icandoitbetter

How long before an ignorant humanities scholar writes a book claiming that the "Rathke Affair" proves that all math is nonsense?

    It may not scale, but the chances of it making (any/more) money are much higher ("riches are in the niches") than a "fast startup" as it's very rare for a startup to grow fast and monetize quickly at the same time, because most people just won't buy immediately, sometimes even if it solves a problem for them.

That is the exact point of the essay. An average niche business makes more money than an average startup, but a successful startup makes many orders of magnitude more money than a successful niche business.

Why would you try to implement this with WebRTC? WebRTC is for real time communication. It's in the name. Social networks don't have to be real time. How would you do persistence in a WebRTC-run social network? E.g. how can I visit your profile when you're offline?

Piecemeal compilation:

    // beginning of file
    Coffeescript = require('coffee-script');
   
    // compilation    
    Coffeescript.compile(line, {bare: true});

e.g.

    var f = eval(Coffeescript.compile("(x) -> x + 1", {bare: true}));
    f(1) // ==> true

> I detest politically motivated scientific theories

Then you detest every scientific theory ever devised.

I assume everyone has the same amount of equity then?

Is it impossible to imagine a system where fellow human beings would help you even if you didn't produce anything of value?

Yeah, that's exactly what Marx advocates.

Well written, but I completely disagree. Behind your reasoning lies the classic libertarian argument about epistemological complexity (not saying you are a libertarian, just that you are using Austrian school reasoning): because we can't know what can potentially save lives, we should just let people do their thing without making any judgments on what should be our collective priorities. I, for one, have no doubt that a doctor saves more lives than a car mechanic. There are a lot of outcomes we can know, be certain about, do something about. If we concentrated as a society on defeating aging, for example, we would perhaps get rid of jobs that could very indirectly help in increasing our longevity, but we would replace them with jobs that do so much more directly and effectively.

You also completely misinterpret Maslow's hierarchy. It's not a prescriptive, but a descriptive one. An individual who has to struggle daily to survive usually does not have time for poetry.

Stop putting words in my mouth. I never said that this is a solution for labor rights or unemployment right now.