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Obviously having a drink with the colleagues has nothing to do with alcoholism.

I was responding to the comment that 'in the extreme, alcohol is a truth serum'. It isn't.

Diplomacy brings flexibility.

A well oiled team always has some level of diplomacy to keep everyone working shoulder to shoulder pointing in the same direction.

I don't think collective harmony aims to be a dick either.

Alcoholics lie, cheat and steal to fuel their habit. Extreme alcohol is a horrific poison to the body and mind.

I'd wager a healthy man who can drink you under the table, wouldn't reveal any secrets. He'll finish the drink in his own time.

It's artificial. The Chinese reputation is so poor in the West, people have to be forced to buy them.

The cars coming out of traditional manufacturers have onbvious flaws that could be fixed tomorrow.

But they don't...

You have no idea how much it pleases people in charge to have complete surveillance. It's pathetic.

Obesity is foremost a governing problem.

Why do we allow people to buy and sell addictive fast food?

Living life perfectly is not a solution to the obesity epidemic.

The cultural context of colloquial speech is incredibly difficult to pick up online. It is literally never communicated, you have to scrape Culture Shock and reaction videos for weeks to piece it together. Or study full time, or live there.

It bugs me how similar Youtube Shorts is to the spinning wheel game on The Price Is Right.

So much of social media is TPIR style gambling for dopamine and worthless knowledge.

Total data collection and we still can't attribute copyright to the creator of the work.

Content creation is a free-for-all. No genuinely sane person would try to bring good content to this tech landscape.

We broke the old institutions that protected authors over corporations.

Yeah it changed mid-2020. Youtube was a nice place to go.

Cheap entertainment is getting boring.

All good. I have nothing to add to that. Real life people who know you, would have more to say.

I hope it works out.

I'm a man who wasted twenty years programming with nothing to show for it. I moved on, to a working class job.

You're riding false hope and trying to get blood from a stone. HN doesn't pay for commenters, it pays start ups.

You should move on. Fifteen years is enough.

So you want to preserve a problematic principle to keep talking about it's contents? How terribly meta.

The shirky principle is not needed. Shirk is already an English word meaning 'avoid or neglect responsibility'.

He sounds plenty motivated. He's willing to start his own business to chase a $5 million dollar idea.

In a knowledge based role, the company is paying you to churn out solutions to their problems because the technology stack is setup to serve the CTO's purposes.

He has to start a new company to change the setup.

Your annoyance sounds like sour grapes.

There's nothing cryptic about his post.

He'a referring to an idea that sounds nice in theory and doesn't work in practice.

It's a common English phrase.

And the phrase works well, the concept of informed concept sounds good in theory and never works in practice.

Anyone who has observed tech companies for decades knows they don't ask for your consent before they make any consequential changes. Tech companies do whatever they want until they get sued or regulated. It's always been this way.

Yes, changed country, friends and job.

In the end, old family ties brought me back to where I started.

It is very hard for a tiger to change it's stripes. I've gotten better results standing up, from where I am now.

The radical change gave me life experiences for better or worse. In the end, it's hard to beat building roots at home.

That attitude is insane and politically naive.

Yout biggest peer competitor copy-pasted your military technology because you can't keep secrets.

You made your allies poor by taking away the advantage of research and you can't stop China from owning American technology for free.

The volcanic rage that attitude generates, is building sight unseen to the precious snowflakes hiding behind soon-to-be worthless Aircraft carriers.

Ctrl C, Ctrl V is a warcrime.

The article waffles on without providing any real insight or solutions.

The key solution is technology that empowers men.

- Self-driving cars should be an option for drivers to flick on and off at will.

- Mechanized looms should be custom built to enhance the craft.

- Computers should submit to their user's will and design.

None of that is guarenteed to continue.

Corporatized technology devours resources, and subverts human authority - with dark patterns and authoritarian policy.

Automation homogenizes the input and output, making products the same.

When every resource is under computer control, there won't be any need to have a capitalist own the profits. There won't be a need for employees to buy the output.

The concept of new startups will be flattened out by centralized resource control.

The technological revolution eats it's own future.

Why bother being a luddite?

