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Yes, I often wonder if Martin Luther King felt at all concerned by the Feds tracking him on his way to church.

Those jobs are as good as loost already. There's no endgame where knowledge workers keep knowledge working they way they have been knowledge working. Adapt or be a loosing looser forever.

Who hurt you?

Ruining innocent people’s lives is what government is best at doing. Don’t think of as convenient. Think of it as realization of purpose.

Nicholson entered the mantrap and the double doors closed behind him. He emptied his pockets and disrobed before donning the clean suit that had been provided to him by the orderlies. The camera watching him appeared satisfied that he was properly prepared and, more to the point, that the vendor was properly protected. The doors to the inner chamber opened and he proceeded into the hallway. He passed several doors until he reached the one that was labeled with the name of the vendor. He pressed the button on the doorframe. A satisfying tactile click, a spinning light illuminating around the button, a click, and then the door opened soundlessly. A single desk with a small chair and a computer terminal awaited him. He sat down and the screen turned on automatically. Finally, he was able to set about classifying his expenses from a recent trip to Tokyo. It was inconvenient, but a small price to pay to ensure that the vendor’s unique interfaces, their intellectual property, couldn’t be copied by the replication machines. Their eyes and their ears were everywhere in the outside world. Simply by seeing your software, these machines could copy its essence. The risks of operating software in the wild required that proprietary software be protected. Hidden away from eavesdroppers. Such was the world in 2037.

Look on the bright side, you've lived to see 2026 where these four things have collapsed into each other. Like a rainbow refracted into pure white light.

Reads like AI, very long, maybe I’ll have my AI summarize your AI.

Everything you are describing sounds like the phenomenon of government in the United States. If we replace a human powered bureaucracy with a technofeudalist dystopia it will feel the same, only faster.

We are upgrading the gears that turn the grist mill. Stupid, incoherent, faster.

If someone in my organization buys IBM, I will fire them.

That said, I’m confident that they know better.

This sounds in line with big law and big finance. Those are exactly the type of people who have flooded into tech over the last decade. It shouldn’t be surprising that compensation structures mirror those industries.

Pinned comment on the video:

“I listen to the whole book almost everyday. A true masterpiece.”

Wow.

Same. Sample of 1 anecdata reporting for duty: can confirm 100%.

It usually takes government to tie people up in these sorts of knots. These people have enthusiastically done it to themselves. Resume driven development is a hell of a drug.

That seems like a very broad way of classifying assets.

Are people assets? Certainly not on the balance sheet I hope.

What about a contract? Is a contract an asset? I’m actually curious, not trying to be a smart ass.

> Also, your belief … is irrelevant.

This is true everywhere and always.

I agree with you, lots and lots of software definitely has the properties of an asset. There’s also plenty of software that’s hastily written, untested, and basically not fit for use beyond a short expiration date. More like a jug of milk with a shelf life than a fine grand piano with resale value.

The average roof has a lifespan at least an order of magnitude greater than a k8s cluster. Most roofs being put on today will outlast k8s itself.

Software is a liability, not an asset. Treating the construction and maintenance of this horrible liability knows as “code” is a complete misunderstanding of what software actual is.

Are bike manufacturers going to pay for bike lanes? Or is it going to be a regressive transfer?

What about Big Walking Shoe, are they going to pay for these sidewalks or are we going to continue to subsidize their profits?

Everybody needs somebody to love. It could be anybody. You just need someone to love.

Seriously, are you ok? Life doesn’t have to be meaningless, but that’s up to you. You get out what you put in.

People who remove books from libraries are scared pitiful people.

People who claim that removing some books from a library is akin to banning or will have any affect on the actual dissemination of knowledge are fools at best and liars almost surely.

Education is like everything else. If you believe it is someone or something else’s responsibility, you won’t have much of it.

We have twice their population and double their propensity to incarcerate, so it’s our top 25% versus their total gen pop. America wins again.

Hacker News is my river.

> the extent of their misbehavior and misconduct of Harvey Weinstein-level proportions

That’s a pretty significant accusation considering Weinstein is rotting in prison for the rest of his likely short existence.

I’ve never heard any of this except maybe one of them had an affair. Can you pull some of this out of the memory hole that it’s apparently been dropped into?

The Chuck Norris of tech.

Guns. Guns are how. Guns are how governments achieve their objectives.

There is no crypto scheme, no algorithm, no possible arrangement of private keys and Merkle trees that can escape the reality of men with guns.

I share a lot of these characteristics and while I don’t think I’ve actually been discriminated against, internally I feel like it’s inevitable and it makes me incredibly self conscious. More than anything I just want to be invisible. Remote work is pretty helpful in this regard.

Watch a couple of the YouTube videos on the other side of some of the links posted above. The guy seems very intelligent and genuinely nice. It’s also clear that he needs to seek mental healthcare.

> iPhones intentionally don't support modern cellular messaging. There's nothing wrong with insisting they support LTE spec (RCS), like every modern smartphone does.

Clearly every modern smartphone does not support it because iPhone does not. iPhone is half of the US market. A standard that only has 50% market penetration is hardly a standard.

> Imagine if they did the same thing to, say, your telephone calls from your phone number.

I’d be happy if no one could reach me via my telephone number. There would be a lot less spam calls to ignore. I would welcome a system where no one could dial me without me granting them permission first.

> Fuck 'em. Progressive taxation.

At least you’re honest about how you want to wield the cudgel.

EquityBee looks really interesting, but your startup has to have raised over $50M to participate. Does anyone recommend any alternatives for companies in the range of $25M-$50M raised and ~$200M valuation?