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I think you mean "invention". Innovation describes how products change over time and doesn't necessarily imply insight or value-adds. Sometimes it just means the packaging gets updated.

I suppose. It's difficult to view capital as "doing" anything but entrenching itself. We're still stuck with the same power structures as we had before; none of neuralink or starlink or tesla or spacex will fundamentally change anything about our world.

Like, it is true that capital is responsible for the charging networks being deployed across america. But it's this same deployment of resources that is also responsible for my needing a damn car to do anything in life, and it has zero plan on doing anything about that.

I find the analysis of this without addressing what should people be doing do be a nearly useless view of humanity. What can be gleaned from this aside from seeing that the people with the greatest impact care the least about their impact?

Making coffee is an agricultural ceremony!

I'm struggling to figure out why you'd pick Musk as an example of a doer when you also can't distinguish coalescing money and talent from the thing money and talent does. What distinguishes doers from capital being capital? How do you distinguish between a "generational genius" and a useful idiot?

"Fiction" doesn't seem to be the right word for open speculation positioned as open speculation, which is how I immediately evaluation observation.

think this is just an observational essay. The confident tone makes for better reading, even if you're questioning the accuracy while you read it. It also allows a more loving tone than a more hedged rhetoric would allow.

Well then Asia is de-facto doing the hardware. Apple is just paying for it.

Apple is famously sitting on a mountain of cash. How easily do you think they could replicate the supply chain of even one of their products without outsourcing it?

> There is no single company from Asia that deals in mass produced consumer goods that's capable of doing decent hardware and decent software at the same time.

Doesn't apple do most of their manufacturing in asia? I don't get your point. We certainly can't match this quality in the west.

ah, if only the rest of us had the willpower to simply choose to not suffer and to enjoy life instead.

Seriously, who do you talk to that enables such viewpoints? I suspect not many people want to talk to you after their shift.

Work isn't the problem; it's doing bullshit work that's undervalued so that morons who don't work can eat. This has held true at every part of the pay scale. It's just the compensation on the upper end helps you have hope you may find meaningful work that can feed you.

I suspect we all WANT to work. We just need to eat, too.

> why is it directed at making money rather serving society

i think this particular phenomenon is rooted in calvinism, particularly in North America, and calvinists hated humanity. It also wouldn't surprise me if the protestants coming over here normally prone to social responsibility (eg some lutherans) were less willing to show up for their community than those in the old world.

> and it makes you wonder how much of it is actual science

I don't wonder. You can look up egyptian texts with translations and pronunciation guides. We have literally hundreds of thousands of discarded papyri and plenty of papers detailing the archaeological processes of their excavations and interpretations. It's a gold-mine of explicit documentation about their practices and beliefs and logistics over millennia. We know about their diets, their genetics, how their ruling class changed over time, how they interpreted life and death, to the extent where we can draw likely religious transmission among stories with other near-east religions. The extent of evidence we have demonstrating actual knowledge is better than anything else in the ancient world.

Granted, interpretation isn't science, but it's still expected to be presented rationally. The linguistics that yielded the translation itself proved empirically very reliable.

There are many cranks into Egyptian history with many different agendas, though, and I'm sure many of them call themselves egyptologists.

From the way they describe how the message is read, it doesn't seem written very plainly at all. It would be odd to assume that this knowledge was accessible to many people if the manner in which it's written is only found in certain circumstances.

I believe you're still expected to be celibate once taking your vows.

> By the fourth century it became standard to forbid marriage because was believed that previously permitted marriage was only for individuals who remained celibate within the marriage.

On the other hand, de-facto marriages (say, a live-in servant woman the priest treated like a wife, including having sex with her) were overlooked by the catholic church on continental Europe well into the high middle ages.

I don't think I learned basically anything about "fancy architecture" from my undergraduate courses except, ironically, reasoning about coupling and overhead.

I don't see how the us is supposed to be any better. Why can't we use this energy to fight the rich people making this country a shithole rather than starting a beef we can only lose.

What would an american upper hand look like?

Hope ain't the same thing as trust, though. A small player would need to make a pretty significant effort to suggest they wouldn't abuse your usage-patterns.

I don't see why interactive UI is any less content than anything else delivered over the wire. How would you express a website without it?

it almost seems like the word "content" is intended to connote "profitable and dynamically-loaded assets". Why you would not use that phrase is a mystery.

I suppose that "dynamically-loadable asset creator" isn't a great marketing pitch from the perspective of artists.

> "Astro is the web framework for building content-driven websites like blogs, marketing, and e-commerce" [0]

Ok, but opposed to what? What does a non-content oriented website look like? Is a website itself not simply content?

> Fred Schott explained that it was not intended for building something like Figma, or Photoshop, or Facebook, or Youtube

Perhaps their tagline should be "we aren't oriented around building single page websites unlike all those other frameworks". I never would have understood that Figma, Photoshop, and Youtube were not content-oriented websites otherwise. "Content" is mostly not a meaningful phrase outside of a context which gives it meaning (i.e. it is a floating signifier).

> Nothing's stopping us from creating an alternative desktop environment for the Mac, such as XQuartz.

Yea but why use a mac at that point? I don't see anyone on the linux side of things making anything that acknowledges why people use macs in the first place; the entire ecosystem is built to reproduce the IBM PC (...in a unix/like environment). Particularly with its disastrous keybindings and perplexing UI decisions.

> I don't have a lot of confidence that I could make a difference though.

My recent conclusion is that efforts are worth it even if we're pessimistic about outcome. Often times it is hard to get positive feedback from people you're helping to consider their own behavior even if they don't acknowledge you.

I have no clue how you discerned this from the description, but I'd like to understand more. What can you point to on your computer that isn't "content"?

> actual Analytics

I've never used google analytics before. What's the marginal value over statsd?

> Or you must share your data with a big corporation to use them?

I'm choking on the irony

> The web framework for content-driven websites.

As opposed to those driven by, what, random-number generators?

> So, what's your solution to "lack of self discipline"?

IDK, wanting to be alive and happy?

> What is the physical basis for lack of self discipline?

That's just a category error. I just don't see obesity as worth caring about on an individual-level compared to the social dysfunction that produces it. If we can only address problems on an individual-level I don't really see why I should expect anything positive from society—that's just not rational.

> Throw a pill at it and we can forget about it.

I don't really see myself ever forgiving the west for prioritizing medication over holistic treatment. I've been through way too many mental health institutions to ever trust medicated treatment.

Absolutely! But this was surprising to me—my intuition says if I can firmly visualize something, I should be able to describe it. I think many people have this assumption and it's responsible for a lot of projection in our social lives.

I didn't have root access to my family computer during this era, and I will forever be angry at apple for not allowing us to continue this fun until today.

EDIT: actually it looks like this is significantly older than that. I definitely didn't know enough to theme OS 9 when it was my main driver.

> I'm sure part of this is a lack of imagination on my part about how to describe the vague image in my own head.

This is more related to our ability to articulate than is easy to demonstrate, in my experience. I can certainly produce images in my head I have difficulty reproducing well and consistently via linguistic description.