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One is an observation the other is not, it's a description of what it is; one is a posteriori, the other is a priori (contrary to what you say).

They're not comparable.

Kenny Dalglish, Liverpool FC, 1985-1990.

I'm not sure if that's the case. Of course one has always been able to copy or plagiarise open source code. The value of open source projects is that they continue to be maintained by people that understand the code base. LLM's lifting that code doesn't change that.

At a glance, I'm not seeing a big difference in share of wealth between now and 1989. I'm not sure, then, what Robert Reich's point is, to say that the richest 10% "now" hold 60% of the nation's wealth, nor how he can come to the conclusion that it is "eating" the economy alive. Nor what the point is of providing a chonological graph, a graph which doesn't provide any actual percentages, nor a source. He's an accompolished economist, he can do better than that if wants to point out the egregious unfairness of society. Or is this the quality of argument on x.

> In 1920, there were 25 million horses in the United States, 25 million horses totally ambivalent to two hundred years of progress in mechanical engines.

I really doubt horses would be ambivalent about this, let alone about anything. Or maybe I'm wrong, they were in two minds: oh dear I'm at risk of being put to sleep, or maybe it could lead to a nice long retirement out on a grassy meadow. But they're in all likelihood blissfully unaware.

The article gives the impression "Italy" was always a nation in the making for all of history, just waiting to "unify". It talks of a "national rebirth".

But it's an invention. It never previously existed. Yes the penisula was referred to as Italy for a long time and the language is shared across the area and there are cultural similarities. But none of that automatically makes a nation - you don't have to think hard of counter examples. History could have panned out differently. It still could.

I think the bourgeoisies have been enormously successful in giving the impression that these nation states, whether it be Italy or Germany, or India, etc, that they're inevitable, they're permanent and anything else is a perversion. And Garibaldi was one such whose brilliance was to forge a nation so quickly from so many disparate states.

> Calling datastar's pro features "necessary" is a bit disingenuous

I didn't. I said:

> * Datastar has a paid-for Pro edition, which is necesssary if you want certain behaviours. HTMX is completely free.

I don't need to spell out why this means something very different to what you think it means.

I'll happily concede on the other two quibbles.

I'd expect it to make it explicit this is a freemium product, with free features and paid features. Nothing is given on the home page to indicate as such.

I don't think the article does a good job of summarising the differences, so I'll have a go:

* Datastar sends all responses using SSE (Server Side Events). Usually SSE is employed to allow the server to push events to the client, and Datastar does this, but it also uses SSE encoding of events in response to client initiated actions like clicking a button (clicking the button sends a GET request and the server responds with zero or more SSE events over a time period of the server's choice).

* Whereas HTMX supports SSE as one of several extensions, and only for server-initiated events. It also supports Websockets for two-way interaction.

* Datastar has a concept of signals, which manages front-end state. HTMX doesn't do this and you'll need AlpineJS or something similar as well.

* HTMX supports something called OOB (out-of-band), where you can pick out fragments of the HTML response to be patched into various parts of the DOM, using the ID attribute. In Datastar this is the default behaviour.

* Datastar has a paid-for Pro edition, which is necesssary if you want certain behaviours. HTMX is completely free.

I think the other differences are pretty minor:

* Datastar has smaller library footprint but both are tiny to begin with (11kb vs 14kb), which is splitting hairs.

* Datastar needs fewer attributes to achieve the same behaviours. I'm not sure about this, you might need to customise the behaviour which requires more and more attributes, but again, it's not a big deal.

> ...To accomplish this, most HTMX developers achieve updates either by “pulling” information from the server by polling every few seconds or by writing custom WebSocket code, which increases complexity.

This isn't true. HTMX has native support for "pushing" data to the browser with Websockets or SSE, without "custom" code.

> These payment processors seem to be basically levying a 1-3% tax on a nations entire GDP

You're exaggerating for effect. GDP is the total value of all goods and services sold or bought; only a fraction of which is paid for with a credit card. I doubt an F35 is purchased with a Visa.

None of that is contrary to "moving money at speed to make wealthy people more wealthy".