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Patrick McKenzie (patio11), who famously built and sold his "Bingo Card Creator", and blogged about the process, is a "prototypical" Indie Hacker.
The ecosystem consists of communities like [1] and [2], podcasts (search for "Indie Hackers"), and conferences like [3]
[0] https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/selling_s...
Problem: "no known human civilization has ever endured for so long, and no geologic formation of adequate size for a permanent radioactive waste repository has yet been discovered that has been stable for so long a period" [0]
The problem isn't the "sticking into the ground" part.
It's the finding of that place that will stay geologically inactive, uncivilized, and not near water sources for the next 100000 years. And then taking that bet.
It's literally like saying "Fuck other people who are born after me".
Plastic stuck into the ground is not radioactive. Plastic stuck into the ground also degrades in a fraction of a fraction of the half-life of Plutonium.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-level_radioactive_waste_m...
Here in Germany, we still have not found where to put nuclear waste long-term, and there is no solution in sight.
Even if one day we find one, how do we communicate the potential dangers of nuclear waste to a civilization that is supposed to understand what we're communicating in 30000, 50000 years? With a fancy unicode symbol, like U+2622?
We have no idea what people 3000 years ago were trying to tell us with their fancy symbols.
Nuclear energy is the analogy of tech debt that can never be paid back, ever.
What problem is cryptocurrency solving then?
This is not something you can compare.
When no amount of grit, resilience, hard work or effort will give you any result, what would you do to survive?
Here's a paper suggesting that
> SARS-CoV-2 was already spreading in France in late December 2019
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09248...
We were talking about costs. In the US, calling an ambulance is not guaranteed to be free.
OP claimed that as a young, healthy expat, you don't benefit from a system where your tax payments finance health care.
I showed examples where a young, healthy expat directy benefits from this system, by having medical emergencies that would potentially bankrupt you in the US.
Not sure I followed your point here.
In the US, they have this concept of a "pre-existing condition", and depending on your situation, a health insurance might cover it, or not, as far as I understand.
Even making good money in SV, you can still end up with a medical bankruptcy (or your family, for that matter).
"mm-dd-yyyy" is just an arbitrary bag of entities, and a part of the population memorizes the order of them.
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If an author were to outsource this communication to an algorithm, I'd never read anything from this author again.
It's betrayal, just like outsourcing a phone call to your mother to GPT-3.
It's a waste of everyone's time: The authors time to set up and train the rubbish generation, the CPU cycles and energy wasted, and the reader's time.
Writing is a fine art, and captivating the reader is hard work. The fact that you get bored when reading work by authors that set up the scenery thoroughly might be a sign that those authors stuck to some kind of template for story drafting. There are tutorials and bootcamps for novelists, just like we have coding schools and Create-React-App.
If you get bored by texts created based on templated story layouts, imagine how readers would feel being fed GPT-3 nonsense.
I also was confused at first.
Honestly, how can this make sense to you?
Around here, or in the Maker Community, "passive income" is referring to something that you put in a lot of effort into in such a way that when left alone, it keeps producing value for other people without your continuous supervision.
Examples would include writing a (e)Book; creating "side dish" type products, like eCommerce plugins or themes, creating a video course, or even having an entire SaaS, and then hiring people who then slowly replace you.
Interestingly, begging for money on a street corner would not fall under this definition, since it wouldn't work without you being physically there, generating the income.
Did that clear things up?
If you follow the current controversy around tech thought leaders like Robert C. Martin aka Uncle Bob, you can't ignore the current debate, no matter which position you take.
Tech doesn't exist in a vacuum, it never did.
While PHP is still a joke compared to even Java which it very hard tries to become (which I think is a good thing), for someone who only knew PHP the entire time, the situation still got much, much better over the last decade...