual free time to spend on doing stuff like learning to play the piano.

Once you train yourself to recognize it, it's really scary - so many things in our modern lives are explicit traps - for a few moments of convenience (always made very easy), you burden your future self with a non-negligible amount of future work and entrust private details of your life to companies with a poor track record of keeping that data safe. So many things take only a few clicks to sign up, then you have to spend possibly hours on the phone later trying to cancel an account.


The turn-of-the-century digital lifestyle, just with some upgraded components. A worthy goal.

“Convenience” is the truly obscene “c-word”.


As software's been eating the world, I've started to feel like we're losing out on the benefits of paper, in both personal and business settings:

* Fairly durable * A security violation requires physical access to the paper storage * Flexibility - you can take a pen and draw anywhere on paper - and it will make sense to other readers without having to write custom software * Flexibility 2 - you can organize bits of paper any way you like

Having had my identity compromised through third parties (Premera, Experian), the security aspects are particularly compelling.

It also feels like a lot of the business innovation credited to software could have been possible using paper systems, e.g. reading about the Toyota Production System, it seemed more about process innovation than anything to do with software.


For me, an interesting language development would be finding ways to make managing dependencies more... manageable. We've seen a rise in systems for packaging, distributing and consuming code written by others. However, still a significant part of maintaining systems is spending time on upgrading dependencies, updating application code as things are deprecated, responding to CVEs, etc.

I think there's interesting research and ideas to find in this area, that could lead to a productivity boost. One example idea (I'm sure there are better ones) would be allowing simultaneous use of multiple versions of a library. E.g. This dependency I'm consuming uses CommonLibrary-1.2, and this other dependency uses CommonLibrary-2.4, but they can both get along just fine without having to find some combination both dependencies can agree on.


> would be allowing simultaneous use of multiple versions of a library

Thats called private dependency, and overusing it lead to the node_modules hell (because it was/is the default on npm).

IMO, a way to reduce maintenance on updating dependencies, is having automated code modification that are ran when updating the dependency.


yes! although you don’t even have to modify the code per se if you have «content-addressable code». See other comments in this thread that expands on it.


Definitely!

See the article’s points on «forward- and backwards-compatibility» and «content adressable code».

The latter has implications for library and package management. Someone expanded quite nicely on it elsewhere in this thread.


The kids teach themselves. They are surprisingly good at listening to sounds and observing correlated effects.


Maybe a self-evolving computer virus, that continually propagates itself to new systems, with its only function to serve some personal web pages?


I'm never buying another Google device after the customer support horror I went through for my Pixel C tablet.

I guess the customer support horror I went through when they canceled my phone number out of the blue in Google Fi is also factored into that decision (took two months to get my phone number back), but to be fair, that wasn't an issue with their hardware.


Can you please explain what differentiates your product from previous attempts to realize the dream? E.g. 4GL, Visual Programming Languages, business rules engines, Access, SharePoint, low-code or no-code platforms, etc.


So, in some ways, it is not that different. It uses ideas that have been around for years: The core of the product is a visual programming language, plus a database, plus a low-code Python editor. All of which have, obviously, been done before.

But the problem is, no one has put them all together in quite the right way to satisfy our needs.

- We needed a platform that would let our non-programmer staff create complex integration-related features for customers. We needed an accessible VPL that was easy to get started in, but powerful if power was needed.

- We needed a lot of integrations to not-particularly-popular business software (which means, we needed the ability to write and/or extend them ourselves); we needed the integration editor to be accessible and easy to use by junior programmers.

- We needed data pulled from integrations to be stored and kept around for a while; we need to look up individuals, see their history and a history of triggered VPL logic; we needed to be able to update and bulk-execute VPL scripts against the data store; we needed full text search capability as well.

- We needed workflows/data organized into tenants with a user auth scheme that would let us invite business customers to see just their data and no-one else's, with view-only permission as well.

- We needed something that could scale up to handle a lot of work, and still be at a competitive price.

There isn't a platform that has all of these things. One or two, sure. But not all of them. My hope is that in 5 years b2b saas companies won't have to build much integration software themselves; there will be us, or someone like us, that'll handle it for them, and they can focus on whatever it is they actually made the company to do.


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