Torwald

Judging from the headline I thought this was a design doc for a OSS clone of WinXP, which would be a cool thing IMHO.

This is what the Amiga is missing!

One good example would be PGs essays. They are honest, I suppose, and they are very successful marketing.

Make it 100%. I consider myself relatively "geeky", but I couldn't explain neither what a VPS or an nginx image is.

"Normies" are people who are not sure whether the photos they took today with their phone are "on the phone" or "in the cloud" or maybe on the laptop also? Or what?

Go from there to "nginx", I'll wait and don't hold my breath.

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Well, you say this is not a topic for this site, but HN is explicitly about intellectual curiosity and as long as you present your case with enough complexity and new information, any topic should go. It's not the topic, it's the way you go about it.

You raise an economic, political and maybe societal, ehr, question? It is not entirely clear to me what your inquiry or proposal is. You can help the community accepting your topic by being more clear and information rich.

The crisis in the Middle East is a terrible thing, but I don't think it will lead to a majority of people being "screwed".

The money printing is not really a danger in that sense. Yes, I also do think we should manage to have a better banking and currency system, FIAT is less than optimal, but it's not the case that it doesn't work at all either.

I don't know who you are referring to with "normal people", but I am inclined to not see the HN crowd as normal people. Depends on your parameters of course.

The problem is not that the normies don't care, the problem is a society that seems to need that to function well for everybody. The problem is the existence of government. Instead of a state we need a society based on private property, that would solve these problems. It is about who has the possibility to apply force and a state government enables that in a wrong way.

You know, one thing we could do is to get the costs for energy usage sorted out. Like, people who use a lot data-center electricity, pay accordingly.

If AI would cost you what it actually costs, then you would use it more carefully and for better purposes.