We dig up million year old viruses all the time. They are generally poorly adapted to the arms race of a modern creature's immune system.

You swallow quite a bit of mucas even when your well. Snorting it up does run the risk of plugging your eustatian tubes and having an inner ear infection. Probably best to send the mucas out of your face holes than drawing pathogens deeper into your head, the place many of us keep our brain.

Gut feelings should be treated as equally valid as scientific rigor.

Transparency, a charter to serve the public good, and open public hearings are just a few benefits to doing projects with public funding instead letting private companies decide for themselves how to spend their tax breaks

When the Atlantic Gyre shuts down, the winter weather in France and Quebec will the same. And the poor British are going to want to vacation to some place warmer like Toronto in the winter.

I'm waiting for the invisible hand of the free market to give me a reach around.

I easily generate 5x more reports that nobody reads, and 10x more PRs that nobody reviews, all thanks to AI.

An open source doesn't add those features because they aren't as clever and hard working as Oracle? Or is it because those features are more of a series of legacy hacks that would be obsolete in a clean room design and it is a mistake to keep depending on them?

There's always OpenXava if you want a similar developer experience, but ToolJet has more community support and is probably the way forward for more modern workflows and a bit more DevOps friendly.

But it's fine, use whatever software you think it best. I know nothing about the specifics of what you need. But I would recommend a general philosophy of always being prepared to pivot. Understand what the costs and benefits are, and you can stay where you are when the cost are high. But don't fall into the trap that you can't switch software because it is "impossible" to do so. It's just bits and bytes to rearrange, nothing is really impossible.

My bad, I read the Federalist Papers and a bit of John Locke and now I'm a radical!

While I hope they can eat the rich. That option is quickly vanishing. These days a paramilitary force can be employed as police and private security to keep the riff raff away and enforce private ownership with deadly force. But even those police jobs are going away now that we are arming drones and making AI powered sentry guns. The tipping point will be when people above a certain level of wealth are truly untouchable, and there is no possibility of revolt or reform.

Even a slave could withhold labor and was worth something to their master. I see a future that the huddled masses are seen as an obstacle and a nuisance. That rationalizations that they'd be better off dead will be thrown around unironically, just as people used to argue that slaves were happy to have a place and purpose.

at 100A ? No idea, I don't claim any expertise in the specifics. I heard they run a lot of DC too. Sounds wild.

Most of them will find jobs. Some of them won't or can't find a new job. Early retirement, reduced consumer spending, yada yada. Letting the chips fall where they may is not much of a method of economic planning for a nation's future. But God forbid I complain about what 70 billion dollar company does with its private property (are employees private property? I'm going to say "yes" as that seems the least controversial given the evidence of behavior and rhetoric around me)

Good series. I sort of stopped after Use Of Weapons and never picked it back up. But I should.

John Ringo's There Will Be Dragons has a pretty cool post-scarcity premise, with human's going off the rails culturally and evolutionarily. Fair warning, the book series isn't enjoyable if you can't ignore the author's chauvinist hang ups and boring dom fetish. But I think it does accurately show what a society that doesn't have money is like and how quickly they understand how money works once they had to go hungry as a refugee.

Oracle had a lot of under-utilized engineering capacity. Their management never managed to direct most of it to any useful purpose, so it was ultimately wasted. Some people started just showing up to collect a paycheck, others found more interesting places to work.

Then perhaps 21,000 workers can use AI at your competitors.