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The main argument builds on the assumption that the economy is a zero sum game when it clearly is not. Just because we invest these ressources in AI does not mean we could mobilize the same capital for other pursuits.

Precisely AI is being built out today because the value returned is expected to be massive. I would argue this value will be far bigger than railroads ever could be.

Overspending will happen, for sure, in certain geographies or for specialty hardware, maybe even capacity will outpace demand for a while, but I don’t think the author makes a good case that we are there yet.

Or it could simply be associating controversial topics with Elon Musk which sounds about right.

I am rereading a novel from French author René Barjavel: “the ice people” on this exact theme. Scientists in the South Pole discover an ancient civilization 900k years old. Its also fun because he anticipates the near future quite accurately from 1968 when he wrote it. Well worth a read. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ice_People_(Barjavel_nov...

I wonder if the fresh water used in such a way wouldn’t eventually be released back into the ocean thus somewhat mitigating the effect.

I use macfan control to force a lower fan rate which throttles the cpu. Battery is significantly better (feels like 2x at least) for mundane tasks. I can still watch videos, browse and do light work without feeling any slowdown.

Great point. It seems to me the mechanics of competition are at play to some extent in open source: ideas compete against each other, the better ones prevail, and contribute to a better whole.

Abstractions have other purpose than deduplication. They make it easier to reason about your code as well. It might be the smartest thing sometimes to abstract away the first occurrence in a method imho.

Actually if it’s simply a put the profits on the hedge stand independently of what they actually produce. They could lift the hedge at any moment or take the opposite bet to offset it regardless of their actual production. It seems to me it would be more advantageous to lift part of the hedge at a profit and then produce less since the price is way under the cost of production.

It is perfectly legal in France to have several passports at the same time. It is encouraged in fact for frequent travelers.

I second this. I freelance as a part time CTO and this has been my favorite appproach to hiring devs. A paid project goes a long way to establishing a good work relationship and gives both sides most of what they need to decide if it’s a good fit longer term. I also always offer my clients to start with a small contained project to see if we’re a fit. This ends up saving a lot of time: the risk is low for the employer, and the developer gets paid their market rate and has a chance to show that they are worth it. It’s then really easy to decide if we should continue working together or not.

I could not agree more. Iteration time is shortened and I usually get better results faster with a designer that can write HTML + CSS. It's really hard to work differently now.

it could simply be looking at https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments :)

One UI to rule them all? This would be a really interesting tool for web developers.

Thankfully, modern UI development is blessed with some really professional UI toolkits: elements UI for vue or Semantic React for instance do a great job of making us think in terms of generic interactions instead of reinventing the wheel.

This means we get to focus on improving the existing as the project warrants which is significantly more rewarding.

Sounds like we can achieve this with a browser plugin, not sure we need a whole new web just yet:)

Mining rights, proper registration and certification of the gold nugget, etc., etc. It’s fairly common in the financial industry to check where funds come from (“know your customer”). It’s done to prevent money laundering and make illicit activity harder.

Ethics: if the money comes from theft, child pornography or selling crack cocaine (extreme examples, not saying this is the case here), you can hardly say you are making the world a better place.

The source of the funds should be a concern for the charities involved in my opinion. I find the recipients a little quick to praise the donor with little being said about how the bitcoins were obtained. Maybe this information was simply not made public, and that would be fine if there was due diligence. However the fact more established institutions did not receive gifts is an eyebrow raiser: it is more likely these larger institutions would have taken steps to ensure the funds were legit to start with.

I think the perception that social security and retirement deductions are taxes stems from the fact these are obligatory. Insofar as we have no choice in the matter these have all the properties of taxes. With the caveat it is difficult to compare one country to another because the value of government services you get is somewhat subjective, I offer the following data point for France: if a company outlays 100k, the employee would take home about 58k before income tax. A single person would pay 10k in income tax on that. All in he would therefore have 48k to spend. This might be useful for those of you wishing to evaluate the cost of hiring in France.