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The fundamental problem is the assumption that there will always be scarcity.

This creates the capitalist mindset where consumption will always be too high and savings/investment too low. Considering that every economy starts out with scarcity that assumption isn't too far off. So the reinvestment of capital isn't such a terrible idea.

However, what if you have exactly enough capital to meet all consumer demand? If you were to keep reinvesting then the consumer economy would shrink to nothing and the investment economy will be all that is left. At some point there is simply too much capital and because of the reinvestment dynamic it's all in the hands of the people with the lowest time preference.

So now you have a class that controls almost the entire economy and everyone else whose involvement in the economy keeps shrinking. Now you get elite vs commoner class warfare.

If the elite class wants to keep its wealth it must give concessions to the commoner class. There'll be things like welfare, philanthropy or just dressing yourself up as some super hero (Elon Musk pretending to be ironman).

If no such things happen, then the commoner class will take what it needs. That means war or revolution.

How would you end this vicious cycle? It should be pretty obvious. Stop pretending that abundance is scarcity. If there was no excess capital that was created at the expense of consumer demand there would be no need to destroy it.

How does this all relate to interest rates? Wars create the need for growth. Every time capitalism wins the board is reset so that capitalism can win again, just like a monopoly board. If there is not enough capital, interest rates are positive. If there is too much capital interest rates are negative. Thus the ideal interest rate would be 0%. However, that goes against the capitalist mindset. It is so inconceivable that war is preferred. Making weapons is just another growth market.

But a low interest rate requires trust. If we want to stay at 0% we will need trust. For interest rates to become negative you need even more trust, a whole truckload of it. Inflation erodes trust. Political corruption/involvement in the economy erodes trust. Instability erodes trust. Business/debt cycles erode trust. Unemployment erodes trust. Inequality erodes trust. If we want to avoid a war we should do everything we can to maintain trust.

Worst of all. The zero lower bound on cash causes economic distortions because negative interest rates are difficult to represent directly. Effectively there is a cap on trust. Once we hit 0% we have reached the end of how much trust can grow. In fact, people are now looking for currency systems that are more trust efficient i.e. they need less trust. As if a lack of trust is something to live up to. (looking at you Bitcoin).

We have outgrown our current fiat currency system the same way we have outgrown the gold standard. The only way interest rates will become positive is through a war or collapse meaning we stop trusting each other.
Because I want it to look good (or at least OK) and work on mobile.
> I have met a lot of people who said that they could do things with Lisp 20, 30 years ago that languages either cannot do today, or could only do recently.

> It looks to me like the Lisp community knows something the rest of the world does not. They are not searching for the next hot thing. They seem to understand things on a deeper level than other communities. Perhaps “enlightenment” is not an overwrought term to use.

For those that haven't read this before. For me, any article making claims like this simply brings to mind the Lisp Curse:

http://web.archive.org/web/20210617140457/http://www.winesto...

(Not currently available... Last snapshot is from June, so unsure whether this is permanent or just temporary.)

Lisp is extremely flexible as a language. The core is very small, especially if you look at something like Scheme. But it lets you easily create and extend the language into what practically becomes a domain-specific language (DSL) for whatever problem you're working on.

Except what this really does is push things from being technical issues to being social issues. Sure, maybe I know Lisp. But how long is it going to take me to learn what your ultra-customized, macro-laden particular flavor of Lisp? And one has to do that for every single new project requiring coordination...

Lisp is not one language, but a wide variety of personal languages that happen to share a common core and syntax.
Good luck explaining to authorities how you differ from "Sovereign Citizens", and welcome to the watch and block lists.
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In a GC'd language which is what I am used to, the GC will pause execution and reclaim on the next allocate if there isn't any available memory cleaning up whatever was allocated on the attempted image load.

After that if there is still not enough memory for the simple message box then you have an uncaught exception and the program crashes and you're just back to the no catch approach, nothing lost. Most likely though there will be enough memory for the message and you have a much more friendly result.

I have used this approach before and it is way way more friendly then a crash with users potentially losing work because they accidentally picked the wrong file.
> Once healthcare is tied to employment, that is exactly what people are.

Yep, and this marvelous US productivity hack by employers and lawmakers (/s) - of making affordable healthcare conditional to employment - is unfortunately growing around the world. Parallel to this move is the continued commodification of most other resources and relationships.
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Walking helps thinking, that is a well known fact, which I also learned from a mathematician who kept sharing in class how many problems he solved while walking his dog. He would always start his phrases with "while I was walking my dog I realized ...".

