ironmagma

Wouldn't idealism be believing you can do nothing and everything will be absolutely fine?

I'll take unfalsifiable statements for $300, Alex.

So you honestly think one of the largest and most powerful AI-enabled corporations on planet earth is being stopped from firing these people because of a technicality or two on the books? Why hasn't it happened already?

This meme again? Corporations are not capable of anything, but corporations are made of people, and people can care.

Economies are naturally deflationary (assuming a fixed money supply); services become more efficient, making capital more productive. This happens more or less automatically within competitive markets. So those capitalists do become arbitrarily rich, limited only by institutional factors (tax, labor bargaining, antitrust enforcement). By restricting access to capital markets you're siloing these gains off into their own pool.

The time has long passed since the “inevitable” things should have come into existence, for example universal basic housing. What happened instead of the advent of it is something to behold: somehow instead of supply being provisioned in response to demand, we simply changed the excess demand into an externality. Now there’s been a lot of “rage” about this, but it hasn’t been effectual. We still have plenty of homelessness right now and no particular mechanism to control it. We may not be ready for this change, but that doesn’t mean we will accept the change instead of simply pretending the problem never existed and should never exist, if everyone just behaved right.

Cloudflare is essentially MITM as a service. What else would someone expect?

Does anyone know about the time horizons for executive stock compensation at BigTech? Something has to explain the lack of long-term strategy.

No it's not. HTMX is a backend tech; it hinges on moving your presentation logic from the frontend into the backend, hence the whole hype about it supposedly obviating React.

- Why would you pick $backend technology?

- Because someone told me frontend was dead.

Probably because the news of frontend's death has been overstated.