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organ1cwast3

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organ1cwast3··on Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
Yeah that's weird. Finding everything2 decades ago it occurred to me the internet is 100% untrustworthy source for anything.

Believing AI is bonkers to me. But these shields been up since the 90s. None of this stuff matters. It was all gibberish

organ1cwast3··on Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
Big tech, sure, but not all the startups. I can assure you having freelanced and mentored many a SWE at 5-20 person startups the last 6 years they are not all hiring pro chefs.

Have you not been reading the headlines about urban offices empty? Low taxes to create foot traffic for other businesses?

The trickle down of the ZIRP era was about spreading all the dollars they could print as quickly as possible to maintain dominance of the dollar.

SaaS apps are meaningless to future generations. We were never creating pyramids of Egypt like wonders. We were missionaries for contemporary American propaganda.

organ1cwast3··on Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
> you are completely oblivious.

Sounds like specious reasoning similar to the tired trope of "someone is wrong on the internet and I must correct them".

Twitter is in the 1% not the "99% of these..." but don't let reading comprehension get in the way.

I was a phonics kid not a 3-cuing student. Reading scores have nose dived since phonics was phased out. So I understand it's not entirely your fault.

organ1cwast3··on Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit
Well yeah; data breaches been a thing forever. Physical reality never opened a black hole in San Fran because someone committed a key to Github or a box of tapes destined for Iron Mountain vanished. A lot of the concerns are themselves social paranoias not real concerns.

Which is where the unserious emerges but in a subtle way; taking such unserious things so seriously is not serious behavior. It's anxious and paranoid, aloof and clueless behavior.

Secure in tech skills but unserious otherwise.

Lacking a broad set of skills will make office workers unable to grow a potato inherently paranoid about their job.

organ1cwast3··on Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
Liquidity in the currency market.

Need to propagate a lot of dollars fast, 24/7 as a moat on it remaining a reserve currency.

99% of these software startups are basic software that can be handled by a single dev; see Reddit apps and such.

But that money printer was running hot and heavy. Needed to funnel it somewhere. Why not that favorite political cudgel of the elites; pointless busy work jobs! Let's invest in a bunch of shops nearby for them to lunch at too!