There seems to be a lot of research on this topic btw.
It’s surprising since an 81% vaccination rate is already near the top of forecasts. Will a 90% or 95% rate make that much of a difference to justify forcing people to do so?
In this case (cybersecurity application), there is a complicating factor: you cannot trust that the environment is trustworthy. The out of memory condition may have been caused by malware to disable/degrade the antivirus sensor. For example, the malware allocates just enough memory that further OS allocations fail, but it has enough memory to accomplish its task then terminates to allow normal system processing to resume.

Under that scenario, the antivirus sensor should be able to take some action (log, likely) that a malloc failed, and possibly even try to recover memory and identify the risk.

But beyond that narrow use case, you’re right.
Sabotage is arguably far worse than theft; would be glad to have this kind of unreasonable-malicious individual filtering themselves out of my company - and ironically they certainly are a supporting point for companies who want to monitor and control to catch stated malicious behaviour/sabotage; they clearly have resentment and won't be as successful themselves as otherwise because they're wanting to waste energy, perhaps energy from anger - but certainly that of resentment - rather than directing it to do better themselves, which doesn't include sabotage or wasting energy; that's a violent and self-harmful act IMO.

Re: theft - they didn't mention theft in their comment (unless they edited it out; why not version control on HN?) but the problem I have with theft is that it allows thieves to gain resources that they didn't develop to earn themselves, that they don't yet deserve - giving them power they don't deserve nor have learned how to wield adequately.
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So, someone being attacked should just let it happen instead of fight back?
Reviews for Lawn Mowing Simulator reveal strong feelings about lawn mowing
In the US patent maintenance fees are due at 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 years after issuance.

They are increasingly expensive, with the 11.5 year fee being $7700.

You could raise these fees, but how are you going to set them? Based on industry? Ultimately just feels like you’d end up making things harder for individual inventors and easier for big businesses and patent trolls.

Personally I think there are a few reforms that might work. Firstly, software patents do not seem to be useful. They don’t seem to have been required for the development of the software industry, and in general they’ve not been allowed in the past.

Secondly, patents should never prevent the sale or incorporation of a technology into a product. Courts should always demand royalties be paid to the patent holder, based on the profit the infringing party receives.

That’s much more problematic. But it feels like there should be a way to incentivize the continued sale of products so that a company can’t just sit on a patent.
Who is actually paying for all of this? America is giving away doses, but for some reason I can’t fathom the drug companies doing this out of the goodness of their hearts.

If there’s all this money laying around for COVID doses, ad everybody gets a shot no questions asked, maybe they could put that same energy behind insulin!
That's completely fair, all I'm saying is that i'm for people to have the choice and options to do so if they can and want to and live where they want to live. If people want to take more risk along one dimension compared to other things they care about, good! If they want to take less risk along another dimension for things they care about, that's good too!

More governmental jurisdictions offering a variety of ways people can try to live the way they want to live is better than less, imo.
Also the real computer has to think about it more. (E.g. initialize whatever services the applications uses, be concerned about the data structures the applications mirror.). The demo just has to look right on initial inspection.
There is zero information about how this is better than other methods beyond the baseless claim of being faster. This feels so "stupid consumer baity" I'm driven to expect crapware.
The issue is, it is all software settings. The iMessage filter is only active for acconts held by minors, that can be changed by Apple. Might not even be a client side setting. Also the code which can scan uploaded images can be used anywhere, scan every picture which is being stored on the device. It is all software and everything which is needed is one update.
I use linux for most stuff. However for MS Office (or last time I checked, using GSuite in a browser without severe memory and CPU issues), it's effectively a two party system between Windows and Mac. And like any such system, you usually have to grit your teeth and go with the lesser evil, even if you dislike both. For me that's still Mac
>"where would our technology be if we had continued improving on simple things like the plow, without using combustion engines"

I think that is relatively straightforward. We would have sharper, lighter plows - and they would be FAR LESS effective than modern farm equipment and food wold be more expensive.

This would be a bad thing and I'm glad we don't live in that world.
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> I think you will find that comes from the Torah, Jewish wisdom.

Thanks for the correction.

> Personally I think if that were still true Christ died for nothing.

I'm suggesting it's just a rather obvious statement of inheritance of circumstance and reputation.

Of course if whoever wrote it really thought that people deserve to be punished for their ancestors' mistakes then they can fuck off.

But I do think it's what happens in practice.
Technically they're the first smartphones. To differentiate, I usually call the two feature phones vs touch phones. The non-smartphones usually don't have internet access.
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Ad hominem response to an honest philosophical question.
> For a two body problem, you nudge one of the bodies and it is forever off by a small amount, but your predictions into infinity require only a small adjustment to compensate.

