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Sure, I’ve used a variety of other languages (C#, Java, Swift, C, even Scheme etc) and like Go, and even chose it for a solo project. To me it feels like C with some extra features…

If you’re in the market for an ergo keyboard, I’ve used and liked the Kinesis Freestyle for years now. It’s a fully split keyboard with a staggered layout - I use it in a tented se…

> I'm not sure what the difference is with regards to pointers. In C# most objects are 'class' objects, which are implicitly passed by pointer, although some are 'struct' objects p…

I think C# might be the closest mainstream language, but I’d say explicit pointers, interior pointers, and slices as the default list type might be things that make Go programming …

I’m not going to defend what random internet commenters may have said, but in my view the core team has been fairly consistent and their design decisions (to me) make sense. The fi…

I agree, it seems like an editor based on direct AST manipulation could work pretty well with existing languages (I actually prototyped one a long time ago in university). Some lan…

> The second part looks to be more interesting: I’d like to see some arguments for why a LVT wouldn’t just be passed along to the renters like every other expense is currently. I t…

I agree that people have experiences, but I don't understand why they must be magical or non-existent in the physical world. Why can't the word "experience" simply be referring to …

There are a lot of levels of "thinking" across the animal / insect / even plant kingdoms. The simplest levels of stimulus response (like a venus fly trap closing its mouth) don't s…

To add to adgjlsfhk1’s answer, if you are writing Android games you are probably using a cross-platform game engine that doesn’t use Java (like Unity) which solves the issue but mo…

For memory layout C# actually has an important difference in that it supports value types (so you can have an array of vertices without individually allocating each one, which has …

> Being able to have many GCs is a good thing. The only advantage I can think of to having a single GC is with using 3rd party packages. If the trade off is always low latency and …

> Liberal market based societies / economies have many failings, and would be a very interesting conversation to explore some of these. On an absolute basis maybe, but on a relativ…

Sure, the US is certainly not immune to that dynamic. For example dysfunctional regulation restricts the housing supply (in certain areas), causing the prices to be high. Then left…

> This is the very tangible result of suboptimal choices. I agree - I've always liked that story about the grocery store. I don't think bad policies are something that can be strai…

I think it's useful to explore historical perspectives, but there are many others. If I look at my parents' generation in the US, people were being forced against their will to fig…

The corporate world isn't a bad analogy. But corporates are still by and large very profitable, some companies operate as they always have (although that isn't newsworthy, and it i…

> So the price of this "equity" movement is going to be (and always was) mass de-industrialization and transforming the economy to third world status I also disagree with these sor…

If the government was restricting the supply of cars / TVs / medicine, etc, causing the prices to be high, you could make a similar argument: why not buy the older car / smaller TV…

It's always been incomprehensible to me why they went all the way to production on $500 standalone devices with inside-out tracking but no tracked controllers , then gave up and le…

I wonder how coherent the base of either party is values-wise or ideologically. There's certainly some intellectuals that have a clear ideological side, but for the people I talk t…

I agree that it would affect the US's relative dominance but I don't see why the living standards of Americans would be massively reduced. For things like medical care, housing, ed…

Most of the economy isn't tradeable though, including major sectors like housing, education, health care etc. If other countries get sick of buying US bonds, the relative value of …

If I remember correctly, I think Krugman's view is less that there won't be sustained inflation pressure (he's speculated it's transitory, but expressed a lot of uncertainty about …

If you've played a sport or video games you've probably made all sorts of actions / judgement calls without having time to fully verbalize them, but with the thought still consciou…