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We've all been raised in a world where we got to practice the 'art' of programming, and get paid extraordinarily well to do so, because the output of that art was useful for businesses to make more money.

If a programmer with an exoskeleton can produce more output that makes more money for the business, they will continue to be paid well. Those who refuse the exoskeleton because they are in it for the pure art will most likely trend towards earning the types of living that artists and musicians do today. The truly extraordinary will be able to create things that the machines can't and will be in high demand, the other 99% will be pursing an art no one is interested in paying top dollar for.

My 9 year old can sit down with the Replit Agent and make a simple game that entertains her for hours.

She couldn't make a business application and go out and start selling subscriptions, but there are whole categories of tools that can be created that are ultra simple CRUD apps that bring specific value to one person. Code quality and/or understanding how it works is irrelevant for that use case.

There isn't a return for shareholders if the valuations are lower. The problem is not management holding the business hostage today, the problem was investing at unsustainable multiples a few years ago.

Now the only options are to either cash out at a lower valuation and not make any money, or wait and hope the business grows to the point where you can get a higher total valuation despite the lower multiple and see a return on your capital.

So Twitter/Blue Sky/Whatever implements a “report abuse” link.

Who does it report abuse to? What happens to the post? What happens to the person who powered it?

I was not, we are a Laravel PHP backend, using the standard PHP stuff for connection management

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How would they “address” that? It’s outside of their control

I don't think "real" engineering is necessarily any better at estimating. Take a look at any large construction project and the norm is to be over time and over budget.

There are lots of reasons for that, which can fall outside of the scope of engineering, but the same is true for software.

“Has Y Combinator lost its way when the latest company is a backup app you can already build such yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem”

Not a lot of synergy from the end user’s perspective, but the value of those platforms is the advertising network, which is a massive synergy for Facebook operating all three platforms and owning all three audiences. I don’t know how exactly a split would work but I see more downside than upside to having to recreate the ad network on each platform.

I had that same issue with multiple monitors a year or two ago. Tried everything, reformatting, different OS versions, etc.

Turns out it was one of my mini displayport -> hdmi adapters, replaced that and everything was fine.

So in this view, who gets to determine who is a "rational, fact-checking, good-faith actor" who should enjoy the privilege of free speech, and conversely, who should not have those same rights?

https://stratechery.com/2019/tech-and-liberty/

If you control the email address on the account you could get in by resetting the password, so I'm not sure what the difference is there

The "fine" is now $0 after the tax cuts last year

In what world does Chrome have a monopoly on web browsing? They have ~66% market share, and there are at least two high quality, free, alternatives on Mac and Windows that are only a click away

Now put that loaf of bread you made in a plastic bag, set it in your pantry, and try and eat it two weeks from now.

This went off the rails for me at the end. If earning money is good for other, but spending money is bad, then the "best" thing I could do would be to earn money and hoard it under my mattress.

However, that would be the worst thing I could do for society, because I would be removing that resource (whether it has intrinsic value or not, it is still a resource) from society.

In order for me to earn money, someone else has to spend it. I don't see what labeling one of the sides of that transaction as good and and one as bad accomplishes.

Because private charities rely on someone making an affirmative choice to give them money. In theory, if they are corrupt or incompetent enough the flow of money dries up.

If the government is corrupt or incompetent, people get angry at them and then ... nothing changes. The flow of money isn't stopping, in fact the most likely outcome is their budgets keep going up year after year.

The cost of the current homeless situation can also be measured in human lives

That may be true logically, but I don't think it is workable politically.

People are conditioned to accept that we will kill each other with cars every once and a while. I'm skeptical we will get to the point any time soon where the general public hears about a family killed by a self driving car and just shrugs it off. There will be intense pressure to get them off the road.

That assumes that GDP would not be impacted negatively by the massive tax increase.

I'm sure there are many theories, in both directions, of what would happen to the total tax revenues if you were to raise rates significantly, but it's surely far more complicated that your idea makes it sound.

That doesn't mean Redhat is going to be performing security updates on PHP.

That is actually exactly what it means. RedHat backports security fixes to 5.3 in order to support it, even though 5.3 is not fixed upstream in PHP

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/backporting

Gay marriage has been legal in all 50 states for 2 years now

What year would Wisconsin turn a profit off of Foxconn if it didn’t build a factory there at all?

They aren’t handing Apple $208m. They are giving them tax breaks. If Apple didn’t build a data center in Iowa they would also collect $0 in taxes from them. The cost/benefit calculation is no where as simple as this article or comments make it out to be.

It could still be a bad deal, but there is not really an honest attempt to figure that out here.

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What they are good at is trying a shit ton of ideas and then optimizing and doubling down on the winners. If they just "stuck to what they are good at" they would still be a small online bookstore.