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Comment · 13 days ago
Or... "how humanity fell for yet another promise of Lucy's to not yank the football away" if you just follow orders

From religions promise of forever life with your loved ones to "starts a SaaS! Disrupt!"

All just political ploys of the elite class of the day. Cause the kids stupid lizard brains take decades to figure it out

Comment · 13 days ago
Really? Your argument is shareholders who engage in menial labor of buy low/sell high should receive the most reward from collective labor investment?

Found Elon's HN burner account

Comment · 13 days ago
That has little to do with "Japan" and more to do with "that's how it went back then."

There's stories all over about Hollywood dumping physical copies of films, sets and props only to later regret it.

No one knew if a sequel or trilogy or decades of fan service would happen. They didn't care like our rose colored glasses of time make us see.

American comics and Star Wars has had their continuity reset.

This is just "grass is greener" type thinking. It's only ever been the US fan culture that cared; most creators just see it as a paycheck

Comment · 14 days ago
Elected and unelected government workers impact not just us but the world given the interconnected nature of modern logistics.

They can accept the obligation or stay home.

It's not supposed to be career for personal gain like being an actor. Every LARP has been socialized as a "destiny" or "calling".

Except for the average person who lives at the whims of "the market".

The downside for the majority of insulating 600k elected officials and the 1.3 million lawyers and public employees is just more of the same middle age's stratified society crap

I say we roll out america.gov decision models trained in public, deployed in public, built around a legal philosophy of immutable rights to shelter and healthcare and the related technology development and have it bubble initiatives for public vote that don't violate the core legal rights

And if some dealership owner doesn't like it remind them they're one meat of billions and we don't really need them

This whole Mr Rogers touchy feely kid gloves for the professional managerial class, all told fewer people than died during covid, not a truly important cabal then, is no different than anointing kings and barons and regional lords financially... their economic condition is sacrosanct and everyone elses is optional

Changed the semantics, kept the ridiculous ground truth

Comment · 15 days ago
git is a distributed protocol that does not demand distribution happen through github.com

Private keys and private endpoints is all we need

Comment · 15 days ago
> I have a theory

No need to be abstract and theoretical about it; it's how the trickle down economy works.

Boomers and GenX are the ones foisting that reality on them; GenZ is pushing the buttons supply side is providing

Stop talking in vague abstractions. We know this is 100% top down driven self selected interpretations of historical documents by the elders in charge of political interpretations

Comment · 15 days ago
Biologically maybe. Was really just calling out how banal and repetitive the "kids and their god damn bullshit" energy is
Comment · 15 days ago
That's why they're pricing out desktop builders and trying to lock everyone into hosted model consumption from a cheap mobile.

And if you can afford it a VR headset or AR glasses to simulate an 80" display

Comment · 15 days ago
Isn't the "bad" signal here use of such an outlier agency to begin with?

As in "main ratings agencies" see no reason to bother

Comment · 15 days ago
Not a founder but have 20+ years experience in code and 7 before that in design and build of data center blade tech back when that was still kind of new; been in engineering a while

And yeah... have seen all the jargons come and go. DOS, Novell, Windows NT, xml, soap, next, BSD had a moment, chef and yada yada...the vague hand wavy semantics to 2010s web saas will not be spared

The most common shared cross continent language for whats going on is math... stats of state of memory registers

The jargons conjured up on the fly to do office work 30+ years ago all fade away; how many startups went all in on COBOL during the RoR era?

So yeah; hard pressed to recommend tethering juniors to useless jargon as we have most of my career.

Comment · 15 days ago
You sure about that? My friends and colleagues outside the US are awful pissed that US gen pop let/lets this happen.

They’re encouraging their leaders to route around 300 million Muricans as they see no collective action in response to threats to global trade they rely on.

And argue ok if US institutions and zeitgeist are "fuck yall we're America" well again 300 million are really at the whim of 8 billion.

Not sure the typical Mr Rogers naive optimism "we're America!" is gonna get the US through after 10 years of this (Biden admin effort was binned just months after Trump 2.0 took off so it effectively didn't matter; Jimmy Carter 2.0). That's just copium, blind faith in what Adam Smith called "the invisible hand" he later came to realize was a mistake to believe existed

Comment · 15 days ago
Old man shouts at cloud.

From the generation that gave us XML, SOAP and Trump.

If you cannot contribute except to complain about the kids log off.

Been hearing effectively the same whiny shit since I was a kid in the 1980s when your now long dead elders called your generation "gold star for nothings" and lamented humanity needed another Vietnam to thin you all out.

Comment · 15 days ago
Yeah which is why I don't have much sympathy for folks like Tao either

The ability to conjure math is practically as endless as time

At some point the outcome is just generation of new visual art in the form of syntax

We can't physically observe the past or future so we can only theorize and simulate; IMO that's the physical phenomena that belies Incompleteness Theorem; from Earth in the relative year of 2026 my view of the universe is fundamentally incomplete. As such all language describing too far either is incomplete always.

It makes any kind of longtermism, religious or agnostic framework espoused by kids of rich academics, empty. We all gonna stick around 10 more generations just to make sure?

Whole lot of educated people are just peddling euphemism for religious conviction they steeped in as kids but hid behind atheist semantics like "Intelligent Design."

Comment · 15 days ago
So your response to asocial, xenophobic politicians is give them what they want?

"I will show that America first President who wants to fracture global trade...by arguing for fracturing global trade."

That gen pops tune changed with the political climate just like big corp previously going on about left wing shit is stunning

Ya'll are just LARPing what you watch on TV and read online

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