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History is full of examples of quiet, brilliant people who contribute amazing works to society, but never see any money and ultimately fail to influence decisions when they are imp…

in 1950 in the book "the human use of human beings", the famous mathematician Norbert Weiner pointed out your exact sentiment. Complaining that instead of solving problems, or doin…

I think this calls for a government funded national un-enshittification Laboratory to study the social dynamics of enshittification and develop hygiene practices. Work must be done…

Nah this tech will poison the web. People don't know what it is and take it too seriously.

I think the problem is then you eventually get SEOification. I suppose you can just reset every now and again. Maybe like give a training program to get SEO people real jobs.

I feel like google enshittified itself with SEO and bloat. Maybe if we just re-made the original and changed the business model it would be good again.

> Hollywood has.. hard power Um, what??

This is a clearly false collection of arbitrary useless and arrogant opinions. See any famous reclusive intellectual or writer for counterexamples.

Because this is so depressing I am going to try think of positive aspects: The flip side to this is the government had power because these activities required enormous resources. P…

Great idea.

It feels like they forced him to buy it, and now they are tarring and feathering him.

I noticed a few responses that looked pretty suspicious. It would be shockingly nasty in my opinion to ever do this, but given how shallow and fake society is, maybe it's becoming …

Sam's sad face in the NYT article is pretty priceless.

"...Google and tech industry allies responded with a massive lobbying campaign... convince lawmakers banning targeted ads would hurt the global economy. The gambit worked, and the …

agreed lol

Just noticed a lot of ex-humanities people becoming like "grifters" sort of. Like the recruiting industry. They seem to position themselves as some kind of "coach", "career coach",…

But few to none can survive across the breadth of environments humans can with the aid of sometimes highly advanced clothing.

super cool idea! thankyou

>Well run software companies with tidy, well architected software need far fewer devs than the ones with nasty bloat and a lot of legacy problems this is a good point I can relate …

> you can work that manual labor job and still have mental energy afterwards to work on your SaaS. It's much harder doing mental tech work after already doing mentally taxing work …

proton has an easy transfer process that I just did. They have to give the govt details they have in case of legal issues like squatting or whatever some bureaucrat makes up, but t…

I have about 3 Yoe webdev/+physics/mech eng degree. Worked a few contracts then my own Saas thing, now pretty burned out. Don't really need funding or a team, just a bit of time. W…

For example - some of Google's acquisitions are shut down, but were demonstrably good. Do new competitors get bought and shut down also?

Often people say things like "government doesn't have the resources to police X". With increasing automation it seems like they don't need the resources. Can this be quantified int…

What is the advantage of microwaves over sunlight? Seems like it would be better to just make better solar panels, sunlight is already pretty high-wattage.