There might be as many people from Pakistan, East Africa, or China who have to migrate because of global warming this winter too. Not sure whether they’ll go to Europe, but millions isn’t an exaggeration in those cases.
China is too big of a territory; if the Chinese needed to migrate because of global warming, they'd likely move within their own land. Probably the same case with Pakistan.
Pakistan is already exploding at the seams due to population growth. It's not just a matter of moving, the country doesn't have enough resources to feed and clothe its population. The growth rate isn't abating and global warming is eating into water resources and desertifying land / reducing the arable area.
> it's not going to be a nice place to work for, so those people that are financially well off
I beg to differ. People who are crucial to operation will be much better off. Less meetings, less bloat, less bs, probably better salary.
I do consulting. Recession is good for business, companies lay off team of 10 developers and replace it with single remote consultant for 40% of cost. Also less taxes, since I work in different country.... You do the math.
Why would you expect their salary to increase. And I think the whole "work the whole weekend to get the new Twitter Blue done" thing shows what kind of workplace this is likely going to be in the future.
- Elon said there are 10 managers for one engineer. We can argue about numbers, but I am pretty sure there are no 10 engineers for 1 manager
- Web UI is crap, it is slow to load etc... If twitter would accept pull requests, I would fix it myself. I am pretty sure tech people are frustrated by situation.
- I do not see any research from Twitter into federated networks, cryptography... I did interviews with twitter in 2012, this stuff was all cut latter... I think Musk may sponsor this type of research just to push his Dogecoin BS.
- Read how "hostile takeover" looks like. It is mess, also it is very very sensitive week. "work the whole weekend" is irrelevant. Things will look very different in two weeks!
- Key people will be able to renegotiate their contracts, with much much better salary. You probably need 100 people to run twitter. See Whatsapp...
It depends entirely on the projected trajectory of the company. If the company is laying off people and is trending towards bankruptcy, the smartest rats will be the first to jump off the sinking ship.
I'm not sure Twitter is in this particular boat yet, but if I was working at Twitter right now, I would definitely be brushing up on my plan B pronto.
Project cleanup after sweatshops. Team quits on spot, leaves mess, no documentation. I put project back on track, documents things, help to hire new developers...
Business people in Twitter did not generated any profits (sales, positive PR...). I totally understand Elons position.
Wow, lots of anti-water people coming out in the comments. Bizarre.
Our family goes through a 5 gallon jug in less than a week. I have a few jugs, which I'll refill a few times, and then the local grocery store or Walmart has a thing where you can drop off old jugs to replace with new ones, sterilized and pre-filled with fresh water. (Clearly this is a thing many other people are doing since the infrastructure exists, even though it's never advertised and I never see other people doing it.)
There is literally no health risk involved here. Yes, I go to refill or replace jugs every two weeks or so. Not a big deal. Easier than buying soda or smaller bottles of water, IMO.
Edit: We used to use Britas but that was honestly more hassle than just dealing with the jugs.
It is pungent, and the natural flavor is unappetizing. Through a filter, either a Brita or a Glacier/Primo machine, it's fine.
It is remarkable to me, an actual person who lives an actual life in America, that anyone might question the desire to have 1) fresh water or 2) decent-tasting water. Internet trolls are questioning the base essence of humanity, and it's honestly troubling.
Chlorine in tap water will kill your gut microflora with long term use. Some more sensitive bacteria (reuteri) are most important for immune system! At least leave tap water stand still for couple of hours, so the chlorine gets out!
>Chlorine in tap water will kill your gut microflora with long term use. Some more sensitive bacteria (reuteri) are most important for immune system!
That doesn't appear to be the case[0], but I'm no expert on these things.
What I do know is that water chlorination can provide safe drinking water for millions who don't (or didn't, until their water was chlorinated) have safe drinking water.
>At least leave tap water stand still for couple of hours, so the chlorine gets out!
That was my first thought and it's a good one, if such things concern you.
For leaving water out to sit, I've heard from fish owners that you have to be careful that it is a chlorine system and not chloramine which doesn't so simply evaporate out:
I grew up basically expecting clean drinkable water every single time I turned the tap.
