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by api 7y ago
Yes, we might finally be seeing all that QE cash trickle down to the street. First it reinflated stocks and real estate after the deflationary 2008 crash, and now its flowing into other prices.
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by api 7y ago
I need to drive one of these around Dallas, Texas with truck nutz on it.
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by api 7y ago
Go's parsimony is about cognitive load. I've programmed for 30 years and am an expert in complex languages like C++. I find that when I write Go my mind spends far more time thinking about the problem than the language, which I li
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by api 7y ago
Maybe China is doing all the energy intensive low margin work. Since its low margin energy must be dirt cheap, and literal dirt is still the cheapest way to generate power. Not letting China totally off the hook, just suggesting that there
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by api 7y ago
That's why the BSL exists: to stop SaaS companies from monetizing the software without giving anything back to its developers. A SaaS company can get a commercial license.
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by api 7y ago
So happy to see this! We created ZeroTier for the world this is talking about. :) https://www.zerotier.com/ /shameless but on-topic plug
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by api 7y ago
Superstar cities don't have and never have had a monopoly on talent. What they do have is a monopoly on capital. Try raising money in a non-superstar city. This monopoly may fade as younger angels, VCs, and other forms of investors who
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by api 7y ago
Yes, that's intentional. It used to be GPL which imposed the same requirement, but we shifted to BSL because it's a bit more explicit and because of (again, irrational) GPL-phobia on the part of some non-trivial subset of corporat
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by api 7y ago
We have a blog post about our transition to the BSL from the GPL: https://www.zerotier.com/on-the-gpl-to-bsl-transition/ I don't think the BSL is perfect. We're thinking and discussing with a number of people
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by api 7y ago
"Moons" are being deprecated in favor of true federation: https://www.zerotier.com/zerotier-2-0-status/ https://www.zerotier.com/lf-announcement/ The moon terminology will also go away s
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by api 7y ago
We are about to make that much easier and also allow true infrastructure federation -- you won't have to have your nodes contact our roots directly. We came up with something very interesting. As for crypto: we plan some improvements
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by api 7y ago
I don't want to give free gifts to surveillance capitalist companies.
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by api 7y ago
Space telescopes are objectively superior in every single way. It's like a photograph under clear conditions vs a photograph in fog. Look at Hubble vs much larger terrestrial scopes. Starship's booster could launch something much
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by api 7y ago
Google Stadia belongs to yet another category: products that some people like and want and others hate and hope fail for social/political/economic reasons. AMP and Facebook Libra are other examples of products like this. I hope St
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by api 7y ago
That's by no means all of open source. Some of us are working on things designed to re-enable a peer to peer personal computing model.
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by api 7y ago
Sounds like some recent failed unicorns that shall remain nameless.
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by api 7y ago
Everything? No way, that's not humanly possible. But he does know a lot and more importantly is a fantastic engineer and can understand any part he needs to. The majority of companies are run by people who would have trouble understand
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by api 7y ago
I've thought this for years: the aggressive defense of super liberal OSS licenses with no sort of "SaaS clause" or other limits turns FOSS into free labor for SaaS companies. SaaS is more closed than closed: you control nothi
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by api 7y ago
Huge corporations and governments are kind of like hybrid silicon/meat AIs and that's exactly what they've done. I think this is the most likely outcome.
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by api 7y ago
I had the same reaction. 90s libertarianism is largely dead and it seems like most of the tech people I know have gone either authoritarian left or authoritarian right ("alt-right," NRx, etc.).
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by api 7y ago
Yes, both extremes can increase cognitive load. The ideal is simple, effective, parsimonious abstractions, but that's much easier said than done. I was just arguing that adding a lot of complexity to reduce duplication is an exercise i
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by api 7y ago
Facebook is addictive. There's nothing addictive on Mars. If we discover space crack then we will have a real space program.
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by api 7y ago
That sounds promising. Reminds me of C++ RAII memory management patterns.
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by api 7y ago
I would second the parent. DRY was a false God. I would say RCL: reduce cognitive load. Obviously if there is a manageable way to reduce repetition, take it, but I would not add a lot of complexity for the sake of brevity. That's turni
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by api 7y ago
When I write in Go I spend almost all my energy thinking about the thing I am writing, not the language. It's a breath of fresh air, like modern C with a safety lock on the footgun. I learned how to code "thin" low abstractio
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by api 7y ago
I didn't mean to imply "must," just that anonymous data can't be trusted unless there is some out of band way to verify it.
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by api 7y ago
You're getting downvoted, but you are at least mostly right. With video and audio deep fakes we are rapidly approaching a world where anything can be trivially faked by anyone. As a result, anonymous information is becoming worthless.
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by api 7y ago
It's so your VTEC will kick in, yo.
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by api 7y ago
Hah... yeah the analogy gets silly if you make it literal and stretch it too far. I was just using it to talk about how different types of devices specialize for different use cases. Phones: ultra-portable communication and rapid service in

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