I sort of agree although I am for credit cards if they help me with deals since I am frugal personally but even I am thinking to just use credit cards of my close cousins/family if they already have one.
I am giving a transcription of the situation in the video[0] but buy now pay later apps have on average 300% apr (yes this is not a joke) and even ask for tips and have so many dark patterns, both these industries are really similar/the one basically.
> She had just switched to this remote job, which was a pay cut, but it let her stay home and care for her son at the time. And then after she went back to her normal job, she actually stopped using Earnin for nearly two years. She got on a stable financial footing. She even bought this house. But housing costs are expensive and for a bunch of complicated reasons, her child support payment is less this year than it was before. And that put Runeda in this really precarious position, where if one thing went wrong, it would completely throw her off financially. And about two weeks ago, that's exactly what happened. My son wakes up really early sometimes, and it was, like, 5:00 in the morning, and I went to try to, like, open an app on my phone, and it wasn't loading, and I was like did they turn my internet off? And I checked the router, and it said your service has been interrupted for nonpayment, and I'm like, what the heck are you talking about? The bill used to be on auto pay, but for some reason wasn't anymore. they told me I had to pay, like, over $200. I had like 50 bucks in my bank account. That was the first domino, and everything fell apart from there. Runeda borrowed $150 from Earnin to pay the internet bill, the $20 reconnection fee and the $6 Earnin fee.
> Its given me so much and I'm so thankful for it. But, it's not what it used to be. I don't know.
Mitchell, when I was in 10th grade and had to pick my streams which led me to pick comp-sci/stem rather than finance (I am going to college soon), I thought of my dream life and it was being on a vacation/beach using Linux or terminals and opening github and contributing to open source software. I simply couldn't imagine my life without terminal (funny because ghostty is the terminal that I use)
You said that you have been with Github for 18 years, that is longer than the time I have been on earth. You were (and in some sense are!) living my dream life in that sense and github fulfilled its role, it had helped you until recently when it has started to get worse and worse.
my point is you have an special bond with github and for good reason,so to remove an somewhat integral part of all of this (github) after so long will have emotional feelings and outbursts.
I hope that you are doing fine, Ghostty/your-work has a positive impact on my life and gives a hope by being a relaible tool I rely on, I wish nothing but the best for Ghostty and you personally.
Just to add on to this thought experiment, I wish to add that another MASSIVE advantage in this experiment is that if you are a monarch, you basically get political immunity for all you and your friends worldwide.
Like within US and some other countries, its called black card and basically if someone has black Passport/are top diplomat/monarch and they do something illegal in another country, then they would be trialed in not that country but their own and at best the other country can only send that person back to their country.
And if its a monarchy theoretically speaking or courts can't do anything against you, then you basically can do anything. Sure there would be political backlash within the thought experiment but yeah.
Also can a billionaire or trillionaire simply not have enough residents that he can veto himself and put them all in an island citizenship which can be bought for enough to then get the constitution and then amend the constitution to create monarchy. Seems realistic enough to me in the sense that you wouldn't need to pay all the residents as some would be friends or people within the inner circle. In fact, I was hearing some news online about how people want a rich only country, a monarchy doesn't seem too out of order for something like this.
I actually have lots of thoughts about this. There is also a concept of a Country like Somaliland which is recognized by Israel which was insurgents/rebels beforehand and there are many rebel movements going on in africa right now which are funded by Saudi Arabia/UAE etc. so another concept is that its easier for a country to establish another country. So it can perhaps even be a compounding effect if we create a billionaire monarchy which can have weapons and soldiers and funding other countries wars to an higher autonomous degree. Why would a trillionaire be happy at one when he can have 2 and so on...
I do wonder though how the effect on companies might be, like, for example, would they be able to move the stock out of US markets into a stock market of that said country.
It really really depends on the media narrative on how they frame it and what effect it has on the markets, though that being said, the markets are pretty deaf sometimes.
My worries aren't that billionaires can't do it, it would be if the negatives outweigh the positives/alternatives or more importantly, what would the media perception of it be and the impact and if taking that into account it would be worth it or not and just about how deaf our financial markets can get before taking real signals into account. I might create a blog responding to this blogpost, I really enjoyed writing my comment and thinking of this thought experiment. Have a nice day to everyone and thanks for reading to my rants (edit: not rant I suppose but just my thoughts on this thought experiment and adding some more things to it).
So there was a recent article that I read which said that claude is now trading at a trillion dollars (yes with a T) evaluation in private markets.
We are definitely creating corporations and people which depend on AI companies themselves and the reliability of these tools is certainly a question worth asking. I am seeing quite many downtimes in products like github and claude being shown on Hackernews multiple times.
Is there a life cycle of enshittenification of such products which grow too valuable? What are (are there?) some practical lessons for such scalability that these trillion dollar companies are missing or is it just a dose of reality that such massive corporations can't compete with downtime with even my 7$/yr vps?
My question is, Is this an engineering roadblock with its limits in reality for or a management/entreprise roadblock for low downtime?
Personally sitting on use.expert and mirror.forum (not sure if I will keep the mirror domain)
I maybe going to college soon so I will see what to do with use.expert domain, I snatched it for 10$ but to be honest, as someone frugal, its renewal fees are a bit eggregious at 40-50$ but I personally really like the domain and it can be used as my-name@use.expert or any service that I might wish to talk about under the parent service of use.expert (Think consultancy biz)
Either that or I will seriously think of selling the domain at a thousand dollars or more. I really don't wish to sell for the most part but if anybody is an appraisal expert, i think it would be interesting if someone gives me an estimate about it for example.
> Is there an alternative to archive.(is|ph|whatever)?
