davidw

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by davidw 8mo ago
Agree with much of this. However: plenty of Central/Eastern European countries seem like they have pretty definitively shaken off communism in favor of pretty standard European style capitalism/social democracy.
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by davidw 8mo ago
Plenty of places have managed to "keep on keepin' on" with their poverty levels. I'm not saying what they've done was the best way, only way or anything of that sort: only that it happened.
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by davidw 8mo ago
This sounds about as scientific as phrenology.
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by davidw 8mo ago
I am less confident about my predictions for an uncertain future. There's all kinds of ways different things could go. I didn't say we needed to follow their example to the letter; it was just one counterexample to the "woe a
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by davidw 8mo ago
The post WWII system was imperfect in many ways, but it was also mutually beneficial and worked out pretty well despite the problems. And we're throwing that all out the window. US military bases aren't what made those countries m
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by davidw 8mo ago
Their economy lifted a bunch of people out of poverty. That's positive. However, in terms of 'democracy' they're still way worse off than the US right now, even if the US is headed in a bad direction.
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by davidw 8mo ago
It'd be nice to avoid that part.
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by davidw 8mo ago
Probably a bunch of performative 9-9-6 BS too.
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by davidw 8mo ago
I won't give in to doomerism. Germany, Italy and Japan are all wealthy, stable democracies right now. Not without their problems and baggage, but pleasant places in a lot of ways.
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by davidw 8mo ago
This isn't a one-election thing. It's going to be a generational effort to fix what these people are breaking more of every day. I hope I live to see it come to some kind of fruition - I recently turned 50.
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by davidw 8mo ago
It's a little bit better than so many sniveling, cowardly elites are doing right now.
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by davidw 8mo ago
I'm being very picky with what I look at, which doesn't help, but yeah, it doesn't seem great. Maybe they're all in person gigs? Or is there some ageism? (There has always been some ageism in software)
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by davidw 8mo ago
Is this hiring people to dig ditches for data center infrastructure or something? Because it doesn't sound like software.
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by davidw 8mo ago
Keep this in mind next time some crank on Nextdoor dot com goes off about taxing bicycles. "Sure, as long as we're both paying according to the road wear and tear we cause".
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by davidw 8mo ago
Ironically, "how to stack dwelling units vertically in high-demand areas" is one of those things we seem to not be so good at _making_ these days.
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by davidw 8mo ago
As someone who was around in the 90ies, I think I would have found a way to work in the Bosstones, but it's pretty interesting just the same. I'll also have to look up what people write about "tocca ferro" in Italian.
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by davidw 8mo ago
> shenanigans It's a lot more than "shenanigans": he's likely responsible for the deaths, via starvation and illness of hundreds, thousands, or more. The quick and sudden DOGE cuts ripped those programs that were keep
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by davidw 8mo ago
Mr Tambourine Man is pretty epic too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmCi_-9Shhg&list=RDXmCi_-9Sh...
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by davidw 8mo ago
The elephant in that room is that all these LLM's were trained on boatloads of open source software that they can remix enough to not violate any copyrights. As an open source contributor, in some ways this makes me much more frustrate
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by davidw 8mo ago
Who are the actors working to "improve it" though? You have big tech oligarchs salivating at the idea of moar profits by firing a bunch of people. You have elected officials who might mean well but won't be able to react quic
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by davidw 8mo ago
Yeah exactly: here's Sam Altman saying "ok yeah these things use energy, but so do the humans" https://bsky.app/profile/x2y.tech/post/3mfeulapemk2d
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by davidw 8mo ago
This is where I'm at, but it would be nice if it had some more longevity to it, as there are costs to switching to the next thing and the thing after that.
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by davidw 8mo ago
I mean, I explained in my original comment exactly why it is not a dead end for me. It has 'enough' of the things I'm interested in to make it worthwhile.
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by davidw 8mo ago
Not in terms of having a critical mass of users for many topics or being very accessible for a lot of people.
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by davidw 8mo ago
But does it have a critical mass of people? The Wikipedia page says "Nostr is primarily popular with cryptocurrency users, primarily Bitcoin users." That's not my crowd.
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by davidw 8mo ago
Good points, but what's the alternative at this point? Because of network effects, more users is generally more interesting. Blue Sky has "enough" at this point for me to be happy there. Programmers like antirez, my bike raci
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by davidw 8mo ago
The relative openness is the reason I gravitated towards Android and Google. I've never really taken advantage of it, but it's nice knowing it's there and that my phone (a Google Pixel) is something I have more control over t
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by davidw 8mo ago
"I would like to personally blame Jesus Christ for making us lose that football game"
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by davidw 8mo ago
One of the interesting things you start seeing and then can't stop seeing is "CEO says" journalism, where the whole article is about the CEO saying something and that's newsworthy and there's no real analysis of it
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by davidw 8mo ago
I'm not saying things are fine. Not at all. It's a really tough line to navigate and I struggle with it myself. If you go around telling everyone we're doomed - DOOMED! Then it's not really helping, just as if you go aro

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