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If I give you $1379.87 do you know the minimum number of notes and coins you could get?

Then you are an excellent programmer.

Sublime is all I need. I'll build everything else.

I've been programming for a billion seconds since the timestamp was in 500 M. Good ol days with Turbo Pascal and Clipper Summer 85, now it's all about Swift and Kotlin.

Time flies.

No, not a coin, it would be dollars, euros or whatever local currency. The blockchain is to keep track of the books in the public eye.

The pool of money is there until its depleted for the month with a cap of 10% per user, or it would rollover for the next month so more emergencies can be covered. A healthy society can build up a huge chest for when big emergencies hit.

If you want more coverage then you acquire a second tier risk insurance which has a bigger pool and different coverages so practically the market allocates resources more wisely.

What if a thousand people get together and put $100 each in the blockchain in order to cover emergencies for the unlucky 10% that may need aid in times of distress?

A society can't function if more than 10% of the population is in distress and that's exactly the purpose of insurance, the many helping the few, not the other way around.

But since insurance moves a lot of money (just like banking) and there is propensity to fraud and corruption, then it is highly regulated making it hard for newcomers to disrupt the market.

Start from the beginning again using technology, allow tech insurers to take from 100 and serve 10, that's it. Who to serve? That's the easy part, those in need.

Absolutely, the executive needs CPAs and MBAs, the legislative needs lawyers, the judiciary needs judges and to be honest that's the only one where meritocracy permeates, just add a little randomization instead of handpicking, that's all.

If you are going to build a bridge are you going to hire an engineer or a cook? Now if you're going to create laws would you hire someone who has studied roman, germanic, sharia law since the times of Hammurabi, philosophy, sociology, politics and everything necessary to understand human interaction and association, or a bus driver?

We get the government we deserve, proportional to our level of ignorance.

There is a big difference between picking from a pool of politicians (crooks who climb the ladder by manipulation, backstabbing and deceit) and the best lawyers according to market forces and meritocracy then randomized.

If your job is to create laws, then you must be an expert in that field. So the pool of candidates should be meritocratic in its nature, like a Law School degree and at least 10 years of experience plus 2 in public domains.

Then you can randomize.

Most countries in the world allow any bus driver to be a congressman and we know how great their understanding of laws and human rights are, none.

I am in my fifties with over 30 years programming experience and proficient in 20 languages yet one employer rejected my application because I didn't meet their requirements and they found a better fit.

I work fifteen hours a day, can't stop learning and trying new technologies to keep myself on top of the wave.

Ok, here is a cheap shot of a dream. Future cities like mega malls with a thousand shops facing inside and a thousand homes facing outside, one to one. Roads would be marbled floors and cars would be electric scooters with a basket enough to buy groceries around.

For those who like the outdoors, just get your off road vehicle and face the indomitable and untouched nature. No paved roads, no concrete, nothing outside these habitable malls interconnected by hyperloops. Of course there will be supply roads for trucks but they will be just like highways interconnecting mega farms to mega malls.

Nah, scratch that, there is nothing like a house in the suburbs with a huge yard and a barbecue.

I wish they were a single html file, with nice typography and plenty of margins.

Never as long as anybody can freely compete. Once you can't compete, no matter how big or small, a monopoly is born.

I've always said that's stupidly annoying stopping me from installing apps on my own phone or on my relatives and friends as long as I do it manually using an USB cable. Also stopping beta apps from running after a week. My macOS apps run forever and I develop dozens of apps for personal use.

Boring.

I'll tell you a little secret, Java is the number one programming language in the world just because it is used by millions of programmers for Android apps and a few enslaved programmers in corporate gulags. Once Kotlin takes the Android world by storm Java will sit next to Cobol in the history books of technology.

"Anatomy of the State" by Murray Rothbard.

We live in a world of thieves masqueraded as leaders.

Not if, but when, and I'd say real soon. It will burst back to $500 and then slowly up to current levels. Rinse, repeat.

I wish we could start prosecutions like Nuremberg's once we topple the Venezuelan regime that has brought so much misery to our country. It is unbelievable how so many corrupt politicians are living large around the world and no country ever asks them about their billions of dollars in sudden fortunes, their yachts, ferraris and multiple properties. They have stolen trillions of dollars in almost two decades, but this is not only about the money, also the millions of displaced and hundreds of thousands killed at the hands of paramilitary motorized gangs armed and supported by the dictatorship.