How does this even work? Where is a place in the universe where there are only two bodies?? Where would the nudge come from if not from a third body?! A ghost?
In Costa Rica and other Latin American countries at least we called it, colloquially, “pulga”
I hate cool services that won't let me in because they are invite only and there's no way to get one
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I was aircrew in the USAF and I saw Pararescue and SERE instructor training. That stuff is absolutely insane and sadistic. Even then, at the top of my physical fitness/ability, I wouldn’t have been able to cut it. The endurance and stamina required is just unreal. The majority of those classes wash out too. It’s high pain and high risk from the beginning.

I can’t imagine going a step beyond and training for the special forces of the special forces, haha
We've all seen an inventor of a 'new' hand washing machine before, it's fair to ask, why this time?

> helping refugees in humanitarian camps or those in most need.

There is no fundamental difference between humanitarian camps and the 4 billion people without a washing machine. Maybe the other billion without because of apartment size or being in a RV there is.

There is nothing about this design that couldn't have existed 100 years ago.

There are many different commercial models on Amazon or Aliexpress. Some are flimsy, some not.

Mam Rashan also has electricity, it makes no sense. A documentary on Mam Rashan - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guEOS_Z-Kfk

If you truly want to help the poor, you need to ask hard questions. Like, why didn't this work the past 100 times it was tried.
A lot of excellent points though it's completely inaccurate to frame the fall of the Soviet Union's scientific progress due to their hierarchy replacing the "prior capitalist one" when the former lead to the mass industrialisation and rapid economic growth that lead to the USSR being the first nation to conquer space flight whereas under the latter, the USSR was an agrarian society suffering from food shortages and mass poverty. The decline of Soviet science and economy had more to do with NATO and American restrictions on trade and movement than something self imposed by the Soviets.

Capitalism is completely compatible with hierarchies and censorship - indeed one could argue that capitalism is completely incompatible with a true flattening of hierarchies since it rests on the ability of an owner class holding a monopoly over the means of production. The majority of dictatorships around the world use capitalism as the basis of it's economy. Following the dissolving of the USSR, Russia continues to be authoritarian and arguably more so than the USSR was past the Stalin era.

Aside from that, I think it's a little premature to frame the internet's ultimate effect on the world as reducing the ability of the government to censor the population when it's only been around for less than 30 years and we are already seeing mass adoption and development of both censorship and surveillance tech that goes beyond even the wildest dreams of 20th century era dictators.

I don't really buy the argument that most technology is invented in systems with freedom and equality either. It just sounds more like something we want to believe than something borne out by data. The internet and rocket ships were the product of the military - an institution that has more to do with using force to enact the will of it's host nation on others and limiting their freedoms than preserving the freedoms of their own, especially for superpowers like the USA and the CCP, which are effectively immune to conquest by military force.

This is in fact the same for the Silicon Valley and most private industry, you only think all this tech is the product of your freedom and equality because all of the actual extreme inequality and lack of freedom is kept compartmentalised to the global south through long and convoluted supply chains. It's not really freedom if only 10% of the actual people involved in the sustaining of an economy have any semblance of it -leaving aside the observation that for even this 10% that represents the average US citizen, their actual democratic agency in the state or in their job is vanishingly low.
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This is the thing Apple doesn't realize: our phone's OS vendor has one job: not to betray us.

They have betrayed us.

I have purchased my last iPhone.
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Is it mixing car speeds and human speeds here?

> When I started running, I didn’t even know how to run. I started out running only a half a mile, a mile at the most. I’m not kidding. I was a mile-a-minute man when I started. I remember the first time I ran a mile in under five minutes. I was running on one of my training runs on a Sunday night.
"AI" predicts what a human would probably write next. I don't know how that's someday supposed to replace writers, in the same way I don't understand how AI trying to copy artists is a replacement for Van Gogh?
Reading the specifications of the blockchain emerge the anomaly of the genesis block. It couldn’t just be what it appeared to be, one of the many blocks without a predecessor. Hence the idea that the genesis block must really be the block it generates and not just the initial block of the blockchain. If the genesis block isn’t just a data block then the genesis block must be a code. Only a code can truly generate and be called really genesis. The concept idea that the genesis block must be a code changes the perspective. The same code that manipulates the blockchain must be the genesis block.
If your concern was that they might at some future point change their policies and do something objectionable then you should not be using iCloud at all.
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Phillip K Dick said it best in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)

“Kipple is useless objects, like junk mail or match folders after you use the last match or gum wrappers of yesterday's homeopape. When nobody's around, kipple reproduces itself. For instance, if you go to bed leaving any kipple around your apartment, when you wake up the next morning there's twice as much of it. It always gets more and more.”

