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My specialties are: Data ingestion tools in Python Cloud telemetry tools in Python Cloud microservice API endpoints in Golang/Python GraphQL APIs in Golang using gqlgen framework

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

The fact that it's what people choose. This isn't difficult.

If you haven't noticed the chorus of coastal media types asking for people they disagree with to be prevented from speaking in any public forum, then you are truly oblivious.

i wonder if there's a single ill in the world that you don't lay at the feet of "corporations."

Most people aren't capable of responding to anything the government does with anything but brain-dead snark. I've been feeling this problem has been getting worse on YC as of late.

Jesus your personal site makes pretty much every developer site I've seen look like geocities. Hats off.

I'm in the middle of building literally the exact same thing for myself.

Beyond privacy/security, the aspect of the app I worry about the most is giving oneself perfect memory and then never being able to escape the past. That last fight you had with your ex? Well now its recorded and you can listen to it, and dissect it, and wonder what you could have done differently, right up until you blow your brains out.

But, as always, its up to the user to use the technology in a healthy way. It would be, after all, a choice to remain mired in the past rather than taking healthy lessons from it to make your future better.

Grant Sanderson redeems the entire Internet.

There's no mystery to Mars, just letting its crust hang out there for all to see.

Memory cheap, developer time expensive. Your welcome.

Oh man, that's so true. And a universal definition of "well-being" is super easy. It's just like, things that are good you know? Not bad things but good things. A new society is possible.

No, that's pork barrel spending, which is a different thing, namely, a policy decision (that you perhaps disagree with) made within the confines of the law. Stop trying to get the word corruption to encompass "all decisions I disagree with." It's what people do when they're trying to make their disagreement into an ideological judgement, because that's what's more satisfying and exciting.

Right? The negativity and ideological chin stroking and assuming-the-worst on these threads is so discouraging.

That's not corruption in the way that word is commonly used. Equating the deliberate misuse of public funds with non-ideal outcomes because of broader cultural attitudes towards government just destroys the meaning of the word.

Democracy and politics is special interests. That's literally all it ever is, all it ever could be.

The Saturn V also took many years to develop and there were several "rehearsal" missions before there was a landing.

NASA is not incompetent or corrupt and neither are its contractors. The people who work all their lives at those institutions don't do so because they love the idea of never going to space. You might consider that the process is subject to other pressures than corruption. The reason why things are so expensive and take so long is because of how our society demands that government act. The response to failure of any kind is pull the plug, and skin those responsible alive in the press, and treat it not as a setback or a problem to be solved, but yet another play in a partisan-ideological football game.

The people saying that they hope it fails so their preferred vision can be implemented do not understand that if this fails, then that's just more years away from the goal. There isn't some tiny group of people you can point to and say "its their fault." The enemy here is actually broader society reads about, talks about, and votes about its government.

How could someone reverse engineer anything other than your data model from gql queries?

Because I will buy whatever you're selling if it has the word "privacy" in it.

No, it's completely contradictory. You either want police to police high crime areas or you don't. You either think they should arrest people in those areas committing crimes, or you don't. The police are both biased for enforcing laws, and biased for not, is not a valid position.

"The reason why people in run down neighborhoods get arrested more is because the cops are biased. Also they don't police run down neighborhoods enough."

Um, you do realize that photographs don't actually take your soul right?

Remember, you deserve 100% convenience and 100% privacy and 100% security. If you fail to get it, it's because corporations are evil and society has failed you.

But will it scale?

"You always have some boss, if you don’t deliver and meet their expectations, you’ll get thrown under the bus pretty rapidly."

It's almost like you live in a hierarchy or something. Like every other person in history.

I'm losing confidence in Amazon so much that I will complain about their service but not make any change to my behavior.

People have been making this observation since the late 60s because that's when it became true.

What do you think that the "algorithms" are hiding from you? Do you think that anti-corporate and ultra left wing content is censored on Twitter?

Declaring that everyone (present company excluded) is conformist and everything sucks is the surest fire way to get a non-zero amount praise from any audience.

bahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, yeah, the disappearance of "alt weeklies" is a sign of creeping hegemony. Because how could subversive messages spread in 2022 without low quality print magazines with diy stencil art?

Our culture is nothing but counterculture. The entire thing is copies of copies of copies of the author thinking that they and their friends are the first and only people to take a bold stance against power, or corruption, or whatever.

Huge if true.