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This could be describing any country on the planet.

Shantytowns have been growing across the US for almost 30 years.

Unions are just formalized reality, like fiscal economics, politics, etc

IMO, while we may not live to see it, I’m pretty sure out last 100-150 years of economic thought is, big picture style, on its way out.

It may take decades but once everyone is a gig worker, the political argument for universal healthcare will be undeniable.

IMO that’s more in-line with someone like Adam Smith, whose only condition for a market was free movement of workers between a market of opportunity.

This has somehow been mutated into a market of goods and services, probably out of laziness.

Re:Go+: Go designed for data science on Saturday March 27, 2021 @11:31AM (#26603000)
GitHub stars are bookmarks for me, not an indicator of usefulness.

It does say it’s under heavy development.

Maybe 4.3k+ GitHub users just want to make sure they get updates?

Re:Open Source Security Foundation on Saturday March 27, 2021 @11:24AM (#26602947)
An interesting idea for open source security to tackle:

What I don’t get is why everyone rolls their own infrastructure scripts still?

Where is a mono repo for Terraform or SDK based code that is openly vetted? The same goes for Kubernetes, Helm, Ansible...

Very few web tech problems are so Byzantine they need humans to write bespoke config

Re:The S in IoT is for Security on Monday March 22, 2021 @12:25PM (#26542998)
I bought a guitar, TV went unused, sold it, less gadget worry. Bought more guitars!

I’ve dramatically slashed my personal gadget footprint. Phone, watch cause I like the exercise data, a Linux box I barely touch, old iPad for movies and video chat.

I pickup the guitar rather than sit at the TV or computer. Learning an instrument connects both sides of the brain like no other skills based activity.

No ads, acoustic road trips easy enough, no worry about charging, smart speakers would hear some bad covers of Wonder Wall.

It’s a life changing experience.

So when the TV breaks, maybe consider replacing it with $500 digital piano to get weighted keys and decent built in sound instead of paying for an ad distribution device.