The prognosis for technology is already terminal. Let's accelerate the decline.

Make it socially unacceptable for anyone to use foreign electronics and scan the RF spectrum for unathorized devices.

It's not that hard if you're really committed and can accept chasing up offenders after-the-fact.

Same pattern for me. Keep getting videos with nearly no views and occassionaly I comment on them and get real feedback from the creator.

Definitely an odd experience.

Our society was based on population growth. It's not that it needs to grow or doesn't need to grow.

It's that the change to our way of life and economy is as big as ww2.

Peter Zeihan does a good lecture explaining the impact.

Porn and contraceptives did a lot of damage.

It used to be that deciding to conceive made parents get their child into schooling and a lifelong career. Instutions were built and maintainted to support inflow of children and stable corporations were kept alfoat by a growing populace.

Making conception optional for sex has knocked over most of the stability there was in the west and people are scrambling to replace it with electronics and authority.

Tack on top of that, these country wide changes were not made by local governments, but by factories and corporations gradually dragging in the tools to break our society. And immigration on top to plug the gaps.

Something's gone terribly wrong with the West and there's no weasling out of it. It's time to stand up.

It takes a few people in an inner circle turning code to their benefit. Then playing their complexity game is the best way to make money.

Software engineering should have been much more than it is. Dedicating SWE to service jobs in the corporate sector has pushed all the idealized software into very few research streams.

There it is. The line.

Physically forcing anything is a failure of governance. If you have to force it, you had no authority in the first place and you're just covering up that fact.

America is absolutely committed to creating hell on earth.

You want to push it, until we are forced to return the favour?

When one side doesn't listen, then these conversations are nonsense. The concept of having a conversation is coming to a close.

When someone's wrong it's not always in the content of their comment. Often they're missing context, don't have the whole picture and have made an excellent comment for the wrong point.

It takes a lot of time to turn that kind of comment train around.

The language and culture barrier on the internet does not help.

Downvotes are a blunt tool, they are the best we have for limiting exponential growth where otherwise one must justify more and more logic to counter a runaway train.

He doesn't say that.

He chooses to relate to Australian law, not maths. It's his job to do that. He is not a mathematician.

It is frustrating watching Muricans balk at a change of topic, by saying that he claims something he didn't.

Anglo culture and American culture really are two different beasts.

Long since resigned.

It's impossible to keep a secret on the internet. You can't secure military technology, bank secrets, crypto tokens or prevent piracy.

Computers were designed to be open by default.

General purpose computing mannufactured across the planet with everybody having a hand in the supply chain has become the betrayal system.

Security follows the traditional Mafia protection scheme racket.

- Some Romanian hacker leaks data from your web server and sells it.

- You pay developers to close the vuln.

- You pay cybersecurity a protection fee to prevent it happening again.

- It happens again.

Developing a real technology that can give secure control back to the owner-operator goes against good business incentives. You can't farm users and share the wealth on a truly secure computing model.

All the new builds in my area share a rendered concrete and jail-bar fencing aesthetic that is monstorous, undesirable and ugly. There are no sensible features to look at. The corners of the build look so sharp, you'd cut your hand if you touched them.

The hundred-million dollar shopping centre was done up last year and it removed most of the internal landmarks and created a series of flat hallways. There is nothing to rest your eyes upon, nothing to look at.

It's one flat, dated shop after another. Usually based on some dead subculture from 10yrs ago and recent ladies' fashion trends.

The apartments went up as part of the build and that are flat cubes, copy pasted with doors and windows cut into a wall behind a front patio of flat wooden slats. Minecraft aesthetic for ferrari prices.

It is physically irritating to look for a pattern or a boundary line or a landmark and find nothing to anchor yourself. Everything is textureless and shapeless. I avoid the place.

The concept of an aspirational home is dead in my books. The traditional homes may raise the blood pressure a touch too much and seem complex.. The contemporary builds are ugly and irritating.

A sense of balance, proportion, beauty and differentiated shapes, physically calms me. It has to be updated traditional. Neo classical or french colonial or some such new variation on an outdated style.

It will likely take centuries to reinvent digital ownership.

The top-down influence is too strong to have nice things.