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Without constitutional constraints, a direct democracy can presumably vote to make Musk dictator-for-life, right? If there are to be constitutional constraints, the nature of that democracy is very much undefined at the moment.

(His being in complete control over the mechanism required to immigrate helps shape that direct democracy, too.)
correlation yes, but not causation.
This is the thing that drives me crazy. The true rags to riches stories are incredibly rare. In the USA we love the stories about the person that came from nothing and the self-made millionaire but in the vast majority of cases if you look at the person's history you will see they grew up in at least an upper middle class family.
This applies to a lot of actors and musicians as well. After all, most of us couldn't afford to be a struggling artist for years without some financial support.
Yes, there are exceptions but those are exactly that: exceptions.
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Watch a lot of CBC, do you? I would recommend visiting the protest to see for yourself rather than relying on media narratives to form your opinion. Keep an open mind and judge for yourself. If you're not able to physically visit, there are large numbers of streamers who do nothing but walk around the area. The more neutral ones provide little to no commentary and try not to interact with anyone so you can better form your own opinion (almost sounds like actual journalism). At least give it a try.
I'm not a lawyer either but it's an interesting subject. In England, for a simple contract to exist you need offer, acceptance, consideration. What do you have that you are offering me that I might accept and what do I get in exchange for abiding by your terms? What thing of value changes hands between us that could be the 'consideration'? Also I just realised you didn't state the jurisdiction you will enforce your contract, so I choose... Somalia. You say 'I'll see you in court' I say 'I'll see you in Mogadishu then' :-)
correlation yes, but not causation
The more interesting thing is that, if working 50 hour work weeks was the norm - how would the capitalist class take it to us suggesting its 40 hours?

40 hours isn't some magical "right" number. It was something that was decided before computers, Internet, global fast communication, etc etc etc.

I think its beyond late for us to reconsider those hours and decrease them.

To answer your question directly: Why would they change what's been "working" for them for decades? The only way we can see big companies change this is if a startup gets really successful and just has this as the norm. That'd create market pressure for change.

Where that market pressure doesn't exist, regulations can play the same role.
So, don't sell yourself short?
They literally don't have a choice except to succeed

Most founders I know can easily find a normal 9-5 job if they wanted to.
This exactly. Focus on value for the person that hits your website and organic search will follow. I've had a slow SPA site for years but the (user generated) content, long on-site time and high rate of return visits all made it one of the top pages in my niche. Not because I was fine tuning image size, speed or meta tags.
don't agree, but interesting…
I should've put my emphasis on the "anything" part, surely there will always be aspects that can't override established law. At least for now, who knows if in the future Zuckerberg sneaks some Droit du seigneur [1] clause into Facebooks ToS once Silicon Valley has successfully "disrupted" Bodily integrity.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droit_du_seigneur
If you can generate some of it from cattle poop and landfill venting, you might even be able to claim carbon neutrality.
Everyone give me some counterpoints to this for inspiration. People that came from abject poverty and made it.

As an aside I do feel strongly that moving up more than one social class is difficult due to not being taught about money and how to handle it. My parents are working class, their parents were poverty level and never taught them anything about money. When I try to teach my parents about money it seems like there is a glass ceiling above their heads, they can’t understand finer details of how to make that final leap to wealthy by agreesively saving and investing and playing taxes correctly. I hope to make that final leap.

I don’t remember most of the millionaires in The Millionaire Next Door coming from wealthy parents, in fact they were mostly working class people that owned a business and were careful with their money. Wealth is actually destroyed after a few generations because subsequent generations never have to learn how to save and not be frivolous.

In my own case you would think my grandparents came from a long line of poverty but this is not the case researching my genealogy. On my Dad’s side they had one of the first two story houses in our part of the state and owned hundreds of acres of land. The progenitor had his grave robbed because people thought he was buried with gold. It had to be covered later by large slabs of rock by the Masons, of which he was a member. But this wealth was lost by gambling and drinking in subsequent generations. The big two story house no longer stands and I don’t know if anyone living even knows where it was.

There is a famous green text someone sent me once and it is about trying to move up two social classes and how hard it is. I try to live like Tyrone.

https://www.reddit.com/r/greentext/comments/q05okt/anons_cow...
its because appearing humble is a much better PR than saying "yeah I did it, it was easy"
> Babies are weighed in every interaction, which is humiliating to parents.

Why is this humiliating?
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Funny that this would be used in defense of Stallman, a zealot who built his whole public personality on supposed "speaking truth to power". He literally called Microsoft "the Great Satan."
> you still need to actually produce something to get that government money

This farmer faked his paperwork and got $1.6 million in illegal farm subsidies.

https://thecounter.org/man-found-guilty-stealing-1-3-million...
https://i.imgur.com/s7l71O7.jpg

Here's my ongoing support ticket regarding my personal account IG deleted without warning, it's been open without an official reply for 5 months now. I think they deleted it because I accessed it from an IP in a new country. I had to send a photo of my face holding up a code to open a ticket about it.

