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In my experience, all the major platforms eventually close all accounts.

> it’s just bad UX "Bad" I would say means you can still achieve your task. I was presented with over sixty download links, and not being an idiot or someone to be taken for a ride…

Exactly the problem I had. It would take Amazon almost no effort to make a single archive with all those files in. I cannot help but view this as deliberate obstruction.

I've been trying for over two years to get my data from Amazon. I eventually got to a point where Amazon provided a web-page, which has no less than sixty-two download links on, ea…

I wonder if the Tor people know about this? Firefox to my eye jumped the shark a long, long time ago, when they took to using deliberate deception during the install process to get…

Seemed okay to me with regard to caveats. Performance issues -> it's lock-free and scales profoundly better than non-lock-free.

> So all operations on _Atomic variables in C11 are implicitly atomic I may be wrong, but I would be shocked if this was so. I think you may be mixing up non-tearing writes as oppo…

An atomic write will need to be issued, and on the face of it, that C11 code is not issuing an atomic write. I could be wrong, but I would expect a particular function or macro to …

> So yes, that "++*barrier" operation is read-modify-write atomically AND with memory-barriers in sequential-consistency style The quoted material does not describe this assertion.…

Lock-free garbage collection exists and there's quite a body of literature.

You can produce this behaviour. Look for MCAS, from Cambridge Uni. It never took off. I think it didn't scale.

You're talking here about memory barriers, but I was asking if atomic writes are in use. Atomic writes have nothing to do with memory barriers. On modern platforms atomic writes ar…

> The fact that another thread sees the incremented value implies that that thread will see all stores that happened-before that incremented value. Firstly, if the writer has used …

> They're using atomic read/writes with sequential-consistency. In the C11 code? I'm not up to speed with that version of the spec, but unless there is behaviour invoked by the use…

A barrier, of any kind, makes no difference here. Barriers only influence the order in which events become visible if and when they DO become visible . Barriers say nothing about w…

I may be wrong, but I don't see this working in theory. The basic problem is that for any physical core, there is no guarantee that any writes will ever be seen by any other core (…

> Smith certainly envisioned a significant role for government No, he did not. Quote me anything in WoN where he says this should happen. He writes about where it does happen, but …

Neither of which is Smith asserting rents are parasitic. He describes economics; others put opinions into his words.

Wikpedia can write what it likes; to my eye that's empty prose.

> even called parasitic I do not recall this from WoN. Quote please.

I was speaking once to a Dutch acquaintence, who told me that in his economics class at Uni, they were taught Smith was in favour of large State subsidies...!

In what way? The subjects are utterly different. All I can think of is that it introduces you to Smith and his style of writing. To my eye, this is not of any particular value.

> He saw the interests of large capitalists as conflicting with those of the public: capitalists seek high profits, which corrupt and impoverish society. This is rubbish. WoN is on…