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The thing I never understand about this argument is that there’s a much higher likelihood of significant injury or death (getting shot) robbing the houses with guns, no?

Guns may be “easy to liquidate” (not sure if that’s actually the case) but surely selling Xboxes and MacBooks on eBay is just as profitable?

> When the "activist" types push politics into workplaces they are not doing it so they can talk about what they feel. They are doing it so they can find the people who disagree and damage their careers.

This sounds like your position is that anyone who advocates for anything (esp. when it's directly impacting them, but unrelated to work) only has one singular goal of weeding out disagreement and getting rid of it, which I think is ridiculous.

Humans are social creatures and we largely shape our perspectives by iterating with new data and communication. People can be (and IMO largely are) advocates for things that are important to them, have opinions on things, and don't have a singular focus of destroying anyone with different viewpoints.

On the other side, all humans have their limits to cooperation. As you have social interactions with anyone your viewpoint of them change, and realistically if I find out something about a co-worker through discussion like they believe that the 2020 election was stolen because Trump told them so it does inevitably make me scrutinize this person harder. What if you found out that a co-worker thought black people were genetically inferior or that women don't deserve to vote? At that point it's hard to work with someone with such a fundamentally different view of the world.

Is it "cancel culture" to say "we don't want nazis to work here"?

I disagree, having migrated multiple family members away from shitty plastic laptops full of bloat ware and ads and shitty Android phones full of the same they are much more able to use their devices.

I also find as a dev that iPhones and MacBooks “just work” and let me get my stuff done, much much more so than a Linux desktop environment or windows laptop.

I guess we may be talking about different things though if you’re saying the apple ecosystem isn’t living up to its full potential, but IMO the rest of the phone/computer ecosystem is full of cheap shitty plastic crap with windows installs that OEMs have had free reign to install whatever they want on (and even without that, why tf when I install windows 10 do I get ads for “candy crush” on my start menu?!)

A “planned leak” with 0 demonstration of legitimacy is nothing more than creative writing on the internet.

When planned leaks like this occur for real (or black hats are trying to prove possession of data they shouldn’t have like credit card dumps) there’s almost always a small cut of the data that’s released to give legitimacy to the actor and the dump.

This looks much more like someone trying to wateringhole attack people or extort crypto influencers/funds.

Netflix is also down 66% YTD, Tesla down 41% while BTC is down 37% over the same span.

Clearly Tesla and Netflix were speculative assets without intrinsic value too by that logic.

The theory generally goes that what convinces people to use the USD is that it’s backed by the full faith (and more importantly, full military force) of the US government. The Breton Woods Agreement and after getting off the gold standard the “petro-dollar” solidified the USD as the reserve currency for nearly the past 100 years.

The flip side is that unfortunately the stability of the USD is in the hands of politicians and other stewards of the country, which is an immense power to wield, and highly susceptible to corruption and misaligned incentives.

The idea behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin is that the code and protocol are simply open source computer code. China can’t arbitrarily decide that they have more bitcoins than they actually have, even if they dedicate an enormous amount of power and influence to try to do so. It provides a tool by which people can transfer value even with hostile adversaries. There’s also a fixed supply that will ever exist, and while deflationary money clearly has issues when it’s the only currency used, as a counterbalance to politically-driven inflationary money it seems like a useful hedge, even more so than gold (we have estimations for how much gold exists but we can’t ever say with certainty - but you can search literally the entire galaxy for more bitcoins and you won’t find them).

There’s a pretty clear logical contradiction in claiming definitively that no protocols are actually decentralized or work better than their centralized counterparts in crypto world while also signaling that you’re so unfamiliar with it that you barely know what a dApp is.

This is an interesting write up!

The only question I have is around your point on monorepos - every monorepo I’ve seen has been a discoverability nightmare with bespoke configurations and archaic incantations (and sometimes installing Java!) necessary to even figure out what plugs in to what.

How do you reason about a mono repo with new eyeballs? Do you get read in on things from an existing engineer? I struggle to understand how they’d make the job of auditing a software stack easier, except for maybe 3rd party dependency versions if they’re pulled in and shared.