i got a terry pratchett book from blossoms. i wanted to pick 5, but decided on 1.

the world was okay when i was reading it

now it sits on my shelf, like an empty cookie jar 

 imagine you could put two discs into the DVD player together, and the characters reacted to each other and made a new movie 

( seen on the interwebs)

Dick Tracy investigates a Christmas robbery while Godzilla runs through the city on the way to meet its cousin ....

on the  preponderance of evil, 

fundamentals 

- semi-closed groups

- internal hierarchies

- pirate loot division formula 

- us-vs them

- the idle and evil have more time to politick, than the producers

McLuhan has his typographic wave and video wave - hot and cold mediums  -and the world becoming a global village

Toffler has the agricultural and industrial means of production and the worlds they create

Some say McLuhan was talking of technology, not media, and that the medium is the message refers to the wave on which content /information rides

* if you note, we have moved from media carrying the truth, and then media carrying information, to now media carrying content, as we move from empires with god at their head, to industrial sprawls, to the happy shiny prosumer world

** if you note, the business world continues to carry prices then, and now, and doesn't have different names for it 

books 

on my shelf

ever unread

who will hear 

a dead man's song

 Be courageous

Be brave

Be you

Wait .... how many people do you want me to be ?

watching the phenomenal : Japan's Most Mysterious Buildings 

 western philosophy is rooted in reason and rationality

which starts with analysis

which has its beginning in abstraction

and therefore, at some point, western philosophy stops dealing with reality

in the abstract, a human has two eyes

eastern philosophy, however, has no things

 quotes on art

The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words.

*** Ursula K Le Guinn

The artists of our culture, 'the antennae of the race,' had tuned in to the new ground and begun exploring discontinuity and simultaneity.

The audience, as ground, shapes and controls the work of art. 

The business of art is no longer the communication of thoughts or feelings which are to be conceptually ordered, but a direct participation in an experience.  

***  Marshall McLuhan

The most important thing in art is the frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively - because, without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins.

 You have to put a "box" around it because otherwise, what is that shit on the wall?

***  Frank Zappa

you're searching for darkness with a flashlight in your hand 

you're looking for that which was seen in the corner of the eye 

you turn to look, and it is still the same 

but the eye 

is a different one

 Text beats video. For inception, that is .Video is pre-manifested, in the idylls of the time,  or else can't be consumed,  but text is clean, and cold.

I was searching through the anime titles on netflix for something to see. I usually avoid netflix originals, because they have the 'sizzle of the steak none of the nutrition', more so for prime originals - case in point - the panda series on prime i watched a bit and dropped them but the ones on netflix were actually very good, even though they were built on the tropes of the first move (panda likes to eat, is clumsy, doesn't speak like a trained dedicated follower of the 'way' etc) .  I couldn't find a single anime that wasn't a mix of magic and tech, like it's almost always a demon or vampire or ghost working in a futuristic cybernetic city against robot cops or something.  As I wondered why the visuals were almost always variations on a theme, the answer came to me - video content has to CONFORM to the mores of the era, text not so much - since text is a cold medium (thank you McLuhan) , the reader brings into it their own imagined universe, and hence rarely sees a political-correctness violating offensive ... thing.. unless specifically written in. The reader remains a reader, and doesn't become a censor easily.

Therefore, the medium for imagination and inception and, when need be, spreading revolutionary ideas, is text.

I will read the Gutenberg Galaxy one day.

ps : I eat my words. Reacher is commendably watchable.

 The cult of those people who raise their right hand up straight towards heaven, at eleven o 'clock, daily , every day.

The human brain, hereafter the rabbit, fears tigers and likes carrots. It fears more than it likes.

The rabbit also suspects that rustling bushes contain tigers, more than they contain not-tigers.

Therefore, we can use rustling bushes to generate psycho force, also known in different circles as motivation or incentive. Carrots create psycho force too, but less than a tiger of equal size, assuming spherical tigers and carrots on a friction-less surface

Sometimes, rabbits are motivated buyers of carrots because they are afraid of starvation.

And rabbits can easily be made to see tigers in other rabbits.

Rabbits can be convinced to raise their hands at eleven, and feel comfort and kinship with those wjo do the same, and see the tiger in those who don't. 

