Or smash the Google monopoly and let the content on independent blogs be discovered again. Let the free market of ideas on the Internet operate the way it was intended to.
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So they don't want to do that, or they don't realize how important it is.
On one hand I identify with a lot of the criticisms of "Generation Tiktok" and the anti-work movement and so on.
On the other hand, I didn't appreciate the significance of long-term investing as much in my 20s as I do now, either. And I know plenty of people in their 30s and 40s who still don't.
The only real mistake we make imho is telling these people they're right when they're not.
My #1 non-negotiable for my first job after college was very contrarian at the time, less so now. I've never budged on it. This is it: "Not in California."
Why? Because I like having money.
When there is an alternative that's been around for decades (centuries?) and it works.
Build skills, work hard, live frugally, invest whatever you can for 40 years, you will end up just fine.
Heck you don't even need to get all of those right, the only mandatory one is the last one, the other three just make it easier.
But this strategy is slow and nobody wants to hear it, it's preached by lame boomers like Warren Buffet and Robert Kiyosaki.
People would rather scroll through the Instagrams of a couple hustlers who are living large and dream. I get it on some level, there's never been a better time in history to get lost in fantasy.
1. Millions of women entered the workforce (started when all the men were overseas fighting)
2. The government went off the gold standard
3. Millions of people in other countries replaced the workforce via globalization
Those are the three biggies. Expanding the number of available workers kicked off the pressure on wages. Going off the gold standard kicked off massive inflation. Globalization shrunk the number of jobs available and was the nail in the coffin.
So that's why we don't have the same economics as a nuclear family in the 60s.
Now in practice a lot of essentials in the US CPI have stayed pretty cheap. Technology enabled a lot of things to stay or become cheap. But a few big ones are a train wreck. Home ownership, health care, education, all skyrocketed.
So when I see someone on the median income say "Man I'm getting older and I don't know how you can afford to settle down and buy a house and start a family" yeah that's a very real problem which is grounded in facts.
But when someone says "life sucks for the 24 year old who has the resume to work in the Valley and pulls down almost a quarter mil," here's what that is: horse shit.
And yet they're still doing just fine.
My post has numbers. So does his. They're earnest attempts to show that the numbers can and do work.
You on the other hand, are spitting out one exaggeration after another in bad faith. No, you don't need to move to rural Nebraska to find cheap rent. No, not all tech workers are lazy. Some of them settle for that shitty commute which you call a dealbreaker. Take a hard look at your attitude.
In the nation called the United States, on the planet Earth, in the prime material plane, the average office worker makes about $40K a year.
And the average rent is about $1100/mo. About a third of the office worker's income. Federal taxes are another 11% or so.
That leaves more than half of an average office worker's income for essentials like food, clothing and utilities. Entertainment is cheap these days. If you budget there's still enough left over for your 401k/IRA/etc. which goes mainly into the stock market and if you stick with that for 40 years you will do pretty well.
Always been the formula, still is.
What is this dimension where 24 year olds are running around earning almost a quarter mil and it's not good enough? Is this Valley talk again? I get that this is HN and rent in the Valley and taxes in Cali are high, but so high that this 24 year old on a quarter mil can't make ends meet? If he can't achieve what the office worker on $40K can, why is he in that job and that city?
It's more likely in my opinion that these people are worth less than they think they are, or don't know how to manage their finances, or both.
If security is a concern you can simply avoid third party plugins and themes, or limit your use of them to reputable vendors who have good track records.
The code of WordPress itself is pretty robust and the Core team has a great history of fixing vulnerabilities quickly.
The only real question is why the government exempts this particular corporation from following the usual rules that publishers have to follow.
As a longtime Blizzard fan and a former Microsoft employee, maybe I'm just getting too old for this shit, but there's really only one thing I care about:
Will they finally start getting the fucking games right again?
I do that (and when possible, put it in another room entirely) when I want to get some focused work done. Same goes for when it's bedtime, which has done good things for my sleep quality.
Just dump the infernal thing for a while and see where your brain takes you.
Google Search has 86% market share in the US.
