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As the degree progresses, they have to make all assignments in their own programming language.

What do you guys think?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44773156

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It has far reaching consequences, bringing poverty and despair to America and the world.

I write this message to us as intelligent, logical coders so that we can do our work to destroy it - forever.

The way copyright works is threatening people if they copy your work. As developers, we make tons of money with it. I know I for one have made so much money it's ridiculous!

But it is intrinsically evil because it implies it's ok to imprison people over social credits, aka money.

The reason copyright is so evil is that it incentivizes people to make content that has monetary rather than humanitarian value.

Cigarettes have monetary, not humanitarian value. Drugs have monetary, and generally not humanitarian value. (Obviously if they had humanitarian value we would legalize them and sell them) Copyright allows people to make the equivalent of drugs and sell them and make addicts and sell their addicts more drugs.

There is horrible music making millionaires. Millionaires off filling people's minds with poison.

Copyright encourages them to continue making addictive content that destroys people's minds.

Copyright has led to Apple, Microsoft and Linux, causing huge amounts of waste of programmer time reinventing the wheel just to give rich more money.

Patents are equally absurd. In fact Orville and Wilbur stopped inventing just to keep patent litigation going!

I believe copyright was outlawed by the first ammendment. It is a direct affront to freedom of the press. To jail someone over copying is akin to slavery.

What do you all think?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44771334

Points: 3

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I didn't read the whole article, but it's a great question.

On my religious journey, I have read things like this:

"You cannot serve God and money".

Ultimately, the smartest people, if they are Christian, will actually get rid of their money.

I asked God about it and he told me this:

"There's not enough money for everyone. A truly good person lets everybody else have the money, and just lives on charity".

It shocked me, but Jesus told me this:

"You can get more done without money than with it".

He pointed out the queen of england will never know her true friends, as everybody acts like it.

But if you are poor, you have that knowledge, and can thus live a healthier life.

Ultimately money is based of terror. It is literally based on the terror that if you counterfeit it you go to jail.

So I think that good people would not want to use a medium that requires terror to function.

This may sound crazy, but I think, as a programmer, it is the truth!

But maybe I'm wrong?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44714111

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Insurance makes 20%. Doctors and suppliers make 5x what normal people make.

So the problem is with the laws preventing folks from becoming doctors.

I’m gonna fix this, it’s actually so easy, just need people to trust me.

I’m really good at this kind of stuff I just hate dealing with people because the average person is so certain the world can’t get better.

Being homeless is not inherently wrong. But I feel when a society makes camping on common ground a crime - like native Americans did, it owes it to them to a) give them land to camp on or b) give them housing.

It shouldn’t be a crime to sleep, ever. It horrifies me that the “conservative” Supreme Court could deny the most fundamental right to existence, literally jailing people for sleeping.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42630107

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pkVwUVEHmfI

ADHD and ADD are defense mechanisms the mind has. His brain is basically saying that what he is learning in school is a complete waste of his time. Even though we all do it, school is a really weird behavior! No animals do it and we aren’t designed for it.

I don’t believe that school is worth it for many people. They become business leaders etc.

Take him out of school and ask yourself what you would want if you were him. Then do it.

That’s my advice for anyone wondering what to do with adhd.

Btw for some reason on iOS I had to download to view the video

If you think about it, consciousness doesn't exist in the material dimensions we understand. It's impossible to have an SI unit for happiness, for example.

So something within us is not material. Could it exist beyond the body? I think it's a question worth studying.