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> Of the 40 new fortunes in 1982, at least 24 were due primarily to oil or real estate

In 1982, oil and real estate was technology. Information technology was still research and not ready for big business. One could argue that those two were based on exploiting natural resources, but so is tech, it's exploiting the natural resources of human attention and information, it's not making flying cars. In that sense , the way people make money has not changed much: make something people want that exploits and indefensible resource, rinse, repeat. Like big oil, the big tech of today can keep on making billions without building any new tech. I really dont enjoy this hero worship of tech, it's 2020 those days are gone.
> I can't answer for the OP but it's clear that the FSF was a in a leadership position

Who cares about 'leadership position' aren't people capable of deciding things for themselves?

> FSF stands for are good and important, however without an organization to promote them they will continue to wither in the modern age and bringing back RMS will not help to reverse that trend.

So, people can form something similar to the FSF then. Put out a better product, whatever it is the FSF does, and then people will care. Otherwise, your opinions don't matter.
>And no, it's not normal for adults to be sexually attracted to teens.

~1 million years of human history disagrees with your statement.
Nobody is saying every business should be a charity. I am saying, though, there's more to life than eating food. People who treat that as the "whole point" are missing out.
> Just got into building Tamiya RC a month ago. Not really interested in slot, and Tamiya seems very niche and in the USA in particular.

Surprised to hear Tamiya being referenced in this context. Not sure if it is the same Tamiya I am thinking about, but the one I remember is the one that makes all sorts of tools and paints and other stuff for building plastic models (e.g., gunpla models).

Feels like it could easily be the same, given the exact same name and being in a somewhat adjacent industry. Interesting how it all works.
Okay... and what's the difference here from Open Distro for ElasticSearch? I guess it's just a rebranding, isn't it?
Note that the Forbes list doesn't necessarily reflect how people are getting rich at the moment, but how people in the more recent past have gotten rich. The catalyzing events that launch the fortunes of the wealthiest were already happening a while ago
What's the Debian occurrence you speak of?
I had the exact same thought when I read pg's statement, "Why are people starting so many more new companies than they used to, and why are they getting so rich from it?". People aren't starting so many more new companies than they used to - they're starting significantly fewer, and that's a bad thing.

pg is obviously focused on the tech side of businesses, but if you look at the US business climate more broadly, tech is a poor indicator for what's been happening the last several decades.
What would good update mechanisms be? Is there any today, except "Follow this newspaper forever" and "Hope they do honest retractions"?

One idea.. A system attaches to every article an ID, users read the article and the reader saves the ID for the user and the system later informs him of retractions and critiques, if desired?
Safe to say PG has a healthy amount of Survivorship Bias.
I'm dying lol
You sound more out of touch than an alien from outer space. No way is 150k worse quality of life than a janitor 50 years ago.
Based on initial testing, AWS EC2 instances with ARM chips performed as well if not better than the Intel instances, but they cost 20% less. The only drawback that I've really encountered thus far was that it complicates the build process.
Defffffinitely fair game at a university, then. I thought we were talking about the more abstract investigation of why it's wrong to have sex with minors. This sort of direct political stuff is regrettable but totally within the realm of acceptable.
No, that's not what I'm saying.

Can you effectively participate in a game if you don't understand the rules and objective? I don't think so. You wouldn't drop someone into a car, a job, or really anything important without some knowledge or training. If we did, we would expect poor outcomes. I think we are seeing that now. For example, people don't know the basic differences of statute, code, and case law, or how they work. They can't define or explain basic legal principles. I'm many cases, they don't even know what rights they have. How can you demand your rights and proper treatment if you don't know them, nor how to effectively communicate about the law?

I'm also saying that populism has some issues with what percentage does it take to pass something, thus alienating a very large minority (like 51/49). That populist policies can trample the rights of others.

I had no input on the economic struggle as that was not even defined, so I find it odd that you would try to link my statement to that. I had asked what kind of "unnecessary struggle" the parent meant. I guess here you are saying it is economic. Can you elaborate on what is unnecessary? If it is unnecessary then there must be some obvious solution - can you define that too?
> In fact, Amazon contributes very little to open source in general, considering how much they take from it

I don’t think this is a fact. Amazon seems to contribute pretty significantly according to the pages [0,1] they put out that describes their contributions. Not to mention their membership in OSS foundations like Linux Foundation. [2]

You have the caveat about in relation to benefit they gain, but that’s pretty hard to measure. And I think isn’t really a good measure.

I’d like to learn more about why you make such an absolute claim and maybe you have some better measure.

I remember back in the 90s when big orgs (Microsoft, IBM) didn’t contribute to open source and can’t even think of any big orgs today that don’t contribute to open source. Even Oracle has big open source projects.

