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How about things like IDE and related development tools? Same level of support on Linux?

Isn't it because it was tied to Windows? My impression still is that the ecosystem is not as well supported outside of Windows.

Similar problem with Swift even though it started out as an open source project. The ties to Apple OSes are hard to break and ignore.

Can .lance file be used without the directory structure? (For whatever reason, a single file is just much easier to work with.)

It is helpful to think of it in terms of unit economics. If a company sells a product, it needs to eventually make profit on each unit. (cost < price per unit)

When it comes to owning a share, it eventually needs to make the investor money through dividends or price appreciation. The argument for high PE ratio is price appreciation (growth), but exponential growth is very hard to sustain, so PE ratio has to come down to a certain level in the long term. Also, there is always a risk of a company declining or even folding.

Hackers hack on all levels of abstraction. Defining "hacker" around the level of programming languages seems silly. Hardware hackers could have said the same thing about the author.

wait until you gotta wait for the waitlist.

I agree with your sentiment that the Fed isn't "out to increase unemployment" but I think it's not entirely correct to ignore the trade off of raising rates. It's the low employment that allows the Fed to keep increasing rates.

The Fed has a dual mandate for a reason which I believe is based on Phillips curve (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/phillipscurve.asp) that inflation and unemployment is inversely correlated. Now, it's fair to question this relationship...(I don't think it's as rock solid as it used to be), but the Fed's dual mandate is based on this theory. So, in some sense the goal of lower inflation implies higher unemployment.

Well, if it's profitable, someone will want to claim it. If it's not, then it will get shutdown due to some unpaid bills. (Compute, electricity, connectivity, etc.)

Maybe possible if it's running as a truly decentralized algorithm running on blockchain with profits sustaining itself. (Not currently possible as far as I am aware.)

Hmm, one way I can see is that ChatGPT becomes a bit like the AppStore/Spotify/Netflix.

Users pay for ChatGPT -> OpenAI pays plugin developers for usage.

This incentivizes plugin developers to provide quality answers. Websites may still be required for full context or further interaction with the plugin developer.

Hmm wait, what do you mean by “real terms” because that usually means inflation-adjusted.

Withdrawal of $42B in one day. Wow. It does seem like SVB would be uniquely vulnerable to this type of run. (Relatively small # of customers holding large sums of deposit.) Is that incorrect?

Are these nominal or inflation-adjusted figures?

> "The likely aggressors"

Is there any other than China?

While it's shorter, it seems more magical? How does it know to count `failure`?

Yes, that is true, but it is still part of their mandate. Supply and demand of money gets reflected in inflation and the Fed responds by changing interest rates. Isn't this a free market mechanism?

Well, being subject to S&D of money is why they have the mandate to keep inflation at 2%, no? You can argue that measuring inflation is a poor way, but you'd have to come up with a better alternative.

The bit about Apple Notarization is incorrect.

You can do it with a free Apple Developer account. You only need to pay $99 if you want to distribute it through the App Store.

> This is why people who claim “I don’t want kids because of global warming” are so incredibly stupid

Just a different explanation for this: If one has a super pessimistic view of effects of global warming in the next 50~100 years, e.g., collapse of civilization, it's reasonable not to have kids to prevent their suffering.

This means that for foreign customers of yours, your product will have constantly fluctuating price. I personally don't find that desirable. Also, there is some considerations to be made for purchasing power especially for items like apps. $1 might be trivial in the US, but it may not be so in a third world country.

One reason I'm aware of is for foreign customers who are buying in foreign currencies. As a developer, I don't want to set prices in every currency, so they translate the price grid for me which I found useful.

Maybe I’m off here, but this doesn’t really seem like it’s about the 30% commission. Maybe Apple is taking a position against allowing crypto trades on their platform?

I generally agree with your statement, but it depends on what your goal is. Ultimately, do you want to build a successful business or bring a (specific) new technology into the world? I suspect the former is true more often and it can lead to innovations along the way, but there is nothing wrong with the latter.

I’m glad you brought up this point. I think there are analogues to “muscle memory” when it comes to learning concepts, too. For example, I don’t remember all the techniques to compute integrals explicitly, but I know that I’ll be able to pick it up quickly, because of my “muscle memory”. I feel like this falls into “remembering”, but not “memorizing” when it comes to definitions.

Curious to learn, what are the differentiators of ZFS? File system seems like an invisible layer to me personally which makes me ask this question.

Search ”split brain experiments”.

Don't you think some form of Facebook on the Internet is inevitable? A social network that is free to use and ad-supported.

It seems that the question is if there is a version of Facebook that does not lead to misinformation and other harms, or at least outweighed by benefits of having a communication channel like Facebook.

Having just read this and Zhamak's article, it seems that there may be some incentive alignment issue with this.

I assume a lot of valuable data originate from customer-facing applications, so the team that already has a customer-facing product now has to manage a new internal-facing data product.

My worry is that the data product won't get the love it deserves.

Hmm, if you view biology as technology, isn't the ecosystem required for human life basically an industry in itself?

It seems that centralization is the natural outcome of decentralization. We live in the tension in between the two extremes.

Is it necessarily true that consumption requires carbon?

I would like to see more than just toy benchmarks. Also, can you provide any information on theoretical basis of this?

I can see this carving out a space for low value tasks.