It starts with something the rabbit likes, like a carrot. All you said was "who wants a carrot?!" at eleven, and hands went up ;and over time this became a practice, and then the hands went up even if the carrot wasn't there,  and one day the carrot ascended into heaven (a rabbit ,wise with beard, said) and a religion was born.

You see, it was nice getting into the ring for the carrot, a daily carrot was nice, but now that getting out comes into the picture, what if there are tigers outside ?

At first the ring was carrot dilettantes like you, made of wisps of idle interest. After a while, it has hardened into a shelle a dome a wall of psycjo force you cannot break past. A religion is born.

And with religion comes belief, and with belief, heretics. 

The presence of Others creates psycho forces that repels rabbits away from them and towards each other. The concentration of psycho forces  proves fortuitous and lends to harnessing, after all, the  path laid with belief to begin with, can be widened further with more of the same !

And thus we see , the chorus of shadows , vessels afloat in an imagined sea of tigers, each safe as long as they hold on to each other, safe from others ,who are safe as long as they hold on to their each others..

 conversation with a cousin 

Mp: 

Most humans are evangelists when it comes to things they like - and it is true for books too.
It goes up several notches for things they believe in, rather than like.

Me:

because other people believing the same thing adds to the proof ?

proof for the belief, for which there isn't any, that is... else it would be fact

( what proof can there be for something that needs belief ? obviously less than enough ! - 

I believe X because everybody else believes in X. however everyone is saying the same thing. massive circle jerk)

Mp:
Kind of. I think there is a subconscious need for validation

Me:

We are influenced by others,  and authority, among 6 things as per the Cialdini book

Evangelism works by 'liking' first , then 'consensus', and if enough people get on board, it becomes 'authority'

(in the middle, after 'liking', comes repetition, that leads to 'consistency', 'commitment'

it can also start with 'reciprocity', which leads to 'liking' ;;

once you reach consistency and commitment levels, your freedom starts being forfeit)

 

Space pulleys

 the problem with the space elevator is that it is mind-bogglingly large, and needs power. cheapskate that i am, expending power is against my religion, rather, i am religiously against it.

why not, hear me out, why not, instead of making material go up a space elevator into the atmosphere where escape velocity is zero ? here's how i would do it - 

a spaceship would cruise until it was just outside the pull of the Earth's gravity. from there it would shoot a heavy object with a steel (or nano-fiber) cable tied to it. this object would fall into the earth's gravity field and therefore start getting heavier and hence continue to fall.

the spaceship would use its thrusters to keep it falling slow enough to reach the earth without burning up. then, it would thread the other end of the steel cable (or nano-fiber) through a wheel, and tie a heavy weight at this end. this heavy weight should ideally be the cargo they want to ship - like space-strength containers full of unobtanium mined from a nearby meteorite cluster for eg ...

(or we can use 2 spaceships to send down one heavy container each, and then connect their end over a pulley wheel)

now, earthlings can fill up a space-strength container with supplies, food and clothes and medicines and krishna books, intended for the pilots, belters, miners ;  fuel for the spaceship, parts for repairs etc 

they send it up, by asking the spaceship to send down the cargo.. the spaceship controls the pulley wheels, and boom, low-cost space trade channel open !!!

!! shivers running down my spine !!

the spaceship has to be super large, with mechanical parts, and in the future, will act as space gateways

the future's real bright now

 We be but beings of shadows 

Of thoughts and actions made 

Imprints on material

Imprints on imprints

We call this me and us 

And we call the light divine

Coz of our derivative reactive nature

But these shadows have remained

For centuries and claim to grow

Self and society

Evangelists and cults

Skins of rationale

Sometimes spun fine like gossamer

But diamond hard when clothing greed

What truth may a shadow speak

Its every word is but also none 

in the land of godelium

on a mountain high

sits a forge so deep and vast

where gods forge their

weapons, in the fight against

reason

 

 

Was watching The International yesterday. Very polished movie, sparse urban landscape, each shot follows the 30/100 framing, beautiful work with the negative-space/background-showcasing-the-foreground. Clive Owen forms the grungy chaotic element inside a deeply orderly city scene, in every scene.

One scene caught my attention -

            * * *

Umberto Calvini : The IBBC is a bank. Their objective isn't to control the conflict ......  it's to control the debt that the conflict produces. 

You see, the real value of a conflict, the true value, is in the debt that it creates. You control the debt, you control everything. 