[0] https://amzn.github.io/
[1] https://aws.amazon.com/opensource/
[2] https://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/join/members/
Don't misinterpret what the parent is saying. It's not "one introduction will", it's "one introduction could". If you are wealthy and connected enough there are many folks who will gladly ensure your children are taken care of, if for no other reason than to be connected to the parent/family.

An introduction might lead to a job, apprenticeship, or internship. It might lead to a partnership somewhere or the opportunity to invest in some way you would not normally have access to. Or it could open the door to further introductions and connections. Network effects are powerful things, and being introduced to the right node in the social graph can make all the difference.
They also could sponsor Elasticsearch alternatives in Rust - Sonic[1] and Toshi[2]. Even more, integration[3] with Vector.

[1] https://github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic

[2] https://github.com/toshi-search/Toshi

[3] https://github.com/timberio/vector/issues/988
Well amazon can't be neither compared in this, is by far way more evil. At least Google and MS keep some key products open source, so most of them can be checked and re-packaged if there are privacy concerns.
That's sort of my take. Super wealth comes from founding or having a large stake in a unicorn. That's of course true but also rare and sort of like a kid betting his future on playing in the NBA. Sure some people make it, but the vast majority do not.

"Enough" wealth -- i.e. retiring with millions in assets, is much more attainable by anyone who simply invests sensibly over the course of a working career. You don't even need stock options or equity compensation or a SV salary.
No real accountability, no addressing the decades of bad behavior that drove people -- particularly women -- from free software in fear and disgust, no whiff of an attempt to substantively do better on the issues of inclusion and representation plaguing the movement. Just excuses and playing the autism card, which goes over about as well as it did for Christian Weston Chandler. Typical RMS.

Judgement made.

The FSF should remove Stallman from its board and publicly distance itself from him. Otherwise judgement will come for the FSF too. They've already lost the good will of Red Hat, which was the organization driving actual development of the Linux ecosystem. It's hard to run a foundation, or a movement, without money.

Imagine if RMS lived to see the FSF go bankrupt, and its assets purchased by hostile corporations who then go on to make GCC and Emacs proprietary? They could do this because of the CLA they make contributors sign. A bitterly ironic end to a noble movement.
undoubtedly, i think theres a sweet spot for letting people gain rewards from their own hard work/talent/value creation, but i think as a society we are moving into the dangerous territory where that balance is totally skewed in one direction.
I have a lot of respect for people involved in free software communities and projects. I've interacted with some maintainers in bug reports / feature requests and so far that has been extremely positive. But I haven't been part of any internet-based communities since I was a teenager. Having to argue about technical details in a non-constructive way is bad enough when you're getting paid for it - doing that when your main goal is to be a part of something useful to the world seems completely soul-crushing.

I think if I ever code something worthwhile I'll probably just vomit it into a github repo for anyone to fork as they please.
It seems to me the discussion of his Epstein related comments encouraged other people to come forward with their own grievances. I don't think most people knew he defended adults having sex with children. Or he hit on much younger women at conferences. Or the FSF unionized because of him.
You would think so because is hard to notice, I would not have believed it until I seen it with my own eyes, it was an article about RMS and there was a good discussion in the comments , in 5-10 minutes the entry was gone from the first pages, it was flagged, I think there were around 2-- comments in the end but most readers missed the article and instead they could see more then one day old stuff.

My proposal is to have people do a bit of work not just click a button, write an intelligent argument, it would at least filter the lazy ones out. It is similar when you know someone will review your code you double check your commit first and clean things up, someone might decide that the reason might not be as defendable so maybe a discussion should happen on this topic .
> Janitors had better living conditions 50 years ago than $150k earners do today

This is just batshit crazy.
It could be the default editor for RedoxOS
I don't get the question. You can only run macOS legally on a Mac, there's no other option. And any new-ish (ten years or so) Mac is able to download the latest supported macOS completely for free.

So the OS is basically included in the product (just like a washing machine or a car) and upgrades are free.
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This essay feels really dishonest. It tries to simplify the vastly complex problem of income inequality, on which there is a sea of existing, detailed research, into a simple "it's easier to start companies now" argument. And it doesn't even explore that argument in that much depth.

What about bottom incomes? Why have those barely increased in real terms in the last 30 years, while the top 1% of incomes has been shooting steadily up? Surely that's nothing to do with people starting companies.
Surprisingly IdeaVim, has become pretty good.
Sadly in recent years a new generation of "activist journalism" has taken hold that favor stories over facts
Fine the Facebook subsidiaries incorporated in the EU. Or completely ban them from doing business, which prevents advertisers in the EU from giving them money.
The definition of "rich" is "having a great deal of money or assets; wealthy." Seems like Rich == Wealth as far as I can tell. There is definitely a difference between well-off and wealthy, though.
I'd presume $2T in MarketCap could buy you multiple Twilios even at $100B.

