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Cool, so this small group of people controls wealth roughly equivalent to 1/50th of what the entire USA government brings in. Still way too much.

I didn’t say anything about taxing them, just framing the amount of wealth they have by comparing it to federal revenue. It’s too much even if it isn’t “realized”.

Put another way, if you personally taxed all US income at the federal rate for 2 years you’d have less wealth then this handful of people (the federal government collected 4.5 tril…

I recently started a green field project with sprint boot and Kotlin and it’s a joy compared to the many other things I’ve experienced in the last decade. I’m hoping spring remains…

Neither is abusing monopoly power. So there’s trade offs.

Exactly! I find myself writing out the same code with classes and functions to show this to folks. I still prefer using classes as it’s easier for me to see at a glance that constr…

So true, rarely is anything the “best” or “better”, but instead each thing is a bucket of trade offs we choose from. Maybe frustrating, but also what makes engineering genuinely in…

Great write up! After 13 years I find myself reflect on exactly the same points.

You can self host cockroach db which scales horizontally well. But I think going "fire and forget" while also having this much concern about "scaling up" on some level feels at odd…

I think you answered your own question and it’s a fair response. Civil disobedience for a good cause is good, for a bad cause is bad. Just depends on what good means to you.

No, if you use Kotlin native you do not get access to Java libs.

I hear that, but also predatory marketing does work. We have to take responsibility for our actions, but I do see times when other are also culpable for bad decisions people make.

I’ve always thought there’s a tipping point of fault when such a large amount of people have a problem. Small % of folks with the issue? Maybe a personal responsibility thing. Half…

Agreed, of course so many reasoned conversations it seems like at some point have a moment of intuition because not everything can be known at the time. I think this is the stuff t…

In my experience distributed database migrations tend to be two phase though so it can be compatible during the migration. The first migration to add something, release the apps to…

As somebody with ADHD, let me tell you every person with ADHD works on this continuously, and the frustration of perpetually feeling like your failing at it is rough. I can tell yo…

In healthcare I think the EDI would be considered HL7 if I am reading this correctly. I worked with HL7 for a number of years and it is absolutely horrendous. It does work just wel…

If it’s not common, maybe it’s not common sense?

Please keep going, it’s worth trying to compare all compensation and benefits, and we both might learn something.

I think a common reply to this would be that it’s hard to change laws when an oligarchy has so much power, and siphoning the money and power from the oligarchs has to come first. U…

I think they are referring the initial debate of whether or not to have a large union presence. In the USA that’s still a big debate, and the fact that there are large scale work s…

In the Twitter thread folks mention it is after taxes. Looking at income alone and not other benefits is also pretty misleading. I’m not here to say I know how much better/worse it…

> Ford’s initiative was not widely copied overnight. In 1916, the federal government passed an act to require an eight-hour day and overtime pay for railroad workers, but most work…

> Ford’s initiative was not widely copied overnight. In 1916, the federal government passed an act to require an eight-hour day and overtime pay for railroad workers, but most work…

Attributing the 5 day work week to Henry Ford is not placing the credit correctly. He may have been the first big CEO, but it was the work of labor rights activists and unions. htt…