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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.

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

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

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

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> regulation

by whom?

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> 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.

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> 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.

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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.

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but they're not hackers, they 're mbas

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Let's call then Croins

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I think the realization people had through the pandemic is that a very large part of the western world is equally livable. Apart from economic opportunity, what else is there on US soil that makes it comparably preferable? And i think you re forgetting that the US has been outsourcing its manufacturing to china for decades, and china is , what 15 hours difference? Most of work is asynchronous

I think the US has nothing to fear from remote work -- they will outsource even more work and again benefit from the arbitrage. But it is true that it will diminish their talent advantage, and that will be good for them.

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Where in Europe? Rich Europe or poor Europe?

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The last time the US outsourced its manufacturing jobs to the cheapest rest of the world, it wasnt exactly a disaster.

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Metazuck

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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

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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

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

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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

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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.

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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.