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>because it prevents you from building abstractions,

Replying to just this part of your comment, but building abstractions can be as much a source of new complexity and cognitive overhead as it can reduce them. I think Go is wise to be on the side of less abstraction, because most of the abstractions it makes hard end up hurting more than they help.

>What an extremely convenient template to dismiss any nuanced argument against "worse is better". You even get to question my credentials a couple times! (I apparently pick metrics that are convenient to my argument, and fundamentally misunderstand programming language design).

I think if you want to make an argument that Go has the wrong values, you should make that argument. But your essay is not that argument. In your essay the claim that the values are wrong is implicit and unexamined, and you spend most of the words on demonstrating that Go has different values than you.

It would be more persuasive if you were to examine why Go has adopted these values and explicitly explain why you think they are mistaken. Instead it comes off as though you simply don't understand Go.
Ah GC languages, a curse upon us.
> every mainstream language with easy FFI still has significant FFI overhead (so much so that many programs actually run slower with FFI). This isn't really true for Rust

This isn't true for almost any language to the extent it's true for Go, and for many compiled languages it isn't really true at all.

> Try building a significant Python project on anything except a recent version of RHEL, Debian, MacOS, or Windows. For example, try getting your Python project running on something like a scratch Docker container. Or try packaging a Python package (which depends even transitively on a C library, especially one which isn't already packaged for Nix) with Nix.

While these are legitimate theoretical problems, none of them are really problems in practice. Containers don't need to be scratch, and if you're building a Python project, you're already not running a scratch container, so the addition of FFI doesn't change that. Nix is not an environment I've ever seen a requirement to support, let alone had a requirement.

It really seems to me that you like Go and you like Go's design decisions, but "I like this" is not the same as "this is better than that". I'm not particularly interested in rehashing the same conversation over and over again.
> this all feels like a bit of a Boy's Club where they all agree to just help each other

Come on. They often try to sue each other out of business, get the government to declare competition illegal, "cut off their air supply", "knife their baby", etc.

> because we did other stuff for them

There you go. Not because of the goodness of their hearts.
Hiring freelancers, on the other hand, is usually pretty simple, since none of those laws apply.

The main risk, say, as a Canadian, is if I visit a US-based client, then I can't be officially "working while in the US", but it's OK if I do it remotely.

I freelance for my local Canadian company, and if my company sends me to the US, then it's fine, because the client pays my company, who then pays me. The US company is not paying me directly.
The value to the consumer was provided by the company in Illinois, the value to the company was provided by an employee residing in California.

Why would the intellectual property the employee generated be worth nothing simply by originating in California?

In other words, if a bottle manufacturer in Illinois sourced raw glass pellets from a plant they owned in California, they would be deriving value from a source in California. The glass is not worthless because it hasn’t been converted into bottles yet.

The employee is providing intellectual property across state lines, which is why the state can enforce laws on that value that originated from within their jurisdiction.
London Prime Property: Our forecast for growth of 24% in the five years to 2026 means that by the end of the period, values will return to their previous 2014 peak level for the first time. [0]

[0] https://www.savills.co.uk/research_articles/229130/323909-0

12 Years underwater... optimistically given that its already not looking great for their 8% prediction for 2022
> You quickly get over the temp, and just get to enjoying the water.

Having grown up in Michigan I'd say it's more aptly put as "if you're one that can learn to live with the temperature the water can be a lot of fun" as certainly not everyone gets over it - even of those that often enjoy the water!

Never really cared much about the lack of sharks but I will say there is something special about having that "I might as well be at the ocean" scale of water without the damn salt.
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These are the exceptions that prove the rule.
Interesting because I have a Mavic Mini and it flies consistently for 20-25 minutes and I’ve had it for more than a year.
This is exactly it - house purchases could stay the same or even go up but once rates start climbing, refis almost entirely disappear, so the total number of loans originated slows way down.

Something like 25% of loan holders refinanced during Covid.
Someone cold called me on Discord trying to "feature" my content on his reskinned RSS aggregator. Typical nonsense with inflated traffic metrics, promises for the world. Like the rest of these types he couldn't work with affiliate links, had no clue about it and demanded upfront payment.

He got turned off fast when I told him, "I've never paid for backlinks in my entire life". Google guidelines etc.

Paid directory listings. Everything that is old is new again.

If he's selling it stands to reason that someone is buying. If you can keep it clean, and accept free submissions, there's something in the ad revenue. Eventually more crypto services will adapt to the affiliate commission system. The current way of doing things will die out.

Content is still king. Long may he reign.
“It’s Google’s fault!” (high five)
Yeah, like when Politico recently pointed out the FDA was told about infected baby formula months before several babies were killed by it.

