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I mean it’s the Walmart model; be cheap early, get less cheap over time.

My 5,000 foot philosophical take is because they were never making money in a day to day business way and relying on low interest rates to inflate values through money shuffling schemes to game attention.

Over time models made it apparent they would never make long term business sense as software improved and automation took over, so it’s a medium term pump and dump jobs program fueled by low interest rates to attract information workers into providing them code shapes to train AI that writes code and let big tech own all the copyrights.

So we’ll have MPAA/RIAA owning all art, and FAANG or whatever owning all technology. A modern patronage system kind of sort of.

Not saying it’s good or bad. Just an attempt at a meta viewpoint of society.

Oooh anecdata time; I can’t tell you how many times software engineers have just put libs in a dep file to avoid recreating the wheel.

Reusing existing software is not equivalent to expecting users who want share pics to learn from 8088 on up. In fact it’s quite the opposite; it’s good engineering to not waste time recreating the wheel.

That’s an overly reductive to prove a biased point. Typical users do not have the same motivations as programmers. The market for connected devices does not have to conform to your expectations.

It’s really exhausting pointing out how your argument would effectively force others to produce what satisfies your sensibilities and to protect what you feel is sacrosanct.

Programming is “just math”. I don’t need an 8088 to prove its adding, subtracting, comparing memory addresses. All the cognitive structure and literalness of the past has nothing to do with software and everything to do with hardware engineering.

That the industry has not clung to your nostalgic ideal does not mean there is a tyrannical conspiracy. It means the industry evolved.

Perhaps you’re just on the wrong career path?

What criteria are being used to determine this is what we want?

People also want heroin and we use literal impact on society to curtail use. Freedom of reach is what we’re talking about limiting; right and left seem to both demand they have access to my beliefs, and leverage big corp as a tool to hide their political agenda to that effect as government social programs are accountable to public oversight.

I mean I’m pretty much convinced at this point human languages lack the nuance to make any conclusions of sound logic at this point except in contexts they came up in; Anglo social norms. The correctness of a colloquialism comes along with a command to use it in a certain emotional way.

We’re just engaged in spiraling emotional pettiness; how dare you offend thy sensibilities, good sir!

Scholars are not gods and get things wrong. Use your own brain, not appeals to authority.

Yeah I’m not going to read your mind. If you have something to say use your words to provide context, not vague insinuations.

My point is Musk is in a position to be demanded of by government agents.

You’re admitting to not moving any goal posts whatsoever and just designing mathematical art that’s correct given existing constraints?

So it’s good science to color within the lines not try to redraw them through new experiments we CAN conduct.

I don’t know; sounds like sheer laziness and lack of true creativity if you can only play inside a decades old sandbox.

Along with the entitled tone and “I’m doing 10x better in industry than colleagues in academia” kind of feels like you’re doing it for bragging rights not science.

Feynman said the same:

https://youtu.be/obCjODeoLVw

I’ll take him and Sabine, and my 24 yo masters in elastic structures, over your entitled screed any day.

I don’t because “their side” will eventually reverse engineer it as they have with all other weapons

Powell raised rates and said he was going to bring pain to households, layoffs ensue, but they have no bearing on the actual world.

Ok, I’m done here.

Yes there is actually: https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/27/business/job-insecurity-o...

Not saying I agree with him 100% but Varoufakis makes similar claims after being in the room with IMF’s leadership.

I’ve had meetings with rich heirs wanting to compete with Facebook because “there are more than enough idiots to make us richer too. Zuckerberg can’t have them all! room laughs.”

There are conversations that take place all the time you’re not invited to.

It’s so subtle and hyper normalized we don’t see it.

An origin story that, if true, we weren’t there, means nothing. The justification to avoid change now is, often but not always, the impact it would have to employers ability to hire.

It’s a problem that can be legislated away with public scrutiny and effort. This kind of history is irrelevant to next steps; it’s not like advocating for a literal holocaust. The figurative identity of a business owner is not my problem.

Just expressing where my indifference for others lies. Keep people alive, figuratively kill coddled businesses.

Yep and plenty of people I’ve encountered across the US call them freedom hating terrorists.

