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Maybe German software engineers have to use sex boxes a lot?

How bad must these people feel about themselves after though. Driving out to some seedy "sex box" to pay to have uncomfortable car sex. The self disgust on the drive back must really be something lol.

No the "world" (ruling class) never treasured that.

I know a fintech startup founder already working on precisely this

I get the whole "home grown industry" and sovereign production of defense and all that, but just like when Australia tried to build its own submarines, really you're better off just buying them off the shelf from your allies who've already been ploughing billions into design and development of the things for decades.

Genius...

So would it be a legit business model to just run a 1billion gigawatt heater to profit from those negative rates?

They don't care though. School was never about learning, but discipline. Through that lens, the fact its uncomfortable without purpose is by design.

How many languages do we need again? The amount of time we spend playing around with special case languages and frameworks. Would be nice if machine languages followed the lead of natural languages, with a single one slowly pushing the rest to the sidelines.

It'll be interesting to see how things pan out from all this.

The internet has only really been with us for a few decades, and yet has completely transformed the fabric of humanity, acting as a bizarre and extreme lens upon existing human traits.

At some point, logically, there has to be sufficient reaction to bring us back in line with what we came from. The "winner take all" effects from the internet are just too extreme to be feasibly sustained.

You can't have a happy society with such extreme gaps between rich tech people and everyone else living in tents or off what they choose to spend their money on. You can't have a happy society where the top 5% of beautiful men are paying people to schedule their calendar of tinder lays while other guys buy thot bathwater, or where the top 5% of women get all the attention and the rest wonder where their prince charming is who's been denied them from all this as they sadly pass 30 alone.

The fact is, a huge amount of bad has come from the internet. A seriously huge amount. And the opportunity cost of all that capital that went into enraged politics on twitter and inanity on facebook, that could've gone into medical research... At least we got Musk from it I guess.

It's a strange feeling. Being an active participant and facilitator in something that is clearly not naturally aligned with human happiness, only human progress. In the end, what choice do we have. This is our natural aptitude, and succeeding in it can mean the difference between living paycheck to paycheck and becoming financially free. So we're going to do it. We have little choice. But we can't say any of it is fundamentally good. At best we're peddlers of the neutral and inevitable.

I'm a big fan of the "fire and motion" concept of dev social paradigm.

The idea is that devs and large companies have a tendency to constantly move away from tried and tested concepts not because the juice is genuinely worth the squeeze, but because doing so forces the devs "in their dust" back into learning mode and out of productivity mode, thereby maintaining or creating leadership over them (i.e. you force them into playing catchup -- catchup to your new "hot" thing).

Case in point with this article: an attempt to declare that a tried and tested and widely used concept is now outdated, and they know the "right way" we should be doing it.

This paradigm is important from a dev management perspective, in that there must be an element of actively suppressing this in a dev organisation.

E.g. having approved tech lists so you don't have another half dozen js frameworks inserted over the next 12 months, requiring permission to stray outside standard paradigms, and compartmentalizing experimental time from production time.

Otherwise your dev output drops through the floor.

MVC is fine. Its a basic concept that aligns with the underlying hardware: model - memory, view - screen, controller - cpu. It ain't broke, don't let your devs fix it.

Copying is a fictional crime.

It would definitely look like 4chan. 4chan is a straightforward example of unrestricted speach. And its not a bad place, just different, but most people wouldn't enjoy being there.

Even places like this maintain a certain form of discourse by threats of bans.

But who won? Even assuming Ghosn committed a crime, they ended up looking like the crooks.

And one man succeeding in shady dealings hurts few. But the state succeeding in boundless detention puts everyone in peril. He may have some power, but there is no more powerful an entity than the state.

There's a basic rule of war: slow slow, fast fast. You slowly and quietly gather your forces and telegraph nothing, and when the moment comes, you unleash it all at once and unrelentingly. That's what they should've done. Not made a move until they had the evidence to put him away.

The fact they couldn't do crap for months on end just broadcasts to the world: "we don't actually have any evidence to convict him on".

Nothing's sacred in this world, not even habeas corpus, because no one can be arsed reading history -- it was never a matter of anyone forgetting it.