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And politics is the bread and butter of Every.Single.Thing that you do, including your fantasy of a detached parallel-universe "hacker world" that you think you're living in. You're not.

You're either actively doing politics or it is being actively done to you. Nothing that you do makes any sense outside of politics anyway.

Yea, best clickbait ever :)

Reading Pushkin in original is pure delight. Really enjoyed this write-up. Thanks.

I don't just expect them to be on separate networks - I expect them to be fully air-gapped!

So it's kindda like cows in Nigeria?

No, the rich and powerful pay boatloads of money for privacy, but don't get anything of substance in return.

No, it implies the exact same thing - prices will rise as the market adjusts (and "economies of scale" start to crack).

No, that's not really the future. Here's the future: you don't get any privacy, period. Get over it. Live with it. Doesn't matter who you are - you don't get any.

Oh, and you know what? The future has already arrived.

Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12800228

You seem to have some VERY backwards ideas of ethics...

Inequality is not the source of war, it is the source of everything that you see. It's also known as diversity and is the basis of life. You can't be rooting for diversity and against inequality at the same time - you're contradicting yourself. Unless you're also against diversity, in which case you really don't understand much of anything.

Inequality can only ever increase. The opposite is unnatural (and rather impossible).

Yes, I have passed many more than two days without any money in my pocket. As any human being, I've had my highs and lows. I've decided that I like the highs better and money is quite handy in that regard. What I'm saying is - it tends to come to you easier once you stop freaking out about it. As do all things. Struggle is always counterproductive and it is never worth sacrificing your health for money.

Don't make time to untangle. Stay untangled. Live your life. Enjoy it. Have fun. If you have any time left after that, then may be do some of that inconsequential stuff like earning money or achievements. These are nice, if you enjoy doing them, but are not important. Unlike what you've been brainwashed to believe, your life does not depend on those things. Your well-being does not depend on those things. The well-being of your family and children does not depend on those things. It's the other way around.

This is not a realisation, it's a belief. And it's a very boring one. I quite enjoy my narcissistic views and have absolutely no interest in trading them in for your moralism ("fairness", "equality", "justice" and other socialist bullshit). Live your own hell all you want, just don't inflict it on others. Since you're a believer in "fairness", I'll cut you a fair deal: I'll keep my luxuries to myself and you keep your "responsibilities" to yourself. Deal?

Reading The Little Prince every five years has indeed been my routine (since high school). Glad I'm not the only one :)

The article doesn't really answer the question. It says adults are busy because they have too much stuff to do (duh..) But "why" is still a good question, and it remains unanswered.

The answer is that, as we grow up, we tend to develop the belief that our well-being needs to be justified somehow. In other words, we start to believe that we are not by default worthy of living a good, joyful, care-free, abundant life.. unless it is "deserved". And the way to justify, or "earn" our well-being, we are told, is by action. By doing things. So we become obsessed with doing things, as a way of seeking approval and justifying our well-being.

Of course, as any child knows... this is ridiculous. Action is not a means to an end. Action itself is one of the ways to enjoy life.

Oh, and other countries' intelligence services would never think of violating any laws, heaven forbid...

You know how your government keeps convincing you of the supremacy of the "rule of law" and how "nobody is above the law", etc., etc... I think it's beyond obvious to anyone with half a brain that these are boogie-monster fairy tales.

When most people speak of law, what they mean is "rules that everyone must follow". When the lawmakers speak of law, they mean "rules we've been told to make everyone follow". Of course, the people and entities that these laws come from are above the law almost by definition. The amount of hypocrisy surrounding "justice" systems around the world is tremendous - it has always been. But people mostly like it this way - it's worked for a few thousands of years and is likely to work for a few thousand more.

Just about everyone in IT. The (software) factories are thriving the world over and despite what StartUp people and various other revolutionists will tell you, hardly anyone is even trying to disrupt this. Because people (both employers and staff) are mostly happy with the status quo. You'll hear a lot of talk about reduced office hours, flexible office hours, working 4 days a week, "commuter revolution", etc, etc... those things are statistical outliers that haven't really affected the large picture. Leaving your job to build a business is probably the _least_ statistically significant factor in all of this.

So yea, factories (and factory working hours) are here to stay for the foreseeable future.

There's no good excuse for ANY website or platform these days to not be able to handle this amount of traffic with absolute minimal effort. In fact, handling 10x more should be trivial (and cheap).

Time for Ireland to leave the EU too, I think.

My general response to companies (or agencies) offering "market rate" compensation has been along the lines of "I don't do market rate. I do 10x market rate. Find someone else."