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5 years agodiscuss

I wonder if there is any piece of software that actually works and yet developers don't call its source code a shitshow. I understand code as akin to biology, full of repetitions and garbage DNA because these things are live and evolve along with the environment, and cannot be "pure" for more than a few months. C++ is very versatile, but i bet that using a verbose makes it much easier for newcomers to find their way around with the code compared to using an uber-abstracted style.

5 years agodiscuss

That's not a regulated market, you can sell elsewhere

5 years agodiscuss

If you don't recognize the problem i doubt you ll collect any money for it

5 years agodiscuss

sure but what about inter-kingdom trade (and even, not all cities belonged to an empire)

5 years agodiscuss

> regulation

by whom?

5 years agodiscuss

> successful as an economy, not as a society

You 're going to have to give a definition of that. Subjective measures of success don't matter, that's why people have different morals. Maybe the west has produced the most "culturally dominant society" but it has also been boosted by a few centuries of economic dominance, while china has just come out of poverty. I'm not even going to ask why china is considered unsuccessful as a society since afaik the chinese neither commit suicide in droves nor are they running to exit as fast as possible.

5 years agodiscuss

> we can't have everyone be artists so there has to be some way

Why not? The online attention economy is apparently worth trillions , why shouldn't creators be rewarded? Attracting the attention of other people is work even though it is all captured by BigTech Inc. We have automated so much of the workforce that it makes a lot of sense that being an 'artist' should be a job that more and more people will do.

5 years agodiscuss

Markets have existed without empire overlords thoughout history though. Egyptians did not have to enforce trade rules to their neighbours, and despite whatever clashes everyone traded with each other in the mediterranean. It is exogenous rules that required the protection of an empire, such as the raids of pirates, or the threat from another empire. Since our current world order started after WW2, the governments have grown, but so have the monopolies, and we ve never seen them split, we just take them for granted after a while (e.g. mastercard/visa). In fact, if anything, government's role has been to pick the winners that better cooperate with them in order to ensure their mutual survival. It may be true that markets eventually do grow their own hierarchies, but this does not mean that imposing rules externally a priori is any good.

5 years agodiscuss

but they're not hackers, they 're mbas

5 years agodiscuss

Let's call then Croins

5 years agodiscuss

Metazuck

5 years agodiscuss

rebranding seems to be in vogue among colossal-market-cap big tech. I wonder what will Apple rebrand to ? I think "Rounded corners" would be appropriate

5 years agodiscuss

Keep using it. Meta is a commonly used term in sciences etc. Facebook can go change itself to something more distinct, don't let them control language

5 years agodiscuss

Why were they trying to make self driving cars or AI or VR games some time ago? Their real product is their stock value

5 years agodiscuss

yeah people don't get it. virtual life is called virtual for a reason. Who would want a copy of real life with plastic 3d avatars. If people are really into this , i have a pair of sunglasses to sell you for $4000. It's like the real world, slightly tinted

5 years agodiscuss

there isnt a lot to write about as people have not seen it yet. Generic pontification about the metaverse is as old as the internet.

5 years agodiscuss

Facebook has a history of keeping their platform very open. Their first facebook platform was too open by today's standards (though normal-open by that day's standards). He said so in the video, and i m fairly sure he will keep it as open as possible and try to make open standards.

5 years agodiscuss

Meta (TM): All your data are belong to us. That's why it's called metadata

5 years agodiscuss

We have it already since 20 years ago. Second life was the most talked about, at some point companies and governments were setting up virtual offices there. But it s become niche , and the company behind it is brain dead. I don't know why facebook pretends it invented this stuff. VR glasses are nice and new, but don't make such a huge difference as people think. In fact they are very constrained in terms of what you can do in world

5 years agodiscuss

Yeah i got that feeling that this was way too fake to be genuine. Either they were doing that demo just to distract people from their other criticism, or they are actually becoming obsolete.