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The coming war on general computation (2011)

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18 points homarp | 1 comments | 01 Sep 25 08:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.212s | source
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MangoToupe ◴[01 Sep 25 09:39 UTC] No.45091105[source]▶
Living in america, working in tech, with zero desire to make more money than I need to live off of, feels like spending my life in a slow-motion train wreck. Often times it feels very hard to feel any hope for this country, and possibly humanity if nobody can stop us.
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1. add-sub-mul-div ◴[01 Sep 25 12:17 UTC] No.45092131[source]▶
I made my bag and got out in 2023. I feel so lucky that I'm the exact age that I am, to have worked in the ~25 best years of this field. It was fun and there was the assumption that technology would empower people, before that evolved into just a hope that technology would empower people. And now it's inescapable to see that technology empowers business at the expense of people. I don't know how I would enjoy it or even do it anymore.