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10141.
by api 8y ago
Rumor is that he's been on a stimulants / sleep aids cycle working ludicrous hours. You can only sustain that for so long before your brain throws a rod and starts banging and chugging and emitting a lot of smoke. There are tweets
10142.
by api 8y ago
Throwaway account, Vox Day propaganda, check check.
10143.
by api 8y ago
I think Musk sometimes does get too much credit, but the opposite -- that he deserves none and is a fraud -- is equally ridiculous. Gwynne Shotwell deserves a lot of credit for leading SpaceX in its day-to-day operations. Without her I do
10144.
by api 8y ago
If Musk never happened rockets would still be expendable, the US would still lack a Shuttle replacement, and EVs would be rare or nonexistent. We would still be talking about how personal mobility is doomed when oil is depleted, if not all
10145.
by api 8y ago
Batteries and solar panels are pure commodities. Solar city had little in the way of new tech.
10146.
by api 8y ago
Twitter: where the rich and powerful publicly make complete fools of themselves.
10147.
by api 8y ago
He does what any good businessman would do. He looks for money on the table. In this case its areas where research has been done but it hasn't been operationalized. That being said I dont mean to minimize what Musk or the teams he has
10148.
by api 8y ago
My intent was to expose hypocrisy. Housing policies that implement de-facto economic red-lining are not liberal.
10149.
by api 8y ago
China is equally dependent on foreign infusions of capital. The real issue I think is that labor arbitrage has been very good for upper income and wealthy Americans. Corporations and the rich have gotten much richer by shipping labor off to
10150.
by api 8y ago
That was kind of my "meta" point. Social liberalism and economic liberalism have diverged. "Blue states" are more socially tolerant and liberal but have become strongholds for Plutocrats where everyone below the upper mi
10151.
by api 8y ago
They do. This is part of why we have such a large trade deficit with China. The real issue here is China's double-talk on trade. They talk about open free trade but in reality they practice intense nationalistic and protectionist trade
10152.
by api 8y ago
IBM is run by salespeople. This is what you get.
10153.
by api 8y ago
This problem can only be solved by legislation. There's money in surveillance capitalism, so the money will be grabbed.
10154.
by api 8y ago
I really blame China for the shift away from libertarian thinking and toward both right and left authoritarianism. The old argument from libertarians was that freedom and modern prosperity are a package deal. Take away freedom and you get p
10155.
by api 8y ago
It never was guaranteed by any standard, and in fact numerous old machines had weird pointer formats: segmented addressing, strange widths (36 bits), and tagged pointers come to mind. Its more like we had this window of time when pointers w
10156.
by api 8y ago
I was talking about the social trend it represents, but it was kind of an incomplete thought.
10157.
by api 8y ago
The problem is that anonymous information is worthless unless it can somehow be verified. There is already so much fake propaganda that I'm starting to disregard anything without verifiable provenance.
10158.
by api 8y ago
Behind a very thin veil of social liberalism, we are in fact living in a profoundly conservative and conventional era. It's like this weird bohemian puritanism, or the 50s with Tinder. The big difference is the religion. Back then it w
10159.
by api 8y ago
Can anyone Chinese or who knows more about China provide any insight into why they're doing this? Is there some local political reality? My reading is that they're worried about their explosive GDP growth leveling out and the poli
10160.
by api 8y ago
I speak as an agnostic, but I think you have to distinguish between strict literalism / fundamentalism and religious belief more broadly. Literalism / fundamentalism is something that's hard to believe in without willful deni
10161.
by api 8y ago
It's still N times the work. You trade rewriting the core for figuring out how to meld your vision to two different APIs, two different UI libraries, etc., and of course fixing all the quirks.
10162.
by api 8y ago
> Developers (OSS developers included) don't respect them and assume they're too stupid to be permitted to use anything but the safety scissors. After all, if they were worthy of creating things they'd be C greybeards. Tha
10163.
by api 8y ago
Yes. At least N times the work for N platforms. Fewer developers, harder to recruit. Cross-platform options like Qt are not modern/pretty enough and sometimes aren't that much thinner than Electron (depending on how well written t
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by api 8y ago
Multi-Cloud isn't a trap any more than any other practice is a trap. Any practice is a trap if it takes away from your core mission too much or requires resources you don't have. I call such things "engineering bikeshedding&q
10165.
by api 8y ago
Not improved SQL! Modern languages with native relational data models. Not a DSL inside a language but something native to the language and one with its normal syntax. The ideas within SQL are powerful but the syntax would need a dust off a
10166.
by api 8y ago
Yes, but I'm thinking of a general purpose language like Go that would be used to implement normal things. R is specialized for data analysis. Most "normal things" have designs that are deeply inefficient and compromised by b
10167.
by api 8y ago
Here's something that seems shockingly under-explored to me: languages that incorporate relational data structures natively. We have SQL of course, but SQL is not a general purpose language and is (intentionally) often not Turing-compl
10168.
by api 8y ago
I see your point but I still dont agree. Everything seems obvious and easy in hindsight because we are viewing it with those intellectual tools deeply embedded into our understanding. They are all over our culture and we pick up bits of the
10169.
by api 8y ago
Dont joke about that. With smart meters such a money grab is not unimaginable.
10170.
by api 8y ago
Welcome to the new age of not owning or controlling anything. Your work belongs to "the cloud," whatever that is, and can vanish at any time and without warning. You can't make a backup... or not one you can use at least.

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