FWIW, since I've seen it mentioned, we've also been using psycopg2cffi to access Postgres sources.

The product now lives (at least partially) as Datastream on GCP (https://cloud.google.com/datastream/docs/overview). I'm not sure though if it's still running on PyPy.

I could try and connect with the folks still working on it, if you're interested.

I too have experienced this existential dread, and sometimes still do.

Your post triggered a multitude of responses from different people experiencing the same, each with their own set of beliefs and coping mechanisms.

I found it fascinating - thank you.

It always surprises me that we are in a minority - most people go through life without experiencing this, or wondering about this. When trying to discuss this with one of them, they are usually baffled, and truly cannot understand you. It is almost as if we're speaking different languages. As a side note - I am wondering if there is something in common in all those who experience this dread.

Would you mind sharing your mediation experience and practices?

Thanks

Not sure if this was the intention, but I read it as both recognizing the original post as funny, and yet recognizing that we (as in humanity) aren't "stupid" for having this complex system, but that's just how things develop.

Having both views live together is the best take on this.

Thank you HN!

This led me to think that I'm not sure inspiring of what, and so made me think of whether a sense of inspiration must always be to do something, or if is it sometimes just a feeling (like being sad, happy, angry).

Sorry for the somewhat off-topic thread.

What I'm wondering is whether it is because:

1. Only US-based websites and forums get to that level of extremism that is cause for de-platforming. I find this option the hardest to believe (pretty sure there are hideous things in other countries as well).

2. The infra is mostly US-based (Cloudflare, cloud providers, etc.), they are focused or getting their attention drawn specifically to US-centric topics.

3. It happens in other counties as well, but because HN is US-centric I am hearing about the instances that are dealing with US topics.

And specifically I'm currently focusing on democratic countries, where free speech is upheld in some form (obviously government based censorship is happening in authoritarian countries all the time).

So which is it? Why am I not hearing of these cases happening to EU-based, Canada-based, Australia-based or Israel-based forums/websites (mentioning Israel specifically as I'd expect to hear about those in my local echo-chamber)?

Would love to learn about similar cases from other countries.

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Many companies (BigTech for example) are extremely net-positive financially. This means that the value they gain per employee is much higher than what they pay them.

Taking this further - the customers in many cases (and certainly in ideal cases) are getting more value than the price they are paying (hence they agree to pay), so in a sense you could argue that the value is actually even larger. This of course scales several times when working on some infrastructure (though the effect is very not obvious).

Any ideas for why they'd choose not to put it on the Spotify domain?

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