The Value Is Coming From Inside the House feat. Trevor Strunk
Added 2021-12-13 19:58:23 +0000 UTCIt's the free one!
This week, we speak with writer and friend of the show Trevor Strunk (@hegelbon) about recent developments in the smartest sector of our very real economy: the gaming/crypto convergence, in which powerful thinkers from Andreesen Horowitz have decided that the best way to develop jobs is to pay people in the developing world a pittance to do XP grinding on behalf of gamers in the developed world. Sounds great to us! We also address the British politics moment surrounding the 2020 Christmas party and why it's superseded coverage of the UK government's new bill that lets them strip citizenship of anyone they choose. Hope you enjoy!
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Comments
They do seem to be huge fans of international waters. Can't imagine why.
Dry Boss
2021-12-20 03:11:54 +0000 UTCUnfortunately, I'll have to disappoint. American Libertarians love sea-based scams and I find it genuinely baffling. It always ends with a city planning-based disaster or a weird authoritarian murder/sex trafficking/ money laundering/tax dodging boat.
Man, I Got Nothing
2021-12-17 16:45:52 +0000 UTCJavaScript is the only viable flavour of LISP
etienne
2021-12-17 06:01:54 +0000 UTCI know - I just like to make fun of it because it is such an ungainly language with bizarre quirks caused by its development process. I'm not sure it is necessarily easier to learn the entire stack of things you need to run a modern js environment (whichever transpiler/es6 converter you use, npm, web-frameworks, etc) than any other setup, but getting started in the language is comparatively easier.
Violet
2021-12-17 05:27:01 +0000 UTCbut jokes aside JavaScript/HTML/CSS/DOM is the easiest to use paradigm of graphical user interface to program on, ever, and it has drawbacks, but it's imcomparably easier to get started with than Win32 or X or Curses or iOS or Android or Unity or Python/TK. It sucks but it's also an acchievement whose quality overwhelmingly justifies its popularity, and there is nothing on the table that competes
etienne
2021-12-17 05:13:45 +0000 UTCWhat, you haven't learned to visualize pages in your mind-palace, yet? Get with the times!
Violet
2021-12-17 04:35:04 +0000 UTCI, too, exclusively navigate the interblags by furiously typing curl commands by hand and eyeballing json stdout!
etienne
2021-12-17 04:23:53 +0000 UTC> "JavaScript becomes useful" Doubt
Violet
2021-12-17 04:20:04 +0000 UTCI'll bite. Why? Will be a bit sad if this wasn't a set up for a pun or a joke you had in mind.
DukeNukem64x
2021-12-17 00:51:55 +0000 UTCfull pointdexter mode but it really annoys me that the crypto bros are calling their stuff "Web 3.0" because the delineation of generations of webs goes as follow: - Web 1.0: Tim Berners Lee invents a way to transmit flat files across the "Inter net" and to include hyperlinks in the text. The only way to write or modify a web page is ssh in and edit the file with like ed or vim - Web 2.0: Perl, MySQL, Apache, SSL get adopted and that means that anyone can now log into a "web forum" and make "posts" or even put in a credit card and buy shit - Web 3.0: XMLHttpRequest is invented, JavaScript becomes useful, web pages start to become real front-end applications, web forums get eclipsed by "social media"
etienne
2021-12-16 15:54:04 +0000 UTCWhy do Libertarians long for the sea?
Man, I Got Nothing
2021-12-15 22:41:46 +0000 UTC
