AI generated content will change that.

Maybe, but unlike websites it’s easy to see the “reputation” of a given YouTuber by looking at past videos and the comments at least.

For now, until content farms of chatgpt-style comments and upvotes network together.

Depends.

Sdf shelters and win turbines?

Sure.

Facilities emitting unhealthy fumes or dumping pollution in the water?

That would set a dangerous precedent where society would validate the behavior as long as there is money in the mix.

It already does mind you. But at least is considered wrong at the moment.

What would have happened to the asbestos scandal is instead of cleaning the stuff, we just paid compensations? Carnage.

I would argue for mixed use of hazardous industries and residential/commercial properties. There is a long history of forcing the pollution generate through your daily life onto lower income communities. If you take a poop, the sewage treatment plant should be in your neighborhood. Drink water, the water treatment plant should be in your neighborhood, use electricity, electricity generation in your neighborhood.

In other words, don't force your crap on to somebody else.

You are quite right. It wouldn't even though it should. The refusal of the rich to clean up their own shit is behind environmental injustices.

Cue the famous HN post saying dropbox could be replaced by ftp.

People don't seek maximum diversity. People seek the exact diversity of a small sample of the world they tolerate.

The people that say they do are just unaware of all the diversity they reject.

You mean you don't follow random topics you don't understand or like? :)

Good luck using a venv, loading your libs, upgrading the extensions when needed, etc.

Cant you just use it to call a webhook?

You need an extension, and making the HTTP call reliable with retry and jitter is going to be hard in pl.

Yeah but it can't __easily__ manipulate the file system, talk to the cache store, run bash commands, make an HTTP requests and so on.

Cron job are not just about db updates, and once you have one cron job in Python, having them scattered among several language is not ideal.

Yes, but there are advantages to doing some things inside your DBMS. Things have tradeoffs as always.

And you are so right you decided to use a throwaway account to make this point.

And costly in dev and support.

Not to mention the market for this target is shrinking so much compared to mobile it's easy to understand how the choice is made.

I'm pretty sure people said things like that when talking about sending people to the moon.

And people probably said things like that to Columbus about sending boats across the ocean.

Humanity has to do grand projects like this that seem ridiculous, because once in a while, it changes everything.

And even if it doesn't, the cheer amount of ingenuity it requires brings benefit on their own.

> I'm pretty sure people said things like that when talking about sending people to the moon.

Yep. And those reasons are why people touched it a few times and never came back.

> And people probably said things like that to Columbus about sending boats across the ocean.

Hum... Nope. People were already sending boats across that specific ocean for centuries.

I'm also pretty sure some people said things like "We will soon have colonies on the moon" shortly after Neil Armstrong stepped off that Lunar Lander ladder.

Fun fact: No human has set foot on the Moon since 1972: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_17

Also: When Columbus set sail, he could reasonably assume that he would see his home again. Big boats and long sea voyages were not a new technology in his time. When NASA started the Apollo Missions, they had them planned out from start to finish and knew exactly how that would work.

So yes, once in a while, humanity does something amazing, that seems a bit far fetched, but still reasonable. What humanity usually doesn't do, is something that it has absolutely no plan on how to do it.

Yes, but then you can push this logic to everything. Should firefighters intervene? This person dead is cheaper than alive.

Public services cannot think about making a profit, otherwise it gets dark pretty quickly.