Peoples inability to come up with a better alternative doesn’t mean there aren’t issues with capitalism.
Fossil fuels are the easiest and most effective way of powering transport at the moment (and pretty much the only game in town for air travel). Doesn’t mean they aren’t a massive problem.
I can’t remember the source, but there’s a quote that goes “it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism”.
I’ve yet to read any kind of optimistic sci-fi that operates in a capitalist society. The two most obvious (Star Trek and the Culture) both envision a post-scarcity society enabled by technology so advanced it might as well be magic.
The Windows API is no longer the focus for .Net. They are very clearly pushing large scale web apps.
I’d be curious to know what percentage of people are still writing windows clients. I suspect there’s a lot of legacy code still out there, but it’s clearly not the future
> Tom Waits did have a point that I think today's content creators need to take onboard. With music it was not always about money for everyone, the love of music was motivating enough, bringing people together for a good time.
The difference is that artists used to be able to earn a decent living from selling their art.
Today, artists (unless they are actually producing physical artifacts) are expected to give their work away for free (or for so little as to be pointless).
Deciding not to do “normal” things is fine. You don’t want to drink or smoke or watch TV? Good for you.
But it doesn’t have to be all or nothing. You can enjoy some really great TV and ignore the reality dreck. You can have a beer with friends or enjoy a wine with a meal without being an alcoholic.
And you can go for a run without feeling the need to look down on people who don’t want to do ultras.
> Whether that's "purely capitalist" or not, it's still not safe to be a leftist in the USA.
I don’t disagree.
Remember that “shocking” scene from the Newsroom years ago where the main character had the audacity to suggest the US wasn’t the freedom-est country in the world?
The rest of the world just nodded and said “yeah, we know”.
I have to say I literally laughed when I saw the headline. Housing in NZ is still ridiculous. It’s dropped a bit in the last 6 months, but NZ easily ranks in the top 10 least affordable countries to buy a house, ESPECIALLY in Auckland
Asking how you can get into gamedev is kinda like asking how can you be a professional musician. Sure, you need to know and like music as a base, but becoming a concert pianist, a jazz drummer, a metal guitarist or a hip hop mc are very different paths.
Similarly, there’s a big difference between working on Elden Ring vs a small indie or even one of the millions of match 3 mobile games.
The title is poorly chosen at best and misleading at worst. They’re not abandoning JavaScript, they’re just abandoning client side rendering (angular, etc)
Even if we are to take the propositions in the article at face value (some of those studies are dubious), it still leaves you with a simple equation.
MHLs make it more likely that you will be involved in an accident, but also more likely that you will survive said accident.
It’s a trade off between risk and consequences. If I’m given the choice of getting slapped in the face on a coin toss or playing Russian roulette, I’m going to choose a 50% chance of a slap vs a 16% chance of death.
And honestly, the whole argument that less people will cycle if they have to wear a helmet is colossally dumb. Only an idiot would drive without a seat belt these days, but they also faced resistance when they were first enforced. People just get used it.
> It is intensely weird to me that people hold the opinion that their company is building something that is bad for the world, and yet they stay there and continue to help build it.
Not really. People fear change. Engineers at Meta almost certainly have good pay, work with people they like, have a generally comfortable life.
Merriam Webster - Indigenous: of or relating to the earliest known inhabitants of a place and especially of a place that was colonized by a now-dominant group
Wikipedia - Indigenous peoples are culturally distinct ethnic groups whose members are directly descended from the earliest known inhabitants of a particular geographic region and, to some extent, maintain the language and culture of those original peoples
By what measure are Maori not indigenous to NZ? If another group arrived first, they certainly didn't stay, and even by your own measure of "time of inhabitation", Maori have been here the longest (at least 350 years before Europeans).
Completely untrue. They are absolutely indigenous to NZ.
I'm so tired of this stupid myth being brought up again and again. Yes, Maori arrived in NZ. They were the first people to do so. They are the indigenous people of NZ.
Unless you want to argue that to be "indigenous", you literally need to have evolved in that place, which is a nonsense argument as far as humans are concerned.
Fossil fuels are the easiest and most effective way of powering transport at the moment (and pretty much the only game in town for air travel). Doesn’t mean they aren’t a massive problem.