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We are trying!

Cars get ever more fuel efficient, there's more investment in public transit than ever, Britain is interested in nuclearizing again, carbon offsets are widely purchased and many of our most energy hungry companies are finding ways to go to less or zero emissions.

Continuous carastrophization and disrespect for things people actually are working quite hard at doing, with implicit blame for "those other guys" to boot is how you make people try less.

Large efforts to transform the economy are quite difficult and take a long time. Transitioning away from fossil fuels entirely may be the single most complex international effort ever attempted.

You can say that all the bad guys at oil companies want more cars and more profits - but the reason they are so profitable is that energy consumption is directly related to quality of life, and until 10 or 20 years ago - fossil fuels were the way to get it.

It can and does happen at the local shopping mall, where middle schoolers too young to drive a car play hooky and go to the mall.

"Car centric urban design" is the catch all ill and if we just fixed transit it would go away.

Except it won't, because all the social factors that make car centric urban design preferable will still be there.

We do, they're called parks and playgrounds - and no one went there even in yesteryear.

Religious spaces have some extra spice, as does the local mall where middle schoolers do random shoplifting to be edgy.

The bit about ad revenue was actually specifically called out here as probably not the story.

The interesting part to me is the overall positive sentiment towards tech in general, because you are right - at least for specific companies, sentiment as reported by a local poll of people I play games with, Elon and FB are the literal devil.

It's the same justice system.

The unfortunate fact is that as the prosecutor in the OP lays out, it is not State's job to make sure every single legal advantage is pressed to the fullest.

Acquiring solid legal representation is a big financial barrier, but that's something we do help with as a society - there's public defenders, then there are civil programs for people up to 400% of the poverty line.

Yes, because the entire reason competition code was adopted in the first place is people graduating with prestigious titles that could not write code.

He's bringing out the men made of straw because there's a culture in many places, including my work, of YAGNI.

We did not properly federate many of our services and aystems, it is costing us tons of person hours to work around or deal with as our org chart grows. However, it's exactly the kind of thing that unlike Facebook - it is difficult to get metrics on how many dollars it will save or create, so it doesn't get fixed and people still wonder why anyone would care enough to fix it.

It's often not about learning more, the techniques and methods in Casey Muratori's streams are often very well understood and even taught in school.

Dismissing people as just being there for the paycheck - that's you and every other developer.

The number of people who produce useful OSS projects because they just like the project and aren't filling out resume points to hope bigtech senpai notices them is astronomically small, and usually the sort of political project nobody wants to touch.

The corporate sausage making machine is merely only doing what it's customers want, for the price they'll pay, nothing more, nothing less.

A lot of these are good impulses but also feel like an unfunded mandate, like rear back up cameras being mandatory - obligating everyone pay a thousand dollars more every year.

The feel good comes from the DOT, the cost gets paid by the customer.

What is and is not acceptable for minors to access is decided by parents or by politics. This is pretty standard and applying 1A concerns is weird.

That really depends on the reader. ElasticSearch is a company, and made its product open source as a growth strategy, it worked!

However , it is difficult in general for these open source companies to compete with Amazon's managed offering. The managed offering and its support staff eliminates the need for the tech service contracts that many of these companies to depend on.

ElasticSearch closed down the license and said "nope, no open source anymore because we have to make money". This was bad for the community, but not AWS fault

And if it wasn't AWS, it would've been Google. These sorts of open source development paid support contract based companies are having a hard time in general competing with the cloud.

I think it's fair for AWS to criticize Elastic for violating their ethos to make more money, but it's also pretty clear that the reason their OSS business model didn't work was managed cloud services like Aws.

Absolutely bless.

People are mad about whatever dumb thing Elon did with Twitter this week.

Even when applied to Twitter, the question presents itself:

Are you really happy with what it was before?

The only path from "then" to "better" is through "doing lots of stuff, some of it stupid".

Pushing back on the "late capitalism" vibe, the market cares about certain things over others because people have a limited amount of everything and wish to spend it on things they want - the way you make billions of dollars on a video game is by getting millions and millions to buy it. This is, nominally - a good thing!

There's places where it falls down (mtx gachas, where individuals tend to all be overvaluing gambling dopamine in the same systemic way), but like - teenagers want to talk to their friends, not learn to code and if they did they have a perfectly usable computer