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@AcEz_ET @spectatorindex Guess who is getting most of that oil, hint, not the us

@spectatorindex They are not doing a peace deal without recognition that the straight of hormuz is under their control. With 20% of global oil supply having to go through that straight, it’s legit one of the most important areas in the world. They found out that they could leverage it

Iranian media says no decision has been taken on whether the country will engage in another round of talks with the United States.

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We keep calling out other consumer electronics companies, but nobody ever engages. What are the social media teams for? Why doesn’t the CEO have access to the Twitter account?

@javirevillas @deno_land @richardartoul I think it's fair, and it solves the self hosted need which is really good

@deno_land @richardartoul so the answer is no

want a zero-config data store that supports ACID transactions and multiple-consistency levels *without* being tied down to Deno Deploy? 🤔 Deno KV is now open source and self-hostable 👇 github.com/denoland/denokv

@reduzio Deno and Godot? Yes please 🤩 @deno_land

@MatBreton @deno_land For the second concern I'd question how much do we actually need relational databases, for me in many cases they've caused more problems than they've solved, specially when you want to scale without a lot of cost or try some different ways of doing things like offline first apps

@deno_land Why a key/value database as a service was a game changer for Deno? My concerns: 1/ Most of the time, apps need relational database not KV db 2/ KV db as a service are already available (redis as a service for instance)

The biggest updates to Deno KV, the easiest way to add a globally replicated serverless database 👀

@MatBreton @deno_land My opinion is that deno is doing it in a way that feels way simpler and more standard and open, that's why I love it, I rather not have to have all of these non standard different servers that all require attention like redis etc and have this problems solved out of the box

@tojulius @omooretweets @partiful Yes this is true, could repeated interaction be the metric to watch? Before on forums people got rewarded by interacting with the same people again and again, same in games, but on social media you get rewarded by reaching new people, can't make a friend in just one interaction

One could argue that finding friends is the very objective of social networks at large. There is probably not enough utility or transactional effect in just finding friends. For IRL, having researched this for years, Meetup has been the best example. Very utility based. In events, matchmaking apps still fail unless there is a reason to meet, an outlier is Braindates that again aligns users based on topics. The lack of context of the apps you mentioned is the culprit imho.

There are 5+ dating apps that each make more than $100M in annual revenue. And yet, there hasn't been a single friend-finding app to reach massive scale 🤔 Why products with a stated goal of "making friends" will (probably!) never work ⬇️

@omooretweets @partiful True, but also no one goes up to someone irl and asks to be your friend either, that's why people make long term friends online through gaming or other activities, discord, etc, used to be online forums before they died, I'd say social media didn't replace that, it's bad for that

Another potential success path here (and where I think startups can play): Platforms that give people an "excuse" to gather, either IRL or digitally. This could be a sports game, fan community, or a party (ex. @partiful 👀) If you're working on something here, reach out! 👋

@gmseabra @svpino There's a possible different take on this, the argument that keeping lots of underpaid staff was necessary to make it viable could go away, businesses may be entering a time where doing things right isn't unviable anymore, this may add many more jobs that ai can't do without agi

@svpino This goes deeper. Many locations are understaffed because they don't want to pay reasonable wages. The competition for workers was the chance they had to bargain for higher wages. Now, if AI takes over, they lose all negotiating power, which is likely to raise unemployment.

3.3 million Americans are fast food or counter workers. And now AI is challenging many of those jobs. “In three years, I don’t think there’s going to be any human taking an order in any drive-through in the U.S.” That's a direct quote from the CEO of Presto, the company building the chatbot that's taking orders in around 350 restaurants in the U.S. And the system is good! @JoannaStern with the WSJ did roughly 30 passes through different drive-throughs, and a human only had to step in 3 times to help. The good news: It doesn't look like the system has replaced anybody yet. Instead, it's making up for the lack of people at many understaffed locations. But how long until we stop hiring because the bot can do it better, faster, and cheaper? What do you think?

@rophilogene I agree, I think many see open source as just letting you read the code because it has benefits to do so, but many are now taking it one step further and saying but ONLY when it's in our self-interest, this lands as selfish because others also benefiting is seen as win-win for us

Unpopular opinion: most of open source products leverage open source as a distribution channel and not by conviction - then once largely adopted they changed licensing to vendor lock their users. MongoDB, Elasticsearch, and now most of Hashicorp products. Who’s next?

@ryanflorence I think there's a problem with using the traditional git repo for component libraries, unless your project is simple enough many times you end up making your life harder by using a component library, maybe sharing code and patches by using something like @pijul_org could work?

I love react, but the fact we haven’t collectively landed on one or two component libs after a decade is surprising. Is it our fault? react’s fault? The web platform’s fault?

@ryanflorence What if I don't even want to have the user data, in the future a web standard could allow the user to pick where to store data for some applications?

Remix and now RSC face the criticism: > I don’t want to deploy a JS server Your other option is building a data replication and cache expiration system in your client app with libs that don’t quite realize that’s what they are. I think option 1 is much easier.

@HansGunner2 @AlanLevinovitz But how could someone describe what happened as mutually satisfying relationships?, and if someone even attempted that we could point to coercion and human rights to make it be dysfunctional right?

@ZopBop @AlanLevinovitz All I’m saying is that functionality in a society might not be the best metric for appraising the health of the soul. (The classic example is of course Nazism, which was comprised of highly “functional” individuals).

Deciding what criteria should be used to identify “mental illnesses” and distinguish them from “normal variation” is straight philosophy of medicine.

@HansGunner2 @AlanLevinovitz Okay sure, but for the purpose of diagnosing someone and possibly have a treatment, that would be the context

@ZopBop @AlanLevinovitz As Nietzsche points out on several occasions, “use” can mean many different things for different groups.

@HansGunner2 @AlanLevinovitz But if a person is a high functioning sociopath, has no functional problems at any level, keeps mutually satisfying relationships, and understands others' perspectives, does it matter how they experience feelings and empathy? What's the use of labeling them as mentally ill?

@ZopBop @AlanLevinovitz Sociopathy often flourishes in well-functioning individuals

@AlanLevinovitz Okay but i don't see the problem of lumping them together if we use this kinds of definitions, such as is done in the icd-11

@ZopBop Oh I’m not objecting to the task, just want to clear up what kind of task it is.

@elonmusk Do bots and ai content matter as much on social media if we let the user tell the ai what the feed should be by talking to it?, And maybe we could just limit the comments and likes a user can give, it's not like people are having quality conversations in the comments rn