sangnoir

> It's not that the terms are unpopular, it's that every system that doesn't have strong capitalist roots has lost out to more capitalist systems.

The arch of history is long, and we are naturally biased to think of the present as the culmination of history - but it's just a point in time. I do not think "socialism will save us" - but I believe there is a breaking point where society simply will not accept a - as you put it - "more capitalist system".

Politics and economic systems go hand in hand, any economic system, practiced in extremis will be destabilizing. I posit that theoretically the "more capitalist system" wins over the less capitalist one, up to a point, where winning comes at the cost of killing the host society, and thus itself. This is simply a thought experiment, I am not making any declarations on where the US is on this axis.

The best time to have moved the Overton window was decades ago. The second best time is now. It's also relevant to this age, as the current strain of capitalism is showing its ass, and everyone can see it.

I think we do.

> For reference the B580 die is nearly the size of the 4070 but sells for a third the price.

Doesn't this suggest the B580 has worse yields? Die surface area isn't directly proportional to selling price.

> I would assume the same goes for some Democratic voters as well

That's an interesting idea. Care to expound on who some Democratic voters were eager for Kamala to "hurt"?

I'll give you one guess as to which branch of government most agencies belong to. Yes, agencies are being gutted.

No, I mean they'd rather not verbalize why they want Trump in office. Like one of his voters mentioned during his first term when she felt he wasn't "hurting who he's supposed to". A surprising number of Trump voters see him as a tool for retribution against various groups the voters' feel animosity towards. Saying this outright is probably something most are not comfortable to say to you, so they stay vague and non-specific.

> I know quite a few Trump voters that only care to vote for him and couldn't explain any coherent policy reason for preferring him

Perhaps the reasons can't be mentioned in polite company.

College campuses are already a 1A-free zone with the intention to deport "anti-Semitic" students

> It’s not exaggeration to say that the web has set UIs back by decades.

The trade-offs for the UI setback are unbeatable cross-platform compatibility, ease of distribution and a decent security model with sandboxing. MacOS only introduced desktop app sandboxing in the last 10 years, most desktop run software with user permissions which is not great.

> I also find the publisher's claims that he "[just can't] bring [him]self to sit down and read 77 pages of these messages right now" implausible.

Read back a few sentences for the context - they aren't willing to ready 77 pages just to seek/isolate messages from one individual around a specific topic. I would expect a journalist to do this repeatedly for multiple individuals, so it makes sense to parse the data and make it queryable without having to read through hundreds/thousands of telegrams just to capture a few dozen

> How has that "unlimited" money supply worked out ever since?

It works very well when your currency is the world's reserve currency. You get way more latitude for printing money with much lower inflation vs some isolated economy win no deep reservoirs of unused currency in "reserves".

If the US loses the status of being the dominant reserve currency, the link between money supply and inflation will become much stronger. The USD is currently backed by the US hegemony , of which foreign policy is a big part of.

> However polls show that Americans don’t like Putin.

Out of that 81%, how many believe in appeasing Putin to "Avoid world war III" despite their animus? Too many, IMO, and Putin doesn't care for how the American populace feel about him personally, as long as he can achieve his foreign policy goals without hindrance from American bombs, intelligence or funding, which has become the status quo as of yesterday.

IIRC, the Blender Foundation's Open Source movies have been rendered on render farms from the very first one, produced over 20 years ago. This predates Cycles/Eevee, but I don't think it's something they'd regress on.

> Biden was doing very poor and he was, numbers show it.

The polls in the immediate aftermath of the debate showed Biden's approval/disapproval rate was unchanged. It did change after weeks of negative front-page stories and speculation that gave the impression the man was a vegetable.

> We need to invest effort into researching how to make quick, high-quality decisions as a collective

Getting rid of First past the post voting systems will reduce incidents of extremism. Ranked choice voting, multiparty systems amd coalition governments would be an improvement on the current American status quo.

How would city-states work in the age of nukes? It will lead to nothing but predation (see Mortal Engines for a YA take, what I'd give to watch the City of New York pursuing Roanoke or Asheville across the plains from atop the Chrysler building)

I don't see how these "tech titans" who understand economies of scale think scaling governments down is an improvement, so I suspect there is (self?) deception at play, and what they are optimizing for is minimizing oversight over their activities, and I suppose they see themselves as taking control of the cities and picking off the neighboring later... In this magical-thinking-land, Canada, Mexico, Russia and China will leave weakened city-states unmolested out of respect of the billionaires? The reasoning is juvenile and/or dishonest.