You find this upsetting, yes?  ..... but this is the very essence of the banking industry, to make us all, whether we be nations or individuals, slaves to debt.

            * * *

When I first saw this movie, I saw only the action. Now when I see it, I only see the setting and the context. Of course, after reading Graeber, the quote is nothing new, but I couldn't comprehend it then.

is it confusing, that our middlemen are sitting at what we call the centre, and our owners are walking among us, pretending to be one of us ?

 entering the era of trade-offs

at this stage of life

we're full

nothing more can come in

until something goes out

even buying space

to put more things in

needs going out 

and doing something more

than you would 

20 to do

 twenty things to do with to do lists

1. birthday reminder list

2. gift received list (gifto)

3. service providers ,caterers, and costs list (functiona-be)

4. per user exchange items list ( buildEx)

5. to do list, 

6. inbox, but renamed as memos

7. shopping list

8. chore list 

9. laundry list

10. location based action list (gps)

11. friend list, with location, 

12. we-met list | places-i've-been, expenses shared, photos shared 

13. guest list (functiona-fe)

14. books read list, books to read list

15. todo list vs what-i-did list

16. lists overlaid in the corners of the house (AR, image overlay )

17. daily,weekly,monthly workout/diet goals + tracking list ( 15 for health)

18. audio recordings to remind yourself, or to play in the house

19. workflow list - contains code, data ,instructions

 I go to work

To get work done

To be free

To do what

I've forgotten

That's a different life

I keep forgetting 

The chore is the

Way

 I ran fast

and left myself 

behind ;

when I stopped

I caught up

 Watching japanese medieval samurai series', one notices how much worth was placed on a life (not much, here today, gone chop chop (gerrit ?))

One thing the western world brought in was the sanctity of life. Since all have a soul, it would be wrong to kill without restraint (ironically,  the brother of jesus precipitated one of the bloodiest battles in china, well documented by flashman)

Japan was a closed country at one time, standing heavily on the backs of the farmers, who "grew rice but ate millets" ... the rice fed the armed mob who called themselves samurai and would lop off heads at will;the rice fed the craftsmen who made pottery and smiths who made swords.  And (as per gaijin book) all lives were equally insignificant.

(The non-conformist genes got lopped off a long time ago, leaving a country that worked themselves into a an imperialist expansion, a world war,  an economic powerhouse replete with runaway inflation, the impossibility of a working man buying an apartment, karoshi, hikikomori, and a 1.34 birth rate country)

With a soul in the picture, and the agency of depositing it in the right hands, lopping of heads (or own guts) became more complicated.

And that ensured that large scale conflict, like the world wars ,wouldn't happen.the end. Wait ...

With increasing population comes surplus of minds,arms,and legs. And a flourishing of sorts.

With concentration comes surplus and then sophisticatiion, specialization, and more segmentation ... 

One dimensional man emerged, and , and took turns with the integrators, to rule.

The flaw in this ointment is the dependence on belief. Man's enemy had always been man. Man can exploit man like no other. And exploiting the believers is the chief pastime of the 21st century

The shrine is the place where the elements are in harmony. or in abeyance.and don't kill each other. From the vantage point outside, emerges an understanding of the blind spots of each, and a recipes and practices for succour.

And yet, as the tale has to inevitably wind on, religion becomes weaponised. Easy to lop off heads of the soulless, easy to behead one notnof the true faith, easier to rob the infidel, the barbarian, and not call it thievery.

 

 in planets with a methane atmosphere, people wouldn't need to refill their cigarette lighters once the lighter fluid got over ...

When under stress...

 Remember to 

the work-day is the worst constructed artifact in my life

 work has to be done on the weekends

decided not to buy the om-swami-gayathri book for now, on principle

that i don't have a practice going into which i can plug it into.

this mode of thinking has helped me stave off distractions and piling-up-books

on my table. i still have the GEB, the LISP, the Model Thinker, and the Yoga and Kriya  books gathering dust.On my table. Not counting the others ,such as the McLuhan, the Clausewitz etc sitting in shelves .

verbal communication is horrible. meetings are just so many folks groping around the topic. is it a better option to build an object model and/or a rule set to communicate ? all discussion would be in terms of the rules and entities. once done, the 'words' are code itself !

react contains a model of the dom tree within its memory. how meta

ran into Ritchie Blackmore's Ariel again. It's an amazing! song. I love Blackmore's Sword-and-sorceror genre , gives me deep slow chills.

one more tantra video from beerBiceps.loving it. 

sunset before 6pm, makes waiting at the school a pleasant experience. the place empties around 5, but the pesky parents walking furiously in the ground also disappear at 6-ish. something about sitting in the dark near lots of plants and an almost-deserted building, relaxes me deeply.

