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For the uninitiated… Cory Doctorow laid it out in a fantastic post that’s become legend rather quickly.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

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This is true. If you live near an airport the disclosure is required by law if you buy a house in the are.

However, it doesn’t preclude expansion and changes. If for example your airport moves from 12 hour a day to round-the-clock flights... nothing you can do.

It’s a sticky wicket.

How? Homeowners associations. I planted milkweed in an empty side yard and was cited for the same thing.

Also I was cited for having a browning lawn. My neighbors brought me a bag of weed-and-feed (basically lawn seed with pesticide) because he thought I did not know how to “do the lawn.” Very sweet, but all I wanted was not to kill everything. Wasn’t allowed.

I really think the US should require all college grads to spend a year overseas in a country that speaks a different language.

I got an education and then I got a real education from travel myself.

With all respect I don’t see how this changes anything but shifting who pays.

How is it better to pool risks to the group rather than the individual paying a for that risk? The US already has a huge problem with coastal real estate and federal insurance of coastal developments. Why would we introduce that at scale?

Why should the collective pay for individual choices? It’s not like the society got together and made people move into fire prone areas.

I am not trying to draw parallels to health insurance which has many ethical questions that drive deep consideration, but I don’t understand why asking for the group to insure individual risk that is fundamentally founded in individual choice is in any way necessarily better?

No that’s exactly what we want. We want the free market to create efficiency without entrenched regulation, which could lead to some short-term increase in risk. But what you really want is to price in the risk, and the only way to do that is to remove government protections of individual corporations so that the free market can operate. Little companies increasing the risks of fire is a misnomer because competition and a truly free market would crush those companies and eliminate that problem faster than you could think of a solution. It’s only when you entrench a bureaucracy that you end up with problems like PG&E - a company that doesn’t have to deal with real consequences because it’s political connections will protect it.

What your describing sounds fantastic and is politically expeditious because there is less risk in backing the prevailing methodology, but it is not improvement.

Competition in transmission is good, because alternatives like alternative energy would completely displace these systems and technology advancements would be available and legal - unlike the current insanity.

You know how you can’t put in an oversized solar system and sell power back to the grid, even if you can afford to? Did you notice that the grid is super inefficient because it’s got a limited number of highly centralized generation sources? No? Well that’s the consequence of ownership of the transmission lines. If you own the last mile you own the network. And if you also own the politicians who can protect your last mile interests, why would you invest in change?

Mozilla seems to have integrity. It’s great to see.

They should take the momentum of these values and launch an alternative to gmail.

None of this moves the needle on anything that matters to me. I don’t want to pay another subscription for yet another business that doesn’t offer material benefit. I love the long form, but I want specific benefits that matter more than as a matter of discourse.

News is now asking for subscribers to pay for what advertisers no longer will. Ok. Why should I?

And you consider that different from the current generation of sites how?

All kidding aside I think the overall level of USABILITY of websites is much higher than it ever has been today. But in large part that’s because they are all following the same foundations.

Man, all of those models look like flash websites. That’s the problem. The unconstrained mess of deconstructed html, the Skeuomorph movement and reconstruction of architecture in the browser,

Man, all of those models look like flash websites. That’s the problem. The unconstrained mess of deconstructed html, the Skeuomorph movement and reconstruction of architecture in the browser, the relationship diagram... these are the same explorations of early flash and dhtml websites.

It’s challenging to rebel against the dominant paradigm because everyone ends up with tattoos and blue hair and alternative becomes mainstream all over again.

How will I ever execute my plan to explore the eroding atmospheres of exoplanets when apple can’t even be bothered to handle a little helium. Jeez...

No it only proves they reject ads from the founder of the company. That’s the only proof you can establish based on the facts. There is no evidence they are vetting anything, and in fact it’s more likely they just filter out zuck.* than the implication that a larger system is at work (Occams razor).

I had a 13 inch MacBook Pro 2016. Sold it. Went back to using my 2013 MacBook Pro. I have an iPhone 7 and I miss my headphone jack every day. The best phone I ever owned was the se.

Apple is happily going off in a nonsense direction where their products are less and less useful because they are less complete and therefore less “self reliant” as devices.

