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by jondubois 6y ago
It's pretty clear to me now that Facebook likely received a lot of help and special treatment from the US government because they saw it as a tool for global control. The US, China and Russia understood this. The EU did not. That'
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by jondubois 6y ago
True. Also, it's about time the EU got its own Facebook, its own Google, etc... Just like the US, China and Russia. Right now the EU is getting juiced. The fiat economy is attention driven and fully controlled by the government so it m
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by jondubois 6y ago
That would be great. I look forward to it. I hope EU regulators can squeeze them like a lemon on the way out... Squeeze them till their pips squeak.
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by jondubois 6y ago
>> Get So Good They Can’t Ignore You From my experience this is fiction. If those who control the means of production don't like you or your personality, they will ignore you and actively work to suppress you. This happened to me
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by jondubois 6y ago
I think they should be allowed to talk about politics. Verbal conflict is always good. The reason why political conflicts are not resolvable these days is because there is a strong element of financial self-interest which is preventing hone
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by jondubois 6y ago
Formal proofs are useless because most systems in the real world are far too complex to be formally verified. The formal proofs for most systems would be so long and complex that they would be almost guaranteed to suffer from human error; t
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by jondubois 6y ago
I don't believe in the term 'non-profit'. Behind any large project which receives a lot of money, there are always people who will find ways to profit from it. They will extract as much money from these projects as the govern
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by jondubois 6y ago
Try starting a business without any personal connections and watch it fail over and over again while customers keep telling you how much they like your product but you just can't compete with corporations financially. If corporations w
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by jondubois 6y ago
Interesting article. It poses a huge dilemma. As more jobs become redundant, how should 'useless people' be compensated relative to 'useful people' without whom the economy could not operate? To complicate matters, many
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by jondubois 6y ago
I don't agree with this view. HTML with CSS can support either fixed or fluid (and responsive) layouts... So it supports all the features required by PDF and more. I don't see a problem with giving the document creator the option
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by jondubois 6y ago
The purposes of HTML and PDF are not orthogonal, there is a great deal of overlap. The real advantage of PDF is that the images which are used inside the document are bundled into the same file... Whereas HTML has historically required the
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by jondubois 6y ago
I don't buy into the job creation dogma. The government could pay thousands of people to push a boulder up a mountain... Then these boulder pushers can use their salaries to pay for food, healthcare and accommodation... Are the cooks,
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by jondubois 6y ago
I'm saying don't send tax payer dollars to be burned into the void of space when that same money could be used to improve the quality of people's lives here on earth. For sure it's better to waste it efficiently than ine
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by jondubois 6y ago
Hurray, more government money being laundered to pay master Elon and his gang. Let's keep increasing taxes and keep printing more fiat money and give it to Elon Musk so that we can all be good slaves, giving him and his gang tangible g
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by jondubois 6y ago
If the law keeps harming the majority of people, society will devolve into anarchy. If the law starts to not make sense, judges will allow themselves more room for interpretation and this will be the ideal environment for mafias and faction
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by jondubois 6y ago
I think that's the point. No one in these big corporations understands what they're doing... They don't know half of the story. But they're so large and powerful that this doesn't prevent them from succeeding anyway
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by jondubois 6y ago
It's hypocrisy that Facebook allows religious groups, but doesn't allow conspiracy theory groups. Conspiracy theory is a belief system. Whether it's true or not is irrelevant. You cannot allow religion and not allow conspirac
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by jondubois 6y ago
This article forgets to mention that right now the Fed is printing and giving free money to corporations via pretend-loans. The interest rates are so low that, in the hands of large corporations, the loans pay themselves off through stock p
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by jondubois 6y ago
I think dominance and control do play a part in tech holy wars but it's not everything. Power structures within tech communities ossify and the community itself can regress in their abilities. And so this means that technologies can so
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by jondubois 6y ago
When companies go bankrupt these days, usually there aren't enough assets left to cover the loss for creditors - Especially tech companies whose main assets are intangible IP which loses all of its value when the company goes down.
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by jondubois 6y ago
I think this is only because tech hiring is broken and has been broken for decades.
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by jondubois 6y ago
Of course, all investments these days are a form of money laundering. Most funding is derived from loan credit which has been moved around a network of companies. The companies on the front line keep funneling the credit to big corporations
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by jondubois 6y ago
I like TypeScript because it gives me an edge over my competitors. I look forward to Microsoft coming up with more abstractions to further constrain and slow down my competition and keep lowering the productivity bar in my industry - Micros
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by jondubois 6y ago
I keep seeing this idea of an incompetent government come up repeatedly. What people don't understand is that it is precisely this incompetence which allows corporations to manipulate the government so well. Laws and regulations do not
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by jondubois 6y ago
>> How many different possible representations of a 'thing' do you have? A json object? Why would you design a function in such a way that one of the arguments can represent so many different things? The problem here has not
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by jondubois 6y ago
I have 15 years of development experience (including a lot of spare time spent on open source projects) and I also agree word-for-word.
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by jondubois 6y ago
I've moved back and forth between statically typed and dynamically typed languages many times over a couple of decades and I've come to the exact same conclusion as you. People who are equally skilled with both paradigms will pref
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by jondubois 6y ago
>> This feels like process immaturity or unfamiliarity. On the contrary, I think it shows great maturity in the decision making process. Many highly experienced developers have stayed away from TypeScript for reasons like those mentio
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by jondubois 6y ago
>> It isn't that hard to get $20k in funding if your idea is halfway decent - that's not the value that YC provides. The value that YC provides is in the networking and connections It's very hard in most countries - Com
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by jondubois 6y ago
It doesn't happen enough. Nowhere near enough. The number of companies which apply to YC versus the number which are actually accepted is a very bad ratio. YC and all other incubators combined do not represent a free market by any stre

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