 Alone in the car

Waiting

Watching the monty python spanish inquisition clip

Realizing i have nobody to share this with

hackathon was fun,

kathy sierra _did_ mention code-jams as a way to grow, 

'code jam' being a coding event where you ship something that works end-to-end, at the end of the session

the hackathon was fun because i finished stuff, end-to-end, that was useful to someone else

naturally, i mentally added all charts to the list, including the old maps-choropleth-mapbox-galcon, etc

naturally, it became a big vague ball of gas that i couldn't parse and dropped 

it's tempting to re-do email, todos, etc in a simple way (flask and jinja and bootstrap only )

and locstack is tempting too, however i don't look forward to the rubber-road moment -

maybe it's best to get it out of the way

the distance between setting up rules and facts in a lisp shell, and running them , and doing the same thing in java, is so huge that it's hard to comprehend that they're the same thing

the thumbrule is - NEVER come to java unless you know what needs to be done , in the real life sense, and have probably written it down; java-itis is real, and there's no cure that doesn't cost the rest of your life

I'm going to keep this blog open for the whole day

update : never came back to this.  hackathon took it out of me. ended up resorting to much junk

 your hold on the universe, when others are present, is a handful of named things

 your hold on the universe, when others are not present, is infinite

why would  music with their message of angst and hate exist ?

hiphop label owners also own prisons

recording industries now don't want to give artists

the right to own re-recordings of their own songs

they don't want anyone to pull a taylor swift again

send music industry executives, guns, and money !!!

so many rock musicians died suspiciously 

leaving behind the rights to their music

worth millions in record-exec hands

it's not even suspicious any more

Kobacoff comes out again

or rather, is on the cards, because all other forms of learning statistics are not pure enough, and r is the master language. Python has problems ( see wes sction below) and lisp-stat is too solitary.

after the lisp books came out, we moved an inch. We read some, bumped into iit lectures, watched a bit of them, read some paip off github (it's all online now,  oh! why did I carry a pdf all my LIFE  ) , saw the code for a gps, felt it was too easily understandable hence concluded i must be some kind of genius,  relaxed, opened the old ex.hard disk, copied the lisp books out, tried to copy norvigs ai lectures out but failed,  wrote remarkably close to zero lines of code ( samuel jackson narrator voice : it was zero) .. and saved a thousand bookmarks across two laptops and two browsers. Drowning in information.

Shibin,otoh, is registering his company. Shibin is my spirit animal .

Oh, we installed CLIPS ( worked ! ), installed PyKE  (example didnt work), and asked chatGPT to teach us clips, which it did phenomealy well, in one short message. We also learnt that rules are stored in a trie-like data structure, to make searching and collapsing easier.

at some point in the MIDDLE of this, the Wes McKinney book came out, as usual, overfocus on the first step, installed conda, messed up the rest of my pip installs, now aws client stopped working threatening work, and that put an end to that

if only i could've convinced myself that all packages that were missing I COULD've installed by stringing their names after _pip_ _install_ <insert package name here> 

you'd think that after 22 years of shovelling in the industry, i'd have that much trust in my own abilities ...

but no

so Kobacoff might not come out again if wes can be pipp'd

what is this disease, to go sideways at the first hint of progress ?  it's the bane of my life

drools was in the mark watson  java book - which was the only meaningful thing i did during my 'gitanjali break'... mark watson ai java is ,but norvig aima , but in code... 

so, there's some pickin's there ?

where do all these pickins' add up to ?

a game engine ? and will i make the platform for the same ?

why not read a game engine book and be more confused ?

walking back home

from the bus stop

departure commission

shiny parcelled package

hair in a braid

parent brigade 

job well done

walking up the steps 

past the desk

interstitial space

token plants

bystander i am

Brainwashing is not a magical process, its just simple things, but just across the 'natural is normal' line, like making you feel guilty for nails and hair.

