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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • The wealth doesn’t disappear, it just ends up concentrated.

    Goods and services will just be something most people will no longer be able to afford, and they go into poverty. Business will reconfigure to support the lifestyles of the very rich at prices only they can afford, because that’s where the money has gone.

    Things will get so expensive, people will have to sell their assets (i.e. house) to be able to resist poverty. People without assets won’t even get that parachute.

    If we don’t reverse this concentration of wealth, 99% of people will be living in slums before long.

    The fact AI is going to hoover up everyone’s job over the next couple of decades, is really just a continuation of a trend we’ve been seeing since the 80s: the rich are taking all the wealth and leaving none for us









  • Yeah this is my life, I’m 38-40 waist depending if I’ve been looking after myself.

    Basically that size doesn’t exist on the high street, and it’s never in stock online. I literally have to buy summer clothes in winter and vice versa because that’s the only time I stand a chance of getting it in my size. I’ve wanted to buy a new pair of shorts from Levi’s all summer and despite checking every week, I’ve not seen any in stock once.

    And that’s all before it arrives and then all the shit you mentioned can happen.






  • Honestly this is the reason TDD is most important for personal projects.

    If it’s your job, the code isn’t getting merged without decent tests. Yes you should probably write them first so you think about your implementation properly, but let’s face it, many tests are written after in practice.

    If it’s something written in your free time, you’re just not writing those tests most of the time if you didn’t write them up front.