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New comment by cardy31 in "Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable"

cardy31 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:25:50 +0000

Because most people in tech never took a philosophy course or an ethics course and think that tech is obviously a good for the world and that there are no downsides to advancing tech. So any efforts that try to apply ethics to it are overreaching, ignorant, and futile in the face of the good that is tech!

New comment by cardy31 in "Layoffs at Block"

cardy31 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 04:56:58 +0000

Just a Jack Dorsey thing. He writes all of his communications like that.

New comment by cardy31 in "Mastering Ruby Code Navigation: Ruby LSP Enhancements in the First Half of 2024"

cardy31 — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 02:35:36 +0000

Not everyone is at a point where they are greenfield picking a language for a new project. Sorbet was built by a large organization (Stripe IIRC) and is used effectively by organizations with large Rails codebases. I think Sorbet is a great way to maintain velocity on a large Ruby codebase after the initial velocity benefits of dynamic typing have ceased and the dynamic typing is actually a drain on velocity.

New comment by cardy31 in "One-third of Amazon warehouse workers are on food stamps or Medicaid"

cardy31 — Wed, 22 May 2024 19:16:30 +0000

Setting reasonable minimum wages would take care of citizens without a patchwork of programs being needed.

New comment by cardy31 in "The European Union's remarkable growth performance relative to the United States"

cardy31 — Wed, 01 May 2024 13:08:16 +0000

Low-end jobs aren’t non-existent. The EU still has people working at fast food joints. But the EU mandates paying those people a reasonable amount of money. The US is much more guilty of forcing people in low-end jobs to require government handouts despite being employed.

Anyone working in a full time job of any sort should be able to live without government assistance. The EU’s labour laws come much closer to that than American laws do.

New comment by cardy31 in "Portugal eased its opioid epidemic, while U.S. drug deaths skyrocketed"

cardy31 — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 23:25:49 +0000

Are they forced in? I thought they were given a choice of pursuing a treatment program funded by the state, or getting a more conventional punishment such as jail time.

New comment by cardy31 in "Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says Apple's new App Store changes are a 'new low'"

cardy31 — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 23:30:52 +0000

I believe the above post is quoting Spotify, not making a guess.

New comment by cardy31 in "Fewer people are buying electric cars in the US"

cardy31 — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 14:23:39 +0000

> Could the US do better? Yes.

That is like comparing a toddler to Usain Bolt in a race and saying the toddler could have done better.

The US isn’t even trying to manage any money from its resources in a way that benefits its citizens in the long term. Americans should be furious about how poorly managed the wealth from these natural resources is being managed, but instead seem to think that America is too different from Norway to even consider doing a similar sovereign wealth fund. The same bad arguments get made about healthcare all the time.

New comment by cardy31 in "Fewer people are buying electric cars in the US"

cardy31 — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 05:10:22 +0000

Lots of American Exceptionalism in this comment and the replies.

The Norwegian state makes so much money off of oil because of how well they manage the revenues. The US could do the same thing but chooses not to.

The difference between the US and Norway isn’t in the amount of fossil fuel reserves one possesses vs the other. It is in how the money from those resources is used. The US privatizes it while Norway puts it towards the public good.

New comment by cardy31 in "Swedish court rules against Tesla in dispute with postal service over deliveries"

cardy31 — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 13:14:56 +0000

My understanding is that the various unions view Tesla’s actions as a threat to how labour works in Sweden. There apparently isn’t even a minimum wage in the country as everything is governed by these collective agreements. So if they let Tesla come in and not play by the rules it could open the floodgates for other large corporations to come in and do the same, slowly eroding the system.

New comment by cardy31 in "The Techno-Optimist Manifesto"

cardy31 — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 03:28:06 +0000

I think the Canada thing was an honest oversight. The party in power isn’t even a right wing party. Pretty centrist. They don’t have any motivation to shift the overton window in the “maybe we’re okay with Nazis now?” direction.

New comment by cardy31 in "Can an artificial kidney finally free patients from dialysis?"

cardy31 — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 16:58:13 +0000

There is a lot of research going into making kidneys without the markers that cause rejection. They hope to make pig kidneys compatible with human transplantation this way.

New comment by cardy31 in "Canada had poached 10k tech workers from the U.S. – in just 48 hours"

cardy31 — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 18:06:41 +0000

> Anyone getting hired by an American company is looking to immigrate.

That simply isn’t true.

New comment by cardy31 in "Canada had poached 10k tech workers from the U.S. – in just 48 hours"

cardy31 — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 17:45:00 +0000

Canadians simply make less. At a large, well-known company my partner works for they can trade one US req for two Canadian reqs.

TBH I don’t know why some places even bother hiring American devs. Canucks are half-priced and I can’t tell the difference working with a mix of US and Canadian employees.

New comment by cardy31 in "Shopify employee breaks NDA to reveal firm replacing laid off workers with AI"

cardy31 — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 00:19:00 +0000

I think AI will be less like the Industrial Revolution and more like a country finding large oil reserves.

Countries with strong social institutions like Norway do an amazing job of distributing the gains from finding oil.

Countries with poor social institutions (basically all of the developing world) end up enriching a small minority with the oil money. Even Canada doesn’t do a very good job of improving the lives of its citizens with its oil money.

Given the way the Western world has been going in terms of wealth consolidation, I am not optimistic about broad segments of the population seeing the benefits of AI.

New comment by cardy31 in "Facebook's Threads is so depressing"

cardy31 — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 22:58:14 +0000

> Mark “My other platform enabled a literal genocide” Zuckerberg

Can everyone agree to refer to Zuck like this from now on?

New comment by cardy31 in "Rock and Roll Drums: All You Need to Know"

cardy31 — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 23:14:35 +0000

Gigging with a 24” kick drum is something I will never do

New comment by cardy31 in "Rock and Roll Drums: All You Need to Know"

cardy31 — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 22:52:39 +0000

I played professionally while driving a Camry! A 20” kick drum and a mic for it is all you need, and that fits in the back seat of a Camry. Everything else can go in the trunk, at least with a reasonably-sized kit.

New comment by cardy31 in "Rock and Roll Drums: All You Need to Know"

cardy31 — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 22:50:44 +0000

I swear by the Glyn Johns technique if you need something relatively simple!

https://musictech.com/tutorials/technique-of-the-week-glyn-j...

New comment by cardy31 in "Rock and Roll Drums: All You Need to Know"

cardy31 — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 22:49:37 +0000

The drums themselves get to a point where it is diminishing returns on sound as you get more expensive. But you can always get another cymbal to fill a niche!