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All that energy will surely translate into quality of life for the rest of us.

Some places derive their identity and tourism income largely from how they look. Building could be slaying the goose that lays the golden egg.

I will gladly pay for services that help me defeat ads.

I think Stellarium got its mobile start on N900 as well.

How far has the migration away from TNR to Calibri progressed? Is it redoing everything or is it just abandoning an incomplete ongoing migration that mostly just started?

Can you elaborate? What role does Tailscale play? I selfhost and have heard about Tailscale but couldn't figure out how it's used.

Minor errors stop juniors and people not used to the shell - they have no idea why something failed or really want to bother looking into it.

All of that said the most interesting experiments in currency/tokenization/etc are happening on the blockchain. Are they successful? It's mixed but I think blockchain allows people to easily try new things and it's been fascinating to see. For example (and I'll do my best to explain in a sentence or two):

- Bread Cooperative (https://breadchain.xyz/) - Active project. Creates a "vault" for your stablecoins where accumulated lending yield is distributed to non-profits based on a weighted vote.

- Circles UBI (https://circles.garden/) - Active project. Creates a network of wallets where a wallet's humanity is proven through economic means. Each network participant starts receiving a token of the Circle's native "currency" effectively creating a network of humans in which money creation is evenly democratized.

- Reflexer RAI (https://reflexer.finance/) - More inactive. Created a "un-pegged" stablecoin. Meaning something that is not a dollar but is stable. It's been described as "capital inefficient" meaning you gotta put a lot of collateral in to get mint RAI, which appears to be a fatal flaw. But I love all experiments in unpegged stable coins.

And in general the ecosystem is full of all sorts of communities with their little currencies that have all sorts of properties like stability, minting mechanisms, distribution, voting power, you name it. It is not all good but I think it's fascinating.

Addendum: Yannis Varoufakis (economist, author and briefly Greece's Minister of Finance) has a book in which he outlines an example of a utopian economic system. (Great book). While being generally anti-crypto he bases the central bank around a transparent blockchain "smart contract". Any money printing by this contract is easily trackable and obvious to others and the yield generated from central-bank lending is distributed to all citizens. He has recently pursued this as an actual goal, albeit in a different form (I have yet to get into the details): https://monetarycommons.com/

I recommended fish to some my younger coworkers recently only for somebody very senior to point out that they will be very confused copy-pasting commands meant for bash from the internet and them not working. He is right, I will hold off recommending fish. You have to know you are very ready for a new shell.

Haven't heard about cDc in about 20 years. Are they still active as a collective in any way?

If it was not a guy who regularly engages with and thus gives platform to neo-Nazi accounts on X I might've considered giving him the benefit of doubt.

It is very easy to find specific accounts that Musk brings readers to (or you can just be on X and follow him):

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-x-blocked-journalists-...

https://www.sacurrent.com/news/revealed-the-operators-behind...

And Elon Musk does Nazi salutes in-front of the nation and just goes back to being CEO of things.

Britain's ex-Deputy Prime Minister it so happens.

It is not the defining feature but loss of the loop is one of the most obvious differences for people who look at a functional language Rust has immutability, pattern matching, etc, but it remains an imperative language with "some functional features". Or this is my subjective analysis.

If it's functional (recursion vs imperative loops) most people/organizations will not use it. At this point that is just the reality.

Zohran's father is a famous post-colonial scholar. A college professor in my family has had him as part of curriculum for years.

What has been dis-proven?

That is a very good point. The big tech leaders have politically soiled the industry.

Hacker News is a little hard in these times. That it has kept politics unrelated to tech out is a great achievement, but as scientific method is being equated to flat-earth thinking by elected leaders talking about what's new in Rust seems off.

Some extreme, by modern standards, form of socialism if the future. Why work?

What is making you skeptical?

That number includes chains. Those restaurants (McD's for example) get preferential treatment - they are on the front-page and they pay no or little commission. That would skew the average. And maximum probably does not include all the potential add-on fees.

I have seen Doordash statements where commission + fees added up to 60% of the price. I asked the person who mostly worked with restaurant owners why they do it. He said:

1. A lot of restaurants are passion businesses and they don't realize how much money they are losing.

2. Morale in the kitchen is important, orders coming in keeps morale up.

From myself I would also add that they get a FOMO, cause it's hard to sit and watch others get business, however unprofitable. The most stable and profitable businesses in towns where we operated only worked with us, cause we offered cooperative ownership and small commission. It made no financial sense for them to work with anybody else.

This is tangential, but I worked for a food delivery startup (a conscientious one) for a couple of years and food delivery is a terribly extractive business that kills restaurants. Either order from the restaurant directly or just go there yourself, Doordash et. al. will kill your favorite restaurant with your help. The numbers don't add up in the kitchen's favor.

21st century, where a CEO of a major company doing Nazi salutes is not enough to fire him. How did we get here?

I'm relatively new to Python - how does one do concurrent IO without async/await?

My main complaint, though, about Python async is - because it is opt-in I never know if I forgot a sync IO call somewhere that will block my worker. JS makes everything async by default and there is effectively no chance of blocking.

Check out Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis, he really expands on the idea of web being mostly rent-seeking and not productive.

I mean in general these types of restrictive laws but non-disperagement specifically. I did hear about the non-compete.

There are certainly headwinds but it could be state laws too. If California passes something - that would be big. But in general culture heads in a certain direction and reactionaries are just a bump in the road or so I prefer to think.

Non-competes are being challenged and will be history soon and hopefully so will non-disperagement clauses. Those are just coercive anti-freedom practices.