finding projects for freelancers is hard. if only because many freelancers struggle at the networking side of it. anything helps. also most freelancers are not interested in long term commitments. this service therefore solves the problem for a subset of freelancers for both sides. i am in the market for exactly what it offers: part time long term engagements.
Who builds five lanes of high-speed traffic where people live and would want to cross the street? The problem is the design that puts danger where people want to be.
The street was almost certainly there a long time before it was turned, to the detriment of other aspects, into the current lane high speed boulevard it currently is.
To the article's point, why did we put five lanes of traffic in a place a seven year old could reasonably want to cross? It didn't have to be that way.
Outright impossible. You see, the US is far more spread out than Europe. You need only look at a map to notice the insurmountable geographic barriers that prevent a Subway from being built closer to an apartment building. It simply can't be done.
Wait, sorry, that's trains. You're talking about sandwiches. Let me check my notes...
But the street could have been designed in a way that was safe for a seven year old to cross. Instead of was designed with little to no thought of how anyone could be safe in that space outside of a car. It's demonstrably possible to facilitate both motor and foot traffic in a sane and safe way, but its not just slapping down five lanes and calling it a day.
Sure there could be. There could be other streets. Thinner, more accessible streets. This may surprise you, but there are other places in the world (crazy, I know), and they have streets that aren't super dangerous.
Great article. I really appreciate the list of properties and the "check the man pages, good luck" advice. systemd is really a great piece of software I would enjoy deploying on my hosts!
Idk, for packaging software and hardening existing services it is good.
systemd basically just gives you a unified interface to the different knobs of the kernel, that would otherwise have to be adjusted via scripting. That does seem to fit within the service startup/manager goal.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the comments, but I find the comments here to be fairly disconnected from the rah rah VC world. Plenty of criticism about those systems around here, and perhaps more pointed and accurate than other places.
The domain name here isn't really driving the comments or content that I can tell.
When I was about 20 I started listening to Sean Hannity, and while I no longer agree with anything he says, I do appreciate the glimpse I got into his way of thinking. I mention this because...
I can't tell you how many times I've heard the idea that success in free market capitalism comes from offering goods and services to customers with the right balance between quality and price, and that good quality and price is assured because of competition in the market.
But now I see that the true path to success is to first gain favor from those who already have wealth and power, and then use their wealth and power to reduce or eliminate competition.
If you can see why the former narrative is inherently appealing to the rich, you should also be able to see why
> But now I see that the true path to success is to first gain favor from those who already have wealth and power, and then use their wealth and power to reduce or eliminate competition.
is attractive to the disaffected (as Nietzsche wrote on). narratives that say the whole thing is rigged are going to be appealing because they offer a non-intrinsic explanation for underperformance.
I see what you mean, but I believe that's more so directed towards the massive scale businesses. Companies that get measured in billions and not millions.
At a smaller scale (the majority of business, but maybe not the majority of revenue), that existing wealth and power is often much smaller and eliminating competition is much less feasible.
Like a local coffee shop, for example. Or a small industry specific software company.
Maybe they matter less in the grand scheme, but they're still a big part of things.
But I do agree with the idea that VC subsidized services to then grip the market and wring them later seem counter productive to a "free market".
I can think of a lot of people who have got on by gaining favour of those who have wealth and power, the Altmans, Musks etc have done some of that. I'm not sure about the wealth and power to eliminate competition though. Tesla, OpenAI etc have competition but mostly out execute it. Or did in the Tesla case.
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