Yes there is, because I have made it, basically which archives archive.is pages to archive.org (I have listed it way too many times but feel free to find it in my submissions)
personally, I don't think so. The link itself is actually a static website which anyone can host combined with piping server (actually I recommend doing so if someone wishes to also use my project to host it on their own github pages)
If Archive.org has any trouble with content owners, then archive.org has a proper mechanism iirc if content owners wish to remove the content.
Currently, only I use this myself to share links of archive.(is|ph|today etc) which people share on hackernews, and I convert it to archive.org
Personally I made this project because I was a bit sick of captchas and I saw many people who couldn't access archive.is or who were hesitant to do so, so I decided to made it.
Edit: that being said, I am not a lawyer and I am more than happy to help anybody/everybody interested
Not to be political but we literally vote blue and red in politics and that can sometimes kill people literally in wars and some die silent deaths because of the impacts of their policies.
I would say that its hard to underestimate the social estimates of these things. A person who will genuinely be impacted by it themselves would fall into these traps more than one might think. History has many examples of fascism that some suggest that these periods of turmoil are the norm rather than exception.
Once again an obligatory message about how the world faces some genuine issues but instead of fixing them as a civilization, We would much rather prefer to have scapegoats and this goes both ways and might be true in a certain way and at a certain path both sides are too extreme to ever collaborate for the most part that a nation of once great strength might die a slow exhausting death if nothing changes.
I have come to the realization, The world has always been like this and it might always be like this. Its messy but also one can imagine this as a side effect as the mere coexsistence of our species in such massive numbers might demand polarization.
Some people create initial changes (for greed, genuineness etc.)
people then follow it (true belief)
people then meet other people and become friends with them and create a community.
new people are born or who change because of the community aspect (Since most things are nuanced, it is easy to frame anything and sometimes everything into such communities.)
The original people who made the thing dies/are out of power and new people from the community join.
these communities gain influence and decide the decision making but the heads of such communities are prone to narcissism or any other ways to draft as much as attention as possible as it seems that all attention is (good attention??)
More corruption follows, even the people of community are impacted and they might hear criticisms but the lock-in is too much. Stockholm syndrome.
Everyone else face the consequence and someone new creates a new movement and create another set of intial changes. Competition between multiple colors follows, we also see cooperation between red and blue to prevent outside competition.
In such sense, change creates change and cycle repeats. It is up to our interpretation on if there is any idea itself which can remain logical if its implementation or implementors get corrupted in a sense similar to erosion of the main values.
more than anything, humanity wants a community. a human somehow wants acceptance and validation for himself and he is selfish in the sense that he will put a blind eye sometimes if he isn't virtuous to damage outside his house (sometimes inside as well) and he wants a community because that is the only way he functions within a society of millions and billions while monkeys cant operate on more than hundreds.
More than a political critique, my point is, we should be more aware of this human tradeoff from empirical evidences and open up this blind spot and perhaps be more aware about it.
I once made a golang multi-person pomodoro app by vibe coding with gemini 3.1 pro (when it had first launched first day) and I asked it to basically only have one outside dependency of gorrilla websockets and everything else from standard library and then I deployed it to hugging face spaces for free.
I definitely recommend golang as a language if you wish to vibe code. Some people recommend rust but Golang compiles fast, its cross compilation and portable and is really awesome with its standard library
(Anecdotally I also feel like there is some chances that the models are being diluted cuz like this thing then has become my benchmark test and others have performed somewhat worse or not the same as this to be honest and its only been a few days since I am now using hackernews less frequently and I am/was already seeing suspicions like these about claude and other models on the front page iirc. I don't know enough about claude opus 4.7 but I just read simon's comment on it, so it would be cool if someone can give me a gist of what is happening for the past few days.)
Recently a few days back, I had to verify my Linkedin identity on a new account (I am 17 for context) and I used proton mail and Linkedin immediately blocked it and asked for verification
I legally couldn't verify because persona doesn't detect aadhaar card and their support system on twitter/mail whatever was incredibly bad so much so that it felt like copy-paste and I still haven't gotten the card. I have written about my experience too.
https://smileplease.mataroa.blog/blog/linkedin/ : (Title of this is) Linkedin's "final decision", restricting my account, making me feel unheard, Persona being Persona & the time I asked Linkedin support what 351/13 is to prove if they are human or not.
I am giving a transcription of the situation in the video[0] but buy now pay later apps have on average 300% apr (yes this is not a joke) and even ask for tips and have so many dark patterns, both these industries are really similar/the one basically.
> She had just switched to this remote job, which was a pay cut, but it let her stay home and care for her son at the time. And then after she went back to her normal job, she actually stopped using Earnin for nearly two years. She got on a stable financial footing. She even bought this house. But housing costs are expensive and for a bunch of complicated reasons, her child support payment is less this year than it was before. And that put Runeda in this really precarious position, where if one thing went wrong, it would completely throw her off financially. And about two weeks ago, that's exactly what happened. My son wakes up really early sometimes, and it was, like, 5:00 in the morning, and I went to try to, like, open an app on my phone, and it wasn't loading, and I was like did they turn my internet off? And I checked the router, and it said your service has been interrupted for nonpayment, and I'm like, what the heck are you talking about? The bill used to be on auto pay, but for some reason wasn't anymore. they told me I had to pay, like, over $200. I had like 50 bucks in my bank account. That was the first domino, and everything fell apart from there. Runeda borrowed $150 from Earnin to pay the internet bill, the $20 reconnection fee and the $6 Earnin fee.
[0]:Billionaires Found a New Way to Steal Your Paycheck:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBI_FLYfwmM
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