@p5v

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Jack of all trades, master of none. A software engineer, turning entrepreneur.

"Keynes once proposed that we could jump-start an economy by paying half the unemployed people to dig holes and the other half to fill them in.

"No one’s really tried that experiment, but we did just spend 150 years subsidizing our ancestors to dig hydrocarbons out of the ground. Now we’ll spend 200-300 years subsidizing our descendants to put them back in there."

https://locusmag.com/2020/07/cory-doctorow-full-employment/

Very good article!

Cory Doctorow: Full Employment

I am an AI skeptic. I am baffled by anyone who isn’t. I don’t see any path from continuous improvements to the (admittedly impressive) ”machine learning” field that leads to…

Locus Online
Write like no one's reading it
Train to nowhere. #random #photography
Got my wisdom tooth removed last Tuesday. It’s been a couple of tough weeks afterwards. What was supposed to be routine intervention, turned into a horror of complications. Thankfully, I’m getting better.

this is cool! Try it :)

https://ncase.me/trust/

The Evolution of Trust

an interactive guide to the game theory of why & how we trust each other

This week, I tried programming in #Golang on an #iPad, so you don’t have to. A more thorough blog post will follow.

Overview of the Fediverse May 2020 — StrangeStack

https://blog.strangestack.com/overview-of-the-fediverse-may-2020

Overview of the Fediverse May 2020

The growing problem I first joined the Fediverse in 2016 back when it was mostly just GNU Social instances. I was frustrated with twitte...

It’s good to be back! What did I miss?