See that’s what people don’t articulate. It’s not that the design changes are bad. Some are great. It’s that the balance of great design and great utility is what made apple impossible to beat as a phone and a laptop, and then there was the fact that they were seamlessly integrated (something apple has still failed to fully exploit — their stuff could be mind blowing). This is what made the brand great, and I feel like people miss that part of the argument.

When you bought a 2013 MacBook Pro, you didn’t need to buy accessories because it had it all - hdmi, usb, etc. - and it was useful without any additional accessories and met or exceeded my needs in almost all circumstances. I didn’t need a dongle to present and I didn’t need a cable adapter to charge my phone. When I packed for a conference I would grab my laptop, a power supply (that I could trip over in hotel rooms while working with no worries and that neatly wrapped up), and an hdmi to dvi adapter in case the projector failed, but that was it. Now I feel like Apple has externalized all of that utility in an effort to boost margins or go thin, and it’s basically made the devices reliant on a host of adapters, both for phones and laptops (and actually the 2013 Mac pro was the same problem).

Apple needs to understand what made them great was that they weren’t the ultimate steak knife, they were the ultimate survival knife, and get back to building the most useful, thought out and self-contained devices like they used to. They had a sweet spot, but we’re going back to the Apple cube across all product lines again, and nobody wants that.

The pro computer failure and the move away from nerd needs to slab of glass has lost balance and is heading into design over substance. The pendulum needs some rebalancing.

Yea same question. Op?

My sentiment exactly. I hope this does a fiery death.

I will do everything in my power to resist this “innovation.”

Who exactly in the state of California thinks this is worth trialing anyways? I would like to have our representatives pass along a few choice points of feedback...

Lol. I find many of them work in tech in New York and San Francisco.

Go to burning man and see if that’s your tribe.

That’s really the thought that went through my head exactly.

Yea when someone in the public eye forgets the lessons they teach in kindergarten it’s always a little disappointing. I imagine he is mad at the guy, but I wish he would show a little less hubris.

Nobody is perfect. Hope he learns to apologize and be the bigger person because the benefits of that approach for those that are publicly adored cannot be overstated.

The system has values that aren’t very fulfilling (wealth, power, consumerism). I think a lot of people feel like you do.

No advice really. It’s totally true. You are on the one hand a dynamic individual with much to offer the world. Yet at the same time you are one of six billion, floating on a spec of dust in one corner of an infinite universe. Somewhere in the middle is the fulfillment your looking for. ;)

Keep going. Don’t quit. Don’t get discouraged. Keep applying. All careers require “finding your break.” It may take time.

The worst thing you can do is get discouraged. You should put four hours into finding a job every day and four hours into building a commercial product (yes you can do it) that will be your resume and should also be able to rock some revenue if you need to find more time.

You have to hustle. You have to push. Spend your time preparing for your first big break.

Also hit up conferences (open source conferences) and talk to people. You might also find referrals in your co-grads because that’s often a solid channel.

I don’t understand why people think they can just go to some academy and the world will beat a path to their door. You’ve got to be more realistic about what it takes to win. You need hustle! You can do it! Go kick ass and never quit! Be committed to sending 5000 resumes and writing 100 lines of code a day and the world will give you what you want.

Rock fourth and be so committed to your goals that nothing will keep you from your success.

Posting this was smart! Ask for help! Remember most people love to help.

That site is straaaaighy awesome. Ty. Any others of that caliber for fellow nerds?

I think it’s a reference to the famous anti-torrenting campaign that equates real world theft with torrenting.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HmZm8vNHBSU

Three words: Github for Business.

So. Much. Irony.

Way to go Mozilla. This is awesome.

I emphatically agree with every point. I am in the exact same position and feel exactly the same. I bought a 2016 13” MacBook Pro and got rid of it because it just wasn’t... better. Still using a laptop and a desktop from 2013. And waiting...

Why is it in the best interests of those developers to persue an academic degree rather than real world experience, setting aside the rather hefty financial reasons for a moment? That seems to be the underpinning question here...

Is it possible to do this in discord? I think it would be much more successful than phpbb.