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  • This reminds me of Santayana's quote: “Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.”
  • Neijuan as a word has transcended itself; it now means many different things, to many different people, in many different contexts.
  • Wow it’s a proper word for software engineering and platform complexity over the last 30 years.
    by api
  • >When capital owners are driven by competition they must work increasingly more for little or no marginal gain despite falling prices for consumers so price fixing or 'price leadership' becomes impossible.

    A lot of the people in the comments here seem to miss that this explicitly isn't about workers or feeling overworked and if anything should make the average consumer better off.

  • IME, when words like this become common, it allows people to identify them more easily, so it's a good thing to introduce such words.
  • I'm surprised that article doesn't reference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen%27s_race
  • What I love about the Chinese is how incredibly aware and self-reflective they are about the wheel of suffering they are building for themselves.
  • For context, this article has probably been posted as it is linked to by the "Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?" blog post [1] currently being discussed [2].

    [1]: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/9/7/astra-why/

    [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49654229

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