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GDP provides a rough measure for how fast a country could drain its debt—similar to looking at debt-to-income ratio when issuing mortgages to individuals.

Nations also have debt to income ratios. We should be comparing those instead of debt to GDP. If you've ever seen one of those UK is poor than Alabama memes, you know that GDP is a poor and tendentious measure of well-being because UK quality of life measures put it above all about the richest states in the US.

"debt" here is government debt -- federal debt to be precise.

"GDP" is just a measurement of economic activity. It is not a measurement of income. It is not government income. It is not even government cash flow.


Given that US largely taxes income and capital gains both of which are related to GDP it's a fine proxy.

It appears that git format-patch + git send-email is a mature and widely used approach. Wouldn’t it make more sense for the open source community to work on streamlining that process instead of trying to build momentum with new approaches?

For what it's worth, under the hood tangled is extremely similar to this approach.

Personally as just a random person in the community I've been building an appview for tangled that lets you interact with it as if you were just using git format-patch + git send-email + some MUA.

You can conceptually treat the tangled lexicon as a schema for encoding a git patchset based mailing list into IPLD/atproto records and vice versa. Doing this is slightly lossy but only barely. Otherwise it's pretty seamless.


I really like the idea of distributed forges, but am not familiar with viable solutions for federation. Are there good options available right now? Or at least a not-terrible option?

(Edit: Turns out there’s a very obvious and widely used option. git format-patch + git send-email is used to develop major open source software such as Linux, GCC, and Git itself.)


> Turns out there’s a very obvious and widely used option. git format-patch + git send-email

That's fine for pull requests, perhaps, depending on your preferred UX, but what about a bug tracker? CI? Release artifacts?


Another way is to host your own fork on your own server, and send an email saying "hey please pull from this URL and merge if you like the changes"


… and a Student’s quest for quality beer led to the t-test.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sealy_Gosset


Perhaps future generations will reference certain threads here on HN.

This does happen some on other websites. I've often seen people in math discuss things that Bill Thurston (a fields medalist) has posted on mathoverflow

https://mathoverflow.net/users/9062/bill-thurston

note that he has been deceased for nearly 15 years now.


Math is particularly nice in that whole papers can be discussed/compressed into a single conversation, unlike, a scientific experiment which requires many figures and controls to confirm or deny one's hypothesis. It's why teatime culture is so great in academic math departments worldwide. I'd listen in at my undergrad institution and usually a single conversation between two professors at teatime could be written up into a paper if they really wanted to. During undergrad I was mentored by one of Bill's students, and he'd often comment that Bill's glib throwaways would usually be very profound if you thought through it carefully.

We're already referencing the Dropbox antagonist whenever we can.

I know what you mean by stronger product focus, but phrasing it as “more like Jobs” makes it sound daunting.

1. Flat UI is the other side of Johnny Ive’s legacy—arguably an error as well, never corrected.

3. Agreed that Siri stagnated, was already surpassed by Alexa a decade ago, and even moreso by LLMs today. However, some advantages of Apple Silicon have panned out for AI—e.g., using unified memory to run ML models, instead of requiring dedicated VRAM for a separate GPU.


Siri was the first of its kind on Day 1. Alexa wasn’t announced for another three years.

The oldest bonsai in this collection is over a 100 years old. Imagine training a bonsai continually for so long, the steady care and attention required across multiple generations…

Not that different to our two year old tortoise, who still has another 100+ years to go.

Jonathan is quite a lot older than your lower bound: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_(tortoise) and still going!

Rumours of his death are greatly exaggerated.


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