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The mean, median, and modal web “application” depends on several thousand packages comprising dozens of layers of dependencies deep. The mystery code that is downloaded and execute…

An economy is driven by free money.

The standard defenses of the ability to be rich are persuasive arguments promulgated by those who are rich. If we assume that the rich are, as other advertisers, rational and self-…

You say that capitalism is broken, but the capitalists are all doing very well, even as everyone else feels the pain. If the capitalists are doing very well, then how can you say t…

“who liberally makes use of single-responsibility modules” If your aim is precision of language, you should call this “400MB of unaudited and unauditable mystery code from the [tot…

The term “modern JS” should be used only as a pejorative.

I mean... is there really ? How much do these people get paid?

Dude, nobody cares. What ridiculous moralizing. "Fiddling with stuff on a computer?" Crabs-in-a-bucket comparisons to doctors? Whatevah. Get outta town. No one pays you because the…

Scheme is properly tail-recursive and has been around since 1975. Most (all?) Common Lisp implementations have proper tail recursion. Clojure has tail call optimization for simple …

Yes, you're absolutely right: React itself is great. But React is part of the NPM ecosystem; try using one without the other. And then if you're still feeling cocky try finding som…

Free markets hate good software. "Good" meaning secure, stable, and boring. On both ends. Software developers hate boring software for pragmatic HR-driven career reasons and becaus…

jQuery: 88KB, standard everywhere, one entity responsible for all of it, people know what it is and what it does, if it breaks you know what went wrong and who to blame. Literally …

LOL at the GPG swarm down below. I hate the Internet, I regret posting my own GPG message, and I'd delete it if I could.

Valid point. To clarify, it was hyperbole, as I got (rightly or wrongly) a more "military" vibe. And in my highly uninformed opinion, I'd feel much less comfortable in close quarte…

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I'll be on the lookout, but quite frankly I despair. I've always wanted to be in a spooky line of work. Oh well.

>The good companies for 9 to 5 casual evil are small >50 man shops which require security clearance to work at. Where do I sign up? (Edit: this is a serious question.) (Second edit…

It wasn't so much "gave up on" as it was "deliberately destroyed". Since the late 1800's, the banks and the governments have pursued a continuous policy of economic centralization …

You have erected a hilarious false choice. The supermarket is recording your image as you browse through the store, and within five years will assuredly be plugging you into facial…

In calling these people entrepreneurs you are really contorting the language. The entrepreneurs in this system are the creators and owners of the system. The other people are somet…

I recommend Hegel with Neuralink: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ppGlEiQXrRI Unless the computer is itself capable of anticipating and satisfying your desires — which, I grant, is pos…

Adtech. Hence Facebook/Oculus.

Does your website have a public repo?

There’s no question that Rogan’s style is to make every interview as “warm” as possible, rarely challenging any guest on any extraordinary claim. There’s also an argument to be mad…