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Everything is worth what it’s purchaser will, or won’t, pay for it.

Build and buy media networks and hire the best investigative journalists. Back centre-left political parties worldwide and back unions and backstop strike funds until the whole world strikes like the French. Fund electrified mass transit, renewable energy and passivehouse construction and urban controlled-environment agriculture. Fund orphanages, school food programs and poverty alleviation and social justice causes.

I’d also start an eco-religion whose funding goes to a land trust that buys important and sensitive lands to return to wilderness and 50% can be lightly used by humans as national parks and 50% is forbidden for humans at all. Church of Gaia. The church would have monks who work as rangers/land defenders to enforce the holy order.

I would live a quiet simple life in a relatively modest but comfortable passive house on a permaculture farm. My “car” would be a selection of percheron horses and a small selection of carriage/wagons.

Read the article? You crazy!

You can’t eat them all. Give them away. Socialized tamales is one big step to socialized housing and healthcare. Do it!

What developing nation are you from?

I am a silly man who needs to go on a weekend Bond Binge to refresh my memory.

Do you have something in specific you’re thinking of?

Yes the Steve Keen link I suplied for one. ~ “Don’t study economics, study system dynamics then apply yourself to your curiosities.”

Also in the other link, when MIT came up with World3 model, the scientists were excited thinking economists were going to love this new development. They were shocked to see it rejected, because it didn’t fit the dogma, and definitely didn’t help anyone get rich. That was 1972. Here we are in 2025 facing multiple existential crises and economists are still spouting limitless bullshit about endless potential of human ingenuity, and economic substitution will progress endlessly. They are allergic to limits. Only economists and mathematicians believe in infinites, and only mathematicians are right because they study in a bubble of theory unbound by reality.

A stolen joke reappropriated:

Mathematicians build castles in the sky. Economists move into them. Capitalists collect the rent.

As far as I can tell the nakedcapitalism example takes issue with the heuristic Nordhaus uses, but it’s not actually inconsistent with climate science, as opposed to just very simple.

Nordhause’s recomendations to the IPCC are catastrophically wrong.

https://theconversation.com/4-c-of-global-warming-is-optimal-even-nobel-prize-winners-are-getting-things-catastrophically-wrong-125802

4°C optimal you say? At least 40% decline in agriculture. Incomprehensible loss of biodiversity risking catastrophic collapse of keystone species, like pollinators. Deaths of billions directly due to climate extremes and more due to geopolitical conflict. The likelyhood of non-anthropogenic emissions taking off due to tipping points that mean that stopping human emissions at 4C means nothing in terms of stopping warming as natural sources of GHG will dwarf anything we ever did. The warming will continue until a new equillibrium is found. How many humans on earth, eeking out a meek existence near the arctic then? Strange use of the word “optimal”.

Calling Nordhause “very simple” is like calling a medical researcher who moved the recomended dose of daily dietary lead 4 decimal places over. Tee hee, ooops! *giggle.

His recomendations to the IPCC are ringing a death bell. It’s the kind of thinking a rich man of priviledge gives to his rich buddies as a farwell dick suck because he will be dead of natural causes before the consequences knock on his door.

He is an intellectual fraud.

What morons are buying HP printers?

James Bond: Do you expect them to change?

Dr Goldfinger: No Mr. Bond. I expect them to die!

Edit: Not Dr. No.

“News”.

Propaganda works.

Sadly, yes. It’s plagued by externalities, the replicability crisis and a narrow minded neoliberal paradigm. It suffers from it’s own dogma, austrians especially. Deregulation is a key focus of austrian economics and its penispolishers despite the overwhelming dangers it presents. Instead of obvious corrections to identify safe limits between catastrophic deregulation and strangling over regulation they just spew the dogma and ignore the tragedy. Being co-opted by the fascists isn’t helping.

I was trained as an ecologist, and when I started digging into economics from Smith, Malthus, Keynes, Ricardo and Veblen I could start to see the mindset and could appreciate the insight an early incomplete nascent understanding of the field could bring.

When I started following modern economics it felt less illuminating and more tortured. Conclusions were wrong and dangerous things were being said. Stupid things were being held as truths. The reductionist view of translating everything into dollars and GDP without measuring the impacts of events and policies on systems, the people in them and the environment. The deliberate ignorance for economics refusing to adapt to advances in other disciplines. It’s as siloed an ivory tower as it gets.

When you can say the economic consequences of climate change can be mitigated by moving everything to airconditioned indoors for 5% of GDP and get a “Nobel” Prize, well, it puts the entire field in disrepute.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/07/the-cost-of-climate-change.html

Steve Keen says it better than I ever could.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mFgXz0R5k98

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lrMWSkzrMYg

Ban their services nationwide during elections. And pretty much forever after that in the case of American tech.

