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It’s really not that dangerous. If you’re a safe rider, riding in relatively safe environments, cycling is about as dangerous as jogging. And yet you never see anyone jogging with a helmet.

There was a recent video about this that summarized my thoughts on helmets

https://youtu.be/g1HgInvm-gY

That doesn’t sound like 50 countries at all. That sounds like one incredibly disfuncional country.

Ah, so close.

Old people aren’t bad drivers because of “driving skills”. They’re bad drivers because driving is incredibly dangerous and they’re old.

What we need to do to prevent this is eliminate driving as a lifestyle. Treat it as the dangerous act that it truly is. We don’t let 75 year olds operate heavy machinery, we shouldn’t let them operate cars either.

Ok friend, when you come up with a business model to support OSS that doesn’t get destroyed by the internet giants let me know.

This goes back to my original point. You’re living in fantasy land.

In reality, that’s not how it works. If to use Redis your company had to assign someone to do maintenance work then you just wouldn’t be allowed to use Redis. And yes, you would be using MS Redis, because none of the clones would be secure and supported enough for you to feel good using them.

If Amazon had to do enough maintenance work they’d just fork it and do it on their own proprietary version. They have literally done that.

This goes back to my original point. You’re living in fantasy land.

Gotcha, I see what you’re saying.

I didn’t know about Grafana. That sounds awesome.

Maybe you’re right about this being an antitrust issue though.

Look, in principle I don’t disagree with anything you said.

However, I think OSS is a net positive to the industry, and would like to see it remain that way.

The classic way to monetize OSS has been to provide hosting and support for a price.

Now the internet giants are taking that entire pie for themselves.

If we agree that we want OSS to be a viable option going forward, and we agree that you need money to hire devs to maintain a successful large scale OSS project, then what do you suggest be done?

I like copyleft licenses!

But they don’t solve the problem of cloud providers pulling the rug out from under companies based on open source companies.

The point is that if there was no business behind projects like Redis and ElasticSearch you wouldn’t be using them either. You’d be using some random Microsoft or Oracle product.

I’m guessing you don’t want that either, so come up with a way to make sure Redis has the financial support it needs to hire engineers to do the full time work that part time contributors like us don’t want to.

You wouldn’t use the ten commandments as your only moral guide.

The landscape has changed. Google, Amazon, and microsoft are actively trying to destroy open source business models. Don’t let the leopards eat your face because you were too attached to your ideology.

You’re living in theoretical fantasy land.

Yeah, it’d be great if everything was open source and everyone was happy.

But that’s not really what happens. Redis and Elastic are popular exactly because there’s entire companies behind it constantly maintaining it, securing it, and adding features.

If you want use open source software at your job that’s a hard requirement. No, you can’t use “MySillyKeyValueCache” that Timmy develops in his free time with no security or compatibility concerns.

Companies cost money to run. Google and AWS exploit open source work for profit, and don’t contribute back enough to ensure its support. This is what you should be really mad about. The internet giants are literally killing open source.

If they have their way you’ll be stuck with their proprietary software. In practice AWS is already there.

Ok, so bring it up with the NLRB.

I think employees know about it, but don’t say anything because it marks you as a low performer, and it’s very easy to fire low performers.

At the same time, employees know that tips are incredibly lucrative for them, and would rather have a sub minimum wage day every once in a while for the on average above minimum wage pay. There’s a reason servers don’t want to get rid of tips.

That being said, none of this is my problem as a customer. If you choose not to pursue your rights that’s on you at the end of the day. I’m not going to feel bad that your scheme to have me subsidize your wages failed.

If workers make less than minimum wage from tips, then the employer needs to make up that difference.

Workers are already paid fair wages. The employer needs to ensure workers make minimum wage at minimum.

Restaurant workers already get a fair wage. At minimum they make minimum wage. If you don’t think the minimum wage is fair then fight to raise it. Otherwise you’re gonna have to start tipping at a lot more places than just restaurants.

Nobody gets paid less than minimum wage. The employer needs to make up that difference if tips don’t cover it.

I fed an LLM the record of a chat between me and a friend, and asked it to summarize the times that we met in the past 3 months.

Every time it gave me different results, and not once did it actually get it all right.

LLMs are horrible for summarizing things. Summarizing is the art of turning low information density text into high information density text. LLMs can’t deal in details, so they can never accurately summarize anything.

You can’t reason someone out of a viewpoint they didn’t reason themselves into.

There’s no economic argument to be had with someone that says monetary policy is theft.

Doesn’t matter, a sovereign government doesn’t need bonds to fund its spending.

Yes, this is the entire point. Government needs to spend productively to grow the economy.

Any spending can be inflationary if it’s perceived to not be productive.

How that spending is financed is a footnote. Domestic debt works, foreign debt works, but the central bank can also purchase bonds and that works too (and is not inflationary). This is what Japan has been doing for decades to great success.

Not to say that the transition is easy, and if too much of the USs debt is owned by 3rd parties that means that there will be currency value shocks that have to be mitigated.

It does not mean that there will be a crash, or a recession, or a default.

Why are you assuming the worst version of my argument to argue against?

You’re wrong, empirical evidence shows that you’re wrong, but you don’t seem like you’re engaging in good faith so I’m not going to do your homework for you either.

The author wrote thousands of words based on a fundamental misconception.

The US is not Greece. Greece doesn’t control its own currency. The US does. It can always meet its debt requirements. It will never default.

Inflation is not a concern. Any kind of spending is inflationary.

Key word was, because nobody wants to spend 200K on a Honda no matter how many F1 drivers swear by it.

Right, they still exist, but now they’re budget sports cars, which isn’t really what I was talking about. A GR86 is cheaper than most SUVs. A miata is even cheaper. The civic type r is neat, but that’s not a sports car. That’s a performance model of a family car.

The comment I was replying to said that people buy porsches because they’re beautiful.

That’s not it, because the NSX is beautiful, the LFA is beautiful, the FD is beautiful, but nobody wants to spend 200K on a Toyota.

Cars are a signifier, and the viewer needs to understand that sign. Luxury car makers bank on that. Put an LFA and a Cayman next to each other and 9/10 people would think the Cayman is worth more.

The original commenters idea works for content, because content is not a signifier of money. Rich people can’t have more expensive media taste than you, so the enthusiasts set the pace.

But they can have a more expensive car, so no matter how awful a car a lamborghini is, nobody envies the Integra type R next to it.

An NSX stands out, but anyone who doesn’t know what it is would just think it’s a ferrari.

GTRs absolutely do not stand out. They look like your your average sedan.

That doesn’t explain why japanese manufacturers who used to make sports cars in the 90s don’t anymore.

It’s a mixture of enthusiasm and conspicuous consumption. Most enthusiasts love 90s japanese cars, but the average person sees an old mazda and recoils.

But put an old ferrari in front of anyone and they have a completely different reaction.

Sounds like we mostly agree. You don’t have to like or agree with anyone’s personal choices, but you do have to respect them and treat them fairly.

Especially if you’re an interviewer.