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That certainly seems like an interesting system, and at the moment I'm open to ideas, although it's essentially impossible that my country will adopt a new system.

I think I fully agree, although to expound on (1) I don't think that is the kind of software that any company should want to depend on for anything remotely important. I'm sure the…

I'm of the opinion that large companies should be paying for the software they use regardless of whether it's open source or not, because software isn't free to develop. So assumin…

I don't think this is entirely true. A system of government could dramatically limit the power of the executive or make it easier to remove a president or make it harder for the le…

> Are you claiming that the Army anniversary date being on DJT's birthday ISN'T a coincidence? That must take some crazy mental gymnastics... You should read the post you're respon…

The US doesn't keep biometric data on every citizen or lawful resident, and the government can trivially lie or make a mistake about whether they did the database/ID check. This is…

> And no country gives whatever it is you're calling due process to illegal immigrants. Virtually every European country gives due process, even in illegal immigration cases. And p…

Yeah, they're actually simple enough that they're kind of a perfect way to learn a new language... You get to try something that is pretty familiar (transforming some source files …

> Isn't the hype more about the relative difference (I don't think most people are claiming NL is a utopia)? We're talking specifically about self-designated "anti-car" people. I d…

Relatedly, I found this out the hard way yesterday evening: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66631251/overflow-evalua...

Me too: https://weberc2.github.io/ I'm also curious what problems this presents and what platform the OP thinks we ought to use and why. EDIT: Interestingly, I just Googled `"githu…

The great thing about Go is that you don't need to think about allocations or lifetimes until you care about performance . Memory management is optimization in Go, while in C, C++,…

Right, but as previously mentioned, Go's multiple return values are already "generic" and already signal developer intent. If you have a library method that returns (int, err) ever…

Generics aren't the gap (multiple return values are already generic), but rather sum types. Sum types are what allow you to express that this is either None/Sum(T) (Option) or Ok(T…

I agree that there are semantic issues with pointers, but my point was to illustrate that you need sum types in Go to get any real benefit out of an Option type. If you need an opt…

This doesn't add anything. You get the same protection in Go with pointers. For example, a `*T` can't be passed to a function taking a `T` without explicitly dereferencing it. The …

> In comparison, you can happily ignore `err` in Golang and continue with an invalid `value`. I'm struggling to envision a Result type that requires you to be more explicit than `f…

Yeah, I have considerable experience with Go and Python, and my experience with Go has been consistently positive for all of the problems we're facing with Python; however, my org …

I was just measuring the size of Terraform earlier today--it's a program with 733 dependencies and it weighed in at 63 mb without stripping symbols or compressing when compiled wit…