Because they aren't independent.

The government in China tries to micromanage research. Innovation can't happen in a micromanaged way, there needs to be a level of freedom.

Cool, thanks for the info.

There are a lot of people who believe Rust will get rid of ALL their security errors, not just memory errors. That's why it's a dangerous language.

And yet, you jumped into the argument as if it were fresh dung and you were a dung beetle.

And there it is, you're a dung beetle white space Python fan who can't resist defending your bad decisions.

Swift programmers were worse. It's a crappy language (has all the warts of Objective-C and adds some of its own), but as soon as you say "the enum system makes it easy to write confusing code" you will have all kinds of Swift programmers coming out to insult you and your dog.

What does he say? Anything interesting?

Zuckerberg is the face of enshittifcation. He knows what it is and doesn't care.

I looked back at Ray Bradbury the other day, I don't think I've ever heard anyone say anything bad about Fahrenheit 457. Unfortunately there is no author currently who comes close to that aliveness and energy. For a while I started thinking modern authors are just unskilled.

But now I have a different hypothesis. My new hypothesis is modern authors are skilled, but they have a different aim (which they achieve). Instead of being energetic like Bradbury, they are aiming for a feeling that is more like opium. Give the reader a numb feeling, just like you get from doom scrolling, or many online games these days.

And yet, you would be foolish to hire him.

That's why I'm not a member of either party.

I use Firefox and Thunderbird. They're nice. I'm not interested in AI, and I don't get why the org would bet the farm on it. I get that it's hard to keep Mozilla funded, and they may need to get creative somehow, but this isn't the way. It's not what people use Firefox for, and it's not exploring an obviously profitable direction.

Musk has two important skills:

1) He's very inspiring. His employees like working for him (tbh it's not hard to be more inspiring than the average CEO, but he manages to pass that low bar, and his employees respond by doing good work).

2) He's good at getting funding, especially government funding.

Both of these are real skills, and they have led to all his success.

They're putting it into bonds, or putting it in a bank at the worst. In both cases it pays interest which goes up as inflation goes up. They aren't the ones being hurt by inflation.

That's kind of interesting because APL was strongly associated with remote work (and very very slow modems).