I lost hundreds of photos of my family, including some from the birth of my nieces.

I send a new email every couple months.
Again, I'm just really interested to know your age, because it's fascinating to me that many people see living without a smartphone as nigh impossible. I mean, the whole world figured out how to do it just 15 years ago!

First of all, I'm not saying a smartphone isn't useful, but I'm saying it's not that hard to get by without one if you want to "take back control" of your brain. To your examples, you could simply plan ahead, or (shocking I know) ask people in the street.

Again, the while world got by without a smartphone just a short while ago, it's not that hard.
He claimed pro vax people like himself are the people protesting. How can he make such a loaded claim if a) he isn't protesting and doesn't know any pro-vaxxed protesters and b)he doesn't even live in Canada and couldn't be in the protest even if he wanted to.
We had a good number of diagrams in our readme.md files which worked fine on GitLab. And then we moved providers and GitHub wouldn't render then anymore.

Very happy that 1.5 years later they are again being rendered.
The internet is never going to be 'small' again. You can choose to deny the changing reality of the modern internet and stick your head in the sand, but it's going to be apps and centralization from here on out. Maybe DeFi will have some impact on moving the modern internet in a different direction, but indulging in nostalgia for the 'good old days' of Gopher and NNTP mean you're not contributing to the betterment of the current internet.
Naive question:

"The easiest part about Starship is the booster because its not doing anything F9 isn't already. Just at a much larger scale."

Why is it in general required, to design a new, more heavy rocket - and not "just scale" up an existing design?

I mean, "just scaling up" means a different build process and this alone could probably prevent it when, using off the shelf solutions and not build everything yourself (screws and cables included), but are there other fundamental reasons, why usually a redesign is required?
One could argue that Microsoft’s success is based on the IBM connection Mary Maxwell Gates provided to her son.
And those were predated by Usenet which still exists but nobody has solved the spam issues.
Absolutely, as an orphan with many different ideas and no safety net I was frequently put in places where I should have been a co-founder since I was technical and the idea was mine, but basically until I was 29 I had no leverage because I had to have income (and health insurance, I was born with a couple heart defects.)

I eventually co-founded a company with two others and it went well, but after exiting I am still not plugged into VC.

Basically I'm in the top %1 of earnings in my poverty stricken cohort, a proven pragmatists and a programmer, and I still find it impossible to find and get in front of investors. They don't want cockroach people in my estimation.

Being poor with 0 safety net, even when you escape it, you still have the drag. So once again I'm bootstrapping and I'll make progress at a 3rd the rate (or lower) than I could be AND have more risk/exposure than I want.
If they'd fail, they'd just have to do something else (less fun) to pay the rent. Perhaps moving to a cheaper housing. That's a negative prospect, but much less negative than getting evicted ('not able to afford rent'). And if you got rich parents, you can always live in a room (YOUR (large) room) in their house. Or have them buy you a house. Its a massive difference from the prospect of having to move to a cheaper, less likable neighborhood but neither is going to kill you.
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Three European accounts I sometimes use for online payments, each from a different country, don't make me miserable like that. Apparently one of these banks was founded early in Abraham Lincoln's presidency, so it's not a matter of choosing the new coolness too.
> I'm talking about the proliferation of DSLs like Awk in the world of Unix

I get that there is a learning curve for Unix. However, a complaint about a "proliferation" in the context of a tool which is decades old seems a bit off. The response here of "just install Python" doesn't work for $random_unix for a variety of reasons. Such reasons include lack of root access or business rules which prevent modification (such as for a production system where you do have root access).

> Python can be substituted with another Turing-complete language. Why not just use libraries and abbreviate them for command line use?

This suggests that we take a tool such as awk which is decades old, stable and efficient and replace it with an equivalent implementation based on an interpreted language. This process would take years to complete and then would end up with a tool which consumes more resources and is slower than the original. I don't see the payoff here.
My wife and I have been dealing with this conundrum for the last few months. At the end of 2021, we felt like we were drowning in subscriptions. We were subscribed to the following services: Spotify, Netflix, HBO, Disney+, Paramount+, Headspace, Peloton, and Adobe Creative Cloud. We're in the process of purchasing a home, so it was sort of a gut punch to go through our expenses and realize we were easily spending $150+ / month on subscriptions.

