netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
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netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
5hr ago
How many people are really in that first category?
I have learned to stop betting on a splinter faction of principled dissenters. Most of the people who wanted off the Trump Train got their wish over the last few congressional elections.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
23hr ago
You’ve got it backwards, I think.
Glorious Nihon was also made up by people selling comic books. Er, manga. The average weaboo is vastly overconfident in his knowledge of Japan.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
23hr ago
I get the impression this was something that played out more on Twitter than in meatspace. I’d have thought people had built an immunity by 2014, but apparently not.
It is interesting that even the “republicans pounce” commentary is subdued by post-2016 standards. Outlets are using this to mock Republicans for having nothing better to do; I could barely find anyone calling it racist.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
1d ago
…but once you have computers in every fridge sold, exponential growth is no longer possible.
A couple weeks ago, someone made analogy to the tractor bubble. Turns out that once you have a rugged, cheap machine on every farm, you can’t keep up the initial growth. But this should apply to every durable good. Why are some slow to reach the flat part of their S-curve?
- Continuous improvement. This describes lots of mid-century consumer goods like televisions where the underlying tech just kept getting revolutionized.
- Untapped markets. Once every American has a tractor, proceed to every NATO member, then to every third-worlder. Companies can keep up this classic capitalist snowball until they outrun their logistics and lose out to a local producer.
- Resource sinks. Postwar Europe had much higher demand for industrial materials, courtesy of a few thousand Allied bombers. Probably not a controllable strategy.
- Synergy. Tractors needed fuel; PCs needed software. Demand grows as other technologies climb their own curves.
- Moat. Lock down tractor repairs, sell subscriptions, etc. and extract what you can. I’m not sure this is extending the curve so much as slowing others so that you can safely slow your own ascent.
Tech companies benefit the most when they’re climbing the curve. If reasons 1-4 aren’t applicable, they’re going to end up trying for 5. Right now, we’re seeing massive buildouts of data centers because AI serves as a synergy for cloud computing. Apple Intelligence and its ilk will remain a gimmick until such a synergy applies to personal computers.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
5d ago
That’s a good one. I’ve definitely caused it…more than once.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
5d ago
Not that I know. I was trying to figure out what Bondi’s actual experience was.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
6d ago
Join the club, friend.
Though…which three do you have in mind?
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
6d ago
I think you can come up with better commentary than this.
Basically, if your content is 'Can you believe what Those People did this week?' then you should either refrain from posting, or do some very patient work to contextualize and/or steel-man the relevant viewpoint.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
6d ago
Not just basically. Chickens are straight up dinosaurs, while crocodiles are only archosaurs. Peasants.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
6d ago
Knowing our audience, I figured this was probably going to trigger the usual flames. Sorry.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
6d ago
What would you recommend?
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
6d ago
You can find a guy with XYZ experience anywhere. This one doesn’t even advertise double-Ds!
You can also find Trump hinting at anything and everything. In fact, a lot of the early opposition to him came from people convinced he was hinting at various flavors of racism. This is not strong evidence of his actual motivations.
The U.S. does suffer from these things. Maybe Europe has it worse? But then again, they aren’t actually expending munitions and fuel to putter around outside the Straits. That’s got to make them feel at least a little smug.
I think you have to be really motivated to find reasons to come up with shit like this.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
6d ago
It’s fine to ask what people are thinking; the problem comes from assuming that you already know.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
6d ago
The official position is that AI usage is allowed, but cannot constitute the substance of one’s comment. If it wouldn’t pass the “low effort” rules without the AI additions, we’re probably going to mod it.
@self_made_human has modded accordingly.
Unfortunately, our best examples of what isn’t allowed tend to stop at the new user filter. You’d be surprised how many psycho-political manifestos we get from first-time posters.
I’m not sure that model would have predicted the initial attack.
Trump does what he thinks is on-brand. If somebody convinces him that breaking the ceasefire will totally get Iran to fold in a week, he’ll do it. Iran will have done something hostile in the meantime, so he’ll even be able to blame them.
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