Obviously Politico is just gathering their mooks to subject the poor gentle souls of Abbott and the FDA to abuse.

We can't disclose wrongdoing - think of the mean things people might say.
I like the playful design. Reminds me of the Minolta Weathermatic Type A[1] with its flat yellow body and picture setting control knob on top. Looks fun

[1] https://www.aperturepreview.com/minolta-weathermatic-a
The ABC test itself may be simple (though rule B seems open to interpretation as to what it means to " ...perform work that is outside the usual course of the hiring entity's business."), but figuring out where the ABC test applies is not simple; they quickly realized that applying this test across the board would completely decimate a bunch of legitimate industries, and so they carved out a wide swathe of exceptions.

For example, see https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/exempt-job-categorie....

Software consulting probably (IANAL) falls under "Business to business consulting", at least if you structure your consulting shop correctly. If you're just working long-term full-time for one client and not offering your services up elsewhere as the GP's case describes, you're probably mis-classified under the ABC rule.
> There are however crypto based platforms that make censorship impossible or hard, but they are not mainstream

Those sound interlinked. A mainstream audience will never want to read that
This seems interesting. Would you mind sharing some of the pics of your setup
I'm glad you figured it out and also glad you got the reference. That book helped me think through so many of my absurd internalized able-isms and forced me to re-evaluate how I look at myself and others in the context of mental health
That's not how exceptions or rules work.
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Sure, they are apples and oranges. Namecheap will likely never be able to match these settlement times, 0-2.5% fees, data privacy, interoperability etc.

If they decide to one day sell crypto domains like ‘.eth’ and ‘.tez’, they will be entering an extremely competitive market; and compete against marketplaces that trade any valid NFT (including domains) like Objkt.com and OpenSea, with commissions around 2.5%, no need for data sharing, and instant settlements. They would also be competing against custom contracts and OSS tools which may take no fees, and other directly peer-to-peer transactions like I outlined in my OP.

The point I’m trying to illustrate here is that there are reasons for choosing a decentralized and peer-to-peer system of digital assets & ownership over a purely centralized system, and blockchain is currently an ideal tech for this application.
I imagine they are still writing code, just not shipping it. And there’s an exception for fixing things, which this would definitely fall under
I say "don't get caught up in the end state" not because I don't think the end state is important but because the intermediate effects are hard to predict without more data. But, more to the point, if LVT is the most efficient kind of tax, why would we not want to over time, shift as much of the tax base to it as possible?

In any case, Georgism produces a very different financialization of governance than the current tax system, because public goods pay for themselves via increases in land value- see the Henry George Theorem by Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George_theorem. This means that rather than adjusting taxation to meet desired investment, desired investment is adjusted to produce optimum public returns- which has the beneficial side effect of incentivizing good and proper governance.
Destruction of light/sound pollution sources in places otherwise free of such pollution is totally morally justified IMO.

I was in Vegas a few weeks ago at a pool club. The bouncer was checking everyone's bags; not for guns, drugs, or alcohol, but for bluetooth speakers.
If so, I have a similar game as well Lexery!
https://adamsanderson.github.io/lexery-js/
Aging clocks aim to predict how long you’ll live
I don't think these technologies ever had entire industries based solely on marketing and Ponzi schemes built around them.
Suggesting that e-ink can be useful for "low refresh rate displays in VFR aircraft" sure sounds like a solution searching for a problem.
LVT has nothing to do with improved vs. unimproved land. both improved and unimproved land have productive and unproductive aspects.

LVT is solely targeted at economic rents. this is the key to understanding LVT. otherwise, the idea that it's the most economically efficient tax will not make sense, and the tax itself will not seem to make sense.

on the other hand, what the government will do tax-wise is political, not economic. constitutionally, the tax cat is out of the budget bag, so we have little hope of restraint there. politicians will always try to expand government because it benefits them, no matter what rhetoric they spout.

(i.e., taxes are high because politics, not LVT.)
That is the entire point here. iPhones are no longer "unserviceable". They are selling the parts so you can service it yourself.

What exactly is your complaint? That they are not as easy to service as your old flip phone? The modern iPhone has more computational power and technology packed into it than a full size desktop computer from 3 years ago. Modern phones are so much more than just a phone and will never be as easy to service as your old flip phone. No tech company will ever satisfy your complaint if that is what you truly desire.
Oh I remember the days when I was steadfastly staying on an IPX network and only temporarily changing over the TCP/IP to play specific games (Quake 1?). I didn't need this new-fangled TCP nonsense. IPX worked just fine on my 10-baseT coax network :-)
What is is it good for compared to a traditional domain? If it's censorship resistance,if you break the laws of your country using it, how will you hide from the police trying to force you to take down the content?
Thousands are a drop in the bucket when you talk about a site with user counts in the 200 million range. I can totally belive 0.01% of Twitter's userbase (20000 users) made kneejerk decisions based on the ownership.
You seem pretty convinced. Let me see if you're talking about the same pedantic distinction that oh_my_goodness was.

