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Regulation is theater, effectively, thanks to regulatory capture.

This is a false argument. Regulations are effective. When was the last time you breathed in second hand smoke while eating dinner? Or inhaled lead from a passing car? Or asbestos from your neighbor's new house?

Defeatism will always be defeated


For now, it is, yes; but we must both plan for a future when that might not be the case, and advocate for effective regulations regardless.

The progression of the cable TV industry shows many people are more than happy, or apathetic enough, to allow the industry to double-dip.

Cable TV is a bad analogy because it was a natural monopoly. Even the disruption route (satellite TV) was another natural monopoly.

Netflix doesn't have the moat of "built a physical wire connection to every persons home" that cable TV enjoyed.


basic people sure, but the early internet showed an extremely strong demand for a better service than cable TV. When that demand is there then people will start seeking other options and building bridges of convenience to help the basic people also port over.

pingfs has similar inspiration, where storage capacity scales with latency.

https://code.kryo.se/pingfs/

Discussed in 2015:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9844725


Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39884821 195 points | 2 years ago | 66 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23902124 196 points | 5 years ago | 100 comments


Same results for me. Absolutely awful, vision consistently began failing by becoming noticeably blurry about 8 to 9 hours after taking night lenses out, and I couldn't drive at night because of headlight and streetlight halos even after "topping off" with those uncomfortable lenses during the day. As an enthusiastic night sky observer, trying to use those lenses was depressing.

I gave up after extended tries with three different lenses (I think it was six to nine months total), with my highly experienced doctor consulting with different manufacturers and researchers from around the country. Turns out my pupils naturally open up too wide, made worse by corneas that apparently are not thick enough to retain the reshaping all day. These issues, incidentally, make me ineligible for the popular cut-n-burn style of eye surgery.

On the bright side, it was indeed completely reversible and I've suffered no effects of any kind after about two days of non-use. That was a bit over a decade ago.


Not completely unheard of but I get your point :). Babylon 5's pilot's animations (and I believe opening credits) was rendered in 1993 on sixteen souped-up A2000s, each with 32 MB of RAM.

https://www.generationamiga.com/2020/08/30/how-24-commodore-...


That's pretty cool. I know 32 megs was technically possible with the right boards, I just didn't know any normal person that had one. I had an A3000 with 5 megs (4 megs fast, 1 megs chip) and I thought it was bad ass for the time.


I had a CyberstormPPC with a 604e/200MHz and a 68060/50MHz, and 128MB of RAM onboard. There was also a DKB3128 with another 128MB of RAM.

“Big” Amigas weren’t common, but they definitely existed.

Oh, and I was a college student at the time.


CyberstormPPC was $1000 when it came out in 1997. Thats more than Pentium 200, good motherboard, case, sound card, graphics and 3Dfx accelerator. 128MB was $400-800 and not even top end systems shipped with that much.


Yes, but I didn’t want a Pentium 200. I wanted a fast Amiga.


That must've been an awesome machine. You were a god among Amigans!


I had moved on to Linux / x86 by that point.


> The AI race seems more defined by spending more money than the other guy, regardless of results.

Reminds me of the much-vaunted, then widely maligned and derided, burn rate metric of the dot-com bubble.


> You can always get a plugin if something is missing.

To my great consternation, I have not found this to be true in the cloud version:

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-72631

Special thanks to Matt Lachman for keeping up the good fight every (business) day.


Huh - that seems a very basic missing feature in the cloud version. We use bog-standard self-hosted JIRA and markdown editing is basic working functionality. People also add mermaid diagrams/charts to the issue. As well as custom diagram plugins, excel sheets and a whole gamut of documents.


Words mean things. Please don't call it "unlimited" if you limit it.


> (After 8 months they told me to pick up all my gear, they found nothing, but thanks for traumatising my kids)


Don't forget yourself, the breadwinner of the household!


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