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Sure progress comes from scientists , not from idiots building b2b saas apps.

by wittycardio 4y ago

TurboHaskal 4y ago
But what about the yet another distributed key store we built?
- yetanotherforg 4y ago
  I feel like you're making fun of Riak :)
robertlagrant 4y ago
> Sure progress comes from scientists , not from idiots building b2b saas apps. Progress comes from all sorts of places. Scientific progress come from scientists. That doesn't result in things better in my life without a huge number of other people doing things well and efficiently. Both of which includes anything people will pay for, including b2b saas apps. Try having a pandemic lockdown without Amazon-level fulfillment in place. Thankfully we didn't have to.
- wittycardio 4y ago
  No not all work is equal. Progress is a rare thing. Do not equate all forms of work to progress. People will pay good money for women to fart on their faces. That's not valuable work. Neither is building shitty apps.
  - yetanotherforg 4y ago
    > Do not equate all forms of work to progress. People will pay good money for women to fart on their faces. Depends entirely upon the quality of the fart.
  - robertlagrant 4y ago
    I'm not equating all forms of work to progress. That'd be a category error. It's the inverse: you saying only progress comes from scientists is a category error.
  - nickpp 4y ago
    Scientist's work is not necessarily valuable either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize Who would you like to appoint as an arbiter for what "valuable work is"? If certain people enjoy and pay women to fart in their faces - would you like to ban that? How about other "useless" activities that humans enjoy like video games or massages or fashion or fancy restaurants - would you like to ban those as well?
    - wittycardio 4y ago
      Who's saying anything needs to be banned. We're talking about who can reasonably claim to be contributing to the progress of society. Go ahead and smell the farts my friend

Sure progress comes from scientists , not from idiots building b2b saas apps.

TurboHaskal 4y ago

But what about the yet another distributed key store we built?

yetanotherforg 4y ago
I feel like you're making fun of Riak :)

robertlagrant 4y ago

> Sure progress comes from scientists , not from idiots building b2b saas apps. Progress comes from all sorts of places. Scientific progress come from scientists. That doesn't result in things better in my life without a huge number of other people doing things well and efficiently. Both of which includes anything people will pay for, including b2b saas apps. Try having a pandemic lockdown without Amazon-level fulfillment in place. Thankfully we didn't have to.

wittycardio 4y ago
No not all work is equal. Progress is a rare thing. Do not equate all forms of work to progress. People will pay good money for women to fart on their faces. That's not valuable work. Neither is building shitty apps.
- yetanotherforg 4y ago
  > Do not equate all forms of work to progress. People will pay good money for women to fart on their faces. Depends entirely upon the quality of the fart.
- robertlagrant 4y ago
  I'm not equating all forms of work to progress. That'd be a category error. It's the inverse: you saying only progress comes from scientists is a category error.
- nickpp 4y ago
  Scientist's work is not necessarily valuable either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize Who would you like to appoint as an arbiter for what "valuable work is"? If certain people enjoy and pay women to fart in their faces - would you like to ban that? How about other "useless" activities that humans enjoy like video games or massages or fashion or fancy restaurants - would you like to ban those as well?
  - wittycardio 4y ago
    Who's saying anything needs to be banned. We're talking about who can reasonably claim to be contributing to the progress of society. Go ahead and smell the farts my friend