The most unethical aspect IMO isn't what they're building but the taxpayer money which those big companies are getting. These are essentially handouts. Taxes are not paid voluntarily but coerced out of citizens under…
I'm surprised that founders still care about all that stuff. They already made tons of money, who cares. None of it means anything. Nothing is fair in this society. They don't mind the system working unfairly in their…
In Australia, house would be at least 50% more, apartment would be maybe 70% more. Beef is cheaper (about half price) and tastier (from my experience). Bread is probably half price and way tastier in France though.…
I appreciate the question. It kept getting slightly worse every year since I joined the workforce. My salary is 2x when I started 14 years ago but it buys less than half what it could back then. Most of it goes into…
Currently, my experience is that spam filters often block non-spam messages and allow many spam messages through. Platform notifications are spam! Yes, even if I signed up for it, I agreed to be contacted by the…
As someone who coded professionally in Python, C, C++, C# and Typescript, I disagree.
I'm disturbed by the state of the world and economy. Before AI, my worldview was that our monetary system was concentrating wealth in a negative-sum game; essentially; every year, taking wealth from 100 people,…
I'm not worried about AI safety. People greatly overestimate the utility and capabilities of intelligence. I'm not afraid of intelligence, I'm afraid of idiocy.
I'm still waiting to get my first revenue from copyright content I created 10 years ago. Not everyone gets instant recognition.
We can't abolish it. That would be theft. A lot of people worked very hard based on the assumption that their work would be theirs and that they could monetize it. It would be the greatest theft of human labor since…
>> JS... Because our strawman is a modern (shitty) language This is an attitude I dislike from all these niche language communities. They give each other pats on the back for shitting on the most popular, versatile,…
Survival is not the problem if the land provides abundant resources. The limiting factor is procreation. Hermits don't tend to have children so they 'die out' as a species but they're fine as individuals. In reality…
My wife and I love British culture, architecture, parks, etc... But compared to Australia, I felt like it was still feudalism over there. It's like everyone knew their place. I could feel the class system; the software…
Part of my motivation for moving back to Australia was because the low population density means I could potentially survive on a hunter-gatherer lifestyle. In the event of an apocalypse, I would probably move back with…
When I was in Germany a few years ago, I was browsing jobs available in France and most software development jobs were under $55K USD. I don't know how you're supposed to survive on that. You can probably make more…
Self-promotion is encouraged in my social circles and anyone who says otherwise is weak minded so their opinions don't matter. What are they going to do about it? They're probably jealous that they never had the guts to…
Why you apologise for something which is perfectly legal. Give an inch, they'll take a mile. F the authoritarians and monopolists.
It's not spam if it's the first time I heard of it and it's useful. It shows they care about their project. This makes me want to try it out even more. Meta and Google can spam their unsolicited ads to a billion users…
I've been feeling this for years. From my perspective, the purpose of VCs was to: - Waste my time filling out forms to participate in incubators they would always reject me for. - Fund my competitors so much as to drive…
Voting doesn't work in a low-trust society. You can't trust the custodian of the digital system who tallies the votes. The problem is intractable. The president, who is ultimately decided by the owner of the voting…
All well and good if your lifestyle stays the same... But what if it keeps getting worse? Some people want the whole pie, some people want a certain sized slice and some people want nothing. Some will fight to the death…
My main concern is that as people lose their jobs and can't find new ones, an increasing number of people may be forced into a life of crime. We need UBI ASAP.
