beguiledfoil

Do we have a name for tech that encourages compulsive use over any kind of deeper value? Candy tech? Sugar tech?

>Cheaper rent

Rent is not cheaper in Seattle. Salary will make up for it if you are a programmer, though.

I don't think it has anything to do with PC and has a lot to do with being C. There's a lot of bravado among older programmers that carries over from a time when they really could do whatever they wanted because stuff needed to get done and a principled, lone gunman solution could actually be a much closer approximation of correct than some BS consensus built monster.

That simply isn't the world we work in anymore. Everything has been done and if it's being done again it's because the subtle mistakes and approximations of the past aren't good enough. Linus' complaints about the scheduler are the best example of what I'm talking about. A scheduler is a super hard problem now and there's a lot of complexity to wrestle with that simply didn't exist in 2001.

Anyway, the kernel is still open and discussion is still happening so I don't think we're in some kind of crisis. Good for Linus to take time off - maybe this will be an opportunity to develop processes that can create a more dynamic open source environment, one less reliant on a few individuals.

Cryptography doesn't solve social problems.

Cryptography doesn't solve political problems.

Cryptography solves communication problems. That's. It.

This is a stronger endorsement of COBOL than it is of blockchain...

>The entire economy of the world is a time bomb since it is predicated on exponential growth continuing indefinitely into the future.

Adding zeros is not that hard. Munis have actual tax bases and actual obligations and those seem out of step in some situations. That muni debt will be mispriced because of tax incentives seems obvious.

Municipalities are in the same spot that Greece or Italy is in. They have debt in a currency they do not issue. They cannot devalue or inflate that debt away. Therefore they have to manage their debt as a corporation or state would, but they are much smaller and less flexible. Bad buy.

Or rely on transfers from the federal government.. As most already do..

Munis are a timebomb, imho.

It's just a data point...

If you want something this simple just use sway...

Overfitting.

Mega cap tech companies need subsidies?

They also don't want to be "forced" to buy insurance.

>how do we signal the extra mile except for tips?

I mean in the case of Lyft I give them money. Why should another adult care how I "rate" them?

>Doesn't that imply that there is a shortage?

A shortage of housing? A shortage of ways to launder money? A shortage of safe assets that beat inflation? A shortage of network connected land?

Emulate Tokyo is good advice, but not easy. There's a reason Tokyo is Tokyo and everywhere else looks nothing like Tokyo.