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Fullstack Engineer @colossyan

[den @ddanielgal]

I just published my first article on @Medium. It is about using #docker as a development environment. Feedback is welcome.🥳
https://t.co/OYU0AIw7bT

[Anish Acharya @illscience]

one of the surprising second-order effects of coding agents and 🦞 has been catalyzing open access to closed systems via CLI / API / MCP ..

everyone predicted ai would be a centralizing force yet here we are fulfilling our 2010 aspirations to make stuff “mashable”

[vitalik.eth @VitalikButerin]

I actually like private property more than I did a few years ago.

One variable that changed for me is "stable era mindset vs chaotic era mindset". When you're in a "stable era", you see how private property is suboptimal, how economics can easily churn out 10+ categories of situations where it's obvious that certain taxes, incentives to make things available at better prices, etc can produce first-order gains with only second-order deadweight losses (which means that at low levels, the gains greatly exceed the losses). "Pure" private property is only "optimal" under spherical-cow economic assumptions like perfect competition.

But in a "chaotic era", private property is more about schelling points - it's about creating a bulwark that's easy for people to understand and rally around defending, that says "your attempt to intervene in my life from the outside ends here". In the chaotic era, infringements on personal space are less likely to be well-meaning bureaucrats who overreach because they have not read enough Hayek, and more likely to be coming from a place of outright indifference or even hostility to your well-being. And looking at modern politics, yeah, there's a lot of that now.

Since a lot of "Vitalik hates private property" sentiment comes from me liking Harberger taxes, I'll address that topic directly.

My biggest update since the original 2016-19 era ideas was that, when designing details of Harberger taxes, the best motivating example to organize thought around is not "your house", rather it's "corporate intellectual property and walled gardens". If we think about the underlying complaints that people have about powerful corporations, the walled gardens and various ways in which centralized power accumulates on itself is top 5 on the list. What would it look like to build a "Harberger tax" that would tax eg. social platforms, Apple, etc more if they acted as walled gardens, and less if they enabled interoperability (and zero if they were fully open-source and interoperable and forkable)?

There is a lot of energy right now around wanting to tax very wealthy individuals and corporations more, and I wonder: what if the best way to do that is not to tax *wealth* or *unrealized gains* (which has large downsides), but instead to tax *enclosure*? This way you raise revenue in a way that actually *increases* efficiency (any losses from people working less hard are more-than-compensated by gains from people shifting their work into formats where it's easier for people to build on top of each other and markets becoming more competitive).

Any tax is an infringement on private property. But if you think about "tax on social platform that's proportional to some metric of how walled-garden-y they are", in an intuitive human sense, it really doesn't feel like "bureaucrats intervening in my life". It feels like "keeping concentrations of power from getting too out of hand". So I am in favor of doing things like that, and much less than before in favor of anything that forces people (incl entrepreneurs) to outright sell their assets, as eg. "Harberger tax on everything" does. A world where startup entrepreneurs are forced to constantly sell shares, realistically to the same few large VCs, in order to pay unrealized-gains or wealth tax bills strikes me as a world that's likely to be more soulless and homogeneous than today. But a world where the top 50% of large companies ranked by walled-garden-ness are taxed more (and the bottom 25% by that metric taxed less, perhaps some even zero), is a world that feels more dynamic and open and free.

But even the above is somewhat of a "stable era" perspective, because it tries to make a more-perfect solution from the perspective of the political layer being friendly. We live in a chaotic era, and the point of crypto should be to solve important problems from the bottom up (whether "individualistic bottom up", enabling people to resist and escape various shackles, or "collective bottom up", communities organizing around shifting entire equilibria to their benefit)

This ties into what I mean by wanting Ethereum to protect financial self-sovereignty. I do not think that Ethereum has much to offer to the trillion-dollar companies whose goal it is to offer products and services in a way that maximizes walled gardens and enclosure - in fact, much the opposite, censorship resistance can serve as the baseline for rebel communities that play the adversarial game of routing around those walled gardens. I do think Ethereum offers stronger security to people who want to maintain security of (including ability to use) their own financial resources, including surviving through great economic and political turmoil, for their personal or economic needs. And Ethereum offers a base layer for communities to organize large sudden collective shifts away from harmful equilibria into better ones; DAOs should try to solve that problem more.

