simplecomplex's comments

On: US Constitution – A Git repo with history of edits

[simplecomplex]

The Senate is more necessary than ever in this age of unconstitutional and almost unlimited exercise of federal power.

The Senate ensures less populous states have an equal vote in our united (federated) states.

[NewJazz → simplecomplex]

The Senate ensures that representatives of as little as 7.42% of the US population can prevent a fascist president from being removed from office.

[simplecomplex → NewJazz]

The number of representatives apportioned for each state does not dictate how they vote on any particular issue. The Senate has existed long before our current president.

The purpose of the Senate is to give all states equal suffrage in the legislature. Article 5 of the constitution states “no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.“

[sincerely → NewJazz]

Literally every president since I was born has been fascist in some way or another. The senators aren't the problem here.

On: Yogababble

[simplecomplex]

I hear this a lot from people who've never been to a yoga class. It's more of a stereotype than reality. All the yoga classes I took have never mentioned anything resembling yogababble.

[all_usernames → simplecomplex]

Right, only someone who has never really tried (that is, stuck with) a yoga practice for awhile would claim that yoga, even the westernized version, is "incoherent." The whole point of yoga is to have an integrative and harmonizing effect.

Rather unfortunate that the corporate world seems to be seeing its own absurdity in the mirror, but then choosing an unrelated scapegoat to point fingers at.

[istjohn → all_usernames]

> The whole point of yoga is to have an integrative and harmonizing effect.

This is yogababble.

[inimino → istjohn]

Only if you have no idea or experience of what it means.

On: The Octopus: An Alien Among Us

[simplecomplex]

Eat vegan and ignore the haters.

On: Start a New Union for Tech Workers. Please

[simplecomplex]

Let’s see... at every tech job I’ve had I received:

- 6 figure salary

- healthcare

- paid vacation

- comfortable safe work environment often with free food

What “rights” would the union be fighting for, exactly? 4 weeks vacation instead of 2? Working from home?

[ajurna → simplecomplex]

the only issue i can think of in tech is protecting tech employee's from being fired for refusing to work on unethical software.

On: Why I'm Worried About the Repo Market

[simplecomplex]

“repo operations”, “quantitative easing”, and “emergency asset relief” are all fancy methods of printing money.

[coliveira → simplecomplex]

Printing money in itself is not the problem. The problem is where this money goes and what is made of it. Operations such as QE are designed to inject money on the hands on the top of the 1% richest.

On: Why I'm Worried About the Repo Market

[simplecomplex]

Main Street is starting to see that the Fed will monetize anything, with no limit. They’re starting to demand access to the printing press. The moral hazard with permanent ongoing QE is becoming a reality if Yang is taken as an omen of what’s to come.

On: We are clueless about how long things should take

[simplecomplex]

> All the research indicates

Which research would that be?

On: Performance metrics for web apps

[simplecomplex]

Fastmail is pretty snappy for me. Why else would I want to switch to Superhuman besides a snappy experience?

Also I mostly use mail via IMAP using the iOS mail app, in which case the web client is entirely irrelevant.

[hombre_fatal → simplecomplex]

Might as well use this downvoted thread for my little hobby horse as well: I was done with Fastmail when I realized they recycle email addresses if you stop paying.

They should either lock access to the account until you buy a new subscription (which seems obvious, just hold the account hostage), or lock the account forever if they don't want to store/recv messages for inactive accounts.

Every email startup should learn from this.

[danpalmer → hombre_fatal]

This is also true of every personal domain used for email. While it's not great from Fastmail, it's no less secure in that respect than a custom domain.

On: The news industry was complicit in the opioid crisis

[simplecomplex]

The war on drugs doesn’t work. the government should not have the authority to interfere with what people put inside their body.

Stop blaming drug addiction on everybody but the drug addicts.

On: What do you want in a new social network?

[simplecomplex]

Huh? There is no spam with RSS or IM. The user chooses what to consume.

And spam is a solved problem with email.

[buboard → simplecomplex]

if you inevitably tried to build an RSS directory or search engine, there would be spam. IM is already full of spam, like IRC and email

> And spam is a solved problem with email.

you mean, with centralized online mail services