thebeastie

That said, I read OPs complaints about polarization and taxes, and I wonder if Latin America might address some of these issues?

(Slightly tongue in cheek)

Your status as a foreigner will make people more forgiving of your ignorance of local political issues, and also interested when you make comparisons to foreign perspectives (especially coming from Europe, which they consider the model of civilization).

Tax evasion is a way of life here, you could declare as little or as much as you like of your foreign income, which combined with the lower cost of living, would mean you could put away a sizable portion of your monthly income.

The quality of life may surprise you in some aspects, provided you are willing to think strategically about your lifestyle, ie where you will work / shop, play and with whom. The food can also be excellent, with a greater abundance of fresh produce, which in Europe often tends to be optimized to withstand prolonged shipping and storage, as well as limited volume/higher price.

And when you eventually decide you have had enough, because the conditions can be trying (constant horror stories about violent home invasions, rife inflation, far fewer accessible /and/ safe getaway destinations, and not being able to consistently get a decent flat white) you can return and declare your savings as foreign income tax free.

It’s not like there is any additional service burden on their end that justifies renting it. It’s obviously disgusting, rent seeking practice. But we’re used to manufacturers selling artificially limited products due to economies of scale… and can probably even tolerate it.

But _renting_ you the damn extra? Will intel now rent me an extra few hundred peak mhz too?

I watched your video “farting around” and saw the mini language and the different terminals, but I still have no idea how that plus all the rhetoric in your blog post amount to something that people might want to use to solve real problems. Have you just connected up a bunch of concepts in your head and assumed that they are world changing? Would you be able to write documentation and examples explaining how people might use these concepts to solve actual problems?

It takes a certain kind of person, independently minded, to go so far down a rabbit hole and not care what people invested in the status quo (the overwhelming majority in tech) might think. And, since I’m also prone to this “style” of working, and also aware of how it interplays with personality, I’ve thought about it quite a bit, and my conclusion is that it’s potentially high reward in terms of innovation but it’s also high risk in terms of actually amounting to something.

It’s hard in tech, because if you were a visual artist your style of work would be rewarded as interesting and provocative but in tech it all has to make some kind of sense and guh can’t have any fun god forbid… it’s almost like we’ve been brainwashed… there’s not a lot of room for concept art in technical architecture (unfortunately).

But I think the conversation we should be having is, do we want to move towards more resilient markets, given that the additional security will carry a heavy cost in terms of productivity?

I’m sure there are arguments both ways but it seems like we don’t have the full picture yet.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240595952...

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8751229

I’m pretty sure there are non academic projects too but I can’t find them atm.

For a project like nautilus, there are very few people with the resources and motivation to fix anything. So we end up with underdeveloped open source products.

Maybe we should try “we need better funding and coordination” for open source projects.

Musk one step ahead.