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No, that entirely depends on if you subscribe to the Hobbesian outlook that argues the natural state of the world is one of war and brutality. The James Locke school argues that na…

> Tax the Walton family, or the highest earning employees directly, and you get to have your cake and it too since you get similar amounts of tax revenue without damaging the econo…

Can you describe the defensible policies of supply-side economics? That's as vague a term as trickle-down economics to me. Supply-side economics is based on a flawed premise of loo…

When did the previous tax cuts get rolled back vs getting extended in perpetuity?

A few months of extra no data won’t impact the stock investments if no one has that data. Startup funding is similarly not so time sensitive. As for businesses hiring, they should …

What decisions are so important and time sensitive they depend on these numbers right after a month is over? And also we at one point were making decisions without these numbers ye…

That’s what I meant. There should be error bars to reflect uncertainty of the inherent data, but they should wait until all the data that could change things comes in rather than u…

I would say the initial numbers should be embargoed until the number is reliable. People don’t understand error bars and reporting can more easily manipulate the current situation …

One thing I don’t understand is how you can guarantee the lack of a distributed deadlock. I’m sure it’s covered in the underlying research, but just conceptually it’s hard to pictu…

Cortex M0 and microprocessors generally do not. Cortex M3’s looks nothing like the branch prediction you think of when you think consumer or server CPU. Basically branch prediction…

> > They also mention doing other things like invoking the compiler to get version information. This seems like it would dwarf any performance gain from number 2. I measured this, …

Safety is normally ok in an uber but in a Waymo it’s much higher. Whether I’m talking about driving safety or personal safety from the/for the driver, you pick. But generally you c…

> Update — August 4, 2026, 13:37 CEST: At least 868 packages (across 1381 versions) have been compromised by the worm, with a combined total of over 2 billion monthly installs at t…

Whether or not it’s on par famously or difficulty level doesn’t predict whether the others will fall. They’re unique problems and math isn’t linear - the Jacobian it managed to fin…

Exactly - fail_silently is illegal and you have to actually destructure the type to explicitly implement the destructor > How would you handle destructors with arguments? https://s…

What kind of topics/comments did you make that got you death threats? Really want to make sure I stay away from such topics.

These specific people? No. This happening in general? Yes - observed this first hand in the cybersecurity space.

Cush consulting jobs after the fact. You don’t burn your social network unless the alternate is serious jail time. Given the slaps on the wrists described, clearly the after convic…

It’s not. If you look at the analysis, the bug is present only in one version of the kernel everything else the same. It’s the kernel. Also here’s a kernel developer confirming the…

The kernel bug I believe hasn’t been root caused quite yet although the LLM does seem to have potentially found an unrelated problem.

A kernel bug and you’re criticizing Rust. Weird take

It’s a kernel bug. While I agree libc allocators suck for no good reason, it seems like this work of equally likely hit other application code including mimalloc and glibc.

The problem is that when you don’t have a cohesive picture of how things fit from the outside, it becomes really hard to evolve the language in a way that makes sense and doesn’t b…

Classical object, object without identity, atomic value, and classical value are not simplifications that you’d want in other languages. Rust, Haskell, Python - none of them need o…