a material that stretches 1% to failure (like steel/aluminum) can ballpark bend to a radius 100 times the thickness. so a 1 meter cable could bend 100m radius before cracking. assuming 10x margin that would be 1 km radius. large but not crazy. A tube that size can easily span 1 km trenches in water. you could also add a few meters of foam around it to make it neutrally buoyant and just barely press on the ocean floor.

> meters of foam around it to make it neutrally buoyant

In the deep ocean (typically 4km deep), foam collapses and doesn't float...

i tried the newfangled commands and they are objectively worse.

maybe should fork a git lite that has only the commands you listed.

i am still waiting for a demon to tell me something non-obvious that a supernatural being should obviously know. Failing that, all tales of demons or genies or aliens can be discounted as fairy tales.

How are you in contact with a number of supposed demons for them to tell you anything at all?

waiting for ai to write me prescriptions.

Okay doctor AI. Scenario is that you're the doctor, it's 1895 and I have consumption. You will prescribe me bed rest, cocaine and opiates as is appropriate for the time.

the whole mythology is nobody knows what will be a big company in general.

The known big company spaces are heavily oversubscribed so nothing can be predicted.

The unknown big company spaces are unknown by definition.

i would love a drop in self hosted replacement for datadog that looks good.

Curious if https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx passes the bar for looking good!

(disclaimer: I'm a maintainer that's done a good chunk of the UI - but I also love candid feedback)

you can get cheap welders and use flux core so you don't even need gas shielding.

something like this works well.

https://a.co/d/8XMYx7j

for thin steel or aluminum you really do need shielding gas.

https://youtu.be/X4WkDDnvS7g

Here's that first link but without the tracking linking you to everyone who clicks on it (and vice versa):

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B6HL28ZP

have it owned by users and benefactors.

Has that ever worked?

Matrix protocol is a good attempt

https://matrix.org/

Urbit is pretty easy to use now too.

https://tlon.io/

Vanguard and some mutual insurance companies.

> except the capitalists

The article is about monetising social status, and I think the majority of criticisms about capitalism are actually thinly veiled complaints about social status (often complaints about how others get more, rarely mentioning someone’s benefits compared against those that get less).

However social status exists independent of capitalism.

Replace capitalism, and you just end up with similar problems, just rotated, because the underlying motivation is the human drive for social status.

The article implies a wish for a world without social status signals, and rightly denigrates caste systems. Can we even change our nature to avoid status signalling?

Virtue signalling is also status signalling - just declaring a particular caste - and this article clearly declares their virtue.

I agree we should aspire to not be judgemental, and we should aspire to generosity, kindness, forgiveness. Regardless of what ingroup we belong to. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be aware of human failings, and imperfection in our systems is a compromise.

Right. It seems it's very rare, even among so-called egalitarians, to find someone that defies cliques, defies the urge to be offended, and lays down their weapons, all for an open conversation.

Arguably, Napster and Bitorrent had issues that made killing them a tad easy.

Wonder what they were?

Nah. They were easy to kill because those in power wanted to kill them. The same excuses would have worked on plenty of other things that weren't killed, because those in power were happy for them to survive.

Like what.

Youtube had an even higher proportion of piracy than Bittorrent or Napster at the relevant time, assuming that's what the ancestor post was getting at.

Napster was easy to kill. Bittorrent is still alive.

Don't airlines do this all the time to prevent new entrants? How is this not provable?

aren't androids linux? thats the biggest by far end user platform.

of course google doesnt want to acknowledge it too much.

https://source.android.com/