A: "an urn containing either a white ball or a black ball".

B: "I notice that the ball in the urn A is white".

I would say that initially the entropy of our ball-urn system is 1 bit, and that with observation B, we have reduced the entropy of our ball-urn system to 0 bits.

But if you are going to take the view that even knowing the ball in this particular urn is actually white doesn't change the fact that the entropy of <<"an urn containing either a white ball or a black ball">> is 1 bit and not 0, and that that's the entropy that we're discussing, then I won't argue about it any further.

Except for the obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/221/
I looked at the actual data and concluded this is a non-story. Twitter overstated users by <1% each quarter the past 2 years. That is not an egregious accounting error. This happened because they double counted users who used linked accounts.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/twitter-announces-first-quart...
State's rights have been an issue since before the signing of the constitution, as can be seen by how long it took to get all the states on board. Many were reluctant to cede that much power. It was only in the early 19th century that the preeminence of the federal government was established, culminating in a ruling that states did not have the right to ignore the fugitive slave act right before the civil war. It's true that the slave states really embraced that position a their core justification, but that's not how it originated.
Yes, that is exactly what happened. It's clear and you can see by the likes of people such as Jameela Jamil leaving explicitly because of Elon buying it.

If you are on twitter, and follow people on the left, a big topic right now is whether people should leave as a direct result of the Elon purchase.
Linked lists? Not a useful data structure in application programming when using imperative languages. And if you are using a functional language then most people agree that a GC is necessary (FP without GC sounds like a research problem).
Non-recourse loans only really exist in California. Most other states are recourse (and even California is on refis) - it's just that it's normally not worth the paperwork for a bank to bother going after you if you key them.

And once it becomes a trend, they all just collectively give up apparently.
In such uses, if it matters you don't rely on RC to reclaim the storage. You allocate from an arena, and drop the whole graph as a unit.

Using pointers to make up a graph is a choice. It is a thing taught in CS classes, so it may feel comfortably familiar; that does not make it good. I never do.
All the world is not a web application.
Rhymes with Trouser...
> really? thousands of people just left twitter at the idea of Musk owning it

I know a fair few people said they would, for a few different reasons. Particularly as, given the size of the user-base to start with, “thousands” is a pretty small number.

> and thousands joined out of love for Musk?

More likely because of the “freedom of speech” promises that were being made. I'd wager that many right leaning people who had previously left (or not joined in the first place) over certain other people being kicked, off are quite enamoured by the idea that their brand of rhetoric might be less unwelcome there in future. The converse (wanting that sort of talk to continue to be frowned upon) is one of the reasons some others talked about leaving. Certain messaging is key, not Musk specifically (although it was him giving off those messages).
I love the style of your game. Thanks for sharing it!
Residential real estate valuations haven't been based on the house itself for a while. Prices are based on:

1) the house itself (this generally depreciates)

2) land (this generally appreciates)

3) a retirement account with great tax benefits (this value can fluctuate based on local, state, and federal laws)

4) a ticket into a good school district (this value will fluctuate based on the the performance of local schools)

5) a ticket to partake in a thriving local economy (this value will fluctuate with the local economy, and has recently been shaken up by the rise of remote work)

Any speculation on real estate prices and whether or not we're in a bubble has to take these things into account.
The rest of the article is good, but this part is wrong:

>This can be incredibly useful, and is necessary for some applications.

There is no reason to have a system "without trust", the very idea of that makes no sense and there is no such thing as a system "without trust". Examples: To even use a computer or use a computer network you have to on some level trust the manufacturer of the systems as well as the supply chain that built it. To use any blockchain you have to trust that at some point it's not going to get 51% attacked. To use any businesses that work on the blockchain you have to trust those businesses on some level instead of just trusting "the blockchain" or a smart contract, if eventually you expect to receive a good or service that transfers into the real world, because agreements about those things can only be upheld by lawyers, not blockchains. The amount of entities you have to trust to realistically interact with any blockchain is massive. The idea that they're somehow "trustless" is simply wrong.

And I've made comments about this before but I'll make it again. Blockchains are useless and are unnecessary for every application. They do nothing that isn't better achieved by another consensus mechanism. The only reason to use PoW/PoS or any of the other blockchain consensus algorithms is to use them to implement cryptocurrency, which is only useful as a form of unregulated and volatile and mostly useless money that you can pay people in those tokens for running the network. If you can come up with any other way to pay people to run a network, then you don't need cryptocurrency.
I have had no occasion in the past three decades to make cycles.

