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I mean, realistically: let us run your thing, uploaded all data to our cloud, and then let us handle access control.

Someday, Americans may punish him with a presidency.

1969: Every line of assembly code has been coded according to rigorous standards and vetted and reviewed by a panel of experts. 2026: lol we just realized there's a few million lin…

And generally just tear through native populations of birds and small mammals. I honestly think it's irresponsible to have outdoor cats in places where they're not native (which is…

It could be as useful as a junior dev. You probably shouldn't let a junior dev run arbitrary commands in production without some sort of oversight or rails, either. Even as a more …

I appreciated the texture of your message. It's really unfortunate that the bot plague is making us all suspicious of any well-written or idiosyncratic posts.

After WW2, Europe and Asia were rubble, and needed to rebuild. And the systems, structures, and customs that had existed pre-war had fallen apart. They all needed, simultaneously, …

"Trickle-down" has become a thought-terminating cliche. Of course your country is better off if you have successful companies and high-income jobs.

That's just the byproduct of the rest of the world coming back online (plus communications & logistics improving). Look, if you own a company, or are in a leadership position: the …

So you'd be better-off if SpaceX and Google were Chinese companies? Also, a lot of the wealth from the tech industry does spill over to the larger community. You're strictly better…

Home ownership rate is higher now than it ever was in the post-war period, actually. It peaked in 2008, and has fallen since then...still higher than the 50s and 60s. Also, did you…

The hollowing out of the American middle class is because the huge, wealthy middle class was a post-war anomaly, from a time when the US had the only intact industrial plant in the…

Cash has centralized distribution, but it's very decentralized in use. That's what makes it useful. However, sometimes people might choose to use a centralized service provider (li…

Many of us took programming 101 in Java and so typed this dozens of times without having a clue what it meant.

The point of cash is that it represents transferrable value that doesn't require an intermediary between you and the person you're transacting with. And yet, banks and credit card …

Yeah, I've run a local Kokoro instance, and it doesn't work with Firefox. This uses Kokoro under the hood.

Money isn't a difficult concept? Tell that to the people of Turkey, on Venezuela, or Argentina. Ask them about the utility of money as a "store of value" or means of transaction. I…

Yeah, there's a line early in the article about use, the gist of which is "[unlike cryptocurrency] the utility of the internet was obvious from the start". But it seemed pretty obv…

Ehh, I would put it differently: purposefully decentralized societies are ineffective, and create a power vacuum that tends to be quickly filled. Assuming they would have worked re…

I guess 1919 is a bit late for rose colored glasses--though there's a shocking number of people who are still nostalgic for Bolshevism after _everything_. You get my point, though.…

It's not that hard for a new idea to look good for a couple short months/years. Building an ongoing, self-sustaining society that doesn't go completely off the rails is a whole oth…

> Maybe I am too much of a jaded asshole but anyone who writes something like this needs perspective. This is clearly a person who loved their job, and took it seriously. They had …

No, unless somebody starts a stream there's no computation. If nobody is watching, it's idle. If somebody tunes in, the server figures out where to start the stream and begins stre…

I'd be interested if it existed...

I think that's trying to draw the metaphor too far. The point is just that people have a tendency to be fascinated with their enemies, and exaggerate the differences between them: …