Make it 100%. I consider myself relatively "geeky", but I couldn't explain neither what a VPS or an nginx image is.
"Normies" are people who are not sure whether the photos they took today with their phone are "on the phone" or "in the cloud" or maybe on the laptop also? Or what?
Go from there to "nginx", I'll wait and don't hold my breath.
Well, you say this is not a topic for this site, but HN is explicitly about intellectual curiosity and as long as you present your case with enough complexity and new information, any topic should go. It's not the topic, it's the way you go about it.
You raise an economic, political and maybe societal, ehr, question? It is not entirely clear to me what your inquiry or proposal is. You can help the community accepting your topic by being more clear and information rich.
The crisis in the Middle East is a terrible thing, but I don't think it will lead to a majority of people being "screwed".
The money printing is not really a danger in that sense. Yes, I also do think we should manage to have a better banking and currency system, FIAT is less than optimal, but it's not the case that it doesn't work at all either.
I don't know who you are referring to with "normal people", but I am inclined to not see the HN crowd as normal people. Depends on your parameters of course.
I really like your answer in soo many ways because i can see that it made you think in really possitive way. For something like this i really can not say i can be more information rich as this is soo deeper than informations we have, unfortunately... Its much easier to talk about some science or tehnology where we can read documentation and really understand it .
Just to answer this moment "screwed". Its not about money i lived through hard times like most of us lived and we will keep living but i think making world thinking this is normal will put us in really bad moral. World is going in direction that everything is okay if you are making money out of it, and thats completly wrong.
On your statment about FIAT , i agree. Its not that bad thats truee but somehow same opportunity should be given to everyone. Not in termes of luxury but in terms of basic rights its completly wrong if people are doing same but one is living normal and other is struggling to survive. In my opinion every country is rich as rich as its poorest inhabitant... I dont know man this is such a hard topic to talk about and we could talk all day...
The problem is not that the normies don't care, the problem is a society that seems to need that to function well for everybody. The problem is the existence of government. Instead of a state we need a society based on private property, that would solve these problems. It is about who has the possibility to apply force and a state government enables that in a wrong way.
Abolish the state and just let greedy ultra billionaires go wild with private property and make the existing problems even worse. Yeah, I'll pass. The only reason things are still somewhat functional is because a few people within the state are pushing back against the ultra wealthy who are trying to dismantle the state so they can get exactly that fiefdom.
Good work! I do like that the tools are task centric and that means I don"t have to handle all sorts of things, I just quickly learn the three to four tools that I really need (as a person working in the real world). #pareto
Now, privacy, I love it! That "normal people" just store stuff in the cloud "it's on my phone", yeah ok, is one thing. It's another topic…
But since Gmail came out and was all the rage in nerd circles, I am wondering why the people who understand the tech the most, are so eager to hand over their data to Big Tech and some other very questionable entities.
Here's the thing in terms of money.
If your app does put my data into the cloud, I am not going to use it. At all. Ever.
If your app blesses me with a beautifully designed native GUI (or UI), instead of presenting itself in Electron slop to me, then I am already almost sold. Literally. I start to consider forking over some cash to you, dear developer of that beautifully designed, privacy respecting app.
I do use my browser to browse the web. I am not interested in a "secondary OS architecture" where I have to play sys admin for a range of "apps" aka plugins. Neither Chrome plugins (I don't use Chromium based stuff.) nor Wordpress plugins, nor Emacs "modes" are going to replace well done native programs.
You don't care enough about your project to provide a native program? Tells me, I shouldn't care either. Good buy.
For a high school student who survives on an allowance, paying $39 for an app may be a bit much, but not for an adult with an income.
Curation. A good maintained app store does all the "sys admin" stuff for me. No viruses, no weird installation procedures and so on.
This is why that works. Hassle-free. Locally-run, native app, means beauty and privacy.
I would pay for that. Happily. In fact, I have done so many times. The success of a plethora of developers with paid-for apps in the stores proves I am not the only one.
And, btw, this is the distribution/commerce model that RMS always favoured. I quote RMS:
> Since “free” refers to freedom, not to price, there is no contradiction between
selling copies and free software. In fact, the freedom to sell copies is crucial: collections of free software sold on CD-ROMs are important for the community, and selling them is an important way to raise funds for free software development. Therefore, a program that people are not free to include on these collections is not free software.
This is basically the app-store model.
And I would pay, for the above stated reasons and I would be inclined to gulp an even higher price if the package has the "OSS inside" sticker on it. For personal reasons, right?
Then there is one last thing. I don't want to have to create an account somewhere just to test-drive your app. Or to use it fully, later on.
Privacy means, I don't have to be online in order to use the software. The end.
So Canada found out it doesn't have any leverage over China in this so-called trade war, that is going on between North America and China?
That is at least the logical conclusion based on the information the linked-to article provides.
What I am asking myself now is, why did Canada join the US in the 2024 tariffs enactment the article is talking about in the first place? What was their motivation?
The US president always said, that he deemed the existing contracts between China and the US as "unfair" for America, hence the tariffs and trade war. That is his official explanation at least. But why would Canada join that? That's what I want to know.
The Canada-US Auto Pact of 1965 effectively integrated automobile manufacturing between the two countries. This pact removed the previous tariffs and added certain guarantees. This effectively created one protected automobile market between the countries.
This is, of course, exactly why Canada joined the US in 2024 tariffs against China. We had all one market to protect.
> Canada found out it doesn't have any leverage over China in this so-called trade war,
For my perspective, this seems hugely beneficial to Canada in the short-term. It might even be beneficial to Canada in the long-term if the US permanently destroys the ability to build automobiles for the unified North American market in Canada.
Their motivation was protectionism, because Canada hosts assembly plants and a broad parts manufacturing base. Same as the US. This regards the targeted EV tariffs from 2024 which is the only such tariff action mentioned in the article.
>So Canada found out it doesn't have any leverage over China in this so-called trade war
That's an astonishingly weird take-away. FWIW, Canada by almost any analysis "won" this trade negotiation. China was very eager to thaw relations. Every Chinese newspaper ran a front page of Carney visiting China. They all know this is yet another brick in the collapse of the American empire.
Maybe if you just threaten military conquest more you'll reclaim something much better people built decades ago? Now the Joe Rogan generation foolishly eat up the most profoundly stupid nonsense and repeat it like clucking chickens.
>why did Canada join the US in the 2024 tariffs enactment the article is talking about in the first place? What was their motivation?
Because we foolishly engaged with a tightly integrated economy with the sort of country that casual floats conquering friendly democracies to loot their resources, and that repeatedly elects vile, unbelievably stupid criminal pedophiles? See, "America's" automakers are actually US/Mexico/Canada automakers, so we worked with the US to defend them. Then Trump decided, in his incredibly, profoundly shortsighted foolishness (being unchecked by anyone) that he would start a trade war with neighbours.
I think the most astonishing part was seeing how willing the incredibly poorly educated American public bought the silly fentanyl lie, all so that clown could claim national security grounds. This cult of personality -- one of the most vile, unbecoming liars in human history, and basically the personification of the deadly sins -- somehow convinces millions of the most outrageously stupid thing. It's astonishing, and historians must study this to prevent it in the future. Idiocracy is not a goal.
I think the difficulty for AI to learn this, in general, is the missing out of the day-to-day experience living as a human, because that is what shapes our viewing habits. And those are what a good graphic design interacts with.
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