It smacks of poor discipline, or poor design.
GDP ~= Capital * Productivity * Labor Population

You’re missing an critical component from the Solow model.

https://economics.mit.edu/files/7181
I’m sure everybody has their own definition, but my definition of “not trendy” is some mix of “has been in use long enough that nobody tries to sell it as a cure all wonder technology” and “has only a minimal to moderate presence in the blogosphere”.
When the company I worked for was in the process of being acquired, our codebase was frozen as well. I'm pretty sure this is just standard practice, no?
> Come to my house? Inspect my basement?

I would love the OQLF to try. On my main PC, I use an Ergodox clone, basically a kind of split keyboard. Keycaps for said keyboard are tricky to find in sets that fits for every key (unless I buy them per piece I suppose), and that's for a basic English-US keyboard. Anything else is virtually unheard of- let me know if I am wrong. Anyway, using English keycaps is a big no-no from the OQLF and would require me to switch, but to what?! Here's the kicker: I am typing that with the Bépo keyboard layout, basically a French Dvorak. This would require me to make a special request to a keycap maker, as anything non-alphabetic is really different. So installing a blank keycap set with unmarked keys would be the cheapest way to go about this problem, but I don't think this would pass the OQLF requirements neither.

OQLF suggests but in no way requires the Canadian Multilingual keyboard. Typing in French, with associated keys properly marked, is what matters to them.
I use nano when I need to edit something from CLI because I don't like ancient editors with modes or non-standard key combinations from 80s. And in nano the most important shortcuts are at least written in the bottom of screen.

While nano supports some standard shortcuts (arrows, Ctrl + arrows, Home, End, PgUp, PgDn), others are non-standard and I don't understand why. For example, "save" is Ctrl + O instead of common Ctrl + S, exit is "Ctrl + X" instead of "Ctrl + Q", Esc doesn't work when you want to cancel search, and so on. What a nonsense. Why should someone use different shortcuts for the same function.
Ease of use and product design are certainly novel, not to mention marketing the product to a customer outside the traditional drone consumer segment (i.e. tech focused/interested adults).
Not evidence but people claiming this happened:

https://twitter.com/cbouzy/status/1518953731961802752

https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/151900201165147751...

https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1518946715407106048

I already got downvoted for posting this yesterday, lol.
rdbms? I'm not ready to jump on that hype train just yet
Yes, it's hard to believe that twitters users can be emotional and impulsive drama kings
> People aren't zombies - you're not powerless before an omnipotent algorithm.

You have to make a deliberate effort to not interact with polarizing content. Facebook constantly puts poisoned bait in your feed in the hopes you get hooked. Happy people don't engage as much as angry people. Seniors who don't have an IT background, children who don't have enough common sense, poor people who don't have enough education to know Facebook tracks 50K+ traits to better manipulate your behavior, etc.

It looks like you're not considering all the different kinds of users of Facebook in all countries where it operates. You can start looking at funny memes and slowly end up with paid divisive government propaganda.
That went away quicker than fidget spinners.
> Inflation should take care of demand.

Indeed, may as well buy now (if you can) since you'll get less for the same money in the future.

> The higher prices will bring demand in alignment with supply.

Unless the stimulus cash injection policy allows people to continue to buy now (see above).
> This is not propaganda, these are facts.

These are not mutually exclusive terms.
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Yeah there are lots of small reforms that can be done: transitioning property taxes to land value taxes, ending property tax caps like prop 13 that just allow landowners to extract rents, putting in place land value capture for public transit, and so forth
"emacs -nw -q" can be pretty fast too.

Not light on resources compared to jmacs, but at least it loads faster.
> With reference counting there are no pauses...

Same with GC. "Stop the world" may be a characteristic of a simple GC, but it's entirely possible to have GC that works by "coloring" objects.

> In a garbage collected language you need to explicitly release your resources. (IE, the Dispose pattern that's common in C#)

You only need to implement IDisposable if you are dealing with unmanaged resources (ie. non-GC objects). But it's the same with C/C++: you have to call `free()` or `delete`; The difference is that managed resources are auto-released for you.
I disagree with that conclusion.

Humans are surprisingly efficient at minimizing calories spent on exercise. Exercise is great to optimize other systems in the body, but it shouldn't be used as the primary method of losing weight. Calories In Calories Out is the golden rule when it comes to changing weight (either up or down). To lose weight, I recommend intermittent fasting and consuming less empty calories.
> State's rights have been an issue since before the signing of the constitution

The general issue of the relative distribution of power between states and the central government has.

That's not what “State’s rights” historically refers to. As I explained, in detail.
> I don't know of an imperarive GCed language with a reasonably expressive type system

Haskell with all code in the IO monad?
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