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52·1 month agoJust one then, there are 43 billionaires in France (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_French_billionaires_by_net_worth).
And there are around 40 people in the French Academy alone. That’s only a small part of French writers.
And 43 billionaires is a rather big number. Compared to Pakistan or Colombia where the comparison would be even more skewed.
Frankly the whole article is just bizarrely defining metrics to fit the narrative.
Given the respective numbers of professional book writers and billionaires, I doubt it very much.
2·3 months agoAh yes China or Russia, countries famously small enough to have a single simple climate.
26·3 months ago“C++, Python, Java” truly is the Lorem Ipsum of coding languages
15·4 months agoIn turbocapitalist circles, we prefer to describe this as a “strong economic incentive to become unshackled from your disabilities”, but I guess it’s a question of optimism
Then lied about them being dead
Then lied about them being alive.
Well they might have been right at some point, let’s give them the benefit of the doubt…
This might be a ‘smart’ (not enough quotes) mirror that can be used to virtually try clothes. The brand name in the error message is a hint. I know they exist, I have yet to see one, and hopefully I will never see one
17·6 months agoHow nice of them. I hope I can pay for this feature!
Some things never change
51·8 months agoI work for the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company, and I think I talk for everyone when I say: yes, why not
If one single line of code can make you lose $60M, surely you’ll ensure due review processes and independent QA and clear requirements and regular audits and a middle management not only doing KPI monitoring for a failing upper management. Right? Rrrright?
7·10 months agoHaha my distro is so obscure, you wouldn’t have heard of it! It wasn’t even on the dark web! I had to compile the server OS that hosts its .iso files. I had to modify its crontab with vim commands so bizarre, they are banned in 17 countries. You think your distro is good? Mine took 83 days to compile in code-golfing languages and had so many kernel dependencies, it is literally an unusable pile of shite. Trying to make it work, I have reached levels of rage most Linux aficionados could only dream of!
You’re really getting out of your way to miss my point. The number of professional writers is some orders of magnitude bigger than the number of billionaires, so much so that taking some arbitrary subset of writers of approximately the same size is easily done.
Another counter example (because I’m really nice like that): some contemporary French writers, just from memory:
Yes I know, it’s not 43, but I could easily go to my local bookshop and find 180 more, and again 43 billionaires is a lot for 70 million inhabitants. In any case the number of 500 writers in the article is laughable.
But that’s not the main point. What gets on my nerves is that the author of the article is cherry picking facts to entertain an idea. I could deliberately try something like “but you know there are more astronauts than true painters” and refute everything opposed to this with No true Scotsman fallacies.
The article proves absolutely nothing and the author makes a mess of logical thinking, while managing to blur what the wider perspective is supposed to be.