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It's been cracked down on, but I remember a year or so ago the actual thumbnail was a nude woman here and there. I'm guessing they implemented AI to reject things now.

depends on how fat you already are - if you are, 100% of it converts. For anyone that is addicted to sugar they are pretty much a fat person. The sugar industry is blaming themselves.

Sugar and fat are the same thing. Converts

They can literally buy the entire country for 60 billion. Each person would get a million dollars for their vote to leave Denmark.

A lot of people are distracted with problems like how do I get this race condition fixed with a carefully written unit test.

You have to remember there are people that have a budget of unlimited money with the problem of "how do we capture greenland". Even crazier things like "how do we lower the birth rate of X" are other problems people have unlimited money to throw at.

Remember this for your entire life as you see history unfold.

Most is 12%? This is the problem with HN. You're all so bubbled it's ridiculous to think sometimes a HN'er will say something like "If I were President."

My thoughts immediately too.

No one wants kids, religion, different sex partner.

Instead they're pushing crime, drugs, prostitution.

It's almost as if they've been programming society with little nudges. well F them.

The higher education system is largely a scam. I have a degree in CS but I didn't really need to get it. I was already coding in C++ and other languages before I even went. I used to argue the opposite and that I would never have learned O notation (and its purpose), or red-black trees, etc... But the internet since the time I graduated (2003) has massively filled out what you can learn. Yes a college "forces" you to learn this stuff - but there HAS to be another way to FORCE someone to look at YT without taking on 100k of debt.

The one thing I would say that I agree about however is there is a difference in a person that went to college vs one that didn't. It's not exactly what they learned, but the filter they had to punish themselves through to say "I finished college". And yes, there is no other filter that does that. You can find people like that who didn't go to college too, but the "filter" is a convenient thing for employers.

We need to go back to a system where there are apprentices and masters and get rid of this entire college thing. The filter works just as well in those scenarios without putting people in 100k of debt.

I know, I don't disagree with your ideas on good faith journalism, I just have so little time right now. I am more or less waiting out what happens with the MN fraud investigations. I think it has blown up to such a huge amount that Walz is not running now. All I can say is that a 23 year old kid was able to make that video and a few weeks ago everyone blew a nut because Bari Weiss dropped a 60 minutes investigation on CECOT (A Boring Ass Dead Story).

60 Minutes in 1990 would have DREAMED of breaking the MN scandal story. I remember them breaking a story like Gasoline pump fraud in the 90s and it didn't do any research other than recording gallons pumped into Gallon Water jugs - but they still posed it as fraud.

When software was paid for at a wage that was like a construction worker back in the day. Sure there could be "some" improvements, but we went a bit nuts making a millions of React developers.

Well, I hope to think it's still possible.

.24 of the 1.2?

I would have believed Ukraine to have been the largest.

The largest reason software development costs a lot is that a cabal of people had been desperately trying to lock out smaller companies from having access to software engineering resources at such a cheap rate and eventually get taken out.

I get that from another perspective your answer is also correct, but the reality is the large pay is really so that EA's blockbuster video game sells and a small upstart of 45 software people that want to make their own amazing game does not beat them. Those 45 people will take the paycheck rather than collectively start a game company now.

What happens next no one is sure, but I can tell you, that if the amount of cheap software surfaces because 1 man army companies take out TeamViewer, Photoshop, Jira, etc... because of LLMs - then those wages will drop, and drop fast and it has nothing to do with the 330 million people "having a say".

Slavor

That's the American dream story- always starts with dad getting yelled at for making things better and faster - the next sentence in the founding documents: So he went his own way and now we have NicoCloth Inc. which in the years since has become a global corporation.

Because there are 300M people in the US and not all of them can have your cushy SSE role. See all the homeless people - it's because we're selling them out.

For clothing, for the most part is an Indian woman that is moving the cloth on a sewing machine still. We have not LLM'd making clothes yet. Nike and a few other companies are working on 3d printing shoes, but it's not comparable to hand made yet.

For the most part, the price of a shirt made in India vs USA is the cost of labor. The Indian woman will work for $3 per hour which is a decent wage for that area (don't fact check me, it's just a guess here). She can probably make 5 shirts an hour.

A woman in the United States will make $16 per hour and still make just 5 shirts (or less - more rules in the US about breaks, and probably streaming Netflix too)

Now the company that sells the shirt at Walmart for $10 will have a profit margin of probably $5 per shirt from the Indian labor, and $1 from the US labor.

Technically after the industry is built out more we may be able to squeeze more shirts per hour if we start doing technical innovations (for example we make a machine that pre-sews 5 of the seams because of innovation. This is something that won't happen if the center of gravity is in India, but may happen in the US. (Actually today that may happen in India as tech is taking on its own thing there now).

They didn't have those steps outside the USA in 1960, yet people wore shirts. Those steps can come back.

For cars I found it interesting that my water pump on my Dodge Ram is stamped with Made in Italy. Yet the part is fairly small that even if Italy continues to make it, they can ship 50k water pumps in one shipping container to Detroit, and the truck can still be assembled here. That's not an issue. The issue is when the truck is made in Mexico entirely (which I think they still are). I know that's not "the entire supply chain" but it certainly becomes a center of gravity.

Last year many people were talking about dev shops changing their "center of gravity" from the US to other places like Poland. In other words, CEO here, EVERYTHING else is in Poland. Wherever that center of gravity is, that's the country that will benefit the most. They may even hire a remote worker in the US that is up all night - but it will be the exception, not the rule to hire US people.

Be thankful it was 5k and not 150k. It is very easy to fall for sales pitches of vaporware in this industry. Have you considered using Cursor/Claude code to try to build out the infra? (I know you're non-technical however so that may be challenging)

Our combined careers of moving bits around where we have amassed trillions in developer pay for code that doesn't do anything previously built software could... or worse has made the world a horrible place... Is the bigger story.

Welcome to the exact same feeling we had of Biden and his entire admin. Pop your bubble I voted for Biden.

Every time I introduce something like this teams complain. RX is a brain antipattern

multicast has been dead for years

But the desktop/laptop/phone/printer was the EASIEST thing to change in that 30 year history. And it would have been the easiest thing to demand a change req from a company for.

The IPv4+ could pass through a router that doesn't know about it - the cloud host that receives that packet could interpret it in a special way, in fact you could stuff additional data into the next layer of the stack for routing - it's not like many services beyond TCP would need to support the scheme.

The problem with local AI is that in the future Agents will be running 10s of simultaneous conversations.

Sold out manufacturing years ago. Long term building real physical products is going to be the only value. LLMs are going to drop the price of informational value.

I was thinking it was more of a "more than 50%" ownership controls the routing tables. Love the chaos.

I am on my company's VPN right now and I get a 0/10 at test-ipv6.com

I think the best thing about something like this would be to get people to Slow Down.