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The actual point of the article related to garbage collection is interesting, but the cobra analogy in the title just feels wrong. The cobra story (and there ar
by nhaehnle 14y ago
The actual point of the article related to garbage collection is interesting, but the cobra analogy in the title just feels wrong. The cobra story (and there are many others like it) is about incentives, and how you have to be very careful when you want to change incentives, because there may be unintended loopholes.