Things that happen in Silicon Valley and also the Soviet Union:
- waiting years to receive a car you ordered, to find that it's of poor workmanship and quality
- promises of colonizing the solar system while you toil in drudgery day in, day out
- “kids shouldn’t read too much because they’ll run out of books” is like something a roald dahl villain would sayMembalas kepada @eduleadershipLet's say your kid reads many years above grade level, as mine do and always have. Guess what—that just means they run out of books to read faster than everyone else! What's the goal here? How does it benefit the child to pay $$$ to push them even farther out?
- programming is a trade masquerading as a profession because it's done in an office in front of a computer instead of at a worksite
- i do not understand the fentanyl economy. crackheads are not producing income, how are they buying the fent? you can say oh they shoplift and sell that but who is buying the shoplifted Tide pods except other crackheads ? where is the liquidity in this ecosystem?
- andres freund: genius programmer responsible for one of the most widely used pieces of software in the world, just single-handedly stopped a huge attack from happening. nyt journalist: 'i am too fucking stupid to understand his work and won't even try but it's very boring!!!'
