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Why is Harvard trying to intellectual-ize virtue signaling?

It's very simple. We live in a society where what you say matters, but what you do is irrelevant.

Raising awareness about climate change is more important than concrete action.

Relax

TX is about to start its legislative session and reps can suggest literally anything

This will never even make it to the debate floor

Techies have golf-clapped as Apple has borged more and more of the tech landscape. By time folks realize Apple is going to end up being 80% of what is "Silicon Valley", it will be too late.

The platform power of Apple's walled garden will destroy startup culture. Any great idea can vertically integrated directly into the platform, OR taxed 30% until the only real winner is Apple, OR nullified by kicking it off the app store without comment.

Not even Google is safe. Search is something Apple could do "good enough" at this point...and all they really have to do is threaten Google with being booted as the preferred search engine and Sundar Pichai will bid more and more and more until he is paying Apple $25 bln a year for the privilege.

Android will be relegated to Samsung making phones for poor people. Windows will die because other than gamers, no one under 30 uses it.

Who is safe? Amazon. Apple doesn't want to be in the warehouse business. Also Tesla. Apple will never catch them. Everyone else will lose and suffer the Apple monopoly.

Spike consistent with lock downs

Another lock down tragedy along with permanently lagging academic development in children

We will continue to see more social impact from the worst policy decision in a generation

1. the USA is huge

2. in most of the USA, there is no demand

solving the Charger Problem for Menlo Park is easy - money + demand is there

solving the Charger Problem for rural Alabama isn't easy - money + demand is not there and may not be there for a long time

its not just Alabama either - go buy a Rivian and then look at a map of where high-capacity chargers available...hope you don't plan on leaving the Big City...

another issue is the rate of change in the EV market...its a big risk to deploy a network of charging stations that may not be compatible with EVs in five years

Wegovy is being sold as a wonder drug.

A family member took it and was subjected to worst-hangover-ever non-stop gut-wrench puking for a week.

"Nausea" is listed as a side-effect...I think they are understating this.

Tim Bray will now pretend to be important somewhere else

biggest con of Nim - no one uses it, so you will probably hit a toolchain/compiler error which will be very frustrating

too similar to Go to not go with the 100x community size Go brings with it

This is exactly what I am doing, but you shouldn't have to modify the request itself to pass temporary state

I'm using Axum now...its nice but still could use much more "batteries included"

For example, I would like something like Go's Context for passing temporary per-request data through middlewares...maybe this is possible with Axum but I'm not seeing a straightforward approach

Extensions also seem to be kinda magical and not straightforward

Immature ergonomics are still a hallmark of many Rust libs

There's no need to "make the case" for the F-35 in 2022...the US DoD has already introduced hundreds into service, hundreds more to come, and it is quickly becoming the de-facto choice for NATO and other allies who are in the market for a new fighter (quick rundown: UK, Germany, Israel, and now even Canada is going to buy them, among many others)

The F-35 is set to take the title for "most produced" fighter over the F-16.

Not sure what the point of weighing the merits? Its a done deal

Classic HN answer

Why don't people just spend $10k and have their problems vanish? (and don't quote me the cost of a heat pump, you have to also pay to rip out your old stuff)

They don't have $10k

He's losing it

Countdown to full meltdown + hospitalization

life advice: you must eventually own your residence, and try to get on this by age 35

once you get past age 35, you are approaching the point in your life where it may be too late to buy a home and you will be trapped in forever-renting

forever-renters completely subvert the time-value of their own money - their rents rise over time, their earnings flatten out, and they've transferred what could have been their down payment to a landlord

the difference in prospects for a renter and a buyer after a couple of decades are permanent - one is on the way to financial independence, the other is treading water

and don't be like the poor folks in this story - it doesn't matter if you are willing to work at 70, it is unlikely anyone will hire you

its crazy how many people in tech I know who claim they will work until they die...maybe at Walmart, thats about it...see any 70 year-olds in your daily standups?

all the HN contrarians who justify forever-renting by claiming their investments will work out better in the end will likely be proven wrong and most will end up with average 401k balances

if you can't afford to buy in your area, move...you can always move back after you have a profitable home sale under your belt

in a decade or so we will start to see the true misery of the forever-renter techie become obvious...no one hires old people, sorry

Twitter was bleeding all over the floor and had been doing so for years

working 40hrs a week in the office is also called "a regular job" outside of SV

Musk is a jerk, sure, but he's only accelerating what was inevitable for Twitter

Twitter won't be the last either...if you think Musk is fueling your blog now, just wait to see what the rest of SV ends up doing...the party ended

time to be adults, stop crying, the rest of the world goes to work and is expected to perform...now you can too

friendly reminder: when you get in arguments online, you may be debating with a bot! HN is now no exception....

for some perspective, Toyota is widely regarded as being among the most reliable car brands, but nonetheless the Prius I owned for over a decade was subject to numerous recalls

I still consider Toyota to be a high-quality, trustworthy brand

every car company has recalls

Bars are usually in clusters, so all your rule would do is force people to walk 50 feet

> For me it is much, much simpler. I invest a lot of my time in putting content and thoughts onto a platform.

Maybe you should invest your time productively instead

agree in a sense - autonomy could take a generation to deliver, and it isn't clear how a small "traditional" startup can really participate

and everything in tech attracts wannabes and grifters making a cashgrab

My solution is that alien cultures realize there isn't any point to deep space exploration:

1. They need energy and any suitable source will do

2. Space is mostly the same. Why explore another star's gas giant when they have their own?

3. They just like hanging out in their Matrix...which is what they would be doing if they traveled twenty light years

So why go to the trouble of changing your location?

You are my coworkers, except they aren't doing it ironically

I own one but would probably not buy another unless they refresh their lineup.

It works as advertized; it runs linux...that's about it. The HW is middle/low quality and I'm not sure the premium System76 charges is warranted.

I also own a Thinkpad which is superior to anything System76 offers. Installing linux was trivial, and everything seems to work.

System76 rebrands OEM laptops, but my understanding is that they may be working on an in-house laptop. If so, I would probably give it a look...but for now, I think Thinkpads are a better deal.

Why do I have to buy the DIY Edition to get a Linux laptop? I don't want to build a laptop, and I don't want Windows.

Every article criticizing the Fed's actions misses the elephant in the room: the massive, spellbinding increase in USD via abnormally low interest rates since the 1990s (not just since Covid).

There is no modern historical analogue (in the USA, there are plenty elsewhere), so reflecting back on the 1970s is pointless.

The Fed still only has two choices - hyperinflation or depression. These are the cards you are dealt when you print money with abandon for an entire generation.

Don't be scared off by the price, I have been using my Advantage 2 for over a decade and I expect it will last another decade

both numbers are total BS

I'd love to see the SEC start requiring VCs to underwrite these idiotic "valuation" numbers...you say its worth $1 bln, you need to be prepared and required to potentially buy back pre-IPO shares from invested parties at that valuation

now watch those values drop, rapidly

did we not learn anything from Uber being "valued" at $150bln?

If anything, Albertson's took their acquisitions lower-end.

The cost to rebuild from scratch would be trivial for the combined endowments of America's top universities, who are surely the primary users

Harvard alone has tens of billions in its endowment.

...and yet, comments here are talking about crowdfunding??

welcome to the future

maybe its just the case that we have already picked the low hanging fruit in computing...from this point forward, the remaining loftier goals will take decades and billions to achieve

don't fall into the trap of thinking something can't be done if it can't be done easily. quickly and cheaply