We've drastically cut back; the only subscriptions we pay for at the moment are HBO (we're finishing up a show and will cancel that when we're done) and Peloton (keeping this). The challenge for us has really been finding suitable alternatives that are either free, or involve one-time purchase.

Spotify has been replaced by NPR's music discovery channel and purchasing some of our favorite albums on the iTunes Store. Headspace has been replaced by guided meditation videos on Youtube. Our (my) Adobe CC usage has been replaced by purchasing Final Cut Pro X (lifetime license) and using Darktable (FOSS).

Most services have reasonable alternatives that you can either purchase outright or use for free.
It's not. It's a reminder that all of your sales and marketing efforts are wasted if you're not actually pushing towards a sale. Calls to action, follow ups, using funnels—all of these are things that increase an individual's likelihood to close. That's "ABC".
The “why” is groupthink, at least if the proponents’ claims are correct.

For the “how”, from l what I’ve been hearing, actual productivity follows a curve analogous to the Laffer curve for taxes, where 40 hours weeks is only the most effective weekly rate for manufacturing jobs in particular, while it’s probably more like 20-30 for intellectually focused work.

I have no idea what the “best” might be for e.g. baristas or bank tellers, where it’s important to have someone physically present even if there’s no actual customer at any given moment.
> None of the 64 bits versions of Windows run 16 bits code.

Because it's impossible due to how x86-64 CPUs work.

And the statement does nothing to refute my point - that code compiled for Windows keeps working 4 times as long as it does on MacOS. It's an empirical fact, that can be measured in the real world, denying it is like denying gravity.

Backwards comparability is a priority for Windows because all the line of business apllications must keep chugging along. Corporates don't upgrade their office PCs if it breaks their terrible software.

> Apple can't help some monitor vendors take their time to get their stuff together.

Whats is wrong with them? They work fine on Windows, Linux and Android(!), sounds like an Apple problem
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The OP's entire point is that no, he doesn't, nor does he want to.
Isn’t it usually assumed by most people that the majority of the Ask a Manager stuff is fake to solicit these type of responses from everyone online?

Hook, line, and sinker.
"Maybe capitalism isn't great, but dang, some of the replacements turned out to be a lot worse."

Well in terms of history we have not had a very long time for this experiment to play out. It is very possible that the construction of a system which allows both the generation of several billions of dollars also causes far greater harm than some of the other systems which were too heavy on the gas so to speak.

If history is a guide, all forms of a system fall due to avarice, vanity, or an external system which is operating 'better' at the current time.
Yes, it was magical and unbounded, but it didn't represent reality at all. You couldn't really 'share', nothing went viral, nothing had societal impact. Culture was formed by mass media, reality formed by real life interactions and connections in public spaces; the "streets" were important.

I still remember this unconscious 'reaching out' to strangers in public (now all in their little bubbles, on their phones). I still kind of find myself expecting to meet some of the online figures in real life, to ground their wild claims of importance and glamour in my physical reality (which will never happen). With these experiences, making the internet small again might be possible.

Not so for this generation: The internet can only be big. That one bad tweet is reality, right there on the phone on the nightstand, always-on. There is no way to switch it off, to walk away, to go 'outside'. To find meaning, purpose, answers they have to go out and sift through it all. To find peace, that place needs to be sanitized. Sorry, those "weird little creations" will have to go...
Like another poster said, Hotmail offered free email accounts. Google offered 1GB of storage. Both of those things are "marketing".
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> If it's not broken why do so many devs refuse to support it because things they code in Chrome don't work in it.

This mentality is exactly why Internet Explorer was dominant for so long. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. There are many differences between 2000s Microsoft and 2020s Google but there are also quite a few similarities, even down to funding their opposition to avoid the appearance of a monopoly.
I beg to differ. Coming from a lower middle class background I got a lot of grit and hunger. I studied computer science, being the first at uni in my family. I always hustled part time while studying. Afterwards, I joined a startup and later co-founded another one. All without any support from my parents or anyone else. My actions ultimately put me on a path of success, not anyone else.

Although I understand that this situation might look wildly different in the USA. That might be a case for a social security net that actually works (and the MSc. compsci also helps).
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I experienced that at around 30, when someone invited me to found a startup, but I just didn't have the money to survive.

