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But better than this is would be if my go tooling didn't default to trying to pull codebases through a proxy

Forgive me for being cynical, but I don't like that out of the box the toolchain tries to pull all the code at `example.com/business/logic` through google servers.

The sport is much more interesting for spectators when the top speed is 50-70km/h than when it’s 10-20km/h

In fact, according to her tax disclosures she doesn’t even expect to stay in the UK…

Google “houseboats <european city>” and you’ll see how they are moored and connected to services. There’s many good videos on YouTube doing tours of boats if you want to go down a rabbit hole.

Are you saying that if massive corporations will probably fight regulation we should just give up before even starting?

I think a government blocking a project from existing is by definition a failure.

And it also shows that cryptocurrency projects will always be at the mercy of the whims of government(s).

“Stored away for long periods of time to minimise fading” is such a polite way of saying “so that future generations have a chance of seeing it, _you_ aren’t able to see it today”.

My friends and family who could not afford to buy have almost all left the city completely, so I guess you’re right in the sense they don’t rent _in Auckland_ any more. Last Summer I spent half my time driving between Warkworth, Rotorua, and Hamilton just to see those nearest and dearest to me. We all used to live less than 20 minutes from the Harbour Bridge.

1. Jacinda Ardern is no longer Prime Minister. This is a recent change without much fanfare, so it’s not unreasonable the author made this mistake.

2. ...Is Auckland suddenly more affordable? As someone who grew up there but currently living overseas, it’s news to me. A lot of my friends are saddled with large mortgages they could only get with help from their parents. In a low wage economy they will struggle to pay if interest rates rise from their historic lows.

Are you me? Our services with all the best practices are also the worst to work on because the business value is hidden in layers and layers of indirection, abstraction and nested packages. It’s like someone took a recipe card to bake a cake and wrote each word on a single page (because god forbid we ever repeat ourselves) and then abstracted away a function behind a series of factories and interfaces that will join those pages with string, and now each word has a single context-less definition so we can tick the “S” box in SOLID.

Probably because currently multiple rich people can subjugate humanity, while AI would allow the single richest person to subjugate everyone, even second place

Many popular games are free to play. They monetise through targeting whales.

This is perhaps the most succinct way I've ever seen this expressed. Agree 100%.

That's why in my next start-up, we're making sure that each employee works 168 hours a week. We believe that maximising inputs is the only way to get results.

> That only happened if you ignored and dismissed updates for weeks.

I should be able to ignore and dismiss updates for years.

I recognise I'm taking on risks, but it's my hardware and my data. Some of these updates are downgrades in functionality and behaviour. I specifically don't want to be forced to accept whatever patch is pushed out.