JA WestenbergI’m going to start replying to everything like I’m on Hacker News. Unhappy with Congress? Why don’t you just start a new country and write a constitution and secede? It’s not that hard once you know how. Actually, I wrote a microstate in a weekend using Rust.
Brandon@Daojoan rewrite society in Rust.
Matt
Ricky Mondello@Daojoan I want you to know that this made me laugh out loud.
@rmondello THANK YOU
Michal Vyskočil
TheFwGuy 🇪🇺🇮🇹🇺🇸🖖@vyskocilm @Daojoan ASN.1 is the only way to write a constitution !!!
altruios phasma@Daojoan leftists forming our own state…
On board for that. Carve out a little of California in the middle there…
:David Campey
Cykonot@Daojoan diy gone awry
Patrick Morris Miller@Daojoan Hacker News News was the best site on the Internet and I'm sad it's gone inactive.
Adrian W
erik@Daojoan I don't know how these people do it. I'm up to my neck in laundry and pickleball tournaments on the weekends.
Khleedril
James Britt
crispy branzino ☭ (sold out forever)@Daojoan I overthrew my regional tax authority using ansible driven microservices in server less lambda
Phil M@Daojoan hahaha
👽🐦🦇🐉💻@Daojoan my state...
ummm.... I think they're all dead.
ummm.... I think they're all dead.
@Daojoan just give me a second, i have to deal with some stuff then i'll post it.
kolya@Daojoan a big psychological problem these days is that the real world isn't as instantaneous and malleable as the digital. a lot of weird expectations and frustrations are coming from that direction
jbz@Daojoan they tried in Honduras but it failed in the most hilarious way.
They're finding out that being so disconnected from reality isn't a superpower after all.
Billionaires Are Suing the Honduran Government for Blocking Their Profit-Making Scheme
US billionaires are trying to establish a libertarian city-state in Honduras to evade democratic constraints. As progressive president Xiomara Castro resists their efforts, the Peter Thiel–backed firm Próspera is suing the country for constraining its profits.
easthoodie@Daojoan I am going to code my own shelter
zvavybir 
@Daojoan Law is Rust code, apparently…
Possumantha@Daojoan FORK the GOVERNMENT!
pedestrian cyclist@Daojoan Terrible compile time. Should have used C!
Besides, your microstate is elitist. The Rust compiler doesn't generate code for the exotic CPU from 1987 I've got in my basement.
Besides, your microstate is elitist. The Rust compiler doesn't generate code for the exotic CPU from 1987 I've got in my basement.
Eric G.@Daojoan Add continuous integration and your microstate will be enormous in no time!
Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe@Daojoan careful you are giving certain Texans ideas
Stumpy The Mutt@Daojoan Rust? You kids and your fancy languages. Why back in my day we would have used FORTH and we would have liked it!😄
John Mark 
☑️@Daojoan I laughed.
And then I cried...
blausand 🐟My constitution doesn't compile ffs
Error: Right Dependencies missing, Left compilation.
Error: Right Dependencies missing, Left compilation.
Gary Houston@Daojoan you are just bitter because you can't afford to buy a majority of Congress, or even control of some other cheaper country.
Lesley Carhart 
@Daojoan Man, why can't I pin somebody else's toot?
lj·rk@Daojoan Rust? Isn't that too woke? Better use something like D!
az@Daojoan type huffing anarchists trying to start a stateless society in the alley behind your house
Timo Zimmermann@Daojoan “I’ve built 10 countries the last 5 month. You clearly have no idea what you are talking about if you believe you need food supplies for people living there”
Tab@Daojoan law file using version control
So you can ’git blame‘
Eleanor Saitta@Daojoan
Writing the code is the easy part.
Deploying it is notably harder.
Ops, IR, and patching harder still.
Writing the code is the easy part.
Deploying it is notably harder.
Ops, IR, and patching harder still.
John Mark Ockerbloom@Daojoan "Look, if you can't vote by creating a cryptographically signed issue from your securely authenticated account in the election Git repo, I'm not sure you should be voting at all."
AdeptVeritatisYou probably just wanted to rant about these idiots on HN. But while thinking about the topic, the underlying problem appeared to be pretty multi layered.
Yes, these kind of comments show up often, when we talk about IT. But they don't come from the people actually doing stuff. They come from people, saying they are doing stuff.
1/7
"It’s not that hard once you know how." - I never knew before, how to solve my problems. In every single software project, I had to learn almost everything completely new. May be different for other people. But if you don't just (re)create things, which already exist, you can not look at prior art.
"Actually, I wrote a microstate in a weekend using Rust." - A weekend? How can you build something complex in a weekend? Never!
2/x
But I sometimes catch myself saying "I needed six weeks", too. Not including the three months necessary of preparation to even be able to start programming.
And other people reply to me, they wouldn't get it in half a year. (AITA?)
What was my point?
Forget about those people, just claiming stuff! And turn to the other layers!
3/x
The space in the natural world is already completely occupied. To claim a territory, you need power to defend against the outside. Russia for example has not enough power to control all of Ukraine.
The digital space is limited, too. But it is easy to find enough space for your ideas.
To fulfill your desires, you need power, too. This power is directed inwards. You have to invest energy and attention to learn and create. That is not directed outwards.
4/7
People don't want or are not able to acquire the strength for the power. Some prefer pushing the people responsible with moral pressure. They use power directed outwards.
Then they receive defensive actions, because the devs react with power directed outwards themselves.
Nothing changes, only resources get wasted.
Remember, devs are the ones actually doing stuff.
And then other people join in the discussion and derail it. That is, what you seemed to be mad about.
5/x
But there is another level to it.
"Actually, I wrote a microstate in a weekend using Rust."
That is not an activity, based on outwards power. To collect ideas, how a society can sustain, you have to look inwards.
The whole idea of outwards power is meaningless to stabilize a society from inside.
If your society needs an outside enemy to sustain, it will end in war one day.
6/7
We really have to "write" a new state. The old one is broken. Fundamentally broken.
And my guess is, it won't need more than a weekend, if the people participating in it, prepared for a couple of months talking to each other and their grandma.
7/7
Matthew 
@Daojoan The way you can also apply that to people on the Fediverse.. I still get anxious if one of those people would replied something like that to me 😭
AlejandraDD@Daojoan Reminds me of that time I tried to switch to Ubuntu 15 years ago and some of my programs wouldn’t run on it. Very helpful, guys. I ended up going back to Windows.
Alexandre Franke
TofuTheSquirrel@Daojoan maintaining state is a lot of work. Why don't go for a stateless solution ?
Óscar Morales Vivó@Daojoan Rust? Bah! I only use peaceful assembly like the founders wanted.