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If by the wealth you mean land, then yes it's finite. But the ownership of man-crafted things is not. You can always create new apps or websites that generate values. Those man-cra…

This is definitely a problem worth more innovations. But it should be kept in mind that the core idea of coming up with such a model is literally to design a contract. By recognizi…

It can be seen as an energy storage technology for renewables.

> Rognlie, Matthew. 2015. Deciphering the Fall and Rise in the Net Capital Share. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 46(1): 1–69 The paper briefly mentions it but does not addre…

In my opinion, `git add -p` should be the default, and a `-a` or alike to forcibly commit the entire working tree. I have developed a habit that I wouldn't feel comfortable if I ha…

That risk assessment assumes only the technical aspects. But there are still institutional, management and other 'people' issues that could render any engineering guarantee fruitle…

As far as I know, China's grid and power plants are not run by the government either.

Has anyone read Schopenhauer's books like The world as will and representation ? His idea doesn't seem to be talked about much. However, I would admit that I don't fully comprehend…

I recently realized that there are roughly two kinds of people, namely people who are good at symbolic/abstract ideas and people who are good at real/physical/touchable things, whi…

That assumes the demand and the supply are independent variables. More people would mean smaller pieces if the size of the pie held constant. But what if there are also fewer peopl…

That would probably be true if all other conditions held constant. However, Silicon Valley can pay handsome money because many companies located there run well and outperform their…

My point is not about how an individual player gets their enjoyment from the game. Some players would want to beat every other to the death, even in the real world. My point is ind…

Imagine that we are designing an MMORPG world. We know that individual player would seek to maximize their "gains" and to advance their ranking in the game as a part of the gaming …

If "the business interests of the upper class" makes governments do all the evils, why do you think this time will be different?

I learned that Git stores data as DAG at the very beginning when introduced to it. But I came to get clicked until I realized that it is not only a DAG but an immutable one. That i…

Comparing nuclear waste with other waste like those from manufacturing solar panels does not help. You don't need to build the facilities like the Yucca Moutain Project to contain …

Monorepo could be a decent choice if your software stack does not require too much external dependencies. Or more precisely, the ratio of own code to the third-party code is reason…

When talking about "efficient communication" between the computer and the programmer, it does not necessarily imply the characteristics of the runtime performance. For instance, Fo…

C is a language designed to enable more efficient communication between the computer and the programmer in mind. C++ is a language designed to enable more communication between the…

> In my opinion, if you're a start-up and you've got all those boxes checked, you're possibly doing the right things in the wrong order, and that's a red flag for me. In my opinion…

You probably underestimate the mindset difference between the American's skepticism toward the government (as this thread shows) and how the Chinese tend to see their government as…

Both Chinese and Americans can protest about the US government's scandals on an internet forum hosted on the US, not the other way around though.

You reasoning misses an important aspect: the incentives. Does China government have the incentives to take the advantages when it has the opportunity? Does Huawei have the incenti…

The difference is when the US government does something nasty, it's relatively transparent and accountable. It is not the case for the China government.

Does it also imply that a non-blocking event loop in the userspace application is energy-inefficient? Likewise, given that some OSes APIs (syscalls) provide both non-blocking and b…