Those who succumb, will now be moved on to larger and larger aspects of their self,   until eventually, life itself is forfeit, redeemable only by the approval of the brainwashers

 We've always worked 

towards something not seen yet

We've always worked on faith

And had things told to us 

By someone trusted

..hesitated to dive and spend 

years on the iffy the vague

What would we then do

If heaven weren't there

 ****

SIY is as secular-buddhist as it can get. It is buddhism, without Buddhism. Buddhism, of course, is hinduism, without hinduism.

****

 The closest analogy I can come to an indian 'god' is a running program. Not the source code not the computers not the administrators not the programmers not the operators.

Hence the   weightless sentient indestructible ..

it doesn't have to be exclusively a software program, too   - even a 'system' comprising of humans, written rules, unwritten laws, opaque (to you) incentives, and invisible environments can achieve the same result

hence, the closest analogy to worship, is the meta towards the 'god'

this allows for the mind to be soft not hard, and open to reality

notes : Wait, or is this the soul?

Also, you can destroy the running program by simply killing all the developers administrators operators, and deleting all stored copies of the source and the documentation, and burning all paper copies of the same.

So we need a program generating programs which create real world things

An autofac

Does a strange attractor count ? Maybe not, coz it is a descriptive ,after the event thing

We need nature of code, l systems etc

Wait, arent these descriptive too?

 a newbie strategy would be to run a blog on a somewhat serious (showy) site, like medium, then create in-depth content documenting a project that you are doing, writing in an informal, casual tone, and segue into theory posts, plagiarising content avariciously from other blogs, text books, guides, videos, etc   adapting the text to your style while keeping the content steadily progressing towards the end goal

tone change

pick a project, set a goal and a deadline 

keep writing code

log your work on the blog along with your feelings and findings

when you are stuck, take a break, read other blogs, ingest, and expew the contents in your blog

keep going until you can't recognise yourself in the first few posts any more

ditto for the code

-

the github can be an interview ace card

the running code can be a product

the blog can be your entry into the text book market

ps: nothing original about this, this is what my eyes have been seeing all these (20+) years but not my brain

 what can be achieved by evil and malice

can be done a hundred-fold with apathy and ignorance

"To oppose something is to maintain it… To be sure, if you turn your back on [something] and walk away from it, you are still on the [same] road. To oppose vulgarity is inevitably to be vulgar. You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road."

― Ursula K. LeGuin

so, don't oppose or join, but go somewhere else

a net is made of holes strung together

its power comes from the 'hole'ness of the holes

a net without holes cannot catch much

a net which is just one hole, cannot catch anything

 all skills are nothing more than the intensity of one's grip on reality  

 there are no gods or devils,

only mine and yours -

and today and tomorrow;

the manifest and the potential !

the is, and the can-be ..

and all clashes

are between these beasts

 Conversations with myself !! 

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oh no it's that meng guy again

 

took me a long time to map the face on to the humor

first, it was the jokes on the oh no! site. they irrevocably started me down the path of zen and buddhism. they were a sublime mix of extreme reverence and tongue-in-cheek pragmatism.

 I downloaded web pages on the lankavatara sutra and sayings of zen master lin chi . then there was a binge on shinzen young videos and articles. much knowledge was gained.  three blog posts by defmacro.org , (not lisp )but no practice.

the clip above from the original SIY talk - the three lines of which the above is the third - nailed compassion for me. I always claimed to be more empathetic than typical, but this line provided me with a working tool whose power I have seen in use

joy on demand is a revolutionary book on technique, with the one breath approach, and one i hope to benefit from greatly. Ajahn Brahm's MB&B book is great but is full of theory, while JoD coddles you and indulges you. both are gems, no doubt about it, after one you'll need the other

the original jokes are available on the wayback machine

it's 2023 and skynet is nowhere to be seen. also we had an economic downturn but not THAT series of events that made us nuke the skies and create the matrix. However,  we have chatgpt , which is quite an unassuming name for an almost-AI (aka not AGI), spreading its roots deeply, with it's parent -the evil sith empire microsoft firing people and seeding its agents in large companies worldwide ,and having them make plans to AI-ize these companies (this would require the hosts doing much layoffs, which microsoft has set the ball rolling and is leading by example , with its own layoffs). 