"I see." The girl regarded him uncertainly, not knowing whether to believe him. Not sure if he meant it seriously.

"There's the First Law of Kipple," he said. "'Kipple drives out nonkipple.' Like Gresham's law about bad money. And in these apartments there's been nobody here to fight the kipple."

"So it has taken over completely," the girl finished. She nodded. "Now I understand."

"Your place, here," he said, "this apartment you've picked--it's too kipple-ized to live in. We can roll the kipple-factor back; we can do like I said, raid the other apts. But--" He broke off.

"But what?"

Isidore said, "We can't win."

"Why not?" [...]

"No one can win against kipple," he said, "except temporarily and maybe in one spot, like in my apartment I've sort of created a stasis between the pressure of kipple and nonkipple, for the time being. But eventually I'll die or go away, and then the kipple will again take over. It's a universal principle operating throughout the universe; the entire universe is moving toward a final state of total, absolute kippleization.”
ha! It's a fair point.

But I think anyone that actually takes the time to look into it will see one advocates breaking laws while the other takes lawful advantage of the naturally occurring changes to society.
I randomly saw this: https://expertvagabond.com/digital-nomad-work-visas/ (not sure how reliable the info is).
Which is stupid because it’s also true for all other major cloud providers.
I know plenty about computability, and found this to be a fun read. Especially since when being taught it my teachers didn’t spend the time going over the biographies of the people involved.
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This is just like:

https://www.windows93.net/

And

https://windows96.net/
They didn't need to, all of the phone's data was in a non-e2e iCloud Backup, which they did unlock for the FBI.

Hence, farce.
That's why i said big companies have some leverage. People will notice.

If they don't speak up then nobody else can.
Wait, what is arrogant? Having a government that orders people directly? Or not understanding such a government?
The US federal government is purchasing doses from drug companies at pre-negotiated prices and then giving them away to foreign countries.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-says-it-has-shared-110-mill...
Interesting! Thank you for explaining.
I'm probably downvoted because I was a bit snarky, in response to the author condescendence. I agree with you, when you think you're better than everyone and then wonder why no one will date you, often that's a sign that you're not as good as you think you are.
Thank you! Still, too many people do not know about the alternatives.
All this is because IPv6 addresses are too long. If they’d made it 48 or 64 bits we would be fully converted by now. We are dragging because people hate using it.

I’ve been saying this for years. Nobody gets it because geeks don’t get ergonomics.
The only thing you have to configure is your entire brain. Seriously, for anyone under 40, pressing Ctrl-Z should undo, not hide the window. I say this as a fanatical emacs user. There is nothing straightforward about vanilla emacs for someone whose software expectations have been shaped by the conventions of the last three decades!
Apologies if that looks like moving the goalposts, but what I meant was a language that wasn't well known, did some serious efforts to acquire new users, and now is relatively well-known. Elm seem to have been made from the start to be accessible.
> In a statement, Apple said: "Optis makes no products and its sole business is to sue companies using patents they accumulate. We will continue to defend against their attempts to extract unreasonable payments for patents they acquire."

I don't know anything about Optis, but I really don't like Apple's argument here. By this reasoning, you only get to patent things if you own factories and marketing and sales operations. If that's not you, if you're just a garage inventor, then you shouldn't be granted the patent, leaving it to be gobbled up by the likes of Apple instead. Seems very convenient for them.

Maybe it's really gigantic corporations who should not be allowed to own patents. When you're sitting on a gigantic mountain of cash like Apple, from what do you need protection?
rust-analyzer could probably do it. That information isn't exposed in type signatures, though, so it'd have to have full access to the source of everything and a good understanding of the standard library (and would fail if you added your own “might allocate” by going around the back of the global allocator).
Graydon has been off doing other things for a while now. Off the top of my head, I think he left in 2019.

I miss working with him, but there are lots of folks involved with Swift who think really deeply about this stuff. No complex feature is the work of any one person in isolation.
It would be so cool if microprocessors went the Linux route and the best in class were created from open source projects.

Well one can dream.
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Yeah, but most of those tests are actually pretty easy to pass for someone who is not tax resident.

The “family tie” test is not as onerous as it sounds. It just means you can’t have a spouse or child under 18 who is themselves a full-time UK resident.
... and rumors are that it's nowhere near on-track.

I'm wondering when the Powers That Be decide to stop throwing bad money after good.