Justices shouldn’t be allowed to have investments. Their wealth should be in some sort of blind trust where they don’t know where it is.

Alito should be removed from power. Any box of justice will do.

No shit.

One of the problems is all the people who were fucking wrong don’t suffer any lasting consequences. They will be listened to again.

I’m still in the “Microsoft can fuck off and die” camp, so I don’t imagine I’ll be using this.

It varies.

I was employee #50 at a startup. Prior to my joining, they had a lot of incredibly poor practices. No release management. Few automated tests. Around when they hired me, that stuff turned around.

The CEO was kind of a controlling jerk, but was kept in check by the other founder. When that guy left, it got worse. The org also accrued layers of sycophants. The soft skills of knowing how to weasel your way into the CEOs favor paid off.

It’s not really based on merit. It’s all based on emotions. Building a cool thing can help, but that’s not enough on its own. You could rewrite the code base so it’s bug free and easy to expand, but if management doesn’t know you or understand that, it won’t matter. Meanwhile, the guy who’s always at his desk making a lot of code shaped noise to management might get promoted.

I had a negative impulse because it initially read as “I was there once but I have wisdom on the topic”. It sounds like they’re weighing in on something they don’t have lived experience with.

Also, NYC is one of very few cities in the US that supports a car-free life

Yes. I’ve been saying for years that electric cars and self driving cars are solving the wrong problem. The problem is if I need a car to get groceries. The problem is I’m not safe on the street because of all the cars.

People who have never lived someplace that doesn’t need a car are very eager to tell you how it won’t work, though.

Neat. I’d love to work on that instead of at a horrible megacorp.

Maybe they’ll build something to easily report jobs with no salary listed.

I really appreciate written words over video.

That post made me angry at how stupid the built environment is in most places.

Many people are terrified of being uncomfortable and confrontation

A large part of code review has been preventing people from doing stupid shit. AI is making stupid shit worse. It’s not defects, it’s “adding a whole micro service to get the user name from the ID, when the name is already in the metadata” or whatever that recent meme was.

Or that time a guy wrote a whole DSL instead of using the existing framework. Technically impressive, but adds a huge burden.

Many people simply do not seek a faster way of doing things.

Right. But if you’re a soulless manager, and you set faster timelines, you PIP and fire the people who don’t make it. They’ll use the tools or be replaced.

It’s the same as an AI mandate, except less stupid. (It can still be stupid if you set the timelines impossibly fast, but management is not known for being smart or informed)

I wouldn’t do this as me because I’m not a soulless manager.

If AI actually made people faster and more productive, they could simply set faster timelines and people would use the tools.

There are AI mandates because the people in leadership are stupid and dishonest. “Return to office” has the same shape. For many people working from home is healthier and more productive, and it’s better for the environment not to commute as much, but the emotional needs of leadership are primary.

It’s hard to do anything and know anything when one of the two major parties, backed by the wealthy, is anti-doing and anti-knowing.

It’s like the bullshit asymmetry principle. You can spend months working on a conservative, getting them to trust you, and nudge their world-view from “hateful” to “iffy”. Meanwhile, they half-watch fox news for an hour and are ready to put {out-group} into a death camp.

It sucks. It feels unfair. Why do we have to do all this work when they’re the fuckups?

I will continue to not buy EA products. Fuck 'em

The hardest part for me is checking ingredients lists for surprise animal products.

We might be at an impasse. I just don’t think someone is entitled to a decade long lock down on their ideas. If you don’t want other people involved, don’t publish. Fan fiction has been part of human culture for like all of it. The idea that you can’t profit from it is comparably modern.

basically just harkens back to what i said back up there. what about an author that does great world building, their world never becomes popular or makes money, and then someone else 7 years later sees their world building and makes their own story within that world and makes all the money and fame from it while the original author gets nothing?

Tough? Like in your scenario the work is just wasted and no one reads it. That’s no better.

Many endeavors fail.

just don’t want to pay people who are profiting off someone else’s ideas but not compensating them for it.

That’s how humanity has worked for thousands of years. Disney didn’t write snow white. They made a new work based on it.

You gotta put the > before the text to make it a quote, not after.

tell that to a guy like george RR martin, or JK rowling, or whoever created dune that “okay, it’s been seven years. now everyone can make stuff in your own universe that you spent your entire time world building and can make money off your universe without your permission. you had 7 years, your time to make money on it is up. if someone can make a better story in your universe it’s theirs now for them to make profit on.”

I would be happy to tell these extremely rich people so. I don’t see this as a problem. That’s how human creativity worked for centuries.

my claim is that people wouldn’t create as much and it would encourage more spinoffs of existing ideas,

I just don’t think that’s true and I don’t think there’s a reason to believe it’s true. Go look at fan fiction. There’s whole thriving, rich, communities of it. Fascinating ideas and remixes. Almost all of it violates copyright. But it’s creative and people love it. Some of those authors go on to write their own original work. Why would you want to kill all of that?

I really don’t think it “fucks over” the author. They got their art out there. They inspired people. They can still sell copies. I don’t think they are entitled to a lengthy copyright.

The scenario where someone gets fucked over, in my mind, is they write something original and a megacorp scoops it up without payment or attribution. That’s something a short copyright could protect. So when some nobody writes a cool story or song, Disney can’t use their massive budget to capitalize on it without paying the author anything. That’s why I would accept a short copyright.

I’d rather break up megacorps and not have ultra-wealth, but that’s a separate topic.

Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell released a statement about the incident, calling it an “incredibly tragic event.”

The US, maybe everywhere else, does this routine where something bad happens, people say it’s tragic, and stops. No root cause analysis. No steps to prevent it from happening again. Just thoughts and prayers and that’s it. It’s infuriating.

There are many complex problems that are going to be uncomfortable to solve. We are all going to suffer before it gets better. But we should demand better. We should demand that the rich help or get out of the way.

You were saying people wouldn’t create without copyright. And yet, copyright didn’t exist for much of humanity. Therefore, copyright is not necessary for people to create. If it was, they wouldn’t have created all the stuff they did.

Slavery and other horrors are irrelevant

Edit:

do you think after george RR martin released his first book 7 years after that everyone else could make their own ASOIAF books, movies, tv shows, etc without having to get permission or compensate george in any way? i feel like this is shafting the creator

7 years is plenty of time to profit.

And they can still profit by creating new work, or selling people the authentic copy. People go see live music despite video existing. People buy designer bags despite bootlegs existing.

If anyone can write a spiderman comic, then the ones that are the best will presumably do the best.