<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: nivenkos</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nivenkos</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:49:35 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=nivenkos" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nivenkos in "Who Would Choose Socialism?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, but I think kibbutzim is really extreme, and not how even socialists would want to live.<p>It's a full commune - more like a cult than normal society. So it's quite a strawman in that respect.</p>
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<p>But those jobs should be automated so no-one has to do them.<p>And that process should be supported by a high minimum wage - hitting the employers, not taxing productive work to provide tax credits to subsidise such terrible jobs.<p>Automation leads to more high-tech jobs and investment, and higher productivity, which leads to higher wages as companies compete for highly skilled employees, etc.<p>Economic mobility and productivity is the key to prosperity.<p>> And yes we're is your proudness for your country when you know there are people who can't afford going to the dentist and have to wait for a year with a rotten teeth to get it fixed 3h away in a sports gym because there is the once in a year free dental service event?<p>This is sadly the same in Europe, as dentistry mostly isn't covered under public healthcare in the UK and Sweden for example. So we pay almost 50% tax just to be in the same position!<p>But I support universal healthcare (including dentistry and opticians), it's a critical part of economic mobility. People can't move jobs or take risks if they'll lose healthcare coverage.</p>
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<p>I'd love to move, but getting a green card is a nightmare.<p>I don't want to work for 5 years trapped with one employer and facing deportation with a matter of weeks if I lose my job, on an L-1 visa (and to do that I'd still have to find a position to move to in my company).</p>
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<p>But what is a "socialist community" in that respect?<p>The only thing I can think of that's achievable is worker co-ops, and a lot of start-ups are like that for early employees and founders.</p>
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<p>I mean economic mobility like making it easy for people to switch jobs, move city, work for startups, etc.<p>So separating healthcare coverage from your employment is one important step, as is providing modern, in-depth STEM + Medicine education so people are able to work in highly skilled jobs where we really need them.<p>That's a big part of driving disruption and progress.</p>
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<p>But the awesome part is that you can ask it to explain parts and it usually does pretty well.<p>I was using it for debugging WINE - where I have no DirectDraw4 / DirectX6 experience, and it's much nicer than trying to trawl through ancient MS documentation myself.</p>
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<p>Or even arthritis.</p>
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<p>Sad to see people always use tools maliciously, I found ChatGPT quite helpful for rubber duck debugging. Give it some log files and code excerpts, and it can help grab API docs, causes of similar issues, etc.</p>
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<p>Ubuntu Touch and Mobian don't seem so bad.<p>But good support is still far away.<p>Especially since I'd really need Whatsapp and banking authentication on the phone, which both only support Android/iOS atm.</p>
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<p>I meant even in the case that man is not the child's father.<p>France has this law. The US has it too if the man signs the birth certificate, and there's no way to force a paternity test.</p>
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<p>While together is much more reasonable than absolutely all of your assets as with marriage though.</p>
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<p>Loads of places where before you'd just have amateur art / no art.<p>We used it for department logos, etc. - it makes sense when it's so cheap.<p>For it to really grow though it needs to be able to be more domain-specific, like being able to generate 2D and 3D animations, spritesheets and isometric sprites, 3D models, normal maps and textures and being able to maintain a consistent style as a context (like ChatGPT).</p>
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<p>Compare European and US salaries sometime, you have no idea how lucky you are.<p>There's a reason tens of thousands of European engineers, doctors, lawyers, developers, etc. are desperate to move to the US.</p>
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<p>It takes more effort to make internal code FOSS (i.e. upstreaming changes, protecting internal parts, etc.) - and often very few other people use it or contribute back anyway.<p>I think it'd make more sense as part of a unified effort - like all EU countries agreeing to provide one digital ID service. But that itself is a much bigger issue due to differing levels of digital services, bureaucracy, etc.<p>I still support it though, and donate to FSF Europe every year with my company donation.</p>
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<p>Wow, even using "Russians under the bed" to attack FOSS now.</p>
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<p>Microsoft wanted to control it all with Blackbird and ActivePlatform.<p>Their greed ended up with them losing out (thankfully).</p>
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<p>"Open"AI</p>
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<p>Because people don't want to pay more for things.<p>It isn't astro-turfing.</p>
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<p>It reminds me of the story about the New York beaches where they deliberately designed the transport to try to prevent public transport access to the "better" beaches, so they'd mostly remain only accessible to the wealthy (although it's not clear if this was actually true).<p>Like they want to make transport so expensive that the poor people stay away, and the rich can travel the world freely without having to share space and attractions with them.<p>Same for eating meat, and living in the suburbs and larger residences.<p>That said, an induction hob doesn't take 20 minutes to boil water.</p>
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<p>Like Bill Gates saying he's part of the solution - <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/im-part-solution-bill-gates-140000674.html" rel="nofollow">https://finance.yahoo.com/news/im-part-solution-bill-gates-1...</a><p>"Billionaire philanthropist" - the definition of an oxymoron.</p>
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