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  • Both. It’s satire.

    The “benefit” of world hunger is that it keeps people locked in their place and entrenches the status quo. This is actually true, and the author believes it, but he doesn’t like it.

    Many people benefit from world hunger though, and every time you hear that poverty is a hard problem to solve you should ask yourself, how much of that is actual problems and how much is the status quo resisting change?







  • No, not at all.

    If the company fire you they have to pay you, e.g., three months notice, regardless of if they want you to do the work or not.

    If you quit without notice, you might have to pay the costs incurred by you quitting early, but that’s not your salary -because they now wouldn’t be paying you.

    Costs might be something like the company having to refuse an order because they now don’t have enough people to do the work, or the increased cost of an expedited hiring process.

    I don’t know how common costs are in France, but the UK has the same rules and essentially no one ever claims costs. You need to really fuck over your employee in a very explicit and well documented way for this to even be considered.

    The main disadvantage is you will have a bad reference if you leave without notice.




  • Two things.

    1. Think of the colonial UK as an early model for the US. Yes, a small number of people got fantastically wealthy but they did so at the expense of the entire world, including most of the people in the UK. However, it was much more lopsided than the US. There was no boomer phase where everyone assumed it was their birth right to have a large house with a garden. Country poverty and city slums were normal. Colonialism has always been about sending your poor to die in wars, as part of oppressing other countries.
    2. World war ii wiped out the UK finances. The empire collapsed, and it dropped from being a declining world super power to the “sick man of Europe”.

    Even before WWII, where do you think Marx lived when he was writing? For much of his life he was in London, and the poverty around him informed his writing.










  • It really comes down to what you’re used to. If you use Windows tools then you already know many of the workarounds for Windows and you don’t know the tools that haven’t been ported there.

    For example, you know not to use Python directly, but that you have to install anaconda instead, or whatever the current problems with Python development on Windows are.

    The big obvious thing that you can’t get away from is that you have to do things differently if you have develop for two different OSs with a view to deploying on Linux.

    In particular support for shell scripts is crap on Windows. I could learn powershell or there’s workarounds using WSL and a bunch of other stuff that I don’t need to care about, but I’d rather not bother.