MSFT isn't shy from making large purchases unlike Amazon and Apple: They take such massive bets comparatively frequently.
> They ignored the fact that people within the community had significant problems with his conduct, completely unrelated to the Epstein thing.

Then you should have hounded him for those things, and not twisted the words he actually wrote (which was even more blatant since both what rms said and what Vice said is there in the public) and then tried to pin it onto him. Do you really think everyone is going to have a short memory about how this all was handled? Regardless of whether you like rms or not, would you like to have this kind of due diligence to be applied to you one day?

> If they had handled this the way Linus Torvalds did - i.e. making a show out of toning down his toxic behavior, and then actually toning it down, this could have worked.

So, what you're saying is... people expect a show. It doesn't have to be sincere, it just has to be the right kind of a show, maybe jerking a tear or two. And they know full well it's just a show. But they still are going to make a decision based on the quality of that show. Right?

"Extremely superficial" and "infantile" are words that immediately come to mind to describe this kind of behavior, and frankly speaking, this is not the kind of people that should be let within a mile of any kind of decision making.
For the same reason old "tech" (GE, IBM, HP, etc.) didn't prevent the rise of new tech giants: Blindness.

They tried, tho, it just didn't work out because they were blinded by past success and the innovator's dilemma.
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You're the one claiming a negative is 100% true, without giving any indication you've thought through the topic. In my experience, there's no point in trying to do the work for lazy thinkers.

I'll tell you what. You list some good reasons businesses typically do things and say why they aren't valid for this. If you really can't come up with any after some demonstrated work, I'm glad to help you out.
I'm almost certain this occurs with Hibernate as the JPA provider. I haven't tried this with other JPA providers but as far as I can tell from tutorials[1], stack overflow posts[2], and the JPA documentation[3], this is the default for JPA as well.

[1] - https://www.objectdb.com/java/jpa/persistence/update

[2] - https://stackoverflow.com/a/8307991

[3] - https://docs.oracle.com/javaee/6/tutorial/doc/bnbqw.html#bnb...

EDIT: Oops I accidentally replied to this twice
Yeah, also making under 100k if I made 200k even for a year it would absolutely let me pay for my wife's college out of pocket rather than co-signing on debt, and then let me either buff my retirement IRA or pay down a chunk the mortgage...

Located in the Midwest USA
Yeah. Anytime "the media" reports about things I personally know about, it becomes obvious how much they get wrong. Too many journalists believe they are on a political crusade. They get enraged by their own stories and actively try to enrage everyone else.
I don't see this having occurred in either direction. An assertion was made, contradicting details were provided, and then it became emotional due to past interactions.
Which country is this? 30% seems reasonable for all that.
This IS the economy—not the “mismatched” economy. It is the fair market at work. Perhaps the author is alluding to a mismatch in skills to available jobs? “Employers” are not some big cabal that work together to figure out how not to pay higher wages. Employers are thousands of businesses that decide individually how much they need a certain task to be completed and then look to the market for fair value in paying for that work. If there are tens of millions of people willing to work for $x per hour, then that is fair value. It’s a world economy. We Americans or Europeans don’t live in a bubble. This “pay more” mindset is bound to fail for low skill jobs. Employers will find another way. They always do-because it’s a free market.
Any EU authorities out there reading this?
Indeed. Meritocracy, hard at work.
Saying she presented herself as willing isn't the same as saying she was willing.
"As he's a visible spokesperson, that means his blog content is part of his overall role, and not something that can be treated in isolation."

I agree this is de facto the case. It's kind of sad, though, and I don't think the world needs to be this way. There should be a way for an e.g. CEO or similar to have a life and persona outside of a job.
> You can't change the data on it, so if you get skimmed you need a new implant.

If it's basically an NFC tag, can't you make it read-write? Or is this potentially doing something more than that?

Also, how did you get the magnet implanted? Despite having no use for it myself, I still kinda want one.
PG's recent articles have changed from what they used to be. Recently (last few years) there is a dramatic change towards defending riches, logical fallacies to explain why being rich is okay, a lot of focus on wealth and how to get it and why it's okay.

A lot less technically interesting than he used to post. I used to send Startup=Growth to everyone I knew. I think people are used to high-quality content from PG and so the upvotes fly - but honestly, recently, the quality isn't there. And often the content of his posts I now find quite offensive and wrong.

