I shared that way of thinking in the past but I noticed that there is a subset group of religious people that wouldn't consider atheists/non-believers human either.
I am very skeptical about the benefits of fearing "burning in hell" in the long run.
But there is something we can learn from the Bible as it deals with wealth redistribution.
There was a Jewish fellow on here some years ago who proposed in a thread that modern societies consider a jubilee year as mentioned in the Tanakh or Laws of Moses.
“The Jubilee is the year at the end of seven cycles of shmita (Sabbatical years) and, according to biblical regulations, had a special impact on the ownership and management of land in the Land of Israel.
According to the Book of Leviticus, Hebrew slaves and prisoners would be freed, debts would be forgiven, and the mercies of God would be particularly manifest.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/21/debt-jubi...
> Until recently, historians doubted that a debt jubilee would have been possible in practice, or that such proclamations could have been enforced. But Assyriologists have found that from the beginning of recorded history in the Near East, it was normal for new rulers to proclaim a debt amnesty upon taking the throne. Instead of blowing a trumpet, the ruler “raised the sacred torch” to signal the amnesty.
The Romans ended the tradition which was ultimately their unmaking.
"Debt" was creatively replaced with "sin". The Italians still pray nostri debiti.
Jesus wanted the debt forgiven. He died for your debt, pretty much.
Empire and Economics: The Long History of Debt-Cancelation from Antiquity to Today
Religious people are far from model citizens. From the perspective of non-religious people they deeply believe in something without any evidence.
But specially the more fanatic atheist has this aura of superiority around him. There is this sense of liberation when you free yourself from bunch of lies or when you oppose a bunch of lies. (or think you do)
But then we are stuck with these annoying christian values baked into our culture. Annoying since you cant just get rid of them because they are good ideas.
We've basically uninstalled the proprietary application because it was bad but now we have to implement the protocol ourselves. This is considerably harder than bowing to some god king and doing as told.
As a religious man told me, if god is not real you can just go around killing and robbing people? We are not in a hurry living up to his expectations but gradually we are getting there. So far robbing everyone is working out nicely.
> But specially the more fanatic atheist has this aura of superiority around him. There is this sense of liberation when you free yourself from bunch of lies or when you oppose a bunch of lies. (or think you do)
> But then we are stuck with these annoying christian values baked into our culture. Annoying since you cant just get rid of them because they are good ideas.
I'm done here for a while. This place is turning into a complete joke.
There are many ways to build local first, both with web technologies and with "native" app toolkits.
Many of the CRDT tools have started as JS/TS libs but have been rebuilt in Rust to be cross platform, WASM or native.
The appeal of using web tech is its accessibility and ease of distribution. Local first and PWAs with the new origin privet file system api kind of go hand in hand, but it's not an exclusive relationship.
The cloud offloads a lot of maintenance worries, especially hardware related. E.g. no need to worry about replacing failed hard drives. Can local first really compete?
Yea, I really don't mind the office. It's the "going to" part that I'm unwilling to do ever again. It's kind of nice to get a little in-person time with colleagues. The open-office system kind of sucks, but nearly every company has that now. If I could snap my fingers and teleport myself there, I'd do it often: at least any time I had a bunch of meetings and didn't have to concentrate or have work that needed silence. But it's a 3 hour drive (each way) away, so nope.
> Turns out to my surprise I like going into the office, but definitely not every day.
You're not alone.
The internet likes to talk about remote work as the only acceptable arrangement, but that's mostly because it's biased toward people who like socializing via internet comment sections.
The number of people who actually like going to the office (either part or full time) is far higher than you'd expect from reading Reddit and Hacker News.
> The number of people who actually like going to the office (either part or full time) is far higher than you'd expect from reading Reddit and Hacker News.
I think most people like an office setting. Even remote work proponents like myself enjoy the office every now and then.
The problem is really two things.
1.) The commute is brutal. If you live in any decent sized city and have a family, it's likely that you are far enough away from the office that you have to drive 30+ minutes in pretty horrendous traffic. That's not only lost time that you could be spending with your family, or even doing work, but it's mentally exhausting. No one is refreshed in the office after a shitty commute.
2.) Often offices turn political. The dynamics of in person work can cause many issues that just don't happen when you work remote. Remote work, when done correctly, is mostly about contribution and output. In an office, low performers can outshine high performers simply by being present and seeming busy. Remote work mostly fixes this.
> 1.) The commute is brutal. If you live in any decent sized city and have a family, it's likely that you are far enough away from the office that you have to drive 30+ minutes in pretty horrendous traffic.
This is fundamentally a problem with urban design, not with in-office work.
Not really. Any large city has this problems, even cities that excel in public transport like Tokyo. The commute might still be upwards of 40-50 minutes unless you live near tech hub of the city which typically is super expensive and also risky as often there are several hubs in one large cities and now you have to move places to regain comfort.
> Turns out to my surprise I like going into the office, but definitely not every day.
Bingo. There is relationship building and other interactions that are simply not possible in any other way that I have found. I go in 3 days most weeks, and that makes a huge difference in lifestyle and flexibility. Since I work in robotics, 100% remote is never going to be a thing for me. Zoom meeting and software days, remote. Wrench days, in the lab. Works for me.
I can't imagine going into an office again. I've been remote for 2/3 of my career (long before COVID). I would be happy to go to a meet up or something once a week after hours. I never want to have an open office arrangement where I am bothered CONSTANTLY again. Remote has been such a boon to my life and my productivity you'd have to pry it from my cold, dead hands.
Same, I work much better from home. I have a tendency to talk out loud to myself when working on something and I feel like people would think I'm a bit annoying/crazy doing that in an open office environment.
Great story and brings back great old and recent memories! I recall the massive magazine rack at my local Fry's Electronics and was very glad to see that on a recent trip to Micro Center, they still have quite a selection in their newsstand / checkout aisle including the print editions [0] of Linux Magazine [1] which still includes free Linux distribution installer DVDs! Are you still using Slackware these days? As a daily driver? On a hobby box?
