Australia is also going bankrupt just slightly faster than the United States. Looks like deficit spending and debt levels are only trending the wrong direction there as well.
I am all for flight for life as we call it here, but that is different than saying we should have a network of ambulances across massive swabs of mostly empty terrain.
I am willing to hazard that the Australian airlift response is slower than your average ambulance response in Sydney.
I think what I’m saying is being misinterpreted. I should have been more clear. Everybody’s definition of “taken care of” is different.
The government needs to balance the interest of the public with the interest of the individual. It is not intended to “take care of “people regardless of their asks.
Otherwise, what if I am only “taken care of” if I have a beachside penthouse in Malibu and also a pony?
The government is not taking care of people if it allows the average expenditure per person to eclipse the average tax revenue per person. The economics need to be roughly sustainable at the national state and even rural area level.
We give our farmers absolutely insane subsidies already.
It is not the government’s job to “take care of” anybody.
Everything has a cost, staying has a cost, leaving has a cost. The question is how much should the public be taxed to pay for individuals suboptimal decision-making? Or conversely, why am I subsidizing some billionaires remote horse ranch to have daily Postal Service and an ambulance standing by?
Can I move to the wilds of Alaska and then demand the same level of service as New York City? No that would be ludicrous.
I don’t think that is the entire solution. Right now medical services are just much more expensive in America. Whether it is the average individual paying for them or the aggregate taxpayer individual, we will still go bankrupt if it’s too expensive for the average.
Government coverage is all well and good until the government (really you) is paying way above market rate.
I don’t think we get out of this by trying to regulate medical expenses either. That will just enrich another cadre of lobbyists and lawyers.
I don’t think it is reasonable to expect to have ambulance coverage across the entire United States. There is a lot of land with very few people.
Choosing to live far away from others is also choosing to live far away from help.
If a service is highly variable cost dependent and is unaffordable for the average individual to pay out-of-pocket it is unaffordable for the aggregate individual as well.
Small world! We were one of the clients at labs he tested that concept with while developing the book. Chatted with him about his newer book using packwerk a couple years back. Looks like we’re all on the front range!
Agree on the engines, you’re just fighting the framework the whole way.
Coincidentally working on modularity approaches for a different type of monolith https://viaduct.airbnb.tech/ (time is a flat circle etc. etc.)
A long time ago I had a "Component Based Rails Application (CBRA)" using engines as the domain boundary. It was unpleasant because it just moved pain points into unfamiliar places. The slices approach is very interesting.
Overall I like dry-rb.
If I find myself on a ruby project again I will investigate more thoroughly!
I have loosely followed Hanami for years but never used it or heard of it used in a large codebase.
I still don't quite understand what it does all that differently from Rails?
There are plenty of comments that are along the lines of
> "Hanami brings is an intentional and well-reasoned architecture that supports building maintainable applications. It has taste" (posted below)
But concretely what does that mean? Their docs call out ways to avoid common rails anti-patterns and I agree with most of their opinions but you don't _have_ to write bad code in rails just because a lot of others have.
Having seen Rails deprecations at multiple large well known tech cos I appreciate the sentiment of an "architecture that grows with you" but I would say the driver behind those migrations wasn't so much the framework as the extreme flexibility of the code and what that produces with thousands of developers over 10+ years.
I don't see how any architecture of Hanami prevents that.
You want to campaign on improving election security and transparency (hopefully without being misleading about all of the systems already in place and the security, statistical analysis, and auditing already done)? Go for it.
That is very different than claiming fraud without evidence.
Faith in elections and election integrity is incredibly important.
Unsubstantiated claims of election fraud should be punished severely. Politicians who baselessly erode confidence in elections without providing timely evidence should be ineligible for political office at least and potentially tried for treason.
This is not comparable. A couple groups on the far left is not the same as the leader of the party. I don’t see any major figure on the left: Bernie, Obama, AOC, Biden, Hillary, Pelosi etc claiming fraud.
I don’t like it because it’s Elon (I literally have been an active litigation with him for years lol)
I like it because it’s useful.
Life is objectively much better today for the average person than it has been for 99% of humans in 99% of history.
(“They will kill us and eat us for our protein” makes you sound totally insane and in this ludicrous scenario I think the rich peoples army of drones/optimus robots would simply say “no”.)
I wonder if you can just use fable/mythos to basically re-create core Anthropic research. They seem to be very touchy about using their models for LLM R&D given the guard rails they built into the product.
None of the large language model providers have a very defensible product moat yet and if the models themselves can reveal research fundamentals their position would become extremely precarious.
It would be very tempting to hide behind a national security excuse to try and preserve the research moat.
Is the general public happy? Who cares, it is not the job of the government to ensure happiness but rights.
Regardless:
1. Starlink is amazing (literally never want to fly on an airplane without it ever again, wish I could search for flights based on having it)
2. Starship is amazing. (ensures American space dominance for generations)
3. Being able to manufacture hard things at scale and employ hundreds of thousands of people and making thousands of millionaires is amazing for our economy!!
Unless they are fools, the general public should be stoked AF.
Strongly agree from a purely economic perspective! However, founding engineer is a good way to watch the ups and downs of a startup before doing it yourself.
Additionally, since most startups fail, the founding engineer is typically better compensated than the founders. It’s only in the success case that it is a raw deal economically. However, in the rare case that it is a successful company, the founding engineer does alright and then also knows more about how to do it again.
The difference between founding engineer and founder is typically the difference between starting before any money came in or joining after (basically guts/conviction)
I am all for flight for life as we call it here, but that is different than saying we should have a network of ambulances across massive swabs of mostly empty terrain.
I am willing to hazard that the Australian airlift response is slower than your average ambulance response in Sydney.