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The thing you have in your pocket would have meant an enormous investment for equivalent compute power just decades ago and filled a whole basement with server racks.

> > Then they should have presented the case that way > That's exactly what they did. You have read the article, right? It starts with showing how it looks like in C++ and then goe…

Why "natural, fair chance"? Of course they see what their competitors charge. That's one of the ingredients of a free market. The quicker they react, the quicker the information is…

> No the "not rational" part is that wages are not commensurate with cost of living increase because short term thinking yielding record profit margins is addictive. Wages are wher…

> Why would you cook or clean in Boston when you could do it literally anywhere else in MA without the commute? Because that's where you have your social connections. Friends, fami…

I'm not saying there is no price fixing, but this could also be explained by the supermarket chains all using the same suppliers (which is most definitely the case since the dairy …

I doubt it. The ultimate consequence of this endeavour is that a program that takes an int as input and produces an int as output would then have the type a:A->B(a). For example, a…

Exactly. In other words, the post could have just continued with C++ and shown a better way to do it in the same language.

... but then still somehow gets into this by showing a C++ example which is bad and then continuing that in Rust you could do this-and-that. Which completely obfuscates what's actu…

> I kind of want to plot the state space of a program to see all available states. In the ideal program, only legal states are reachable. If you can use your type system to prevent…

As I don't know Rust, honest question here, just to help me understand.. The `pins.d13.into_input();` part just returns an object/reference/... of a type that only has input-specif…

I normally appreciate a good troll post, but I don't even understand what you are getting at here.. :/

Just because somebody mentioned the term "monad" doesn't mean that suddenly the code should be written in Haskell. Python allows recursion too. Are you using recursion? Why not jus…

Those "rent seekers" are the investors that provide you with capital to build something in the first place. They don't produce anything physical directly with their own hands, but …

If I have the choice between a clean and simple to read codebase and a convoluted mess, I can tell you which one I choose. If the term "beauty" for that rubs you the wrong way then…

Yes, it's not pythonic. But the Maybe monad does have its beauty, which the in-built Optional doesn't really provide. If this package makes people more accepting, then let them.

If those "market prices" are not enough to pay for somebody's housing, then they are not truly "market prices". Nobody is going to accept employment at that rate since they can't l…

Then say goodbye to all consumer protection regulations, safety standards, environmental rules, etc.

"Why not hire Americans?" in this context is like asking "Why not just vaccinate people?" in April 2020.