It's pretty sad to see that isn't the case anymore, assuming it ever was in the first place. Nobody in a nation with as much wealth as we have in the US should have to plan a glass of water hours in advance to make sure they aren't being harmed or have to buy and maintain expensive filters for their home.
For development I would just recommend github issues with comments. Way more user friendly. Also separate identities, perhaps even different server. No need to get main account compromised, or to get banned from Github for spicy comments.
It is centralised and only for US. I am not going to participate on any platform that is not decentralised, federated and zero trust.
In past I put a lot of effort into various forums. Well sourced information, several thousands hours of work. But very ofter it was all wasted, wiped and deleted.
Now I only write books. There are well established censorship laws. And work I put into writing book will be preserved!
Every 12-24 months there’s a five mile long line for the soapbox so all the computer nerds can get up and tell us that they’re putting a line in the sand and that federation is the only answer. Now, just as always, the world will continue spinning without them and this sort of idealism that seems completely blind to reality that for all the Smart People that have put their mind to federated / decentralised social networks, none of them are any good. Now, as always, all that make this claim will inevitably succumb to the reality that their vanity is worth more than their ideals, and will make their way back to Twitter.
Don’t get me wrong. I hate and despise both Twitter and Musk. But to act like Mastadon or any of the other attempts at this stuff appeal to people that aren’t tech / privacy wonks is tone deaf. And as much as Twitter is a ‘platform for elites to disseminate their thoughts that’s pretending to be a social network’, “publishing books” is certainly amother step in that direction.
Search doesn't really work on Mastodon and it's full of boring content. It only works if you can get all your friends to use the same server. That's impossible these days. Nobody is going to install and figure out an another app just to be on your personal mastodon instance.
There's nothing quite like walking into a bookshop, library
or someones house and seeing a copy of your book.
You can see from the well thumbed edges that it's been read. It's been
around for 10 years and it will be around for another 30 or 40 (modern
bindings notwithstanding) - and some copies will probably outlive you.
The same cannot be said for the "Internet" - although I think what
Brewster Kahle has done with The Internet Archive is amazing - much of
which remains ephemeral.
Once books were the preserve of "elites". Now I think the tables are
turned. Some marginal voices get traction only through traditional
publication forms because they live in repressive technological
regimes or outside the walled gardens of the so-called "town square".
It is not the egalitarian utopia once promised.
Here's an excerpt from Digital Vegan
"With opportunities to fix our digital world from /within/ the
system vanishing, book publishing remains a bastion of open
intelligence. What you hold in your hands (or have as a non-DRM
file) may soon be one of the few remaining means to circulate
critical opinions that would quickly be censored online."
Some third party forum/social media site failing to host your writing for eternity is not even slightly the same thing as censorship.
If you've written a bunch of stuff that you think is valuable and you want to make sure it's available forever then you should make a blog and host it yourself. (Which you have sort of done by writing a book, but you didn't need to go that far if all you cared about was longevity)
Actually the internet is decentralised. It's just that a lot of people either don't know or simply aren't willing to trade convenience for ideological purity.
Anybody can run a web server at home, get a domain name, write a Twitter clone, host it and publish whatever content they like. And when you exceed your traffic limits you can take that web server, drive to your local co-located provider and in almost all cases they will let you grow that site almost ad infinitum provided the content isn't illegal.
You don't need to ask permission. You don't need to compromise your ideology. You can just do it.
But people don't want freedom or decentralisation. What they want is the ability to say anything they like and for everyone to hear it.
So the "actshually" meme comes true. Instead of reddit-style legalisms, just try to be more human and understand their perspective for a change.
People do have the desire and right to ask for mainstream platforms to be decentralized. Is it feasible today? Technically: yes, realistically: no.
Why?
Because even MORE people are needed to effectively demand the right for mainstream platforms to be decentralized. You know that. Now be nice to them, please.
It does not sounds like ad, but like Fortran. Last Ada job I remember was mars rover in 90ties. Great but nothing for new hires!