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Bryan Cantrill, "Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15886728 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?
by pjdesno 9mo ago
Bryan Cantrill, "Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15886728 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15886728
The specific lines about Ellison and a lawnmower start at 38:28 in the linked video; the entire Oracle rant starts at about 34:00.
- nielsbot 9mo agoWe shouldn’t anthropomorphize any billionaires. They’re not even people at that point, just destructive aliens who undemocratically ruin everyone’s good time. We need confiscatory taxation for a better future.
- smashah 9mo agoThe Ellison Cabal represent the primary enemies of freedom all over this earth. It's imperative to defeat them.
- jama211 9mo agoWhilst true, it’s important to focus on the worst ones first, as with everything there is a scale.
- embedding-shape 9mo agoIt's kind of saying we should only focus on the #1 mass-murdering dictator in the world, so while many of them are actively slaying people, lets just focus on #1 for now. No, we can have many targets. People who hoard money for the benefit of themselves with the detriment of society and the population at large are all "destructive aliens who undemocratically ruin everyone’s good time" to borrow the words of parent commentator. If just 10% were slightly less evil and egoistic, it would lead to huge improvements, and only a slight reduction to their own lifestyles. That they don't, is a stain on the legacy of humanity.
- jama211 9mo agoNice straw man, I argued for nothing that you are arguing against.
- Sindisil 9mo agoNope. We need to bring the entire extraction class to heel. They are degrading, even destroying, society.
- jama211 9mo ago_sigh_ I didn’t say we shouldn’t.
- paulvnickerson 9mo agoDon't tell that to Paul Graham.
- belter 9mo agoEvery time I see this video, I feel a strange tenderness for the new generations watching it. They do not really understand how bad Oracle used to be. This is us, old combat veterans, sitting by the fire, describing unspeakable battles to the youth...knowing full well that they think we are exaggerating. :-) And the most disturbing part is the realization that the Frankenstein monster itself, Larry Ellison, is still out there. Still roaming free. Still very much alive... An eternal, terrifying, lawnmower wielding zombie of enterprise software and government corrupting rent extraction.