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perhaps themselves driven by global consumers culture that doesn't care how or where something was made as long as it's slightly cheaper.

The suffering of the slave isn't the only evil of slavery. What it does to the master is to alienate them from the creative process and turns them into a dependent consumer of the …

Digital homesteading is the essence of the IndieWeb. Building things with one's own resources and know-how is part of it's DNA, whether or not that is acknowledged. Because it's an…

Sure, but code isn't the only barrier that's been lowered. A competent entrepreneurial team can also scale their sales, marketing and customer success workflows with AI. I'm not sa…

The risk for SaaS isn't that customers will build their own but that the barrier to entry for competitors is lower. The Chorleywood process created mega bakeries that displaced reg…

What about design, build, marketing etc.? I don't get why the maker market complains so much about the idea of businesses selling products at a healthy markup. Just because you kno…

A piano is not inherently a better musical instrument than a harmonica. You could argue that a piano is more complex and more puzzle like requiring more of an investment to learn f…

There is a fair question here (though presented with questionable integrity) about what notability means in programming languages. Especially for more recent and perhaps not widely…

I've been thinking the same thing recently. I'm in conversation with a friend of mine who's much more aligned to the right and our philosophical conversations route their way aroun…

I see this kind of thing as the future of SaaS. Passionate developers out competing incumbents on both quality and price. One off purchases from "1000 true fans" is enough to make …

> Like making food supply work Producers make what will sell but without any incentives, subsidies or regulation this would be a mess of profit chasing, unsafe practices and fragil…

So why submit a PR at all if you're not even going to try to understand the aims of the project?

What happens when VCs, governments and tech companies drive demand for a genuinely game changing technology beyond consumer's appetite for it?

> pooling resources Your argument would suggest the EU developing a European model would be a better direction. A heavy-weight competitor would help advance the field after all. > …

> What does cursor have? users

Power and intelligence are not completely unrelated. Are government officials, politicians, CEOs, judges, etc, usually above average intelligence? Probably. Do the institutions the…

Wow, I didn't know about ping attributes. Advertisers have really shaped the Web right down to it's core specifications.

> Being smarter than the best-organized aggregate of all humans Isn't there pretty much a consensus that committees and institutions are not all that smart? I think you're confusin…

I happened to talk to a teenage relative about this possibility the other day and she said that she'd be fine with a ban. It seems that it's not as big a deal if everyone's in the …

> How people become rich in your society is one of the most important things to understand about it. You can't let your beliefs about this be determined by ideology, or movies, or …

Mass adoption trumps good design every time.

However consciousness is defined its evidently an emergent phenomenon. Emergent properties are real even if they are not a "thing" in themselves. Being rooted in a material reality…

scruples are also often a surface of friction that get in the way of business objectives.

I think this is largely right. Software engineering as a stable, high-earning and in demand career is a thing of the past. Those who make it work from here are those who've changed…