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which is to say only gamblers are ever willing to hire me

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very nice, this is how I can now quickly say it and clearly think it:

I've only ever worked for gamblers!

the 'cool' thing

is that not even the purported 'business owner' owns their own data, what do they actually own? what is even their business?

on the modern trend, all businesses really are: is just a collection of subscriptions to service providers like MS.... where's the actual business???

I just hope that the notion and traditional cultural practice of "this idea is mine, therefore it cannot be yours" dies soon

once it does we can have a new digital renaissance

but if people see the phrase "original copy" and don't see an oxymoron, i have no hope

counter example: what is this website called?

you're telling me Hacker News is a who?

they did that because they had the petro dollar system

this is the same system that allowed most americans to not pay taxes and also downsized the IRS

they thought they were going to be able to keep this system around indefinitely, but nope. I'm basing it all on guesswork, but I think that system ended this summer. the USA fed and gov is going to be at war by the next summer (debt ceiling expiry), or they're gonna get their cred destroyed even further.

my much less informed take on this topic:

I considered "why?", "what?", and "how to?" by thinking the types of answers:

'what' expects an answer of a name, or reference.

'how' expects an answer of a recipe, like an algorithm possibly

'why' is more complicated, it involves intention. to keep it simple (and short), it's a mix of both of the above, but I provide no references nor bibliography; and quite honestly, I didn't even read through that whole 14-17 minute long article. at a glance, I am saying something roughly similar, but without knowing about all those academic erudites, and without invoking such arcane terminology as "teleological"

this actually may help me clear out a subtle distinction:

the documentation has the same socialpolitical problem as any other artistic expression encoded into a digital asset

but the code has a subtly different socialpolitical problem that goes a little bit further than the one of 'mere' digital assets.

I don't expect to be understood, I just wrote this to think to myself... albeit in public.

so long as we can read the source code AND debug the program, it's ok.

it may be difficult, but sometimes things are difficult

free and open source but private and paid for documentation???

do not underestimate the agendas for centralization of power and control

do not underestimate the sticky pull of collecting ̶r̶e̶n̶t̶^C ̶t̶a̶x̶e̶s̶subscriptions from people

Is it even possible to empirically validate such a thing?

I wouldn't think so because empiricism implies experience which implies time

my point is that I refuse to adjust my expectations to a technological environment in which we are ok with having to pay per API call to use software.

I reject a future in which all software works as a subscription based service; this is just more taxes (in principle)

I see society going down this path and there are no good reasons for this at all (it is just double then triple then mutliplefold taxation on activity; and what for? so that few lucky persons collect rent forever?).

they're an endangered species, so to say...

you should learn about systems software... they may be 'vanishingly small' but they're there in the foundations of the entire computing stack. done once, a long time ago, and used by all ever since.

just the most basics: but there are (sadly were) more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glibc

because rent i.e. taxes i.e. licensing fees i.e. insurance coverage i.e. rent is just too good when you're collecting it and nobody would give it up

Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for.

the rarity is not the source of the value, but an amplifier for the value in a market driven society

It’s my opinion that music should not be free, and my prediction is that individual artists and their labels will someday decide what an album’s price point is. I hope they don’t underestimate themselves or undervalue their art.

does she understand privilege? she's a music slaver, she's advocating that music remain a limited experience accessible for a few. I have a HUGE problem with this.

this is, in my view, an energetic interaction centered about value, perceived value, and measured value. i could say more but i rant... something something digital assets can be copied for free let's not let a scarcity mentality ruin this for all.

finally, what she really sells in her shows has real value, the scarcity is her physical existence, this is NOT THE SOURCE OF VALUE. the energy/money dynamics are a form of power.

edit: I echo this sentiment: "Sad to see generations grow up on music being a spectator sport and not a communal, participatory activity". but notice how this huge Taylor mega shows ARE a communal activity. Dancing is the main avenue for communal musical participation

this is equally applicable to you: to believe you're right regardless of correctness for the sake of feeling well.

but I'm not interested in mere feeling well, I want to BE well. I find it difficult to find other's with whom to engage in productive dialogue so to actually be able to get closer to correctness.

the absolute majority of time I post this opinion, or any close to it, I get downvoted and the discussion I'm looking for gets shut down. Taboos are part of the toolkit.

