Can you, though? And for how long? With the current policymaking and demographic and economic trends?

There is an argument to be made that the European social experiment has largely been indirectly funded by the largesse of the American hard-and-soft power strategy. As we're moving away from that (for various reasons, most idiotic), there is a question as to how it will persist.

(This is not meant as trolling--there's a real existential question here. A starting point is an attack on that argument: what is the "natural" expenditure on defense versus what you can get away with America's force projection? How much social funding is derived from that delta, in the most generous sense? Maybe it's a red-herring.)

(To your point...having knocked out CORBA and DCOM, perhaps we may next look forward to SOAP.)

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I would love to see a proper engineering post-mortem for how this happened.

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It is intellectually dishonest to cheer on a model that has been aligned away from politics that many people share (in this case, a desire to fight demographic change) and then be surprised or upset when TrumpLM or GPatrioT or whatever comes out and won't answer questions about transitioning or LGBTQ+ topics or socialism or somesuch. It's the same root problem.

Tools must be meant to serve the user, regardless of who they are or what they believe. There was a time when this principle was held in great esteem, though I've seen it fall out of fashion in the last decade or so.

In a saner timeline I'm right there with you. Certain types of policy and cognitive errors, though, remove the floor on communication decency--some popular conceptions are just so incredibly backwards that it's seemingly a disservice to treat them as anything worthy of more gentle correction.

I don't know if it's worse that Kurt is taking some bozo Youtube devfluencer seriously, that he was surprised that there was doubt in the future of Fly (whose reliability--but not customer service!--has been a joke for years), or that they continue to prioritize interesting engineering over basic success.

Bro, you just had to make a reasonable clone of Heroku. That's all you had to do.

Progressives fuck this up continually across the policy spectrum, by having no answer other than "no you're wrong/immoral/stupid" to people who express concerns in categories that have strong orthodoxy requirements.

You assume that a lady getting an abortion is not committing murder--these folks clearly think she is.

(We don't need to argue about whether it is in fact murder, or whether if it is that the murder is justified or not--just understand that there are people that believe differently, and apparently they're willing to expend police resources on it.)

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Do yourself a favor and read this, a few times, and take a moment to actually try and see what the author's getting at.