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Lol, in South Africa we have a mobile payments app called "Zapper"

I don't have to make a living as a musician or podcaster, so can't comment on that perspective. What I do know is that greed changes things. If someone convinces you that you need to make "real money" from something you used to enjoy doing for free, it affects the content you produce. Sure the production quality may improve a lot, but is the music or story better than it was before?

> Coordinating people costs a lot

Does it really? Even before social media and the internet, what put humans apart was our ability to co-ordinate efficiently

Progress implies moving in a direction or towards a specific destination. Maybe the reasoning is that with a couple of billionaire philanthropists there is a smaller number of directions or destinations so the odds of hitting them is more likely. With government deciding and ordinary people contributing taxes, there is a multitude of officials and citizens all pulling in different directions. So, basically the same argument you would make in favor of dictatorship.

> in order to survive in this jungle, you need to competitive

It's funny when people use jungle as an example to make this argument. Cooperation might be even more important than competition in an actual jungle.

I like traveling to experience different cultures and personalities, getting out of your comfort zone can be very rewarding. If you have the means, organizing social events in a safe space for other people to join is great for creating connections and making friends. Host a potluck dinner, or go on a roadtrip, invite random people. Who do you find interesting? Try to be that person

Thanks for the comment.

I'm not looking for technical advice on how to implement SaaS. I've done this a couple of times before with various technology stacks.

I'm more interested in how to fund development, and fairly reward backers if the project is successful. What type of agreement can I use to implement this?

Ideally, potential clients might suggest and fund features, then be rewarded with a discounted or free subscription.

The article doesn't mention POST. It says "the first time we call it the VM is created. The second time it is called the system detects that the VM already exists and simply returns without error". Makes more sense to assume it means PUT, defined as "The HTTP PUT request method creates a new resource or replaces a representation of the target resource with the request payload"

> People can go to work, spend time with family, and even make important life decisions without caffeine getting in the way

Caffeine is my drug of choice for working, but I've found it sometimes affects me badly. As a rule, I only drink coffee in the morning, and try to avoid it in the afternoon.

I know of better substances for spending time with family and making important life decisions.

Saying alcohol, cocaine, meth, etc is not fair. It seems common for people to lump all "drugs" into the same category, even though they have vastly different effects.

In government and business you can implement policy even if it doesn't align with your personal beliefs, it's called chain of command. No one cares if you're a true believer as long as the work gets done. How many churches will admit to functioning like that.

> The Church has always been interested in being correct more than being dogmatically rigid

The Church has always been a community of individuals who publicly confess the same beliefs, while privately holding on to their own motivations.

Easy, parody and satire doesn't pretend to be the truth?

Is it just me, or does the touch bar remind anyone else of the MS Word Ribbon?

Contact lenses are a pita. I suspect it's going to be a smartphone-like form factor combined with a voice UI similar to the movie Her from 2013. Eventually the visuals on the phone screen will be replaced with a neural link. It would make sense if the implant is just a dumb antenna, combined with a removable "earbud" that connects it to the computing device.

> individuals are simply not able to repair themselves in most cases

This is the problem that needs to be addressed. The right to repair is not only about quality, price or durability. It is also a philosophical and strategic standpoint?

Good point, but I would guess sex work is not a menial job by a long shot. Being good at it probably requires more social skills than most jobs. If you meant lacking prestige, then yes, in some peoples eyes.

Was the "expert" suggesting this perhaps also same the AI?

If the code is written clearly and it uses just SQL, I can almost immediately understand what is does. For ORMs it takes a lot more effort to understand what's going on when you read the code.

If you find yourself having to type insert queries over and over again, then you're probably doing something wrong. I mean it takes like what, 5s to write that line of SQL?

Reasons not to use Microsoft https://stallman.org/microsoft.html

Interesting word choice, maybe. Consider the "banality of evil". We like to think of it as something sensational, perpetrated by outlier individuals or small groups of extremists. In fact, it's everyday acts that cause greater harm in the long run. Buying a product that destroys the environment. Or yourself. Tolerating a system that burdens individuals and even entire countries with unrepayable debt. And so on. All quite banal.

Instead of asking would you fire them for their own good, rather ask, do you employ them for their own good?

Evil is a spectrum, we're all on it

Are you implying short and wide trains would be sensible? I like using a wide screen for programming, but prefer code formatted to 80 chars. That allows me to have two vertical windows of code open side by side. It also makes it easier to use things like a graphical diff to merge code.

What is your source for the 1 in 500? The numbers I found on the same website indicate an even smaller risk https://www.catie.ca/en/pif/summer-2012/putting-number-it-ri... However, "As you can imagine, accurately tracking the number of times a person is exposed to HIV is very difficult".

You can't grow yeast with sunlight?

With AWS Lambda I try to avoid using API Gateway as it seems to me that is exactly where the lock-in occurs. Instead I have one catch-all route on API GW and I keep my routing layer in the app. This also makes it easier to run the app on dev without recreating the entire AWS environment

Something like coil.com might be a viable alternative. At the moment I don't subscribe to news sites because of this issue. If I could pay upfront and then split it by usage I would definitely go for it

Cool, I thought about building something like this years ago. I wish the idea could be taken further, that is, all the information I consume (reading, watching, listening, etc) should be available to me for recall. Changes and current availability of the source must not affect my copy.

Reminds me of this https://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/25/introducing-dbslay.... The source can still be found on github. Except dbslayer is supposed to be readonly.