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My point was that wealth gap increased due to QE and a class war masked as racial equity is being waged amongst the 99% as a result (without any net benefit to society since the 1. source of wealth come from excess supply of money which makes debt cheap for those in position to take advantage of it vs those who are oppressed by it 2. increasingly diminishing to non-existent value added widgets and services being sold, see my coinbase example above), not between the actual winners or losers of the system but rather the professional advocates from both ends who are seizing the narrative to push their political views in all spectrum of American society, culture and individuals through that tiny screen we carry in our pockets.

They've printed their way out of a recession since '08 by kicking the can down the road, and we can't kick it any further without creating a large number of losers.

IMHO, it's a sign that American innovation has peaked. It's also reflected by the markedly decrease in intellectualism (as if American culture wasn't anti-intellectual to begin with). When I see young students from other countries and compare them to Americans, there is very little valuing education in fact the antagonism is occurring.

For example, math is being scapegoated as systematically discriminating against the lowest performers while the highest performers are being subject to the equivalent of forced confessions, guilt and pushed ridiculous theories about race. Yet despite that camp's calls for equity, it is still okay for Asian Americans to be discriminated at academic institutions and various other fields while there are increased calls for virtue signaling towards other groups who do not get the same scrutiny and insanely high standards. Meanwhile the lowest end of the society are allowed to steal (as long as its under $950), commit crimes without consequences (take a trip to SF to see thanks to calls for community patrols post-Floyd) and descend into the inhumane (mental health issues from drug addictions and poverty being normalized) because there is now a sort of compassion industrial complex armed with the loudspeaker that is social media to manipulate opinions while cancelling out the rational as the enemy.

Meanwhile, the military are increasingly spending large amount of money in video games, making young Americans idolize military & war, if not evident from the war mongering cries out of America for a conflict that they largely put in the groundwork to trap their old enemy, censoring, cancelling any opposing view to their narrative. We are all confused, angry, quick to point fingers at one another, instead of nuanced takes, whatever narrative invokes emotions strongest drowns out other side, regardless of whether they are grounded on reality or outright fabrication.

This is the trickle down effect I notice also at YC, I see increasingly bad ideas being pushed like blockchains without any real adoption, trading of unregistered securities, and SaaS companies without real revenues raise ton of money but with no real business plan or use case. It's clearly a race to IPO and find exit liquidity. ex) Coinbase

This is all a giant mess and I ponder, how did America stoop this low, where did it all go wrong?

It is bewildering that they expect people to actually believe intelligent people to discount the IR footage from the F-18 just based on this article that reads like the "it was a weather balloon" trope we often get whenever we ask questions.

edit: holy crap, there are actually lot of people on HN buying it!

For me, Flutter & Dart were badly needed solutions to the traditional way of developing Android apps. There's really no need to do the "native app dance" anymore, it's costly unless you really want to target a specific Android device.

Having said this the article does bring up an important issue, in particular, it's tougher to find Dart developers and you would most likely need to spend 6~8 months for a new team to get into the groove...BUT

React Native is a giant mess. It's clunky and slow and throwing Javascript/Typescript at everything has been problematic and it's clear that the performance lags behind Flutter by a large factor.

If I had to choose, I would take on the tool that offers the best development experience and a large chunk of that comes from the debugging, and it just so happens Google hit the nail——NullPointerException is one of THE biggest risks of using other toolsets.

So If I had to bet here, I would put it on Flutter/Dart. It is essentially a love child of ES6/Java/Typescript and it just hits so many pain points coming from React Native.

I really do think React will become the Java Swing of our generation, yes you've done everything right but it seems you need to keep up with new trends and the usage of hooks is really annoying and unintuitive.

In fact, here on the web front, I think Backend-as-Frontend where we persist application state in websocket will be a game changer. On the mobile front, Flutter clearly scratches the itch for both newcomers, react native developers but also backend-as-frontend really gets rid of the need to maintain two separate code bases (one for react and the other for backend).

I think a web app that loads via Backend-as-Frontend framework that Flutter talks to like a regular joe REST API will be the paradigm shift.

I would love to hear what others think of my views as I'm curious as to how my bets will pay off.

it has the same signature mechanics but it's really the plot that ultimately gets people to watch it, I mean if Clockwork Orange's main plot descended into some weird orgy ring for the rich (I admit Korova Milk Bar was a prelude to a certain degree), without any identifiable struggles of the common human experience, it might have been written off.

The problem in my view is that EWS's failure was in that most people just didn't identify enough with the characters or their struggles other than a superficial 'affluent married couple with divorce lawyer on speed dial with illuminati'.

In fact, it's just become a favorite topic of conspiracy theorists that have largely decoupled from the story line, and in my view, simply did not do Kubrick justice since an artisan or creator's final work is always scrutinized. I remember large parts of the movie being edited out which allegedly enraged Kubrick and put him at odds with producers.

Facebook or Meta is so out of touch with reality it seems, the Gen-Z he's trying to woo over have completely written off FB, it's just not relevant anymore.