I see this as a problem to be solved in the software-education space

this is IBM firing its guns straight at liberty minded software

here come the rent seekers: soon enough we will have to pay per character we type. this may seem exaggerated and I really really do hope it stays a gross exaggeration and never actually actually happens.

nonetheless, the trends are here and this is part of them; and we all knew it was a merely matter of time before IBM started to destroy what redhat once was and turned it into more IBM

after a while of starving this project, some 'visionary business founder' is gonna come up with some sort of subscription service to use this software.

to write is different from to rewrite

but c'mon. I'm referring to the fact that code can be made into libraries, or APIs if you're so keen on collecting rent

and then as a digital asset, the library can be copied and distributed, hence code can be written once (one team writes it) then everybody else can use it with no additional cost, (again, unless you actually want to tax/collect-rent from other people, then you make up this additional cost)

so become irreplaceable or be turned into a commodity...?

but do not make the mistake I have: to believe doing this will get anybody to accept that you understand, or at least this has been my experience so far.

“The justice system in Veracruz can’t be relied on to investigate, punish, or deter criminals, nor has the government launched a major campaign to boost the vanilla industry”

source: I'm Mexican,

I would say this about the entire country, not just one state. I would blame this on imperialism, but I already did.

however if you have money, you can buy your justice, selling drugs gives one money...

mexico has a lot of underground economies:

step 1: wage a war of disinformation of vanilla "vanilla is getting the kids high" step 2: end up making it illegal, of course, vanilla will keep coming step 3: declare war on vanilla because of reasons step 4: profit!

punchline step: replace vanilla with marijuana, or other native south American plants (cocaine).

welding needs to be repeated for every building

code is written once, then everybody can copy it to make use of it

why is this such a huge problem? what to do about it? I have a lot of opinions around this but it doesn't matter

my problem with this theory I can only explain in my own terms

my problem is that this perspective confuses together individuals and systems

no great men exist in isolation, some name takes most of the credit but they're all but a sum of their circumstances, which in all cases include other top people who never get to be as famous

strict clarity of this is extra important now that fully autonomous 'systems' are taking off, which makes them even more likely to be confused with individuals:

who invented the slate-computer (smartphone): Apple Corporation

then a whole history of apple as if they were a person whose father as another person called Steve Jobs (and their mother was Steve W?) or whatever

2013!

what's the difference between running a program (interpreting it), and compiling it?

where's (and what's) the line that distinguishes the program from the output of the program where both parts are just software?

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the most interesting thing about turning machines is the universal turing machine because it actually invents/defines/showcases software as we understand it nowadays; this makes me reflect on how the busy beaber problem just misses out on this realization

mexico and usa have a very very close culture.

just like during all the 19th and a bit of the 20th century USA immigration was dominated by Irish, Italian, and other europeans. Mexican's have been the largest source of immigrants into the USA... and this is also as an aside of parts of USA which were part of mexico at one point (Texas, etc..)

as a mexican I'm aware that the biggest drug cartel in the country is the same thing as the government. this is specially true at lower levels of government; but then I went on to learn that the biggest drug cartel in a worldwide level are actually the american government, I understand this may be impossible to accept for a few people.

as a mexican from veracruz, I KNOW as far as I can know (meaning I don't know, but I guess) that the state's executive was controlled by the zetas cartel (first decade of the 2000s)

final tidbit: the technical name of Mexico is "United States of Mexico" (in spanish, clearly)

a lot of these 'baddies' are bad due to war on drugs policies perpetrated by the american government against all of latin america because imperialism

the huge amount of funding of organized crime is a direct consequence of imperialistic war on drugs. "a matter of national health??" ahahahah, just think about the american health system for a minute.....