[Vivian Midha Shen @vivianmshen]

request for startups: agents that migrate systems of record and promote data independence

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Stop tagging me when someone "steals" my content.

I do not care.

You should not care either. Caring deeply about every possible attribution is the mark of a loser who probably isn't building anything or living a fulfilling life.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

Here is Peter Thiel’s email to Zuck and Andreessen in Jan-2020 predicting socialism.

Tl;dr too much student debt and lack of affordable housing keeps young people with negative capital for too long. And without a stake in the capitalist system, they will turn against it.

[Ryo Lu @ryolu_]

don’t build slot machines
don’t fake humans
don’t hide the messy truths
don’t create black boxes
don’t make people feel stupid
don’t extract value or attention
don’t optimize for vanity metrics
don’t gatekeep knowledge
don’t make tools that divide
don’t sacrifice agency for convenience
don’t hold opinions

build tools that teach
build systems that reveal
build for human curiosity, not clicks
build bridges, not walls
build for the commons
build for every unique being
build to amplify thought
build for the person you once were
build for questions we haven’t yet asked
build tools that extend imagination
build with the love for humanity, for the universe we live in

[@levelsio @levelsio]

Building more houses solves the majority of society's problems today

So building more houses should be priority #1 of any government right now

[TeamSpeak @teamspeak]

> Wake up
> New UK law banning +18 content without ID verification
> Hop on your TeamSpeak Server
> Unbothered

You don't own a Discord Server.
Host a TeamSpeak Server - be in control.

[Marko Jukic @mmjukic]

If a tech CEO revealed he could manufacture self-replicating fully autonomous universally adaptable humaniform AGIs that stayed in good working condition for ~60 years for $450k each, he would be hailed as a hero and the U.S. government would order $10 trillion worth of them.

[Nick Burns @NickBurns]

A/C is obviously necessary in hot, humid American summers and seems increasingly necessary for Europeans. But it does do something sad to summer, which is make it from an open, circulating, public season to a more closed, inward, private season, a second winter

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.”

“Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.”
https://t.co/2Ahi7zBcIm

[Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt]

sometimes people say they don't have many ideas for things to vibe code. an approach i like to recommend is to "cook from the fridge".

you know how it can be overwhelming to ask "what do i feel like eating?" Sometimes it's easier to just look in the fridge and see what ingredients you already have.

similarly: instead of brainstorming "what app to make" out of nothing, it can be easier to notice ways to improve the existing data / apps you already have!

recent concrete example: while working on a long essay, i wanted to see how long the various sections were. I already had a Markdown editor and a whole essay. Just need this tiny little extra tool to serve this need. Vibe coded it in 5 minutes and it was super useful 😎

this "section word counter" isn't really an "app", it's obviously not the next hot startup... it's just a little tool that fits in nicely with an existing workflow.

anyone can invent stuff like this! it's not hard when you're cooking from the fridge, starting with the data and apps that you're already using.

[Andras Bacsai @heyandras]

Or have a 9-5 so you won't be broke and you can still make an app in your free time.

There are always other ways, not just one, and keep in mind.. if something is working for someone else, it does not mean it will work for you as well.

[sydney @demiurgently]

weird to notice that i simultaneously

- believe chatGPT is much smarter than the average person
- immediately stop reading something after realizing it’s written by chatGPT

[Daniel @growing_daniel]

We get it we just don't care

[Geoffrey Litt @geoffreylitt]

Something that often gets missed about vibe coding:

Yes it's great for making personal tools. But... our whole software world was built assuming people can't code!

Things will *really* take off once we reorient the OS around personal tools, not prefab apps...

[Jeff Geerling @geerlingguy]

So over a year on YouTube, a video that shows people how to install LibreElec on a Raspberry Pi 5 to play your own, local, legally-acquired content on a TV...

My video was removed because it contains 'dangerous or harmful content', and my appeal was just rejected.

[Rolo Tony @PoorOldRoloTony]

DVDs don’t do that. BluRays don’t do that. Pirated files don’t do that.

[Vivian @suchnerve]

even if for no other reason, you should support public transit simply because most people do NOT belong behind the wheel of a motor vehicle

[mimi @miaaaa0a]

kid named https://t.co/cM2cs910ck