Via Ellen Joyce
For most of the last thousand years the rich have not been afraid of the poor. There was just this period, one which lasted for about 150 years, the period which Eric Hobsbawm documented so well in his books, in which the rich were absolutely terrified of the poor. That period ended only a few decades ago. What happened?
Originally shared by Tim Schermerhorn
“but the bank is only made of men.”
“No, you’re wrong there— quite wrong there. The bank is something else than men. It happens that every man in a bank hates what the bank does, and yet the bank does it. The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It’s the monster. Men made it, but they can’t control it.”
John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath
Oh man, the rent seekers have got their hands up and all over this one.
Every website that receives content must run it through an intellectual property finger printing service just like the one that YouTube uses to imperfectly tag “pirated” works and which in practice takes down authentic and original user generated content all the time without much in the way of recourse.
This is a classic example of why intellectual property is a bad thing and why it should be scrapped in favour of a system that does not in any way hamper or infringe on the rights of people to make derived works of any cultural product. This is literally how culture works and IP is simply about fencing in the commons.
As Proudhon put it, there’s no form of property that isn’t in the final analysis some form of theft. Intellectual property is cultural theft. https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/proudhon/property/ch01.htm
aibohphobia (noun)
An irrational fear of palindromes.
Antonym:
ailihphilia
OK that’s taking things a bit far, Microsoft.
This is going to become a big business because there is absolutely no way that the political process can reduce carbon emissions to levels that matter.
Let’s see if it can be made to work.
Originally shared by Jay Gischer
Well, this is interesting news.
Andre Staltz explains a unification of asynchronous functional handlers called callbags.
With this model you can make simple composable streaming functions (like callbacks, promises and observables) which allow for two way conversations.
In other words sinks that can also be sources and vica versa, emitters that can also be listeners and vica versa.
The United States of Psychological Trauma.
This is kind of what happens when you screw your developer base.
The Angular team chose not to provide and automatic upgrade path from AngularJS to Angular and instead concentrated on serving Google’s internal needs. As a result many developers felt abandoned and started to look elsewhere. They started to checkout other frameworks like React and most never came back.
Not shown on this chart is Vue.js which also became a huge beneficiary of the Angular team’s navel gazing. It’s currently creeping up to replace AngularJS is in the number 2 position.
The only thing saving Angular from total oblivion is a combination of corporate inertia and fullstack Java developers who from what I can tell honestly seem to think that Typescript is a dialect of Java and Angular is a flavour of Spring Boot for the browser.
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