A large number of people do not take Zuckerberg or Altman seriously and do bash them, but there is also a contingent that do. This is similar to Trump; about 1/3 of America listens to him and think he’s talking sense. Note that these comments were made on Joe Rogan’s show, apparently. I’ll leave you to consider what sort of audience Rogan appeals to.

Personally, I was eyeing redpanda connect for some use cases and the telemetry was a huge turnoff, even if it’s disabled. This is in addition to the licensing schemes. So my focus has been on Bento instead.

… was not Democrats refusing to accept election results. Thats a talking point by republicans trying to downplay Jan 6 and the false electors plot, not actual fact.

And, to be fair, as time goes on allegations of Russian allegiance on the part of Trump seem less and less far-fetched.

Mueller’s findings were not exactly a ringing exoneration despite how the right likes to frame it. A lot of people went to jail and he specifically said that he couldn’t exonerate and only stopped the investigation due to DoJ policy, and noted that congress could continue.

I mean... what's undoubtedly true is that Trump actively called for foreign intelligence services to attack his political adversary, and then they did that with the express goal of helping Trump win.

The fact that Mueller couldn't prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a specific deal had been made is pretty much immaterial.

I’ve been in tech for about 2 decades now, and the general culture has always been to disregard ethics and social impact. How many times have we heard “We’re just building tools. Tools are apolitical and ethically neutral, it’s how you use them that matters!” It turns out that is actually not the case.

Plus the insistence that we can cordon off an area of life and designate it non political is incredibly common but also pretty naive (and dare I say privileged).

That is to say, we in the tech industry often encourage this sort of moral bankruptcy and like to pretend we’re above it all.

I think a lot of that attitude is self-justification to proceed as they intend without moral compass. Personally I can't do that. Everything we do has a consequence.

I've got a copy of Careless People sitting in front of me I'm scared to read at the moment.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

It’s definitely a factor (perhaps the dominant factor) and the easiest place to see it at play is on HN whenever the adtech industry is being criticized.

Driving high levels of the total returns off of a handful of advertisement companies doesn’t seem good or sustainable IMO. But

In that regard the Danish pension funds are actually playing it safer than our neighbors. The Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund, the largest of its kind in the world, is 40% US equities (read: US tech stocks) and 10% US private equity (read: more US tech).

Some Norwegians are starting to be concerned but only because they think Trump will seize their assets.

I don’t think it’s economics that got us into that. It’s primarily been incredible fiscal irresponsibility, mainly from Republicans, that has done so. Congress hasn’t really agreed or followed mainstream economics as long as I’ve been alive.

I’ve found that the number of parsers that don’t handle multiline records is pretty high though.

They mean getting the car out of the situation, not them being unable to leave the car. Definitely a concern if the car is stuck and it’s unsafe to leave the car, ie on a busy highway.

By cutting taxes. Republicans have been slashing taxes for decades without cutting spending.

Government is spending money on Bert and Ernie in Baghdad. It’s not the taxes that’s the problem.

You only have to look at a high level breakdown of the budget to know that DOGE is not serious. You are not going to get trillions in saving by cutting administrative overhead in various departments.