I think the real point that no public figure is willing to say, is that if this virus did leak out of a CCP lab after being modified the entire world will to some degree or another demand consequences for the CCP.
While doubtful the consequences would lead to nuclear war that’s not outside the scope of possible outcomes. What’s more likely is the vast consumer public rejecting the relationship with the CCP, leading to a quicker downward spiral of relations leading to risky military situations and a lot of rich people with a stake in China trade becoming slightly less rich.
I don’t think anyone is suggesting you learn about virology and fly to wuhan and start looking around. Maintaining multiple explanations as possibilities until one is proven, while resisting political tribalism shrouding your view of the truth, is I suppose hard for many people to pull off. But that is what we’re suggesting you try to do, maybe next time we have a global pandemic…
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That is like saying "even though I see other drivers speeding all the time, it's only me ever who gets pulled over for a ticket." Someone else breaking the rules doesn't make it ok for you to.
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In beginning and middle of pandemic energy is better spent on solving the crisis first. Truth is for mortals like a set of possibilities. Here media presented both possibilities and reported usual facts and opinions.
As we all know, media often gets thing wrong, as nobody are arbiters of Truth. So one reads it like that.
When president turned traitor, that was more damaging than this virus itself.
its a good point but more interesting to consider the history of money as a private enterprise, aka fractional reserve banking and independence of the fed, -> private financiers of governments going back through the ages. Modern gov fiat has been the best form of money yet but is still backed by private 'lending' . Whats SUPER interesting is how the proof of work -> proof of stake models continue to provide a monetary system in which the money holders control the system, it seems for now an unavoidable component -> good incentives for value allocators
By the way if you're interested in experimenting more broadly outside of a stripe integration I wrote the quickstarts for Optimizely Full Stack which use a discount example, feel free to ask me questions about how it works :) (we have a free plan too) https://docs.developers.optimizely.com/full-stack/docs/javas...
That's a really neat quickstart! We actually allow to go outside of the Stripe integration and have an API to ping purchases here (https://doc.corrily.com/openapi/reference/operation/setSucce...)... But I wonder how to make it more user friendly. We did get a js SDK, but it wasn't very neat. Do you have any thought on what UX would make the most sense?
Thanks. I remember there used to be links on search results straight to the cached version but they seem to have hidden those now or made it harder to get to.
Devrel here, (by the way it’s typically called a Developer Advocate or a Developer Evangelist, don’t get me started on how many questions I’ve gotten about the relation to religion lol)
I think the article does a good job describing what devrel looks like at companies that are smart about selling to the new “tech business world” which is desperate for a way to measure the technical credibility of potential vendors.
But what’s more interesting from someone who knows devrel because I’ve worked in it for 7 years, is that at a more general level it’s just a communication layer that a business can have with an audience or a persona(in this case developers), that is growing ever more important. Whether you’re a platform (google Apple) and need more devs making stuff within your ecosystem, or you’re not selling to developers but you need technical integrations by third parties to enhance The value prop of your product, or you’re ACTUALLY selling directly to developers and trying to expand their mental model of what is possible with the low code tooling available today and why they can and should trust it.
It’s a wide and interesting world in which almost every company is becoming a software company, and almost none of these companies have any idea how to communicate with developers or what they care about.
You’re right that devrel is like a pre-sales role somewhat, but we all know developers are the hardest group to sell to in history, who else could more easily go find a free open source solution or just make it themselves?? You have to be able to communicate about the pros and cons of technology in an honest and coherent way, and that is what Devrel is all about to me.
>You’re right that devrel is like a pre-sales role somewhat
In my experience, at least in the open source world, developer relations folks are pretty different from pre-sales and are usually not in the sales organization. Even if they don't carry a quota, pre-sales tends to be pretty focused on supporting specific customer sales opportunities. Not saying a developer relations person would never do that, but they tend to work much earlier in the pipeline. (Obviously at small companies, roles can blur more. And at pretty much all companies, lots of people get brought in to support sales in various ways.)
> it’s typically called a Developer Advocate or a Developer Evangelist
And a lot of the dev advocates I see on social media (most seem to have a strong presence there) also have an image of an avocado, since apparently a lot of people confuse "developer advocate" with "developer avocado". Just noting that in case you notice a number of people with avocados in their about text and wonder what that's about.
A humorous analogy based on something funny that a co-worker did seems like a joke to me. I'm not claiming I invented it, just saying that it doesn't stem from confusion.
Today being logged out might equate to choosing the “default” view of the world (as far as the internet is concerned) while the AI creates a view for every “logged in” person that distorts the world to fit their biases almost completely
While doubtful the consequences would lead to nuclear war that’s not outside the scope of possible outcomes. What’s more likely is the vast consumer public rejecting the relationship with the CCP, leading to a quicker downward spiral of relations leading to risky military situations and a lot of rich people with a stake in China trade becoming slightly less rich.