Jefferson and America's Lost Idea: Natural Aristocracy(blog.joelonsdale.com)

31 points by the_bookmaker 3 years ago | 22 comments

Open source is neither a community nor a democracy(world.hey.com)

59 points by levlaz 2 years ago | 37 comments

People are realizing that the Arsenal of Democracy is gone(noahpinion.blog)

14 points by passwordoops 2 years ago | 3 comments

NY Governor vetoes ban on noncompete clauses, waters down LLC transparency bill(gothamist.com)

323 points by dataflow 2 years ago | 211 comments

Gothamist news article reporting that New York Governor Kathy Hochul vetoed a ban on noncompete clauses and weakened an LLC transparency bill.

Brian Eno's Theory of Democracy(programmablemutter.com)

147 points by akkartik 1 year ago | 125 comments

AML works, even if it intercepts less than 1% of criminal proceeds(jpkoning.blogspot.com)

26 points by mrcgnc 3 years ago | 32 comments

We have used too many levels of abstractions(unixsheikh.com)

674 points by riidom 3 years ago | 427 comments

An opinion essay on unixsheikh.com arguing that the software industry relies on too many layers of abstraction, leaving few people who understand how the underlying technology works.

If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued(betterthanrandom.substack.com)

748 points by weltview 1 year ago | 334 comments

A Better than Random Substack essay arguing that being useful at work is different from being valued, and that the distinction can be subtle.

Ideas aren't getting harder to find (2022)(experimental-history.com)

127 points by rafaelc 17 days ago | 56 comments

Adam Mastroianni's Experimental History essay arguing against the claim that new ideas are getting harder to find, saying discovery is still possible.

Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution(effectiviology.com)

1513 points by walterbell 2 years ago | 1032 comments

Effectiviology article explaining the Shirky Principle, the idea that institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.

Private equity is devouring the U.S. economy(theatlantic.com)

359 points by fortran77 3 years ago | 401 comments

An Atlantic Ideas essay by Rogé Karma arguing private equity now controls about one-fifth of the U.S. market, largely invisible to investors, media, and regulators.

LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first(blog.katanaquant.com)

411 points by dnw 7 months ago | 368 comments

Substack essay from Vagabond Research arguing that LLMs produce plausible rather than correct code, using a simple database primary key lookup test as an example.