Youtube shorts is the only good competitor, Facebook has long past it's novelty in most developed countries, and it's only hope seems to be winning over Gen-Z from the rest of the world....which really has no ad spend, i'm talking countries like Burkina Faso and Syria...but even there people just don't trust Facebook and how can you?

FB have coincided in almost every instance of regime change from Arab Spring to Ukraine, more recently allowing posts promoting violence against Russian speakers in those regions.

I don't know what Zuck is thinking but he's pivot to monopolizing metaverse and VR seems to have fizzled and the markets are not showing respect at all. At this rate we might MAAA without Meta.

I long questioned these extravagant acquisitions with the exception of Instagram, but now he's launching an NFT on the platform? It's just so weird to me how quickly it's becoming MySpace'd

I'm on track to surpass 1 million euros in salary working for 4 different companies thanks to Copilot so yes, this has been a huge boon for me.

based on my past experiences of hiring and connecting with people from HN & YC

they've been some of the worst. I don't know what it is about this site that people place so much positive bias here.

I second this....Kubrick was a true master....there was no "Godfather 3"...well Eyes Wide Shut maybe

yeah it was a matter of time before people starting spamming

if you are already using copilot, do we get these new feature automatically?

yes!

weird thing after I installed it, google chrome immediately used a dark pattern to get me to disable it. if I had been a below user average, i would've given up!

thanks for being respectful here, I will take a look at those.

What I'm saying is pick up a history book or even read through various things America was involved in all over the world. It is anything BUT moral and yes the average American has no say in the matter in the decision making. So perhaps that absolves them of the sins of the state but nevertheless the blind masses continue to push away these ugly things under the closet with various political labels and in doing so they are implicitly approving these actions because it ultimately benefits THEM at the expense of other humans.

My point was try to see it from the people on the receiving end of pax Americana and tell me why the opposing sides reacted the way they have.

History is written by the victor and you simply don't get to hear from the losers. Therefore, there can be no absolute comparisons. You push somebody to poverty or vilify them, there is no exit but the desired outcome you seek. Once again, narratives is what shapes our reality, and the one that continuously virtue signals is the one that ultimately wins.

> Losing the moral high ground degrades the whole society.

There never was any moral high ground, the establishment were successful at making people FEEL as such. We are quick to point fingers at Nazis, Terrorists, Enemies yet the Western perspective is always 'we can do know wrong, if we did, its justified' which is exactly what the opposing side does.

Once a subtle reminder that many supported Nazi ideals early in America, even as Jews were being sent to gas chambers, companies like IBM were happy to do business with the regime, very much like they do with CCP companies as well as Putin.

There really is no way to change this without outside intervention, I will leave that to your imagination.

yes it feels a bit like today, the society increasingly became complex due to ever-changing norms and social morality.

haha i actually saw that video, very fascinating

That sounds absolutely delicious I really want to try it

The roman empire had steam powered contraceptions or prototypes too but lacked the machinery to produce them in large scale but more importantly their demographic were not very open to automation since they had human robots they could control aka slaves.

Why build an elaborate steam powered textile factory when it costs nothing to use slaves to do it for you?

Why do you need UFC on 4k television when you can watch gladiators duke it out live with no censorship?

Why do you need porn when...okay I will stop here but you get my point.

These mechanical constructions were always in the back of engineer's minds but nobody wanted it. If Romans invented the car, they would shun it for a horse.

I believe it is the development of commerce, colonialism and laws that really made it impossible to rely on human labor alone. Like the Dutch East Company and British one, the difference really came from increased need to manage the looting, I'm sorry, "legalized taking".

Wars also were increasingly more catastrophic and costly, an arms race if you will that really made them sit down and start engineering how to do real damage to one another.

curious where did you go exactly in Yukon? being a hermit, it's been on a list of places I might escape to. Yes, I also believe Yukon and North West Territories is the best place to survive a nuclear war.

The problem with antarctica is that its too cold and lacking in resources. Yukon, NWT, is teeming with stuff you can hunt and eat. I've been reading about Inuits a lot and its fascinating how they have survived.

same situation, although I recall, there is another search engine that anonymizes your google search....just can't recall what it's called

I saw the movie Harold vs Kumar and I've always wondered what was so special about these tiny burgers? Are they as good as it is portrayed? It's on my bucket list lol

this will become really popular in Korea

this is a totally off topic comment

i love it, its very cute, reminds me of the old MSX

either they truly have lost touch with their userbase or the large majority of users simply do not care. in any case i'd love to use DDG but the results simply isn't good and I always end up coming back to google. just wish we could give them less information.

but seems they are anti-competitive, youtube vanced is another recent example.

getting fatigued by minecraft look & feel, what is the next evolution to block vixels?

damn...got all excited

damn i thought those were the founders

or "there is no free lunch" but I like the Russian one better. It's really fascinating to see the differences in how two cultures express essentially the same idea.