Not very interesting any more. Mostly wealth defenses and fallacies.
I think its pretty common to mention which language a project is using. I don't see anything on that website embellishing it unnecessarily. Looking at another project, sqlite, it mentions the language used in the first line of its home page. Interestingly, vim.org mentions nowhere what language its based on, but google hilites that it is based on C.
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Johnny Cash's Hurt is one of my fav. songs/versions ever. I listened to the original, and many other versions, but that one is just a few steps above
As someone who was an adult during the Carter and Reagan administrations Jimmy Carter started the deregulation debate and he set in motion money to study the idea. He was definitely in support of it, but faced significant opposition in his own party

But it was Reagan who actually executed on it. The unions and a significant amount of Democrats opposed both of them. Some jobs were lost but consumers greatly benefited.
Have you ever thought about creating your own project, which, as you say, will not be "useless". I think this is a good option. But it's up to you to decide what to do. For example, I have a dream to create something like https://audext.com/ but so far there is no time and money.
Well, yes, if you accept some official-inflation-is-fake conspiracy theory as a premise you can reach many interesting conclusions.
Network Security First
I get a network error.
Yep, I wouldn't say I've had as much startup experience as you but I did work as employee #4 at one and then after that at a startup that got acquired by Google and while I did get a windfall out of that it certainly didn't make me rich and I've made a lot more money in the years since just taking in my regular FAANG compensation.

FAANG compensations can be quite high. Arguably they are that high precisely to siphon up headcount that would in the past alternatively go into other ventures to seek wealth there. But I would say that these high compensations seem to me to be set precisely high enough to hoover up talent but not high enough for employees to achieve "escape velocity" entirely from the market (without extreme financial discipline anyways)
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> "Of course the Gini coefficient is increasing" translated means "income inequality is not a problem".

The book "The Great Leveler" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31951505-the-great-level... is probably the most comprehensive dive into history of inequality, and arrives at a fairly unexciting conclusion that periods of great inequality are correlated with significant economic growth (usually related to advances in automation, which tend not to be universally distributed) whereas periods of equality can generally be attributed to stagnation.
The common lisp solutions should include at least one LOOP example. Since that would almost certainly be directly comparable to the python example.
Top 100 richest people etc is an outlier by definition. Chasing that phantom isn't going to get one anywhere. For those seeking to build meaningful wealth (think ~10M etc and not billions) it's better to be grounded and focus on the simple more predictable things one can control and build systems for good side income, passive income, do the np brainers like 401K, Roth IRAs etc. But unfortunately one can only read about the Bill Gates of the world and there is hardly anything written about the guys in 10M range that have 3 Valeros and 2 subways and a motel.
Super parallell arm chips could that not be a future thing for nvidia or another chip manufacturer. A normal CPU die with thousands of independent Cores.
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RE: that twitter thread. Wow. That's absurdly bad. Especially given that I suspect any software person there could easily go get a much higher paying corporate job without much trouble.

I feel like a problem that plagues software worse than other industries is that BigTechCo can pay multiple times more than what I'll call "greater good" kinds of places like:

* government

* education, especially in high school

* software freedom / open source / communal / etc types of places

The one that I mourn the most is high school computer teachers. How many startups were started by people with only a year or so of college? How important is high school in choosing your career? How often is curiosity suppressed in high school when students try to go off the standard curriculum into material the teacher isn't familiar with, and think of how easy it is to do that in programming?

But I digress. I want to call out an example of this kind of "clearly, obviously for the common good" done right: Let's Encrypt. I think their software people make ~200k the last time I looked? Which is pretty dang good. I think the main thing it might lack is the kind of comp you get to via equity in a startup or public company. But given LE isn't that kind of company, I don't think you can fault them too much for that. So while I wish LE devs were paid like senior google devs, 200k gets you pretty damn far anywhere but NYC and San Francisco.
Think the implicit meaning here is that Gini coefficient is often used only as an indicator of income inequality, not wealth inequality, despite it being usable for both. Usually one has to specify "wealth Gini coefficient", as most default to income otherwise.
> The Americans made a huge deal about John Glenn, yet his record is basically worthless.

The whole reason the US was in the race to the moon was because the had lost the race to space (Sputnik, and then Yuri). The US badly needed a win.
The next decade is ARM's for the taking, but if Intel and AMD can make good cores then it's not anywhere close to slam dunk.

One of the reasons why M1 is good is pure and simple that it has a pretty enormous transistor budget, not solely because it's ARM.
I agree. To me, the post reads a bit like this: "Back then, we did not have as much inequality, but the super-rich did not deserve their wealth. Now, we have more inequality, but the super-rich [like PG himself] really deserve it, because they are innovators." The post does not cover the arguably more important questions like "Are the working and middle classes better off?", "Was there less innovation back then or were lesser paid innovators just as innovative?", and "Can we have as much or even more innovation with less inequality?".