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Those jobs are as good as loost already. There's no endgame where knowledge workers keep knowledge working they way they have been knowledge working. Adapt or be a loosing looser f…

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Who hurt you?

Ruining innocent people’s lives is what government is best at doing. Don’t think of as convenient. Think of it as realization of purpose.

Nicholson entered the mantrap and the double doors closed behind him. He emptied his pockets and disrobed before donning the clean suit that had been provided to him by the orderli…

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Look on the bright side, you've lived to see 2026 where these four things have collapsed into each other. Like a rainbow refracted into pure white light.

Reads like AI, very long, maybe I’ll have my AI summarize your AI.

Everything you are describing sounds like the phenomenon of government in the United States. If we replace a human powered bureaucracy with a technofeudalist dystopia it will feel …

If someone in my organization buys IBM, I will fire them. That said, I’m confident that they know better.

This sounds in line with big law and big finance. Those are exactly the type of people who have flooded into tech over the last decade. It shouldn’t be surprising that compensation…

Pinned comment on the video: “I listen to the whole book almost everyday. A true masterpiece.” Wow.

Same. Sample of 1 anecdata reporting for duty: can confirm 100%.

It usually takes government to tie people up in these sorts of knots. These people have enthusiastically done it to themselves. Resume driven development is a hell of a drug.

That seems like a very broad way of classifying assets. Are people assets? Certainly not on the balance sheet I hope. What about a contract? Is a contract an asset? I’m actually cu…

> Also, your belief … is irrelevant. This is true everywhere and always. I agree with you, lots and lots of software definitely has the properties of an asset. There’s also plenty …

The average roof has a lifespan at least an order of magnitude greater than a k8s cluster. Most roofs being put on today will outlast k8s itself. Software is a liability, not an as…

Are bike manufacturers going to pay for bike lanes? Or is it going to be a regressive transfer? What about Big Walking Shoe, are they going to pay for these sidewalks or are we goi…

Everybody needs somebody to love. It could be anybody. You just need someone to love. Seriously, are you ok? Life doesn’t have to be meaningless, but that’s up to you. You get out …

People who remove books from libraries are scared pitiful people. People who claim that removing some books from a library is akin to banning or will have any affect on the actual …

We have twice their population and double their propensity to incarcerate, so it’s our top 25% versus their total gen pop. America wins again.

Hacker News is my river.

> the extent of their misbehavior and misconduct of Harvey Weinstein-level proportions That’s a pretty significant accusation considering Weinstein is rotting in prison for the res…

The Chuck Norris of tech.

Guns. Guns are how. Guns are how governments achieve their objectives. There is no crypto scheme, no algorithm, no possible arrangement of private keys and Merkle trees that can es…