Please. None of the media is making hay of Trump's IV-bruise, and credulously accepted the White Houses's statement that he was sharking hands too hard the day before. Half his face is droopy, but that's not notable or worthy of speculation when its Trump.

The NYT had 3 straight weeks of breathless Biden is too old front-page headlines based on speculation and tenuous connections. Trumps equivalent actions/incoherence which could be interpreted in as an age-related decline were being continually "sanewashed". Further, all concerns about an old president suddenly vanished when Biden dropped out, even though Trump will be older than Biden was by the end of Trump's term.

> I don't really count chromebooks because it's an OS that does a LOT to hide the details of how computers work from the end user. That's sort of where I see the computer illiteracy coming from. Android and iOS both do a lot to try and hide away what computers are behind nice app icons

Crostini allows for full-blown Linux VMs on ChromeOS. I would have killed for a click-to-reinstall Linux sandbox in my childhood.

> I don't really count chromebooks because it's an OS that does a LOT to hide the details of how computers work from the end user. That's sort of where I see the computer illiteracy coming from. Android and iOS both do a lot to try and hide away what computers are behind nice app icons

Crostini allows for full-blown Linux VMs. I would have killed for a click-to-reinstall Linux sandbox in my childhood.

Modularity is not a binary choice - it's a spectrum with tradeoffs.

One might maliciously (IMO) argue that the single motherboard in Framework products that you presumably find perfectly fine, could have been designed as several interconnected ones, that are individually replaceable. On the surface, it can seem like an unimpeachable criticism, but once you consider the cost in complexity, performance and BOM, then the "less modular" single-motherboard option becomes much more reasonable.

Framework went with soldered memory because that was the only way they could hir the memory bandwidth performance numbers they wanted for this product in the context of the segment it occupies. If you value the ability to replace/upgrade RAM over 256Gb/s, then this is not the product for you. If you think Framework shouldn't compete in this segment due to a confluence of ideological reasons and the technical limitations of slotted RAM, then the CEO disagrees with you, as do the future buyers of the compact desktop

> In fact, that's often a very bad thing to do because you can burn out quickly

Bingo! Sport's teams avoid burning out the talent, because they are hard to replace. Corporates are ambivalent at best, with most accepting some churn for higher profitability. They may even pay for mental health benefits to ameliorate the effects, but remain happy with a "high performance" burnout culture where people cycle out after 18-24 months.

> So don't make it then?

You presume to have internalized Framework's core-values more than the founder/CEO? The box is not my cup of tea,but they are free to experiment.

> It's not hard to make, its a relatively simple CLI tool so there's no moat

There are similar open source CLI tools that predate Claude Coder. Its reasonable to assume Anthropic chose not to contribute to those projects for reasons other than complexity, and charitably Anthropic likely plans for differentiating features.

> Also, the minified source code is available

The redistribution license - or lack thereof - will be the stumbling block to directly reusing code authored by Anthropic without authorization.

I'm not affiliated with Anthropic, but it seems like doing this will commoditize Claude (the AIaaS). Hosted AI providers are doing all they can to move away from being interchangeable commodities; it's not good for Anthropic's revenue for users to be able to easily swap-out the backend of Cloud Code to a local Olama backend, or a cheaper hosted DeepSeek. Open sourcing Claude Code would make this option 1 or 2 forks/PRs away.

It cost Apple $0 to say they'll spend $500B.

It's not intimidation, its merely correcting and an inappropriate usage of a word. What exactly do you think smuggling is?

Gigs are part of the sinkhole; funneling money from those struggling to get by to the app-makers and their investors. At best, gigs are the pretty-but-slippery wallpaper lining the sinkhole many have fallen into, and can't climb out of because the apps unilaterally decide how small the gig-workers' share of the revenue is.

> We are, in fact, in the middle of a Cold War again

Which political order are we in an existential battle against; Russian-style oligarchy or or Chinese-style state-controlled capitalism? It appears we're losing on both those fronts, any "space race" to Mars would further emphasize the point, AFAIAC.