I feel like I've been in a recession economy since the day I entered the workforce 14 years ago. The movement of the stock market has had no effect on my reality. It's like two different universes inhabited by two…
I recall a time when Google was struggling to monetize ads and then something changed and they started becoming profitable. The narrative was about improved targeting. I think it might have helped a little but I never…
I've seen some ugly OOP codebases, but I've seen some very nice ones too. I haven't seen any nice FP codebase yet besides basic APIs. There's a reason why 99% of video games are OOP. That level of complexity is just too…
The most unethical aspect IMO isn't what they're building but the taxpayer money which those big companies are getting. These are essentially handouts. Taxes are not paid voluntarily but coerced out of citizens under…
I'm surprised that founders still care about all that stuff. They already made tons of money, who cares. None of it means anything. Nothing is fair in this society. They don't mind the system working unfairly in their…
In Australia, house would be at least 50% more, apartment would be maybe 70% more. Beef is cheaper (about half price) and tastier (from my experience). Bread is probably half price and way tastier in France though.…
I appreciate the question. It kept getting slightly worse every year since I joined the workforce. My salary is 2x when I started 14 years ago but it buys less than half what it could back then. Most of it goes into…
Currently, my experience is that spam filters often block non-spam messages and allow many spam messages through. Platform notifications are spam! Yes, even if I signed up for it, I agreed to be contacted by the…
As someone who coded professionally in Python, C, C++, C# and Typescript, I disagree.
I'm disturbed by the state of the world and economy. Before AI, my worldview was that our monetary system was concentrating wealth in a negative-sum game; essentially; every year, taking wealth from 100 people,…
I'm not worried about AI safety. People greatly overestimate the utility and capabilities of intelligence. I'm not afraid of intelligence, I'm afraid of idiocy.
I'm still waiting to get my first revenue from copyright content I created 10 years ago. Not everyone gets instant recognition.
We can't abolish it. That would be theft. A lot of people worked very hard based on the assumption that their work would be theirs and that they could monetize it. It would be the greatest theft of human labor since…
>> JS... Because our strawman is a modern (shitty) language This is an attitude I dislike from all these niche language communities. They give each other pats on the back for shitting on the most popular, versatile,…
Survival is not the problem if the land provides abundant resources. The limiting factor is procreation. Hermits don't tend to have children so they 'die out' as a species but they're fine as individuals. In reality…
My wife and I love British culture, architecture, parks, etc... But compared to Australia, I felt like it was still feudalism over there. It's like everyone knew their place. I could feel the class system; the software…
Part of my motivation for moving back to Australia was because the low population density means I could potentially survive on a hunter-gatherer lifestyle. In the event of an apocalypse, I would probably move back with…
When I was in Germany a few years ago, I was browsing jobs available in France and most software development jobs were under $55K USD. I don't know how you're supposed to survive on that. You can probably make more…
Self-promotion is encouraged in my social circles and anyone who says otherwise is weak minded so their opinions don't matter. What are they going to do about it? They're probably jealous that they never had the guts to…
Why you apologise for something which is perfectly legal. Give an inch, they'll take a mile. F the authoritarians and monopolists.
It's not spam if it's the first time I heard of it and it's useful. It shows they care about their project. This makes me want to try it out even more. Meta and Google can spam their unsolicited ads to a billion users…
I've been feeling this for years. From my perspective, the purpose of VCs was to: - Waste my time filling out forms to participate in incubators they would always reject me for. - Fund my competitors so much as to drive…
Voting doesn't work in a low-trust society. You can't trust the custodian of the digital system who tallies the votes. The problem is intractable. The president, who is ultimately decided by the owner of the voting…
All well and good if your lifestyle stays the same... But what if it keeps getting worse? Some people want the whole pie, some people want a certain sized slice and some people want nothing. Some will fight to the death…
My main concern is that as people lose their jobs and can't find new ones, an increasing number of people may be forced into a life of crime. We need UBI ASAP.
I feel like I've been in a recession economy since the day I entered the workforce 14 years ago. The movement of the stock market has had no effect on my reality. It's like two different universes inhabited by two…
I recall a time when Google was struggling to monetize ads and then something changed and they started becoming profitable. The narrative was about improved targeting. I think it might have helped a little but I never…
I've seen some ugly OOP codebases, but I've seen some very nice ones too. I haven't seen any nice FP codebase yet besides basic APIs. There's a reason why 99% of video games are OOP. That level of complexity is just too…