This isn’t slashdot. This is not a server under someone’s desk. This is not a quirky fight for freedom through internet protocols. Y combinator is power, influence, money, and all the abuse that may come with that.
Slashdot, reddit, and HN are similar in that the source code was available. For HN, as part of arc under the Artistic license. All 3 abandoned public source code releases.
My understanding is that for a long time HN was more or less a server under Graham's desk. But I wasn't there so maybe it's more like I believe in a rumor.
But you’ll never know if the writer you respect is generating future novels with an AI trained on their past writing. Maybe this is better, but in a very short time, AI writing will be indistinguishable from human writing.
I admit it's not a perfect heuristic but it's the only one I can think of at the moment. Things will definitely change quite a lot in the next few years and I'll need to adapt accordingly.
Chrome saved us from an abysmal browser market and endless websites that said “best viewed in Internet Explorer 6”.
Support ticket from Carvana yesterday told me to try chrome if I was experiencing problems. An open web won’t stay open for long if there’s a browser monopoly.
Do you think Google would try to crush competition the way MS did with their browser?
Yes. Sorry that was vague. Chrome dominance is bad for the open web and Google is a bad actor in every space they inhabit. Web devs who code for chrome are as bad as those who coded for ie 6 before chrome.
Public corporations do things in their own interests. USA legal environment guarantees that. Google has been a decent actor in the past, but have slid into monopolizing ad sales and into surveillance capitalism.
Google will use a Chrome market dominance to warp standards for their own purposes. You personally may or may not like the warping or the results.
We have really good insurance and now that my partner needs treatment for a chronic illness, they are denying the treatment. It’s lowering her quality of life, may lead to her death, and it’s absolutely standard operating procedure for insurance companies. It’s a delaying tactic.
I believe it works similarly in countries with taxpayer funded healthcare. Some group of people at some point in the process decide what is eligible to be paid for by the government.
If wealth disparity continues to increase these treatments will likely be unavailable to average people. Get rich or support economic policies that prevent oligarchs and billionaires.
My daily driver OS crashed multiple times a day 20 years ago and laptop hardware was sus at best. So yeah, I think quality is better. Also, look at cars. So much better with every decade that passes. It’s incredible.
