Krustopolis

Do you have evidence of malfeasance, or are you assuming that because one user said he thought it was vibe-coded without further elaboration?

Things take time. Especially during the pandemic and its aftermath. How you been down to Arizona lately to see the developments? Not just the manufacturing itself but everything that has sprung up around it? It’s impressive.

I use SharpKeys for this.

I think this is just wishful thinking. The world is much more complicated and chaotic, so things like “just write better docs” don’t hold up. Especially in the unpaid roles that open source software relies on.

LLMs may be the only chance many people have at writing good docs, or creating those macros to parse one-offs.

“You want it one way. But it’s the other way.” - Marlo Stanfield, The Wire

Happened to me a couple of days ago. I installed Ublock Lite and it seems “good enough”.

What is questionable about Peter Thiel?

Leave the house?

Not yet.

Doubtful. Sean Connery has been dead for several years now.

I am always amazed when I see (justified) criticism of Fox News without mentioning CNN and MSNBC as equally culpable for a decline in American society. To not see this has to be the result of political partisanship or willful ignorance.

There are MUJI locations in Boston, NY, and Portland. https://www.muji.us/pages/store-information

And sucked.

“Dreck” is a German word.

Hold down Ctrl when using these shortcuts to copy directly to the clipboard.

You sound like someone without multiple monitors of differing DPI, which I found to be suboptimal on Gnome versus macOS.

This is not helpful. I asked the OP to back up his drive-by claims. I wasn’t asking for more of them.

Please explain. He’s one of the last journalists that I still trust these days. Care to elaborate on your claims?

And Firewatch!

Which regulations does Amazon violate in their warehouses?

You have every right not to shop there. Employees also have every right not to work there. As you will see stated here time and time again, private businesses can run their operations any way they wish as long as they are not discriminating against legally protected classes.

And one with an ARM instruction set at that!

RIP Robert.

For the non-economists, he is referring to Ludwig von Mises: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_von_Mises

Apples and oranges. By way of analogy, the OP was talking about C while you are describing building a commercial Windows app. DE accounting is a simple tool that can be used in complex ways.

If your statistics are correct, that lends credence to the old saw, "An armed society is a polite society." But that's likely predicated on everything thinking that everyone else is armed (which in high gun control areas would not be the case). Sort of like nuclear weapons' "mutually assured destruction."

Cynical view: Sony cancels publicity event because it knows it would get no (or limited) publicity.

Good point. With your comment for perspective I am now laughing at my interpretation. :)

Semiautomatic means it reloads automatically. A bolt action, manual-reload rifle would be useless against a mob, which was the stated threat profile.

Microsoft made an official statement almost a year ago that it was OK to use exFAT, and they published the specs as well.

https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2019/08/28/exfat...

I won't argue how groundbreaking their technology is of late, but in all fairness they have been much more open with their code.

By "draw the line" I was referring to how much you would take from him if he wanted to convert some of his equity in Amazon into cash. Although I feel like I do appreciate the points you listed above, even with those measures in place there are no guarantees that "billionaires as a class of people" would cease to exist.

Certainly with someone like Bezos, unless you take it all there is going to be a number that will still net him a billion after all of the taxes. And if you do "take it all", then maybe the next Bezos, Zuckerberg, or Gates starts the next company in another jurisdiction with less of an appetite for taxation, drawing away with it the capital and all of the follow-on effects it provides (jobs, spending in the community, etc.). And given the lengths we know that rich people will go to protect their money, that line has to be drawn at far less than "all" to keep them.

On the other end of the extreme, even if he never sells a share those shares still allow him to wield a tremendous amount of power. So in the short run, all the taxes in the world would change nothing (Amazon does not pay dividends). It would just give him more time to figure out how to evade the taxes in the long run. :)

I am moved by the argument that Walton's kids shouldn't get it all, but I'm not sure that transferring some or all of his property to the government is a good idea. You would then just have a "trust fund class" of politicians and bureacrats! (BTW your Walton comment has got me pumped for season 3 of "Succession")

I like your overall thesis, I just think we should be less punitive with those exceptional people who do indeed add tremendous value to our economy and society.