ElonMuskrat

> tells me you're the type of person to be suckered into them in the future.

Wow. I'm sure you have all the research and experience to vomit that psychoanalytic gem with authority.

> It clearly appeals strongly to people managing cloud servers I manage cloud servers, on-prem servers etc. and I don't want to deal with Nix/NixOS.

> it's basically the same kind of technology as Ansible or the many alternatives It's not Ansible because Ansible cannot guarantee state convergence.

> I wonder if US lawmakers would step in to try to shut down these systems.

It's unecessary to shut down because fiat off-ramps are the Achilles heal. Already there are wallet address banlist [1]; and woe to any instituion who processes transactions which originate from those addresses.

[1] https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/...

> It's been over half a decade since that stopped mattering, for me.

It's certainly going to matter come tax season to businesses which are/will be forced to convert Monero to local fiat.

> I've bought goods and services directly with Monero plenty of times. I've paid invoices that the merchant put in Bitcoin, while using a third party to pay in Monero, which the third party then paid in Bitcoin.

What exactly do you buy with Monero?

I genuinely laughed.

It seems like after every media, government, celebrity and politician, who can be bought, has been bought, and every sucker pilfered, then this thing will finally come to its horrible end.

I did not think I would experience a bubble that rivals the Dot Com or Mississippi bubbles. But here we are.

The late David Graeber helped shape grounded ideas on money. His book entitled "Debt: The First 5000 Years" cover the topic, but he also discusses the core ideas in interviews freely available on YouTube.

The USD is backed by 11 nuclear aircraft carriers, 68+ nuclear submarines, 8725+ tanks, 1,359,685+ military service members, a police force and one IRS that makes damn sure taxes are paid in USD or "damn would be a shame if the governemnt took your home/car/freedom away"

This reads like a high school student council wrote a financial research booklet and then took themselves seriously.

Is this just protifing on a topical craze or does this have staying power? What experience does in-game NFTs offer to players that they otherwise cannot find in traditional database backed assets?

This is a good point. Black markets are indeed part of the real economy, whether governments and people like it or not. That being said, regulation is inevitible.

Or another theory that all the talent that contributed to great success stories at Blizzard went to better jobs or launched their own indie studio.

It's great the author has found success and carved out a niche. However it's quiet a stretch for them to speak as an authority, to assert truisms about video games. Several other commentators have great counter examples. From memory games like The Last of Us, Brothers, Life is Strange and Disco Elysium.

Their new logo looks like a sagging pair of tits.

This matches my experience.

FWIW Shopify used nix-shell for the developer environment. If all they need to do is import standard packages - it's actually quiet a good solution for multi-platform dev environments.

Yeah. We've used it on servers. It's good in a small setting where a handful of Nix experts can run the infrastructure show.

Getting it to scale to an organisation of hundreds wasn't feasible. As soon as we needed to start expanding "infrastructure" beyond just one team, and rapidly hiring new engineers in the context of rapid growth. Training and learning curve was intractable. And we cannot just easily hire NixOS experts like traditional Ubuntu OS.

Nix made complicated things possible but simple things complicated. Pretty much every new feature request could only be processed by a handful of Nix experts, and it was obvious that wouldn't scale with the growth of the company.

Frankly, Nix solves problems that the industry has already solved or knows how to live. Its lack of adoption from software vendors makes the economical cost/benefit unatractive.

I have not read the statement. Unless where legally compelled to disclose precise information, corporate statements should be ignored.

Biggest fraud, yet.

> Adding to the confusion, Musk himself has appeared on “60 Minutes” and Bloomberg TV behind the wheel of a Tesla with his hands in the air. He’s been talking about Tesla‘s fully autonomous technology as if it’s imminent since 2016. That year, Tesla posted a video showing one of its cars running in autonomous mode through Palo Alto. “The person in the driver’s seat is only there for legal reasons,” the video said.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-04-19/tesla-on-a...

That's quiet an extremist statement. There's quiet a few ticks on the continium from nuclear fallout bunker to a few months of food and water.

And the other 18% is probably "non-profitable" ads e.g. YouTube.

Landlords are levereged to the tits. They are a few mortgage payments away from foreclosure. These are acts of desperation.

They are the world's fattest patent troll.

The Japanese stock market is so completely different from the West - you can draw no applicable conclusions.

> Is it a new class of Alphabet stock?

No. If it's stock it's gonna be Waymo stock.

> Was this a corporate bond?

We don't know the details. If bonds are involved, they're probably convertible bonds [e.g. convertible to stock].

<<< Patent trolls get paid because short-sighted companies make the decision to pay. Simply put, it is usually cheaper in the short run to pay a troll than it is to litigate. It is also cheaper to give a schoolyard bully your lunch money than it is to visit a doctor. The thing is, once you pay the bully, he’ll just come back again and again and again. Eventually, that lunch money adds up to a lot more than a doctor’s visit. In the long run the best way to deal with a bully is to punch him square in the face. You might take a beating, but if you do it every time? The bully will find easier prey. >>>

This is very naive. Patent trolls get paid because they are highly effective at weaponizing the legal system.

Google has net income of almost $30.7 billion and payed only $4.2 billion in tax. If they gave all 2,300 cafeteria workers a raise of $25,000 that would reduce their net income from $30.7 billion to $30.64 billion.

Google has become a social parasite - one that propels greater and greater wealth inequality. The parasite profits tremendously from public infrastructure and open source - while giving nothing back.

That would be funny. Their engineer employment motivation boils down to: Come to Google and be comfortable.

> Isn't there a quote somewhere along the lines of "full rewrites are suicidal?"

This is just dogma. Often it's the wrong choice, but sometimes engineers have very good reasons to re-write a system. As with all decisions, tailor the solution to the situation - not the other way around.

I just cannot understand how rational engineers would choose untyped languages like Python or Ruby for large scale systems. Humans make mistakes - even very smart humans make frequent mistakes - and blast radius grows with the size of the system.