Is it prophetic, or do we just have a techno-capitalist elite that looked as those books as a roadmap rather than a cautionary tale?
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This is outdated. Modern heat pumps are good down to -15 or even -20 and new models are getting more and more efficient every day.
That's not to say folks in Alberta shouldn't maintain a backup furnace of some kind, but today a heat pump should be good for heating and cooling 300+ days a year.
Also:
Supposedly it does both of these more economically than running an AC and furnace
There's nothing "supposed" about it. It's basic physics: moving heat around is far more energy efficient than heating something up directly.
ZIRP - zero interest rate policy. Very common term for anyone following macroeconomic policy since 2008.
Given the group we're in I hope I don't have to explain the rest.
Because FAANG is the entire economy? Please.
Step out of the SV bubble and you'll see the economy is fine. The fact that tech was dumb and overextended themselves during and shortly after COVID while relying on ZIRP to fund those expenditures doesn't mean everyone else did. Stir in changes to tax treatment around R&D that disproportionately impact tech and and no one should be surprised that industry might be getting hit while the rest of the economy ticks on just fine.
If you're so sure you should run off and short the S&P 500.
IMO the right compromise is to return copyright to its original 14 year term. OpenAI can freely train on anything up to 2009 which is still a gigantic amount of material while artists continue to be protected and incentivized.
Honestly, for personal use I just switched to straight Markdown that I edit with Vim (w/ Vimwiki plugin) or Markor on Android and synchronize with Syncthing. Simple, low effort, portable, does enough of what I need to get the job done.
And if I wanna publish a read-only copy online I can always use an SSG.
It has the benefit that the container can't start before the mount point is up without any additional scripts or kludges, so no race conditions or surprise behaviour. Using fstab alone can't provide that guarantee. The other option is Autofs but it's messier to configure and may not ship out of the box on modern distros.
I don't understand the confusion.
Just use ActivityPub to publish blurbs and links to content available on your Ghost blog. Ghost supports subscriptions so you can then stand up a paywall when people click through.
Nothing about ActivityPub requires you syndicate full article content to the fedi. Hell my own blog doesn't do that, if only because Mastodon is not a good place for long-form content.
This is essentially admitting that the cheap money dried up as interest rates returned to normal and now they're in trouble.
This is basically the story of the last year in tech and while the fed has indicated rates aren't going to rise further and may start to decline in 2024, we're unlikely to return to the ultra low rate environment that's existed for the past 15 years.
I fully expect we'll hear a lot more stories like this as Silicon Valley companies are forced to actually operate as profitable businesses.