Read the comment more carefully. There are two parts. 1. their prediction for the future, and 2. their personal habit. Their personal habit does not prove their prediction for the future. I'm suggesting the prediction is the myth mentioned in the blog post, because it literally is.
Warren Buffet, the guy that told people to stay away from Bitcoin for the past decade and to stick to stocks which average 8-10% and barely outpace inflation while Bitcoin has literally given 10,000% return in the past decade?
Yes, very smart play to keep people dependant on him and his investment company.
Conceptually though, Warren Buffet is right - Bitcoin has no intrinsic value. Besides scammers and criminals almost nobody uses Bitcoin for transactions. Nobody buys a car, a slice of pizza, a box of nails, a glass vase, an AirBnB rental using Bitcoin.
Nobody buys a car or slice of pizza or a glass vase using stocks, gold, silver, or Pokémon cards either and they have no intrinsic value yet they're worth hundreds of dollars. The value of an item is what people believe it is.
The US dollar is the predominant currency used by scammers and criminals, by far.
That combined with the fact that there is no culture of maintaining things at a community level. People from first world countries come in and build bridges/wells/etc and then they break down due to misuse or just age and there is no effort to maintain them, due to the ingrained culture that's taught from birth.
The USA has spent billions of dollars in the last century on trying to help African countries, but all it's realistically really led to is just more people in need in Africa. What happens to all those people that have become dependant on the aid when the US economy crumbles and there is no more money to send overseas?
Western people suggesting Africa is an un-helpable backwater has been common for decades. Bill Gates likes to talk about all the progress made, in fact.
I don't know if you've seen the USA in the past few decades but there's no culture of maintaining things at a community level here either. We've got infrastructure crumbling all over the place.
In the US it's not potholes at issue, it's major bridges on crucial transport corridors being well past their use by dates and not being funded to replace / upgrade / maintain etc.
You're correct that this inability to upkeep infrastructure is in stark contrast to those many places about the globe that have never had electricity or water delivered to home dwellings.
Such places typically get by generation to generation and look after what they do have .. and are often removed as communities from what outsiders seeking local community resources see as necessary to support the take over of local community and imposition of third party extraction.
You're correct that China hires US PMC's to secure the take over of generational land rights and build roads to export "water" in the form of agricultural products, etc. You're correct that local communities see unsecured roads as a resource of good gravel, etc to be used.
I bought a 2025 Ford Maverick and pulled the fuse for the telematics unit, which also disconnects the modem.
It disables the OTA updates, remote start which Ford does through a phone app (you can buy a third party keyfob attachment for $100 to do remote start easily enough), and emergency calls through the head unit. None of the features that I hugely care about. Android Auto works without issue and that's all I need the unit for.
I have all of mine on the same (or accessible) internal LAN so they can all talk to each other. You can get the connection going with Wireguard if they are in different places in terms of networking.
Amounts to the same thing but no. Promox servers with two bridged interfaces. One interface has a public IP, the other a 10.0.10.0/24 etc. Multiple baremetal servers are connected by wireguard and have access to each other's private subnets. Like one other might be the 10.0.20.0/24. Setup the routes and good to go. Firewall to taste. My private LAN is all open.
This is not just for docker. There are other vms and lxc containers too.
> and I get to sleep at night knowing that unlike my previous jobs, this time I am not just making someone who is already uber rich, richer.
You can provide value in the free market, or you can work in a public sector where the people paying your salary have no choice but pay their taxes to cover your salary or risk going to prison.
Everytime I see an argument of "Those heartless Republicans/Libertarians/Conservatives just don't care about the poor who have NO OTHER CHOICE", there's never any data to back it up. It's just a way to use people's empathy to manipulate them.
I spent a decade working with people that were physically and intellectually disabled and got to see first hand of all the ways that the families took as much advantage of government programs as they possibly could. The organization that I worked for had the primary purpose of getting families more resources from welfare programs. I don't blame them nor am I hugely angry at them because the current system we have keeps people dependant on receiving welfare. Why would someone risk getting a minimum wage job if them receiving income puts their foodtamps, free cell phone plan, reduced rent prices, free transportation, free healthcare, etc at risk?
Government welfare is a cancer that holllows out and keeps people down and ensures that individuals and families don't fix their lives and just keep feeding their bad habits.
Yes, there are a small minority that are in brutal situations our of pure chance, but the mass majority are not that.
California has spent billions on homelessness, yet the issue is worse than it has ever been.
The USA has spent billions on welfare, yet the problem is worse than it has ever been.
When does the problem get solved?
You're in the minority.
Just about every open source project that I use has a "Donate/Contribute" link somewhere on their website/Github, and I see articles constantly about projects being shut down or archived because the developer couldn't afford the time investment anymore due to lack of income. I keep a list of open source software I use so I can donate every couple of years to pay them for their work, and I've run into maybe 2-5 projects out of the dozens of donations I've done over the years that either don't have a donate option or just tell you to donate to a charity instead (eg. Unlock Origin)
> You're in the minority. Just about every open source project that I use has a "Donate/Contribute" link somewhere on their website/Github
I just checked and I didn't see a Donate/Contribute link for Alacritty.
Is there something I'm missing? Or do we have an entire thread full of people bashing on Warp for doing something Alacritty themselves do not wish to solicit?
As you point out yourself, it's not hard to throw up a Donate link if you're that kind of open source developer.
You can feel however you want about it, but forking and creating your own version of things with added/removed features is the heart of what open source is.
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