Thanks for your positive framing and pushback against (possibly knee-jerk) cynicism.

Unrelated tangent: saw HackerSmacker in your profile, plan to try it out, wish it supported iOS.

This looks awesome. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks so much! Feel free to try it out if you have a chance, and let's us know your thoughts. Thanks!

This is where PBCs (Public Benefit Companies) and B-Corps may have a role to play. Something like that seems necessary to enable both (A) sufficient profitability to support innovation and viability in a capitalist society and (B) consideration of the public good. Traditional public companies aren't just disincentivized from caring about externalities, they're legally required to maximize shareholder profits, full stop. Which IMHO is a big part of the reason companies ~always become "evil".

"Smart people have economic opportunities that align them away from being evil"

For some definition of evil, some of the time, ok. But as economic opportunities compound (looking at the behavior of the ultra-rich), it seems there's at least strong correlation in the other direction, if not full-on "root of all evil" causation.

Sure, but that’s not “slaughter a stadium of people with drones” evil or “poison the water supply” evil or “take out unprotected electrical substations” evil.

So much infrastructure is very soft because the evil people aren’t smart enough to conceive of or conduct an attack.

I think you might find that, if you reconsider who the 'evil' people are, you might find that we're already doing that sort of thing.

Its not capitalists doing that though, its politicians, and politicians in non capitalist countries tend to be more evil.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but there aren't any non-capitalist countries currently waging war on others.

Capitalism is a continuum, not a binary, hence occasional discussion "China is communist!" "No, it is state-capitalism!"

Is Russia currently capitalist, or non-capitalist? Which is Myanmar?

Anyway, personally I think it's the wrong axis; while capitalism and democracy and free press are often correlated, I think that the latter two are the important ones for actually choosing the lesser evils, though capitalism does generate more options to choose between.

I really enjoy the party game "Neanderthal Poetry", in which you can only speak using monosyllabic words. I bet you would too.

your profile's blog link 404s

Fixed https://nmn.gl/blog

Right on. (Smart take on SaaS, too, BTW)

ty! any CEOs or product people at SaaS companies that come to mind to reach out to? I've been trying to get this in front of more people, so far they're always mind blown when they see how the product works

In the spirit of helpfulness (not pedantry) FYI "knocked up" means "impregnated". Maybe "put together"?

Ah, this must be a British vs American English thing, thanks for the info.

Yes I meant it in this sense: "If you knock something up, you make it or build it very quickly, using whatever materials are available."

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/knock-u...

Heh, thanks, yes, your meaning was obvious from context alone. I'm really surprised not to have encountered the British usage before (or so rarely). Maybe owing to potential for huge misunderstandings. ("Jimmy knocked her up" -> woke in the night || impregnated and abandoned.)

TIL

Careful w that Synology NAS, mine's now a brick that may also have led to permanent data loss.

Thanks... hence, 3-2-1 backups with offsite :) appreciate it though. Will definitely be rolling my own NAS in the future, I just needed something easy at the time.

right, like the bar nobody goes to anymore bc it's always too crowded

Relay plugin lets you manage permissions at a granular folder level instead of all-or-nothing vault level.