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when those tricks benefit the average person in the end whats wrong with them? subsidy wars give you extra manufacturing capacity that stays there even if the market collapses. eco…

every recreational drug is addictive in the same way as weed or sex or anything else that feels good. thats nothing to be concerned about. the problem is when something gives you p…

most tv makers and electronics stores in europe give you the screen size in inches first and cm second. they only come in a few common sizes so the specific units dont really matte…

My ideal syntax for function pointers is: fn signal(signum: int, fp: fn(int -> void)) -> fn(int -> void) It keeps the parameter and return types inside, makes it obvious that it's …

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confirming a game is real is one of the things psa is good at. the problem is a lot of graders act in suspicious ways when it comes to assigning scores at the high end. you get a l…

credit scores reflect default risk to the lender, at least in theory. it might not be the best possible model but people with a history of paying on time will probably keep doing i…

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thats not the blocker you think it is. they can "leak" the info, wait until broadcom lawyers notice, agree to investigate themselves and fire a random contractor (who gets paid on …

i got a better solution. make open firmware and user flashing mandatory. if anyone can inspect the code for backdoors and replace it with brand new software then any security issue…

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Would this work better in a language where generics are vtable based by default and only monomorphized as a form of LTO? If you have a Zig style machine IR where function calls are…

You dont need to rehash everything if you do multi level hashing (file -> mod/impl block -> function). The expensive part is doing lots of hash passes over small parts of a file, s…

thats why btc/monero is not as great as a lot of people think. ethereum has stablecoins and dex swaps so you dont have to do p2p once you have any tokens in the ecosystem, all you …

job market is insane today. its hard to find a job in retail in some places, software is way more competitive. retraining to some in demand trade takes money you might not have and…

this is good as a short term solution but it should really be a new system without commercial banks or any other for profit entity. if you give up sepa compatibility you can have t…

this is one of those stories where everyone involved is a terrible person. we have a professor who stole others work to get promoted (but also donated millions to good causes), a l…

hr and corporate are always your enemies but coworkers can be friends. they are on the same level as you and dealing with the same problems. just be careful who you trust because s…

because they think jury trials work the way they are supposed to work. the system is broken because juries are not required (or even allowed ) to explain their decision, and the se…

no, we have always been on law-abiding-citizen-except-when-its-white-collar-crime news. the only moral problem here is people cant decide if copyright landlords or ai scammers are …

> Every company whose original creator dies must be converted into a public company within 20 years of founder's death if public company means employee owned (instead of publicly t…

people buy physical games when its an option. take god of war ragnarok where more than 60% of copies sold were on disk. its a totally different situation from niche products with n…

youre forgetting about efficiency gains. the economy can grow a lot faster than natural resources. if you have extremely cheap power (solar and nuclear) you can recycle basically e…

> high economic growth is largely caused by low government spending how? if theres any negative effect its down to higher tax rates so you cant say its directly caused by higher sp…