There won't be closure until we hunt them down everywhere they hide, and the whole world has become much more smaller thanks to the internet.

Political reform to stop aggression on the life, liberty and property of individuals.

Self sustenance in food, water, energy and protection for individuals.

Health and life expectancy.

Harmonious relation with Earth and nature.

I'd be happy with solving just the first one.

I will make a prediction so I can come back and make fun of myself in a month. It is a bubble and it will pop real soon going down back to $500 bringing down all the alts with it, then it will slowly go up again at a normal pace for the next couple of years.

I'd like to see public competitions between two AI giants like Google and IBM. Now that would be an interesting ongoing race for AI superiority.

That's exactly what I think. Nobody trusts Oracle and want to move away from Java no matter what it takes. See Kotlin.

I hope he creates a Kotlin/Swift evolution, I am already in love with both of them.

How about communities, forums, boards? When I see an interesting project I'd like to talk to the developer without cluttering the Issues section.

It could be the entry point of every repo, moderated by the owner of course (something like php docs where people can post interesting stuff related to the page at the end). And it would make Github more social.

Which is a very valid point, I applaud them for their vision for excellence. But in today's world, where market share is crucial for the adoption of new technologies, they can hardly survive with a 20% share of the marketplace in the near future.

For payment networks total penetration is crucial, for open markets, social platforms, productive software, for search engines. Again, a Rolex can survive as a timeless jewel in your wrist since it does not need interaction with the rest of the world, but good luck competing with Whatsapp, Facebook, Amazon, Google, Paypal, even Uber or MS Office if only 10% of your userbase can afford your exclusive products.

That's why I propose they create a sister business in charge of expanding their market penetration with cheaper products or face extinction by isolation. Apple for the elites, Orange for the plebes, both using their platform which in turn will allow them to capture a greater market share for their future technologies.

I can't do Facetime with my mother or brother because they don't have Apple products. We could if they had an Orange product for $99 running OSX or iOS.

Dropped microsoft fifteen years ago and never looked back. Dropped facebook seven years ago. Google is still useful but got bitten in my pockets by adsense so they are in my watch list. Mozilla, Amazon, Apple in high esteem but could be more user friendly and more innovative in their fields. Big media and big telcos, I don't care. Twitter, snapchat, instagram, never used them, don't care about social fads.

What else?

What would Steve Jobs do?

A Mac Nano for $99 to compete with the Raspberry Pi.

A Mac Mini for $199 to spread the love of OSX.

An iPhone mini for $199 to spread the love of iOS.

A 60" Apple TV (yes, with screen) with an iPod like remote.

Siri.com as a text search engine.

Apple Pay as money transfer between individuals.

If Apple wants to keep their high quality mark untouched, they should spin a second company codenamed "Orange" and deliver lower quality devices in order to spread their platforms.

It is time for Apple to leave the constrained niche they've cornered themselves into. 10% of the top market is a good position to hold forever, just like Rolex, but in the era of social virality market penetration is a must for survival, you must be everywhere and in every device.

The Next TV.

I firmly believe the next wave of technology will hit our TVs. The final nut has been cracked and that is the remote. Typing on a TV is the worse and voice won't help, so a dual touch/keyboard piece of glass is all needed to make the TV the next entertaining device after the mobile phone. But they need to converge all devices needed right now into one. I don't need a pc, a mobile working as a remote, a tv device and a tv screen in order to enjoy the future. I need ONE TV with a glass remote. That's it. Google and Apple are missing the elephant in the room.

What would Steve Jobs do? A 60" Apple TV with an iPod like remote for $3995 in dark aluminum and a 40" version for $1995 and still sell the attachable box for $150 for those who already have a shitty TV. Allow Safari and all apps without restrictions, even Popcorn Time. Can't fight what the consumers want.

Apple is underplaying Siri and they should morph her into a full fledged TEXT search engine. I rarely use voice to make any search on my laptop but text would be the perfect input mechanism for Siri integrating her with all apps, the web, and the IoT.

> since it is just another JVM language

Not for long, they're working on Kotlin Native which will make it completely independent from the JVM and portable to all platforms. Killer.