Not a developer, but a PM and Dept Manager for many dev teams. Your question is wildly broad, but I’ll take a high level stab at it.

First, note that there is a lot of variety in software development. This includes industry knowledge, tech stacks, governance, roles and seniority. I.e. a jr programmer on a long established product may just bugfix, or unfuck client data, or make minor adjustment to features on a well understood codebase.

Alternatively a consultancy may be approached by a client to build something new from scratch using a yet to be determined stack. I’ll talk about this one. On a project like this the Most Sr dev usually has a title of “Architect”. They review the requirements and select the technologies that are appropriate for the job. You are often assembling multiple products to work together.

For example, if you get comissioned to build a company’s bespoke e-commerce website you have to get Inventory systems and to talk coherently with product descriptions and image systems, pricing modules, and payment processors and gateways, your in-house loyalty system for points or coupons, along with various shipping APIs from three different shippers and the postal services API for postal code geolocation and address validation. There are also a ton marketing metrics and data analytics that retailer’s want so every step of the way through the website what a customer clicks on and if they abandon the process withput making a purchase they can understand why. You could build all these systems from scratch, but why? There are a ton of pre made solutions that due to specialization, are better faster and cheaper than anything you can make. These are called system integrator jobs. Developers make all the systems talk to each other and build in any necessary business logic required.

Then a team will spend a few days configuring their environments. IDE, Repos, installing the tools amd modules required and configuring everything to work as part of a team. This includes the rules for promoting code, peer review, branch management strategies,

“Full Stack” just means you are adept at the back end - databases like Oracle and Mongo and SQL etc, the middleware business logic and anciliary modules as well as the front end making a usefull UI out of HTML and CSS.

Once the team is ready to start, work is divided based on experience , desire and skill. A backend developer might start by standing up a DB instance, then start writing migration scripts to move and transform the data from the old obsolete inventory system. This has to be done programatically because the live data you start with is constantly changing.

Another bunch of DEVs are reading shitty documentation and taking training from the various product vendors learning how the APIs work. Then they install and configure their instances of the products on the designated platforms (cloud or server). They too start looking at the data they have to start with, the product they are integrating’s API requirement and any middleware they need to write to translate data the right way. There is always business logic to be implemented here. Such as shipping only to area x&y. Customers from Z can’t purchase. If the product can do this, the dev configures it, if not they will write the code for the conditions and responses.

The front end dev’s will make a UI that is styled correctly according to the companies brand standards, with proper spacing and navigation customized to the business logic and will display all the images and customer messaging pulled from the various system as they use and misuse the system.

Now withing this big-picture overview, as a developer sets up systems, configures the goodies and writes code, there is a lot going on on their local system. They are frequently pulling code from the repo to update their local system and writing code on that. When they think they have it working after some level of manual testing, they also write unit tests and often test automation so that is something works today, but breaks next week after another dev makes a change somewhere else, you know right away because the tests. Then you fix it. Throughout development, there is a repeating cycle of dev, test, integrate, retest, publish etc… this happens first on your local machine, then on your test environment and then again on higher environments until you eventually get to production/live server. This cycle is most commonly a 2 week sprint. Long enough to make something useful, small enough to not kill the timeline if something fucks up and gets scrapped.

You are collaborating frequently with other devs, qa who report bugs, and business stakeholders who are constantly changing the requirements. Every day is problem solving, creating, testing, fixing and collaborating using all the tools of the trade.

Please note I gave a high level description of one type of development. There are many more aspects to it, including security and authentication. Maintaining an existing product is way different than building or integrating new ones.

Hope this helps.

Where can one get this Hair-O-Inn?

They do, rarely.

Bong hits are funny. It’s the sound.

Trauma and PTSD are not.

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that prioritized Chinese investment over national security.

That’s the most UK thing I’ve ever heard.

I think almost all schools of economics are polluted irreperably. Instead of a legitimate field of inquiry backed by scientific rigour, we have a billionaire dick-sucking contest; who can suck the best dick. Research, funding and public disemination is based on who can make the rich cum fastest and hardest. It’s not science, it’s porn.

Whatever narrative serves the few at the expense of anything and everything get the funding and media amplification. We are facing multiple existential crises simultaneously because economics has failed us completely and fought scientific consensus at every turn. It refused to accept obvious, hard fought and subtle truths instead of incorporating and adapting truths in exchange for the penis polishing of the rich. Austrian, doubly so.

So what is my assessment of Austrian economics? Answer: ** gestures broadly out the window. We have a few thousand extremely happy prosperous people on a dying planet. You tell me how well you think it’s doing.