robertlagrant

37 ms·

691.
by robertlagrant 2y ago
But it wasn't urban. That's my point.
692.
by robertlagrant 2y ago
> A culture of hanging out and drinking requires walkable urbanism. I don't think that's really true. In the UK, villages had pubs. Gradually some of the villages were joined together into larger cities, and the pubs remained.
693.
by robertlagrant 2y ago
> I don't see that these developments alter our essential humanity though. If you read any classic literature from 100, 200, or even 1000 years ago, the emotional truths resonate the same way. That just means that field can be stati
694.
by robertlagrant 2y ago
> but the problem is that there are much more "nasty" futures than "nice". How do you know that?
695.
by robertlagrant 2y ago
> products that spy on an manipulates their users, products that can't be repaired, and products that putting future generations at risk by damaging the environment? You seem to have a very narrow view of the range of products that
696.
by robertlagrant 2y ago
I just had a cool experience with it doing some simple design. It prompted back to me usefully as well. I can imagine also uploading a component library that this thing then uses the components from, to add styling for higher-fidelity desig
697.
by robertlagrant 2y ago
> Then why are the fonts so expensive? Because they're considered important, and definitely take a long time to make. Try making one.
698.
by robertlagrant 2y ago
Mobile phones have had one of the most rapid price plummets and feature additions in history. The only thing stopping another competitor is the fact that it's so hard to compete with them, because they're incredible value for mone
699.
by robertlagrant 2y ago
I think it's more likely that insane societies do - elevate one person's consumer choices to national scale.
700.
by robertlagrant 2y ago
I 100% disagree, and that's as someone who was both a fan of Nokia and even of Windows Phone. And even if I agreed, they did hire that former MS exec. So they wouldn't have been that alternative, because in no universe would App
701.
by robertlagrant 2y ago
Stop using them. What do you do if every car manufacturer does something that's a "deal breaker"? Don't make a deal with them by not buying a car.
702.
by robertlagrant 2y ago
> you must look for a nationalised solution otherwise you'll just be creating oligarchy Er, why? If France buys a lot of Microsoft licences, they are suddenly an oligarchy?
703.
by robertlagrant 2y ago
But still - think how much more you'd need to buy and validate it all works together. Microsoft gives you AD, which works with Outlook, Sharepoint, Azure, Office365, Teams, then all of those, plus Excel, Word, Powerpoint all bundled, a
704.
by robertlagrant 2y ago
> Too much of the world depends on a few big orgs in the US with potentially different goals and values to their own. The solution is simple: build a business environment that would allow a home-grown alternative to have developed over t
705.
by robertlagrant 2y ago
It can also lose giant amounts of money. IBM is a shadow of its former self. Microsoft isn't, but could well have been had it continued the 2010s the way it performed in the 2000s. Google search is vulnerable to AI. Businesses can vent
706.
by robertlagrant 2y ago
> If used like that, this service will effectively turn my job into that of an assistant to a machine. I think you can already reduce commercial roles to this description if you choose to.
707.
by robertlagrant 2y ago
This is a very good idea. I see a lot of friction (and lack of process) with product -> UX -> dev than with product and dev able to iterate on things like screen flows very quickly, and UX feeding in more from the user research angle.
708.
by robertlagrant 2y ago
> Before Twitter did any sort of verification it was not difficult to determine whether an account claiming to be someone was actually that person for anyone who was actually interested. It was if you were a regular, non-technical user o
709.
by robertlagrant 2y ago
The maintainers are adults too - they can set their price.
710.
by robertlagrant 2y ago
> the public opinion might change so that juries (representing the public opinion in courts) will indeed begin to judge against Microsoft in the way that I described I'm pretty sure that's exactly how juries shouldn't work
711.
by robertlagrant 2y ago
But that's only if they keep generating value. Plenty of companies don't do that and we forget about them. Basing one's worldview only on peak performers is the apex fallacy[0]. [0] https://rationalwiki.org/wi
712.
by robertlagrant 2y ago
A drop-in replacement for Adsense is a very good idea though. I wonder if someone knows of one here.
713.
by robertlagrant 2y ago
Sorry I don't - I was purely prompting the idea that there should be no anti-trust related issue that would stop you switching.
714.
by robertlagrant 2y ago
Just switch away from Adsense.
715.
by robertlagrant 2y ago
They aren't hoarding supply. The value is tied to that business continuing to be useful.
716.
by robertlagrant 2y ago
Also that this wealth is dependent on value. It's not like having cash. It's shares, whose value will go down if the company stops providing value.
717.
by robertlagrant 2y ago
> the next best option of break things and ruin peoples lives in the process Lots of software works very well. Including Facebook's, where "move fast and break things" was coined, I believe, which is some of the most scala
718.
by robertlagrant 2y ago
> He can't eat with his shares. He can use them as collateral for debt. Presently, that's how he dodges taxes. You'd close that loophole. You also don't get taxed on your debts, e.g. a mortgage. You pay interest on yo
719.
by robertlagrant 2y ago
> Your great grandkids could cure cancer and bezo's could do nothing and yours would never have a fraction of the wealth his have. This isn't a problem.
720.
by robertlagrant 2y ago
I think what I wrote here covers what you're saying: > Democracies that swing as wildly as the US currently does It's not "robber barons" etc. It's just two very different worldviews existing in one place that ca

More ›