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by jongjong 1y ago
The genius of social media is that they propagated some labels and then they let people do the hard work of adjusting their personalities and belief systems to more closely adhere to those labels. Likely driven by mimetic desire for status
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by jongjong 1y ago
Wealth shouldn't be conflated with currency units or the value of assets which are denominated in currency units, especially in a system where the total number of currency units is not fixed. A lot of economic activities are rewarded s
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by jongjong 1y ago
If the candidates are legally bound to follow through on policy then it's slightly better yes but there's still a lot of wiggle-room in terms of implementation. Lobbyists often find ways to sneak in convenient loopholes inside reg
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by jongjong 1y ago
Same as what we have now but I think the moral filter applied would be stronger coming from a random citizen as opposed to a power-hungry citizen. Also, with randomness over the whole population, you can be sure everyone in congress and sen
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by jongjong 1y ago
This is not the case because being able to make a widget cheaper than everyone else doesn't guarantee that you will be able to secure funding for your operations and secondly, it doesn't guarantee that you will be able to capture
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by jongjong 1y ago
Likely the result of 50+ years of a pure fiat money system. The system has been supported by an unprecedented acceleration of technology and increasing globalization; likely why it kept going for so long. We could speculate that the fiat sy
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by jongjong 1y ago
This is inferior to random selection because this still has the issue that the candidate could claim to hold certain positions, but once voted in, they may not follow through on any of them. The reality of our current democracy is that anyo
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by jongjong 1y ago
The Greeks already figured out thousands of years ago that the best way to implement democracy was via random selection. Yet here we are, everyone believes that 'democracy' necessitates 'voting'; totally ignoring all the
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by jongjong 1y ago
I've often made the argument that evolution can happen very quickly within a few generations and doesn't necessarily take millions of years. It's interesting to see some cases in nature where rapid changes in a predator'
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by jongjong 1y ago
Something which drives me mad is how modern operating systems (both desktop and mobile) keep hiding file system paths. There used to be a setting on OSX which let you show the address bar in Finder (though it wasn't default) but nowada
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by jongjong 1y ago
I was discussing this with someone recently, caching is one of those things that people might do behind the scenes, thinking that it doesn't affect the API but in fact it can create all sorts of issues/complexity.
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by jongjong 1y ago
Haha, would love to see that play out in front of a jury. Who will they believe? The guy who says that the $1 million cube contained $1 million or the ones who try to make the case that it actually contained $1.5 million, contradicting thei
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by jongjong 1y ago
This guy could have pulled the greatest heist in the history of mankind. Steal the cube, take out $500K, leave $1 million inside (fluff it up a bit or put some Styrofoam in the center), then return the cube, saying it was a stunt to draw at
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by jongjong 1y ago
Recently I started work on a new project and I 'vibe coded' a test case for a complex OAuth token expiry bug entirely with AI (with Cursor), complete with mocks and stubs... And it was on someone else's project. I had no prio
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by jongjong 1y ago
I prefer it when billionaires stay out of social causes and buy more yachts and mansions instead. At least then, everyone can be sure that they're not funding harmful programs. Also, billionaires would be more satisfied and less inclin
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by jongjong 1y ago
Could be age related. I could never play a musical instrument until my mid thirties. Nobody in my family could. My wife found a Ukulele which was left on the side of the road and which was in good condition and took it home. I started playi
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by jongjong 1y ago
Yes, it's weird that Browsers were so fast to ship CSP rules to prevent XSS attacks by limiting the use of inline scripts but so slow to ship a templating mechanism which would largely solve the problem. It's like creating regulat
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by jongjong 1y ago
Yes, people mix up the concepts of authentication and authorization (access control). Authentication can be really simple if you rely on a standard like JWT. Authorization is what's difficult and dangerous.
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by jongjong 1y ago
Then why is it that every person I know or even heard about who switched to Linux never went back to OSX or Windows? The only thing which made them use OSX or Windows in the first place was their ignorance of alternatives. Clearly you'
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by jongjong 1y ago
It's not that regulation makes moral businesses unethical. It prevents businesses (moral or immoral) from entering the market in the first place because complying with regulations is too costly. It creates a moat for incumbents which g
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by jongjong 1y ago
I can't understand why people are still using proprietary software like Windows or OSX when superior free software exists. It's a testament to the hidden monopolizing forces which exists in our society.
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by jongjong 1y ago
Nice. This is the feature I've been waiting for to plug my low-code backend into. I was too lazy to build a whole frontend like Lovable.
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by jongjong 1y ago
This comment hits the nail on the head. This is what's missing. We are deeply confused. Even regulations (which many people think are good) are are actually an awful workaround the concept of 'total liability'. The term &#x27
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by jongjong 1y ago
Exactly, technology is supposed to be a tool; a means to an end, not an end in itself. Efficiency isn't always a good thing; at some point, you've got to stop and ask "Efficient for whom, and towards what goal?"
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by jongjong 1y ago
Of course, in a world where we support corrupt legal concepts such as 'limited liability', this kind of thing was bound to happen and guaranteed to get worse. I propose a new model; 'total liability'. Every time somethin
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by jongjong 1y ago
I've been waiting for architecture skills to 'explode in value' for my entire 15+ years career. Basically the reverse happened thus far; architecture has been neglected and even the number of roles like 'Software Archite
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by jongjong 1y ago
I have to agree with the article. IMO, the importance of design/aesthetics is beyond absurd and people have become laughably rigid. Design used to be about creativity, but now it's basically a boring data-driven science; there isn
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by jongjong 1y ago
We don't technically need ICANN the whole DNS system anymore. Anyone could quickly build a public cryptographically secure blockchain-based DNS system where people could optionally sync and query their own nodes (without even going ove
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by jongjong 1y ago
I suspect it's because the average code online is flawed. The flaws are trained into LLMs and this manifests as an error rate which compounds. I saw some results showing that LLMs struggle to complete tasks which would take longer than
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by jongjong 1y ago
I used to be against complexity and worried about such narratives making fun of people who tried to avoid it but now I'm grateful. If software developers didn't have such strong biases in favor of complexity, LLMs would probably b

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