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for us that come from poor countries - it fuels degrowth. you want us to shut down coal plants & yet you don't want us to trade with china.

even in rich countries such as Germany - cost of energy has been a factor in slowing down growth because bureaucrats said so. while private planes keep flying, good keep getting shipped from overseas.

china has enabled cheap solar - which in turn has enabled cheap access to electricity. china has enabled cheap electric vehicles. for a bunch of people in 'poor' or 3rd world countries - in the next few years their first cars will be chinese EVs not Japanese 2nd hands or other 2nd hands from western countries.

zAI served their latest model for free on chinese chips, now deep seek is saying run inference for cheap on Huawei chips.

even the RAM madness is about to end once the chinese ram providers unleash Ram onto the market in 2027.

lastly remember the chinese have the largest electricity production and the cheapest.

the U.S allows "free speech" if it's inconsequential.

the one with a doorman & porter vs the one with just an automatic door and elevator.

people really need to read alchemy by roy Sutherland.

the real test will be on the longevity side.

launch video

compare a 'luxury' Florida apartment vs the old New York apartments built in the 1800s. the NY apartments have narrow stairs, one way in.

likewise dense / small cities / villages in either africa/europe etc force more natural social interaction.

even for friends - easier to host friends when they can easily walk to your home & they don't have to drink & drive.

so blaming tv, social media, video games etc doesn't get to the root of the matter.

tho who know to refine, say NO. & do more with less even in the age of too cheap to meter tokens.

that has always been the work that produced every delightful product.

some people will talk about efficiency etc.

but one true metric more than easily fakeable GDP numbers is electricity production and electricity consumption per capita.

a growing economy simply uses more electricity / energy - to move people, goods, get more work done etc.

the only way to prevent such things from happening is e-commerce is spread across non-platform channels but independent ones e.g woo commerce etc where a seller runs and hosts their own shop, then maybe go to semi-platforms such as shopify etc that don't aggregate everything on one storefront.

because sellers are reliant on amazon bringing in shoppers, unlike say woo commerce & shopify - then yeah amazon feels rightly so that they need to take 50% margins on a seller's item.

the same thing plays out everywhere where some producer is reliant on someone bringing in the buyers - uber, Spotify, apple App Store.

Mozilla would have made tons of money.

what will be interesting to see is startup times.

I have lost two bank accounts to these shenanigans cz I moved countries.

now I just view bank accounts as temporal - I have them for a period of time. & at a certain point in time in they disappear like snapchat photos.

not these llm vibe coded shit.

this is political grand-standing or political correctness that leads to nowhere.

did I precede my statement with I'm a black cis-gendered man who likes women and more women ?

honestly some things have to stop.

will they continue that work ?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49977056

otherwise this is a proper acquisition. t

this public execution buys implied consent to execute 'enemies' of the state. it also forces state governors aligned with the president to livestream executions of those on death row as 'deterrent'. then later go execute enemies of the state.

however as most people know through projects like the innocence project - some people on deathrow are innocent but are victims of racism etc.

my workloads are suited to serverless platforms like Cloudflare.

e.g with regards to job search - one has to be open to possibilities when starting out for you never know where the world takes you.

but I think clojure is well suited for the age of llm's. token efficient .everything is data even the code is data is easy to deal with verification. pure functions etc.

however one will still need to know how to write / read clojure. when the industry is trending towards not reading code e.g the shit dhh has been parroting lately about not reading code and likewise many people in the industry.

but lack of reading, critical thought etc which are pervasive in the population it means a lot of people are susceptible to propaganda.

you already see it with the socialism movement.

what people don't get is that wealth is not a zero sum game. wealth has to be grown. wages have to be paid fairly too on the other end.

and there has to be no regulatory capture eg nimbyism, lack of worker protections and then housing has to be built to keep housing affordable.

rest well pioneer.

stupid shit like this is why people - younger people - end up yearning for failed communist / socialist policies. because after all there's no accountability in the system.

the system has failed them. it has failed to be impartial. to hold elite greed at bay.

laws are broken daily, the judiciary is captured. what a tragedy.