Now I'm 40, I've got more financial independence but dont really have the drive anymore.
He used himself as an example of the protestors. How can he know that unless he is a protestor or knows pro vax protestors?
happy to be corrected on this anecdata, but it seems to me that the common thread among nearly all (i can't say with certainty, all) of these locked-out-of-Google disaster reports is that the victim was using a free Gmail/Google account as one of the central cog in their digital life/social/single sign-on to personally-vitally-important sites/services.

pay google the 12 bucks or whatever per month to get a paid account, with actual service people you can call on the phone so if something bad happens, yes you can raise a merry stink about it.

become an actual customer! it really works
I think the bigger numbers game is guessing when you'll be both experienced enough and risk tolerant enough to make the leap. At 23 I sure as hell didn't know enough to start a company, led alone code a product end to end. At 27 sure I know a lot more, but the idea of steady income is pretty freaking great - reaching a point where "more money" ever month is sort of a diminishing return. Tbh, I think the people with the most leverage are either just a) really smart, b) started programming when they were 14 or c) have incredible social / networking ability. This is based on my set of friends in college I worked with.
Loosely quoting Eli Goldratt, "Until the money is in your bank account and there is no possibility of having to refund it to the customer, you have not made the sale."
I don't think it is misleading, it is simply a different class of problem. And as you said yourself, in most cases these subleases are not actually legal.
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> The location of the Los Altos home meant that Jobs would be able to attend nearby Homestead High School, which had strong ties to Silicon Valley

> When he was 13 in 1968, Jobs was given a summer job by Bill Hewlett (of Hewlett-Packard) after Jobs cold-called him to ask for parts for an electronics project

Well that's a benefit the vast majority don't get.
Which open source project?
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No idea, any idea why that would be wrong?
Once misinformation becomes accepted as truth, or a valid mindset even, it doesn't stand out as blatant falsehood. Questioning whether 1 + 2 is actually 3 or a secret way to hide the true meaning of pi is akin to a dog chasing its tail to excercise his brain.
> I still find it impossible to find and get in front of investors

Any ideas why?
And did all Telecom providers have the ability to do that sort of forwarding before the statutory requirement to allow numbers to be ported?
> There really needs to be a zero cost custom-domain email hosting solution.

Unfortunately I doubt that would work. Any email solution hoping to get significant use will need to be able to send as well as receive and/or store & organise, because if someone is needing to run their own send route elsewhere they'll run their own receive route there too, and any free email solution that allows sending will be abused in any way possible by junk mailers and other scammy types.

It would be a constant fight to keep the service off black-lists and dealing with the backlash from:

* people blocked rightly because of service abuse

* people blocked because of a false positive in what-ever automated checks you do (the admin involved in doing all the checks manually will be excessive enough that it can't all be done manually)

* those who are inconvenienced by the service, even temporarily, being on a blacklist

And that mass of spammers such a service will attract will be worthless: they'll have everything quickly automated and won't even glance at a single one of the adverts.

> With $20/user/year, there should be no difficulty paying the hosting costs

I doubt $20/user/year would cover it unless you get a decent number of subscribers. And I doubt there would be enough people who would sign up for this, who are not already using gmail or similar big providers that already exist or mail provision included with their web hosting or domain registration service.

Of course my gut reaction could be quite wrong here: why don't you give it a go? If you are right then there is a market to corner that no one else is looking at yet so you could make it big.
I wish somebody would check if this really works
I've reread what GP was posted and he was banned for reason: personal attack, because he did say, that comment is stupid. For exactly the same reason you can get banned, if you use nuanced sarcasm or actually if you are touching anything that is toxic.

Warnings can not be sustainable, when such high volume of warned is involved - you have to keep records of those warnings. Since it is easy to create account in reddit, outright ban is a warning - to not to do the same with new account.

If you are a dick in RL and do snarly comments in RL, you will be banned from communication quicker than in reddit - in some cases even beaten up. So, the only approach is to use reddit and NH comments with attitude, that it is not real conversation.
One of the worst example that I bring (unfortunately) in my mind, was from like mid-pandemic, when people around was complaining due to newspapers (in that occasion, the BBC in particular), for spreading misinformation.. and you know why they were spreading misinformation? Because they were supporting the right of chronicles by reporting about protests against coronavirus lockdown protests... this was the spreading of misinformation, newspaper should not report things that are happening but are wrong for wokes, they should only report things that they like, even if what they don't like happened and makes news
Why is it bad? It fulfilled all purposes: It made the developer some (a lot of?) money, a bunch of people very happy, Terraria shares among the most positive reviews of all games on steam (also meaning there can't be too many critical bugs, as that would piss off gamers pretty easily), was/is frequently updated since years, and is generally considered "a good game".

What would a metric such as "clean code score" help with any of this?
You also don’t have the time to recover should the startup fail. Because of that I think rich parents holds much more influence than having built up a safety cushion (retirement fund) later in life. The risks are much much higher in that case.
You would said 500 million people 200 years ago.

Malthusians in 200 years will say 50 billion.
Making one city a bit uncomfortable temporarily is well worth creating justice for an entire country permanently. Sucks for Ottowans, but the truckers are doing the right thing morally.