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811.
by jongjong 1y ago
I don't know. Maybe I'm reading too much into it but it sounded like he was referring to something broader, especially given the explicit political references he made later.
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by jongjong 1y ago
Thanks for posting this. >> Love has triumphed over hatred, light over darkness and truth over falsehood. This is interesting since I thought he was displeased about recent world events (e.g. Trump's election, shift towards deglo
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by jongjong 2y ago
The most surprising thing about big tech is that most of them seem to be less useful than ever and yet they are making more money than ever. For example, it seems like nobody uses Oracle products anymore, yet Oracle stock is at an ATH. Micr
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by jongjong 2y ago
Nonsense. Bringing manufacturing back to the US will be easy. Economists will probably call it "Miracle on the hudson river". Economists are full of bs. They keep framing everything as impossible and when something good happens la
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by jongjong 2y ago
This hits the nail on the head for me. When I built my open source project, I felt like a part of society, I was happy to be a part of it. I was proud to contribute even if I didn't capture much of the value I created... Now I feel lik
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by jongjong 2y ago
I won't deny it. Though I think if it was just capitalism and not also an expansionary monetary system which compounds the wealth of incumbents and gives them an unshakable advantage, then my brain would be a little bit more balanced.
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by jongjong 2y ago
My wife is really good at keeping friends even those she didn't see in years. She has many such friends and she speaks to them over video chat. I have a few long term friends like that but not so close.
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by jongjong 2y ago
Interesting. After this comment I mentioned it to a family member who is in natural medicine and diet (no fan of preservatives themselves) and they were surprised that I could taste it. So Maybe there is a genetic component. I mean it'
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by jongjong 2y ago
Yes but your project won't be sustainable without funding. Unless you're already financially independent, won't be able to find the time to maintain it after some time. Don't be fooled, somebody else will benefit from yo
820.
by jongjong 2y ago
Yeah, never open source your code. There are no benefits to it. I speak from experience. 1. Unless you have business connections and raised funding from people who do, open source wil not help gain any additional adoption or raise awareness
821.
by jongjong 2y ago
I don't know why people keep trying desperately to avoid the simplicity and flexibility of WebSockets. A lot of times, what people need is a bidirectional connection yet somehow they convince themselves that SSE is better for the job..
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by jongjong 2y ago
Pretty much. In this case, WebSockets is simpler to implement than HTTP2; it's closer to raw TCP, you just send and receive raw packets... It's objectively simpler, more efficient and more flexible. It's a tough sell to convi
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by jongjong 2y ago
It's interesting to think about the way in which the Chinese government operates compared to the government of other countries like the US. The US government was conceived as merely a public utility to fund public works; there was no s
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by jongjong 2y ago
> In terms of software quality, I would say the code created by the AI was worse than code written by a human–though not drastically so–and was difficult to work with since most of it hadn’t been written by the people whose job it was to
825.
by jongjong 2y ago
True, when it comes to data, there is a strong case to be a compulsive hoarder. It's cheap to store; often free and data is often marginally more useful and interesting than most generic mass-produced old junk which sits in garage gath
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by jongjong 2y ago
Sodium nitrate has a bitter aftertaste to me. A bit like baking soda. I can usually taste it then I check the labels and sure enough I see 'preservative (252)'.
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by jongjong 2y ago
I feel like the economy has become one giant scheme to enable chemical companies to peddle their toxic products onto the oblivious public. They put preservatives in everything... Even some brands of ice cream has preservatives...they taste
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by jongjong 2y ago
Yes, our system is a multiverse of psychological distortions and senseless inequality. Some people straight out of university with no skills will receive large offers from multiple companies and will use that to negotiate themselves a big p
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by jongjong 2y ago
Advertising is unsolicited content which attempts to trigger or nudge a behaviour. There should be a limit on the quantity of advertising. Limited to like 100 people a day on average. We already have anti-spam laws. There would still be adv
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by jongjong 2y ago
It's a solid idea, and could even fall under 'anti-spam laws' with some additional clauses. There should be a daily or monthly limit on the max number of people that a person or entity can contact or send unsolicited content
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by jongjong 2y ago
I like the idea of tariffs but only if followed with income tax cuts.
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by jongjong 2y ago
Bitcoin is a good store of value but unfortunately, Bitcoin doesn't scale beyond around 4 transactions per second and uses a massive amount of electricity. Also, a lot of cryptocurrencies basically turned into scams; sometimes with the
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by jongjong 2y ago
Also, I should add that the job-hopping is likely a feature of our inflationary monetary system; as inflation is ongoing, people find that if they change jobs after 1 or 2 years, they can get some non-trivial salary increase... In reality,
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by jongjong 2y ago
I think technology certainly had an effect. I remember pre-2008, the design trends were mostly centered around pushing the boundaries in terms of software capabilities. For example shiny/translucent 'pill buttons' became insa
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by jongjong 2y ago
The jobs are bad and people get blamed for it. We've been through a credit bubble where everything was borrowed out of debt, in the hope that it would deliver massive-scale automation in the future. But reality is that everyone has bee
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by jongjong 2y ago
> Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. This is an insightful quote. Death and relationship breakdowns tend to change everything suddenly and then you have to rethink your approach to everythin
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by jongjong 2y ago
Great article. I have no interest at all in biology or medicine but I couldn't stop reading.
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by jongjong 2y ago
Yes I think you're right about that. Most teachers are not good at teaching. You have to wonder why they need special certification to be a school teacher when the result is so bad. I know that most teachers were bad because I had a fe
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by jongjong 2y ago
It's crazy to think that anyone could, at no cost to themselves, cause a large commercial plane to be turned around and wipe out maybe $1 million dollars of value from the economy; if you count fuel costs, staff costs, lost hours of hu
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by jongjong 2y ago
> fluoride in the drinking water concentrations is proven safe and it doesn't affect brains. We can never be sure who funded the studies and whether or not the results can be trusted. Studies have shown that studies cannot be truste

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