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> Because the GC is infectious. As soon as your dependency needs it (and IIRC even parts of the standard library did/do), it becomes painful if not impossible for you to avoid it. …

Pacman works when updating all packages simultaneously. However when updating only a requested package it can break by failing to pull in other packages which need to be updated si…

Pacman will happily break pacman and sudo without warning if the user requests updating openssl without upgrading the entire system. When updating a package it does not pull in all…

With economic rents the dilemma is not simply between doing stuff and having stuff. It's between having something which others can have as well (through reciprocal property rights)…

The annoying part is that there are many changes which federal & state governments can make to the financial system to ensure wage growth better tracks inflation without sacrificin…

The only preprocessor code required for writing 'static inline' header functions is "#pragma once". Inline functions look like normal functions.

If both the comparison function as well as the sort function which the comparison function is passed to are declared 'static inline' and available in a header, the compiler is smar…

It's not necessary to use macros. Just make both the sort function which the comparison function is passed to, as well as the comparison function itself, both "static inline". The …

> The problem isn't getting loans on one's crops. It's transferring the price risk to someone else. When a farmer plants, they want a guaranteed profit. Loans don't address that pr…

Material production still requires accounting, installation, transportation, delivery, disposition, optimization. Financial parasitism more clearly occurs when someone pledges some…

> There is a middle ground between banning and a free for all. Providing basic banking as a public utility so most deposits by individuals, local governments, and small businesses …

Those are all different things and different forms of borrowing though. When someone borrows against cheese they are borrowing against existing personal property for which labor ha…

No other species has the recorder of deeds \ title registrar \ court system to enforce claims over territory in absentia without the continual presence of the beneficiary. Even amo…

Yes, the level-headed take is that an organization has not taken a "hard-left turn" unless they are calling for redistributing the land and cancelling the debt.

Ukraine's domestically manufactured Stugna-P has longer range, remote controls, and is only $20,000 per missile. Wikipedia cites unit costs of Javelin closer to $200,000 than $80,0…

So it's amazing at miseducating and misinforming politicians in impoverished countries? In industrial economies money is credit and countries issue their own money by setting up a …

> It is not surprising that there are no historical documents outlining this, for it would likely pre-date even the written word by centuries or millennia. Huh? During the 17th and…

In America during the late 1600s through early 1700s fiat currency was placed into circulation as the loan or mortgage held by the governor secured by the property of the borrower.…

> Historically, a number of cultures have attempted periods of paper currency, issued by the government and backed by nothing. Often it was the result of currency that was once bac…

The fraction of average income paid to landlords is partially due to the concentration of land ownership and political culture of the ownership class. Historically in 18th century …

>Paying 2x-4x for some piece of land is still waaaaaaaay cheaper for society than drowning in decades-long quagmire while infrastructure falls apart everywhere. Eminent domain is n…

A credit bubble may pop due to loss of confidence, but the loss of confidence is not purely non-deterministic psychological phenomena, it is due to the interest owed on the debt he…

The quantity of money in the system doesn't stay the same. Speculators buy financial assets such as stock and real estate on credit. This increases valuations and causes more specu…

There can be a data race any time a processor loads a value, modifies it, and writes it back. Without an atomic update operation like compare_exchange() generally you need to lock …