> The hostility comes from the perception that someone wants to take away your toy. Again, it's very very basic, the same thing you see if you try to take away an item from an animal that is engaged in a dopamine response with that item. Like a dog eating something. They will bite you or at least growl if you take it away.
Sure, but now replace “toy” with, “peaceful Neighbourhood”
The only reason anyone wants to take someone’s dumb truck away is because they made the the first move, destroying or significantly degrading something that other people enjoyed.
If you want to play Israel vs Palestine and spend all day making up new self-indulgent transgressive theories about how "they" are good and "we" are bad, go to Bluesky.
People come to HN to talk tech, and if nothing else, to get a respite from the "you are bad" west is bad" "US is bad" drumbeat. If you don't want that, that's cool but don't try to force your lifestyle on us.
Your post was flagged, by myself and presumably many others, because it violated the site guidelines against politics.
Exactly. The beating heart of modern left activism is a reductive us vs them that any fascist would be proud of, only to be transgressive you simply reverse the us & them.
> They're far less imperialistic and I view them as better global citizens than the US. I think they've cultivated a much richer culture than the US as well.
There's nothing "reductive" about being anti-Zionist. That's just base level humanity and many, many people from every part of the political spectrum share those views. Is Tucker Carlson a leftist?
Just like Marx, the words & concepts are not really about the words or the concepts. Instead they form a theology whose practice promises to give frustrated elites an alternate path to power.
A market is a place where you can, relatively freely, choose to buy, sell, consume, and produce.
San Francisco and many other North American cities only allow the first three of the four with any significant freedom.
Production is either banned outright on large majorities of the available land, or heavily constrained and focussed to ensure that any new production happens directly on top of tenants and the most vulnerable rather than on top of relatively lightly occupied single-family houses.
Market forces take time to do things, they're not instantaneous. If San Francisco becomes so unaffordable that employers can't attract talent, then they'll have to open offices elsewhere. I live in Columbus. I'd love to see Anthropic or any leading tech company who can't attract talent to San Francisco due to cost/prices to set up shop here. And no, politics isn't enough of a reason to avoid states like Ohio.
Part of the "problem" with San Francisco real estate is that to develop it you have to buy the land, then construct a building, and prices for both of those items have gone up drastically due to a few different factors (inflationary effects, supply/demand, wealth creation and jobs, climate, and more) and so even if new housing does get created it's going to be rather expensive because of those factors.
Columbus is capable of exactly the same dynamics, there’s nothing magical about San Francisco dirt.
Regardless of how long it takes, there isn’t any other choice. You have to start sometime so let’s start now. Collectivism doesn’t get us out of this either. If we have a revolution tomorrow, and reduce rent to $100, there will be a 50 year waitlist to live in San Francisco and the only way to get it down to zero is to build build build. Yes, it will take a long time, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it or that we shouldn’t start now.
The way I interpret the drama over the Chrome model is that for a large chunk of users, perhaps the majority, Chrome is the OS, and this 4GB model will be their OS Level feature for local AI.
While I work in IT today, that wasn’t always true. I am certain I spent more free time playing with computers when my work did not involve computers at all. While I enjoy working with computers at a variety of different levels, when I do it all day, I don’t typically wanna do it when I get home. If Anthropic means there are no more IT jobs, software jobs, etc. etc. etc. (which I think is highly unlikely) then I guess I will have to do a non-tech job just like 99% of the other human beings. If that comes to pass,I expect in my spare time I will suddenly reacquire a love for tinkering with computers.
Also consider the great fortune of dicking around with computers ever being so lucrative in the first place even if the gravy train eventually stops. We were lucky. Most hobbies aren’t anything like that.
Amazing. I thought the point of unions was to organize workers against elites.
TIL that the point of unions to organize elites (if you work for Google Deepmind in the UK you are the global elite) to hold organizations hostage unless they enforce elite beliefs irrelevant to the 99%.
It must feel exciting to get to cosplay rebellion and revolution from a fancy desk in London.
Sure, but now replace “toy” with, “peaceful Neighbourhood”
The only reason anyone wants to take someone’s dumb truck away is because they made the the first move, destroying or significantly degrading something that other people enjoyed.
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