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History is full of examples of quiet, brilliant people who contribute amazing works to society, but never see any money and ultimately fail to influence decisions when they are important. For example Alexander…

I feel like google enshittified itself with SEO and bloat. Maybe if we just re-made the original and changed the business model it would be good again.

It feels like they forced him to buy it, and now they are tarring and feathering him.

I noticed a few responses that looked pretty suspicious. It would be shockingly nasty in my opinion to ever do this, but given how shallow and fake society is, maybe it's becoming commonplace, I noticed at least one app…

Just noticed a lot of ex-humanities people becoming like "grifters" sort of. Like the recruiting industry. They seem to position themselves as some kind of "coach", "career coach", source of advice, and use psychobabble…

I have about 3 Yoe webdev/+physics/mech eng degree. Worked a few contracts then my own Saas thing, now pretty burned out. Don't really need funding or a team, just a bit of time. Was thinking to just to dumb manual…

For example - some of Google's acquisitions are shut down, but were demonstrably good. Do new competitors get bought and shut down also?

Often people say things like "government doesn't have the resources to police X". With increasing automation it seems like they don't need the resources. Can this be quantified into some kind of "orwellian threshold"?…

Metrics are dicey, but for longterm projects it can be useful to see progress. I'm looking for tools a bit more technical than kanban or tickets. Just what's out there.

I feel like tech suffers more than most fields in terms of hype, probably because of the money. Lately it is AI and chatgpt, which tbh seems to me more legit hype than other things like maybe OOP or whatever. Anyway. I…

Been a bit out of the loop, wanted to build two projects in the AI space, I used to support the idea of open-source but I am finding the online world increasingly hostile, and I'd prefer to work with like 3 people in a…

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I followed a thread here that included the surprising fact that Hydrogen fusion is so unlikely the power output per volume of the core of the sun is only about the same as a compost heap. The reason the sun is so bright…

Does anyone have any experience?

Having people mindlessly scrolling on social media represents a real economic loss. There is perhaps some short-term gain from allowing or manipulating more purchases, and perhaps some purchases will be "socially good".…

(old debate I know, but psychology isn't my strong point). Facebook, google, etc have wildly comprehensive databases of my behaviour, online and offline. Only recently I have come to understand that a lot about my…

As a techy on the spectrum (only naive social skills) starting out their career I've had one or two pretty abusive work situations involving a lot of adversarial psychology and I'm terrified. It affects my productivity,…

It feels like at least a third of the content is something about "how to learn", "how to think", etc.