Yeah I don’t wanna exclude other places for having shit universities for whatever reason - I just wanna comment on why it sucks in “the west” (by which I largely mean USA, Canada, western Europe).

The argument was “it happened before so it’s fine” which is an absurd argument, and I’m just pointing out the absurdity.

“You don’t get a choice so it’s fine” is also an absurd argument. If someone kidnapped me, bound me up, and expressed their intention to cut off my hand, then I would worry about it even if I had no choice. If you’re telling me you wouldn’t be worrying in that situation, you’re a liar or incredibly abnormal. Lack of choice plays nearly no part in the degree of worry.

What can help alleviate worry is knowledge, but here is a topic that is impossible to learn about.

I experienced getting kicked in the nuts as a kid, that did not make me less afraid of getting kicked in the nuts

I kinda agree, but mostly because western universities are being run like businesses first and educational institutions a distant second or third, and this is the inevitable outcome. Idk if other cultures have the same problem with their universities.

It’s more lucrative to sell degrees as status symbols and career checkboxes, than to sell education. This changes both their target market demographics, and their funding priorities.

Deleted my original reply because I was just splitting hairs. I mostly agree with you, I just don’t like the framing

They always present them as mutually exclusive, instead of related or reinforcing.

Yeah that is a large part, but I don’t wanna minimize the other parts, because they all mean you need a significantly larger vehicle rather than “just” a counterweight.

Yes, but thats a small area compared to the entire station.

“openclaw” 👀👀👀

The reason people use SaaS is because they have someone to sue when something goes wrong and you lose days of revenue.

The laws of physics

Because it’s expensive.

You have to build equipment to withstand constant load, which is much heavier, which means more launches and launches are more expensive.

Suddenly there is a greatly reduced working and living area. You go from being able to work in any surface to only surfaces near the “floor”. So you need to build more areas, and the architecture becomes more complex, both requiring many more launches.

A lot of the things you want to do in space, like science experiments, have to do with micro gravity, so introducing artificial gravity would make space stations kind of pointless.

To make the structure big enough to spin comfortably would require a very large structure, which means a lot of material, and a lot of launches. And more places for things to go wrong, so a lot more engineering and safety assurance is required.

The call of someone who cries when people actually do get offended.

I have free speech to hurt you, but you don’t have free speech to hurt me

Kinda shit

For some reason I imagined him with like… A Bosnian or Hungarian accent or something

Agriculture went from employing the majority of the populace to 2%. We found jobs for everyone.

Sure, over the course of like 200 years. Can you not see how that is fundamentally different?

There are many professions that have immense latent demand that people simply cannot afford

“Afford” is doing a lot of work in your sentence. How do you think people are going to be able to afford more? Workers aren’t going to be making more money, and the workers who enter these professions are going to be making a lot less money.

Labor force participation is a better metric here

No, it really isn’t.
Labour force participation rate is “how many working age people want a job” even if they’re unemployed.
Unemployment rate tells you “how much of the labour force can get a job” which is what we actually care about. Can you get a job if you want one. More people need jobs (as you have shown) but fewer percentage of those people are able to get jobs (as I’ve shown).\

The automation that AI is promising (but not necessarily delivering) is fundamentally different than the automation that came before.

Remember; the luddites were right but their industry was small enough that the displaced labour could be absorbed by other industries.

Not only is AI affecting almost every artistic and white-collar industry, but the cap-ex barrier to entry is way lower than for any other automation effort in the past. No need to buy expensive machines, or create whole new production lines just to test it out. Computers used to take up an entire room to do the work of a handful of people. If you can increase productivity but there is no associated increase in demand, then what you get is layoffs.

The amount of workers that this has the potential to displace far outstrips the industry/economy/society’s ability to replace with “new careers” (that we’ve yet to see materialize). And I challenge your assertion that automation has resulted in increased demand for human labour, do we significantly less unemployment on average? Over the last 70 years (in the USA for ex) unemployment has been trending up.

What we have seen is a total gutting of employee bargaining power.

Huh, I haven’t heard of that. I know they did other stuff but I didn’t know that sloppy top was one of them. What about cunnilingus?

Who was the first man who was like “I wanna put my dick in the place for tearing meat”???

How do you set up private resources to reverse proxy like public resources? I don’t want to have to change URL when I turn on my pangolin client

I may end up doing extra reverse proxies just because complicated configuration is better than complicated use. It kinda feels like there should be a way to do it right in pangolin, it seems like it’s right there lol.

Pangolin is built on traefik, and does all the reverse proxying I need (X sub-domain goes to Y port on Z home server).

I don’t really like the idea of n metroyska reverse proxis, both because conceptually it bothers me, but also because my needs seem simple and doesn’t seem like it deserves the extra complexity. The public resource reverse proxy works for everything I have.

I’m looking for a way to configure pangolin, which already routes property, to skip auth when the auth can be provided by the pangolin client.