Didn't see any mention of ongoing looting from foreign nations as a source of the corruption.

Who's making the stuff that everyone who opts out of working wants to buy? We tried UBI during C19 without everyone and we got massive inflation - $100k in 2020 money requires $125k today.

I get the quants want to teach math as alphas while gammas like me are to be drafted for the mines, but that makes UBI sound just like an anti-capitalist revolution for revenge.

Original sin reinvented.

>The message of UBI, stripped of the fiscal jargon, is one sentence: “I trust you.” I trust that if I give you what you need to live, you will use it to live. I trust that you do not need a caseworker checking up on you. I trust that you do not need to prove you are looking for work. I trust that you do not need to be poor enough or sick enough or pathetic enough to deserve it. You are a human being. You exist. That is sufficient.

Altruism is a poor strategy in the 'real world'. One look at the digital domain and we conclude zero trust is a strong strategy for dealing with humans in that abstracted world. The idea of large, high trust societies is a very 1st-world concept, anyhow.

>UBI pilots have been run, with real money, in real countries, with real measurements. The consistent finding across more than a decade of evidence is that giving people unconditional cash makes them happier and healthier, and the mechanisms by which it does so map closely onto the argument I’ve just made.

UBI arguments end in cinders, no? We still argue over tiny time-limited pilots as the model for civilization at scale. This time, the avenue is moral superiority, but we haven't changed any of the facts of human nature, such as the free rider problem going unsolved.

Tech has generous TC, lots of high-end laptops and phones worth thousands, AI & cloud spend, and yet the only acceptable price for secrets management is $0 it seems at times.

I end up helping a lot of older people for a variety of reasons with tech - 60s to 90s, family, neighbors, coworkers.

They’re not invalids and have a right to participate in the digital world, even if security requirements have exploded.

Anchoring the trust in stuff like 1Password where we setup domains, their account info, their OTP codes means they get to go to their bookmarked site, FaceID to unlock the PW manager, get automatically logged in, and do what they need.

Being able to let them navigate this world without always having to hand over the paper secrets notebook to random helpers, or lose sheets of paper with passwords, or get caught up in tracking down an SMS code is better for them. Their password manager with the autofill helps somewhat deter phishing links since relying on autofill usually signals something is off, and they call someone they trust.

My point, I guess, was that convenience is basic access for some subset of vulnerable groups of people.

Also consider teams or multiple teams across an org sharing secrets. Flat files are a tough sell, so these apps eliminate almost all the hassle. We pay for a lot of 1Password accounts, and I couldn’t imagine rolling our own solution.

-sedan for commutes

-suv for bench seats/cargo and typical awd/4x4 secondary

-truck for towing toys, bed hauling the things your wife made a deal for at a garage sale, going to the dump, firewood, bla bla bla, going for rides and looking cool when the weather’s nice

Two cars are always available if one breaks down, or bad weather, whatever. Can trade space and hassle for money if you’re willing to deal with repairs if the used rigs are old.

As long we’re talking driving on roads, the AWD Sienna is basically an SUV. It is not, however, something that speaks to guys who want a specific look or fantasy from their rig.

Also have an iforce max, it’s a weird one since our systems are 288V systems capable of running the drivetrain for a bit and not the 40V “mild hybrid” systems that only run auxiliary systems.

Some audiences are logical and want concise, dense information, others want relational and narrative approaches.

One problem in B2B enterprise software is the buyer is rarely the user. Support can be a differentiator, but it's the first thing cut in a race to the bottom.

>If my company fires all the human support people including me, maybe I’ll start my own company. I’ll have marketing like “real human support” and I can charge more money than the cost-cutting behemoths.

Can you offer the product or just the support?

>I claim that Detroit was hollowed out precisely by anti-density and pro-suburbanization practices.

>When you send factories to the suburbs and then put highways straight through the neighborhoods in your city where people actually live and work, that's not densification leading to bad outcomes. It is detonating a city via discriminatory urban policy

Isn't this overstating the role of policy?

1. Wage arbitrage by the Big 3 to avoid urban auto unions out to the suburbs

2. Post-WW2 economic manuf. wind-down [1]

3. Post-WW2 highway build-up enabling suburbia

Looking at the things out of Detroit's hands, I don't think we should lean on policy as much because policy can't nail the factories to the ground or prevent their closure. The economic trends simply appeared much more powerful than city policy.

The fate of the Detroit city limits auto cluster could have been sealed with the war end. Businesses often want to escape high costs if they can do so without giving up their operation or market share, and they were able to do just that with the MI suburbs and highways.

Policy might have been able to delay the collapse if, like you promote, the city managed to encourage building housing to relieve the rent and home price pressure. However this seems nigh impossible in practice (even in NYC?) because property owners are politically connected and generally do not like values to go down, a classic case of concentrated benefits and diffuse costs [2].

[1] https://www.chicagofed.org/publications/chicago-fed-letter/2...

[2] https://1889institute.org/the-problem-of-diffuse-costs-and-c...

We let go of the the manual index somewhere along the way since it doesn’t scale like search, obviously, but for the same reason I keep a library and enjoy traversing others’ private ones and visiting public ones, I keep coming back to browse.

Whether its actually scarcity or hype building or a bit of column a, bit of column b is TBD. Then again, the new models seem more expensive, they slashed the tokens thrown around in thinking, and put up limit speedbumps so it’s probably not all gaslighting about compute bottlenecks.

What’s the counterweight to keep the system in check and from growing out of control? If the only message is yes, it sets up a positive feedback loop.

Looking back and guessing whether Covid justifies it is post hoc rationalization. It says nothing about the validity of individual claims. Fraud schemes in the same timeframe could benefit just as well.