send guns lawyers money  send microsoft execs

beware of greeks bearing gifts beware of microsoft execs quitting and joining your ranks 

interest seems to have moved past the fanciful fake meat, lab grown meat, eating bugs, and soylent type of ideas. the genetic testing bandwagon seems to have lost steam after E.Holmes of the manly voice had to go to jail.  the fintech startups continue working hard to re-distribute the thinnest slice of pie which was too worthless for the fin-whales to bother with. the android revolution has died, leaving in its wake the epidemic of larger and larger hand-held android phones, which are cheaper imitations of the 

apple phone's looks

nitin kamath seems to have democratised access to capital markets to millions (google shows zerodha user base at 6.x million, with groww supposed to have overtaken this number ).  

this looks like a phenomenal achievement, given that they didn't do this the usual route of burning increasingly large amounts of investor money to be recouped from the gullible public investor via an IPO. they also have onboarded a large number of middle and upper middle class folks onto the capital markets - something that should be good for the economy overall - in the sense that this puts more money in the hands of the company folk rather than the lenders - previously salarymen used to put their money in FDs and LIC or houses. So capitalists would have to access this money via lenders, whereas increasing share prices lets them raise more debt more easily assuming shares act as collateral .

groww seems to have been funded by ex flipkart  folks. similarly, there is a network of ex zoho folks in chennai behind a bunch of startups. there is an increasing ring of startups growing from the original epicenters

flipkart pretty much put bangalore on the map for the new tech ; earlier tech companies, like the networking behemoths and their stultifying slow-paced bureaucratic shuffles , or enterprise software slingers with their EJBs and web-services stacks plodding along slowly . 

with the flipkart wave,   and originally yahoo before them, software stopped being what could be sold, and became what could be done with them. Yahoo!s focus on data and information, opening up tons of datasets and their apis ( still better than google's apis today) , created a generation of 'hackers' .

The other option for graduating freedom-loving  engineers was open source - LAMP dev,  and linux. The cool folk checked-out out the linux source, built the kernel etc etc, the others built working websites with LAMP. Even today, quite a lot of existing startups->companies->products have their roots in rails or lamp. 

Rails is the AK47 of the software world. Many startups have leveraged Rails to build world changing behemoths, like Twitter and Groupon. The latter, for eg, rode the Rails lightning all the way to an early IPO.

between rails taking off and python web frameworks maturing, java and spring made an 'elephants can dance' move and became cool again. Java 8's lambdas make it almost as easy to use as other languages (r&p) and increase the cost of switching, for someone who has piled years upon years of drudgery in java, and now knows its idiotic bureaucratic over-verbose idioms .

back to the original refrain - with the flipkart wave in bangalore ,   graduating students made a beeline to bangalore, paying horrific rents and suffering depressing traffic to work in an industry cycle that graduated them to tech leads within five years instead of the usual ten-twenty. There was a surplus of engineers,a nd this led to a surplus of startups.  people started smaller startups in areas that were hitherto untouched, like many probing fingers of the rhizome - tax filing, movie ticket booking, bus booking, movie snack booking, real estate renting out, interviews for programmers...

suddenly, everyone and their aunt could create high volume low latency inventory listing order managing websites that leveraged the latest distributed data store and mesaging services from various open source projects.

as of 2015 onwards, i have been seeing this type of startup play out, with the old plays of infrastructure and body count come back into vogue. the lone guns still exist and fight their battles,  but something something covid has put an end to cheap capital and the disposable income on the part of the consumers. A contraction. there is also a disturbing move towards heavier iron, with things that one person can do in his basement rented apartment  becoming fewer and fewer. 

when i started, we had office timings , and desktops that we had to leave behind. internet access was limited to a few. we would explore our computers out of boredom.

There were multiple waves after that - we moved from Java to Java 2.0, then CORBA and netscape enterprise server gave way to iPlanet (which later become SUN_ONE), then  EJB, then web-services and SOAP came, then hadoop came and went then android came and went. machine learning (aka spark) and later kafka and flink. AI doesn't seem to have a java specific component.

and no one's making lists of indian origin american CEOs exclaiming look! , especially after the gratuitous layoffs.

from links from ranprieur

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This is not capitalism, as Yanis Varoufakis explains in his new book Technofeudalism. Capitalists sought to extract value from workers by disconnecting them from the value they created, but they still made stuff. Feudalists seek an entirely passive income by “going meta” on business itself. They are rent-seekers, whose aim is to own the very platform on which other people do the work.

some people have a high bar

 some people are at the bar , high

some people start talking to others in the middle 

of a sentence you were speaking