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You do not need optimism to do good. It helps motivate, but its not required.

To me it feels like an awkward API that creates opportunities to work the limitations of a normal API... which to me is not a great thing. Potentially useful, sure, but not great.


Blitzscaled? Yep.


Ranked Choice Voting goes a long way to solving this as well.


Does it? Could you explain which mechanism you suggest using? Because the main results from social choice theory about ranked choice voting that come to mind seem to be all about impossibility of fair elections (eg Arrow) or even paradoxical situations such as cyclic preferences (eg Condorcet).


These kinds of perfectionism complaints keep the status quo of FPTP, which is the worst of them all.


Since none of the proposed replacements can be perfect according to the theory, let’s just stick with the worst one.

Big fat /s


Really? This is... dumb.


Welcome to the reality of anything that Elon Musk has extensive control over.

SpaceX is useful because upper management actively subvert him. Tesla had a functional process before he decided to smear his face all over the public image of it. Twitter was one example of interesting architecture before he gutted it (and caused a LOT of problems; I'm informed about 80% of the infra he took out has been put back in).

He's the very real example of an accidental success without any understanding of why he succeeded.


I meant the article was dumb. The clickbait title on HN doesn't match the meat of the article.


I'd forgotten all about this library, its certainly come a long way!


or raise taxes.


They are raising taxes.

Income tax on everyone earning g less than 360K is going up, plus tariffs which are regressive.

They're also cutting taxes for those earning more than that, the top 5%

https://itep.org/a-distributional-analysis-of-donald-trumps-...


Which would probably raise less than a modest wealth tax on billionaires, but we know that will never get traction (even though its an extremely popular policy)


This planet money article lays out the arguments for both with lots of interesting links to follow. https://www.npr.org/sections/planet-money/2025/02/18/g-s1-49...


Well said.


The ones I use today:

- Facebook

- Instagram (finally opened in the last two years)

- Youtube

- Linkedin

Perhaps I'm not getting your point, but... most of the major social platforms in the US are still open, except for Twitter.


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