They’re hired through outsourcing firms. The company pays the outsourcing firm as a subcontractor. It’s quite common, even amongst the Silicon Valley startups I work with.

My experience is that outsourcing has only accelerated since Covid made remote work commonplace. It never used to be a thing amongst trendy startups.

Yes it’s broken. The solution is and has always been a comprehensive single-payer system combined with price controls.

Roosevelt tried to do it almost a century ago in 1935, but the moron greedy traitor racist fascist conservatives blocked it.

Not understanding that businesses don't want open data or open protocols. Internet businesses want to monopolize information and charge rent for it. Capitalists don't want to commodify software, as that means lower profits and competition. They want to monopolize it. That's the whole game, except for companies selling physical goods over the Internet.

So, is the idea that MCP might benefit from more built-in support for things like paid APIs to incentivize businesses?

I think so. Though the premise of MCP betrays that AI isn't human-level intelligent. If it was there would be no need for a standard interface. It would be able to read API docs, navigate UIs to generate the proper keys, enter in billing info, and use all of that to make API requests by trial and error. That's what humans do.

i dont want to have to find it all those docs though.

its much faster if i hand it a packet

software capitalists don’t want to commodify software. But their complements do: I could totally see Apple pushing for something like this to make the iPhone more valuable and integrated.

Cool. Though I see a job with Ghost listed under co-ops but the Ghost Foundation is not employee owned or a cooperative.

> When a collection of such propositions is stored in a computer system, we call it a database.

Is it? A database is a place data is stored and retrieved. It is literally a data base. No more, no less. Whether it logically models a domain may be completely irrelevant to store and retrieve data.

I would argue that a database should not logically model a domain. Why? Because every database must store and retrieve data. Therefore data should be modeled to store and retrieve data as efficiently as possible. And the structure that most efficiently stores and retrieves data most likely does not logically model a domain.

As it is now, wood pulp and waste products are recycled into plywood and wood composites by binding them with glues and resins. This process allows us to take the wood pulp and produce wood beams and boards without using the glues and resins. With the added benefit that it's even stronger than existing wood composites.

If I understand correctly this process enables recycling wood pulp and waste with less inputs and less environment impact.

Trees are still farmed for the wood. This is only a method for processing the wood into a stronger material.

2-3 a week? I’m jealous. I’m just a programmer (or “IC senior software engineer” in corpo-speak) and I have 2-3 per day. Most days I only have about 3-4 hours after lunch to get any work done.

I mean with no meetings, I have 4 hours after lunch to do work. I work 8-5 and generally take 12-1 for lunch. 4 hours before and 4 hours after.

Government? Republicans. Republicans are the ones fighting against government funded research. Let’s put blame where blame belongs.

What's the advantage to a trike? Heavier load? Two wheels is less parts, less maintenance, and most importantly better maneuverability.

When you stop it doesn't fall over. Big plus.

Especially when you have so much cargo that it's impractical to hold the bike upright manually.