If you like economic anthropology/sociology & are interested in the work of artists, then Alison Gerber's concise & highly readable, The Work of Art: Value in Creative Careers (2017) is for you. Assessing how value is seen in (manly US) art worlds, Gerber doesn't model or use aggregated statistics, but actually asks artists & reports/reflects on what they tell her. the result is compelling & informative!
The quiet, pervasive devaluation of frontend - Josh Collinsworth
Here is a long article that's well worth your time, on the perception of the craft of front end development. Lots of quote-worthy thoughts in there.
(…) If our skills are valuable as duct tape over the cracks of organizational shortcomings, why aren’t they valuable during the planning and decision-making that led to those defects, when we could potentially prevent them?
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Frontend tools market themselves as though frontend is something no one wants to do, and nobody should care about any more than they have to.
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It seems like nobody thinks of frontend as a critical part of the product anymore; they only think of it as the nice box the product arrives in.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation, and compassion. -Simone de Beauvoir, author and philosopher (9 Jan 1908-1986)
I donate to Mozilla every month and will continue to do so, regularly.
The story making its rounds on Mastodon and the Fediverse, is one that was often shared on Twitter, by haters of Mozilla and Firefox. By a "libertarian" with both a political and personal agenda.
Pay it no mind, it is the same nonsense every year. 🙄
👀 :thisisfinefire: "The US has about $2 trillion of physical currency in circulation, half of it held abroad. Total US bank deposits are around $17 trillion. Meanwhile, total wealth in the US is around $149 trillion, more than 63 times the total available cash. The gaps between these numbers are like dark matter in the universe — we don’t have a way to empirically account for it, and yet without it our understanding of the universe, or the economy, would collapse."
The history of money is replete with imaginative mandates. Before money, people relied on bartering — an inconvenient system because it requires a “double coincidence of wants.” Instead many cultures developed ritual ways to exchange items of value — in marriage, or to pay penance for killing someone, or in sacrifices. Items used for these exchanges varied from cowry shells to cattle, sperm whale teeth and long-tusked pigs.
Commodities like these helped fulfill two central functions of money:
Served as a unit of account (offering a standardised way to measure worth)
Acted as a store of #value (things you can accumulate now and use later)
Due to the flaws of the barter system, these goods didn’t serve the third function of money:
Act as a medium of exchange, a neutral resource that can easily be transferred for goods.
Money that served all three of these functions wasn’t created until around 600 B.C.E. when Lydia, a kingdom in modern-day Turkey, created what many historians consider the first coins: lumps of blended gold and silver stamped with a lion. The idea spread to Greece, where people started exchanging their goods for coins in public spaces called agoras. Money soon created alternatives to traditional labor systems. Now, instead of working on a wealthy landowner’s farm for a year in.../"
Brief reminder on cryptocurrencies.
When trying to understand any form of cryptocurrency, understanding valuation relative to something similar is useful:
1 crypto coin == 3 Dutch 1637 tulips == 1/2 unicorn horn == 0.1 the Carnwennan dagger == 1 vial with 5 mermaid tears == 1/3 scroll of invisibility to dragons
Those are approximate as the value of each frequently changes from 0 to multiples of the square root of -1. For the most up-to-date values, check with the clerks at Gringotts.
@spaf or lile any other #Currency their "#value" is solely based upon convertability.
That's why 5.000 KPW won't buy you a Cheeseburger in the USA, but 5.000 U$D a car and 5.000 XMR :monero: a house or at least an tiny.single-room condo...
All currencies are beased upon acceptance and convertability, and that's why #Bitcoin :bitcoin: and everything else but #Monero are #Shitcoins that prey on people horny for money and greedy af.
The Washington Post Editorial Board has come out in favor of regulating crypto out of existence. Better late than never, but it would have been much more impactful two years ago — not after the biggest crypto fraudster has been found guilty.
The only difference between 1.000 KPW and 1.000 USD is that the latter one may get you a single roll of toilet paper and the latter one a whole boxtruck full of toilet paper because noone wants North Korean money but everyone knows they can get USD exchanged for more valuable currencies or IDK buy something with it.
The word "excellent" is derived from the Christian practice of giving up the use of Microsoft Excel for 40 days to commemorate Christ's sacrifice.
It is a period of great productivity.
The date of lent is calculated by using an obscure Excel macro on a field that didn't originally have anything to do with dates, but Excel converted it to one anyway.
My name is Ali, I'm a #phdstudent at the University of the Sunshine Coast with #ADHD and #PMDD
My project "The Cost of Human Milk" explores the #value(s) of #humanmilk through the lived experience of those who donate, share or receive human milk. (I've just started recruiting. If you're interested in learning more, I'll be posting more about it soon!)
I balance this with casualised work in the university sector as a #sessionalacademic and #researchassistant (both jobs I love, and blessed to be working with total legends) and raising two young kids.
I'm not hugely active on social media but I do love to talk all things #productivity#notetaking#academia#apps and would love to connect with others who share the same interests.
Trump gripes trial is 'unfair' after judge's #GagOrder
(it was just in regards to the judge’s staff.)
After the trial wrapped up yesterday, Trump aired his #grievances in a post on his social media platform, saying the trial is “unfair” & again suggesting it was an attempt to interfere w/his presidential campaign.
Last week, #Engoron denied Trump's motion to have the claims against him thrown out on statute of limitations, & Engoron issued partial #SummaryJudgment on some of the AG's allegations, including that #Trump & the #TrumpOrganization had made "persistent" false claims overstating the #value of their #assets in their #financial statements.
Ich staune immer wieder, wie stark überbewertet Firmen/Unternehmen an der Börse starten. Wenn man Aktienwerte unterschiedlichster Unternehmen über die letzten 5 Jahre studiert, sieht man häufig, dass sie in dieser Zeit massiv an Wert verlieren. Ein Anzeichen dafür, dass gemachte Versprechen nicht gehalten werden, oder das Marketing anfänglich besser war als das Produkt.
So-called "Objectivism", the "philosophy" of Ayn Rand, is nothing but ableism thinly disguised as a philosophy.
A person's abilities and disabilities DO NOT define that person's worth. Thinking they do is putting the cart before the horse. Who cares what you can or can't do if it isn't useful TO someone? So answer me this: Are people valuable because they can do things, or are the things people can do valuable because they're useful...to people?
The value of all the things we experience comes from our experience of them. Our moral worth originates within us. It is primary, and is not derived, as the value of our abilities is.
Also, what's with the proliferation of these useless news-shaped websites like Second Nexus and Comic Sands?
Everything I've seen linked to there is essentially a headline, a lede that repeats it, and then nothing but embedded Tweets from #randos around the #net (which my adblocker hides, so at least there's that).
Seriously, the #value added by these sites is so low it must be #negative.
Unfortunately, I seem to get links to those two sites in particular all the bloody time in my Fedi feed.
[Did you know you could do this?] - Next Level Social Media Management with RADAAR (www.youtube.com)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpMQBgbK6JU...
when you import some data into Excel and it tries to format all your number fields (lemmy.world)