I wasn't talking about you but the guy I was originally responding to, sorry if that wasn't clear.

Forced centrism is in fact not a virtue. I am being partisan but I also believe I can fully justify that.

But I can tell you right now that wages in the IT industry have dropped massively. The question is have they dropped more than other jobs but that completely ignores the fact that every single line of work is under assault by the Epstein class. It's gotten so bad that they are going after doctors.

I'm sure you've noticed how many doctors are running for political office that's not an accident that is a response to private equity moving in on their territory and cutting their wages

It does not matter what you do for a living or how poorly you live there is no amount of wealth or property you can own that is low enough to make the Epstein class happy. They want everything so that you are forced to treat them like gods because they control your access to food and water and the things you need to just be alive and so they are literally deciding who lives and who dies and you will fall over backwards to please them and to glorify them like someone worshiping a god.

on not knowing what functional unemployment is. The Epstein class thanks you for your service. Remember ignorance is strength!

Yeah I know that. And they will reorganize on paper and apply and everything will be as it is today except somebody will have to do some extra paperwork. A few Indians will be shuffled around because in the confusion some of them will get sent back to their country and replaced by different indians. None of them will be replaced by Americans.

The Republican party is lying to you and you can't possibly not know that.

It's frustrating because the Democrat party while they don't lie to you they sit there and tell you to just suck it the fuck down and absolutely nobody is protecting our jobs.

But if I'm given the choice between the Republican fascists lying to me and the Democrats at least telling me the truth I guess I'll settle for the Democrats. If nothing else they don't start pointless wars. If Al Gore had been in office back in the day we'd have 7 to 10 trillion dollars of extra cash on hand and if Trump wasn't president the national debt would be another 10 trillion lower. Literally half the national debt is the Republicans running up the credit card for absolutely nothing... I mean except lining their own pockets.

“What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.”

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What the fuck am I even reading?

There's basically two ways this plays out. First the Epstein class wins. If that happens we become a techno feudal hellscape and you'll have a about 50 to 60,000 people at the top and then everyone else will be living in abject poverty at the level of medieval times. Disease and starvation will wipe most of them out and keep the numbers down.

The other less likely possibility is that we go with a cooperative global civilization. You know that cookie spooky socialism crap. If that happens you will quickly see the population not just stop growing but shrink. People who aren't desperately trying to crank out babies without access to birth control so they can use them as cheap labor to replace machines that don't exist just don't have a lot of kids. When you take away the economic incentive it turns out the birth rates drop faster than even the projections your citing.

Either way the reason we have this huge population boom is because we were in a very bizarre and unique situation where we had just enough technology that a primitive culture that squeezes out babies left and right wasn't dropping dead constantly from war and disease and general lack of medical Care. That's not sustainable and it's not going to last. The Epstein class won't allow it. So we either get rid of the Epstein class which does not seem to be on the table or we let them turn us into something worse than serfs

Well to be fair she didn't have to contend with strange undocumented behaviour from the Electron framework when programming a guidance computer. ;-)

I'm only going for partially funny here. The requirement for debugging tools is proportional to the complexity of what you're trying to do. In simple cases, especially the kinds which result in calculation output, you don't actually need debugging tools. You can work backwards from the output (or pipe an intermediate stage of your software to the output) and work backwards from there to identify the bug.

That's not to belittle here truly incredible achievements though. She should be an inspiration to all, and a wakeup call to every vibe coding moron who creates a weather app that uses 1GB of RAM to tell you it's fucking raining.

Errr no, it takes 2 days to post virtually anything on this site, including Tesla and OpenAI rubbish.

It's not impressive, it's essential. Taxpayer funding for things people have considered irrelevant have incidentally lead to a whole world of real world benefits for average people.

Take for example the International Space Station. Many people think this is a waste of money. Those same people now benefit from:
- HEPA filtration in vacuum cleaners and cars (originally developed for long term space survival)
- Better medical diagnostics (space based sensors for science no one though relevant led to modulated x-ray rings essential in modern CT scanners)
- Cancer, Asthma, Heart Disease, all these have taken leaps forward in research thanks to zero gravity research and monitoring of astronauts.
- Water purification systems for disaster management.

The wider space program is responsible for memory foam in the couch you sit on, food preservation, heck the scratch resistant face of my watch and your phone has the Apollo program to thank for it.

Only the short-sighted thunderfucks at DOGE think you can judge the worth of science funding based on the title of the project.

I was interesting by the article's comment that it could lead to smaller clocks, but that doesn't seem likely from what you are saying. At the moment a "chip scale" atomic clock is a metal can maybe the size of a consumer CPU, and pulling quite a bit of power.

People voted for a guy to run the country like a business. Well this is how he runs his businesses. He gets rich while everyone else gets fucked.

You really want to go down that road? Let's begin with the Gulf War 3.0.

Maybe the real end of the world, if Trump reacts badly enough.

Population growth is levelling off and we will end up somewhere between 10 and 12 billion by the end of the century. It's sustainable as long as we are careful... Which we tend not to be. Most of the growth is in Africa, which has a lot of scope for it.

In fact the main reason population is still growing is people are living longer. The global fertility rate has dipped below 2.1, the steady state level due to childhood deaths.

Well a significant portion of H1-B immigration occurs due to the pathway to a Greencard it provides. There's a very small subset of people who relocate across the globe without a path to permanent residency, and they typically chase contracts and projects and aren't directly employed by the companies themselves.