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sounds like AWS funding everything else Amazon does that isn't profitable, this isn't a new strategy

> After all the mind is inseperably embedded into the body (first and foremost through the brain).

People will gloss over this, as this is the common western view, but it should be noted that this is not how it is.

Your body is contained in your mind. Your universe is contained within your mind. All of this is simply the contents of your mind.

But having kids is all-in: there is no turning back and no flexibility

I would feel so much more limited and bounded in what I can do in the world, because my own financial future and my own mortality would be way more relevant with dependents.

I can't remember the last time I searched on Google without appending "reddit" to the end.

What are the proposed solutions to get better than that? C/Rust code? Assembly?

This. Both Coinbase and Stripe are were they are today almost entirely because they have mastered UX/UI.

Surely they made the decision to IPO back when BTC was half of what it is now.

FWIW, I probably hate Slack more than anyone else on Hackernews (because everyone somehow seems to like it). Keep in mind I also don't use the Slack desktop app but I do use the Discord desktop app, so right away this isn't a fair comparison but I'll continue with my rant anyway.

I mainly just find the user-experience to be terrible. I hate how each server is separated as if it is it's own isolated website or something. On Discord, I can switch from server to server in a click easily.

Playing GTA? I can join the GTA Discord server. Playing League? I can join that one. It's all right there.

It's also the weird SSO Slack has going on that just seems broken. When I open up Discord, I have one account, I log in and have access to all other things in the account. Basic software behavior we're all used to.

When I open up Slack, it does or does not want me to login again based on if I've been on this server before. It may or may not want me to make a new account depending on if I've made one on this server before. I try all of my emails with all of my potential passwords to see if login works, if not new account time I guess? I'm never sure weather to use my work account or not. Sometimes the @domain matters, so this creates even more of a mess.

Then don't even get me started with a lack of usernames and having intentionally hard-to-find ID. Again, why not do what Discord does and do Username#6789? Instead I have to search my friend 'John Doe' and hope it's the John I'm thinking of and not some random other John that I just invited to see all my business's internal discussions.

Is there an open source example of the actor model in use, particularly in Go or Java?

It sounds pretty cool but I can't build the mental model of it without an example.

> but it is also not >$10B of software engineering

Really? How did you come to this conclusion?

Discord is, without a doubt, 10x better than Slack, Teams, or Zoom combined. They've solved the problem of a communication in the non-business space. That's huge.

For comparison, look at Coinbase, who has a 100B valuation. What they're doing is relatively trivial. Is that >10x the value of Discord?

I don't even think Coinbase is overvalued. 10B for Discord is just a steal.

I think there is tons of things aligning for something catastrophic this year. I suspect economic collapse due to loss of confidence in the USD.

Was Kia using BlackBerry's QNX platform?

Pretty sure all conversations are public, so you can just scrape for free.

Problem I have with .io is that .com is more familiar with 1/3 the cost.

> self-healing, service discovery

For a second I read that as self-discovery

Damn kubernetes is some good shit