Coupling healthcare to a job is exploitative. Those business owners are not owed anyone’s labor. If they can only survive given politically correct shackles on social agency, they should not exist as businesses.

Peddled Mitt Romney’s 1990 health plan in 2010? And what did numerous states do since to make it worse to slow/prevent change? Lawsuits.

Being socially behind the rest of the world by 30-ish years is about right for the US.

That it was a tenable Republican plan in 1990 and a tyrannical expansion of government to Republicans by 2010 just highlights the social regression.

It’s behavior that’s emerged over and over in the past: https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/27/business/job-insecurity-o...

It’s emergent behavior given your relative experience to this point. It is not “net new” behavior for the species.

ERs do not turn people away, but much of ER traffic is due to skipping preventative care due to lack of financial resources or insurance.

Refusal to avoid the outcome of more serious health issues by putting funding into it is because that funding has to go elsewhere to make next quarters numbers.

I’m not going to debate this. I’ve been in the room with big tech leaders and political figures who speak in no uncertain terms behind closed doors; their goal is to keep power and their methods are designed intentionally to make people believe their power is immutable truth. We are indeed demanded of by normal humans with extremely narcissistic personalities and an innumerate public that cheers them on.

Because humans are far more intolerant than the high minded philosophy they memorized makes them believe they are.

I predict the end of commercial digital content. AI will eventually be generating what I want, not assisting create what Disney or Activision can sell me.

I am working on a tool to make that happen.

Religious traditions are not sacrosanct, and neither are contemporary civic life traditions. I don’t owe the past carrying on its modern patronage system of copyright maximalism and monopoly ownership of assets to extract rents from.

We never tore down patronage networks. Trickle down is essentially the same mechanics in the abstract, hidden by contemporary coded virtue signaling, and legal jargon.

Families that benefited from 50s-60s social programs legislated them away in the 80s, leverage mathematical inference to assign themselves exorbitant wealth through arbitrary valuations they decide on, buy up the most valuable assets, and pay as little as possible to us to maintain them.

Horse and Sparrow economics is from a similar era of political thought as spoils systems.

A $200k salary in the 80s had the buying power of $600k now. Past winners were not about to have their legacy deflated, so they changed the rules.

They’re testing what the market will bear.

My prediction is it will get sick of picking up more of the effort for less of reward while growing food and making stuff for an unelected and unaccountable rich who demand through threat of violence we cart around in our heads deference to their grand story, until the public gets sick of it.

Scalia suggested the public revolt if they didn’t like the US system.

Not that I think that’s what should happen but only 14% of adults have more than a masters in the US while the public believes it’s closer to 40%. My point is I’m not so sure the majority will be so clever when selecting from their options.

Elites have cobbled together a new cognitive Ponzi scheme; collecting agency/time investment from the public and not paying out in time for self. Church, god kings; all pretty much the same routine for the masse; deference in the form of constant servitude and constraints on benefits.

3-6. But I try to line up the next one in the last 3, or right away if it’s a 3 month gig.

Lately I’ve been “specialized” in cloud ops mentorship. Lots of businesses still run monoliths, have no CICD or secops. I don’t automatically nudge them to break the monolith up; some are well organized and documented and work for the biz. Mostly I help them establish a smoother “idea to deployment” pipeline.

Though after 4 years it’s become pretty repetitive. I’ve been tinkering with the Linux kernel internals again, thinking about looking for lower level gigs.

If you read the Founders writings justifying the first amendment you’d read it’s origins were rooted in fear members of Congress would be shot during periods of open debate.

It was not until the last 60-70 years the “zeitgeist” changed such that free speech was considered a freedom for all the government could not intrude upon.

Freelancer here; this time of year there is always a slowdown. Holiday vacation absences make scheduling all the right people to interview harder.

I set aside extra the rest of the year to smooth over the drop off in responses late-Oct/Jan period. By February I usually get swarmed with asks to tackle projects and can pick ones that are actually interesting.

Then it happens again in summer as people with enough money to not work take another 2-3 months off.

The use of “skin” in the title has nothing to do with the human body. This is creating a substrate to replace the “green boards” we use now. It’s composed of layers of “mushroom skin” to place traces and components on.