stanleykm

ok but systems that are more favorable to workers are possible

a big war, probably

I wonder why all the libertarian freedom loving crypto guys keep backing fascists

half or more of the governments are there because we put them there or they are the result of some mess we made.

i dont think it’s that useful to think about it in terms of individual countries. like its a nice rhetorical trick to go “look at how innocent sweden is”, ignoring the fact they are indeed a nato member, but they are part of the greater western capitalist bloc aka “global north” that benefits from these actions. we suppress wages in the rest of the world to keep manufacturing cheap (and then wonder why there are no factory jobs anymore…), we install leaders who sell our companies natural resources for pennies on the dollar, we control the flow of global trade by mandating that goods need to trade in our currencies.

like let me put it to you this way - you buy a shirt made in vietnam. how much would that cost if it was made in sweden? well why shouldnt that money go to vietnam if it was rightly made there?

The immigrants they are specifically looking to remove are middle eastern and african. they certainly dont have canadians in mind when coming up with these policies.

the west is incredibly extractive of the rest of the world and the “mass migration” from the rest of the world is a result of that. want people to go back home? stop bombing their countries. stop stealing their resources. stop abducting and assassinating their leaders. stop propping up governments that sell out the country for a bag of cash with dollar signs on the side.

There seems to be a difference in capabilities here. Israel actually appears to be capable of eradicating Palestinians. The reverse does not appear to be true.

Israel has a right to defend itself, but Palestine does not?

you have completely drank the kool aid

youre not going to negotiate your way to 40% ownership of the company with a strike price of $0.00001

we only really “need” investors because of the structure of our economic system. we need humans to do stuff regardless of the system.

worth mentioning that our current system is setup by and for the people who own the stuff so its no surprise that we need them to make new stuff.

i wonder why that happened

You don’t really need most of that stuff. Have sensible steering files. Have the agent keep state itself. Dont bother compacting. Its fine.

i did.. and thats what i use. obviously its a little more than just a tool that calls bash but it is considerably less than whatever they are doing in coding agents now.

unfortunately all the agent cli makers have decided that simply giving it access to bash is not enough. instead we need to jam every possible functionality we can imagine into a javascript “TUI”.

Agreed. I came in the comments to say something similar. I think the author raises some interesting points worth consideration but their perspective is so incredibly cynical. He mentioned a small team that made the Apollo computer program. Well it took an awful lot more than a computer program to get to the moon. I don’t think anybody would argue that there are people who don’t pull their weight out there but there is so much evidence that people working together actually works that it makes you wonder who hurt the author so much.

surely you can try a little harder with your post if youre gonna post an ad

there are so many external wars going on right now we all forgot about the internal one

That’s how it was before the pandemic.. Is it unusual that the jobs are where the people are?

The layoffs are not necessarily executed in a way that takes performance into account, but that doesn’t mean that the industry overall doesn’t have too many people for the amount of work that needs to be done.

Our economy is an oroborous of middlemen all using tariffs and inflation as excuses to raise their prices

yes we know the person you are replying to was just using a turn of phrase.

No that’s not true at all. Humans can deal with ambiguity and operate independently. Claude can’t do that. You’re trading one “problem” for an entirely different one in this hypothetical.

Because nobody actually wants to talk about the core of the problem or how to address it. They see different, seemingly unrelated problems depending on what their priorities are. The democrats are also not on the side of actually solving the problem.

I undestand what you are saying but retirees are not what people mean when they talk about Capital. They are talking about executives, fund managers, billionaires, and so on. People who actually control much of our society. Yes many of the funds are managing the retirements of working people but that does not necessarily need to be the case, nor do those retirees have any active ownership of the companies those funds invest in.

does going on vacation for a week count as “disappearing”?

Rich Hickey designed Clojure.

probably doesnt help that we spend 1/3rd to 1/2 of our lives making some other asshole rich

Cant wait to use a program that changes constantly

im a little confused about why you are using revenue for a single datacenter against interest payments for 100 datacenters