So if you have a body of law which enables the creation of these things, details how they are managed, and then they develop into oligopolies, this is not something that happens "naturally" -- it's a deliberate result produced by whoever controls those laws.
Furthermore I'm not even going to bother sending them this paper because I know that most of them rarely read anything longer than a Tweet.
Gamer #1 likes to play the game. There are some parts he likes more than others.
Gamer #2 comes along and says, OK I will do the parts you don't like, and I'll sell my output to you for $XXX.
Gamer #1 agrees, the transaction takes place, it is entirely voluntary, and both participants find the outcome to be valuable for them.
How is this bullshit?
This is pretty much the reason we have money.
What sounds like bullshit to me is there is some... quasi-socialist I guess? value framework being imposed by some would-be intellectual who's totally uninvolved in the transaction, but thinks he knows better than the ones who are. Fuck that guy, he has no skin in the game.
This thing is extremely minimalist. A little bit silly to be talking about adding Markdown, antispam or privacy support when it uses $EDITOR for viewing/authoring posts, and the DB is world writeable...
Personally I think this is a lot of fun, it's the first project that has actually motivated me to install IPFS (which I thought would be much harder). It is in the vein of something like SDF where the retro interface might attract the right kind of people. I hope the author keeps working on it and if I knew Go I might contribute :)
There is a concept in contract law where if an agreement is heavily biased in favor of one party and that party has almost all of the leverage in the relationship, flat out refuses negotiation etc. - then a court can find that contract unconscionable and invalidate it.
That sounds like it might apply to a lot of "take it or leave it" software/online ToS and EULAs, but there's very little case law in this area to my knowledge.
Plus if your contract with Steam is invalidated, where does that leave you? It means Steam has no further obligation to you so you still can't access your games.
IANAL
Another way to look at things is that you've just gained a tremendous amount of agency. You're no longer required to perform these roles. There are surely dreams or opportunities out there which you wanted to pursue but were never able to. Take whatever amount of time you feel is appropriate to grieve, it's very normal to experience distress in the face of radical change. Then pursue them. There won't be many times in your life when you're presented with a clean slate like this.
But blockchains require resources to operate. At great scale they will require great cost. What's to stop powerful actors from leveraging economies of scale and consolidating those resources, then ultimately using their control to manipulate the blockchains themselves?
This is exactly what happened with web servers. The web was initially very decentralized, due to economies of scale it consolidated and is hosted mostly in a few large datacenters now. The owners of those datacenters are by necessity very close partners with the government du jour, and now manipulate the content they host.
As for crimes abroad during the period you selected, China actually annexed an entire country (Tibet).
None of this is to excuse US failures to defend human rights and civil liberties, but China is in a whole different ballpark.
Statistically I doubt I will be the first.
- Cookpad has infinite scrolling
- The only way to change the site language is a link in the footer
- As a result, just when you're about to click this essential link so you can read the site, more content loads in and it disappears
Took me five or six tries to finally scroll+click fast enough and defeat the infinite scrolling boss, thus unlocking the epic "now I can read this website" loot. Stupid beyond belief and I will never visit Cookpad again because of this.
Frequently the type of content that gets syndicated via RSS is long form and non-commercial.
It turns out that these two properties produce a pretty good signal to noise ratio which filters out precisely the kind of trash that has ruined the web over the last decade or two (long form content at least has the possibility of teaching you something or presenting an idea with some kind of rigor; and since RSS isn't great at monetization, the worst offenders in media tend to deprioritize it).
Of course RSS is a very imprecise filter, but it's basically the antithesis of a Twitter or Facebook feed, where everything is short form and you tend to see whatever serves the platform's commercial interests (i.e. their definition of engagement).
This matters to me because at a certain point I realized -- I have basically never read anything short form on social media which enriched me in a meaningful way.
I have learned a lot from studies, reference works, long form analysis, and books -- basically all the quality knowledge I possess has come from one of these sources.
At best social media has given me occasional links to these things (scattered among an ocean of junk information).
It's mostly because of how RSS originated with blogs I guess, and who was involved in designing it. But for whatever reason it has been far more valuable to me than any other form of content syndication online.