wakawaka28

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by wakawaka28 6mo ago
>Are there any real examples of a government entity in the US competing with a private enterprise in which it genuinely would have been better for the government entity not to compete? Probably everything the government touches outside o
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by wakawaka28 6mo ago
Two different issues... On one hand, government should not compete with private enterprise because it has many unfair advantages. Imagine paying taxes to subsidize your competition, who is also exempt from regulations that apply to you. Tha
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by wakawaka28 6mo ago
Are you kidding? Republicans never cut anything meaningfully. They are only a shade more fiscally responsible than Democrats. Your comment totally blames Republicans and does not put any blame on Democrats who are at least 50% responsible f
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by wakawaka28 6mo ago
Not everything. Specifically things where the government is involved. That includes government-subsidized private enterprise.
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by wakawaka28 6mo ago
>coming in and saying "A is better in these other circumstances" isn't saying anything that people aren't already aware of. Oh so you're a psychic now too? I think all kinds of people read these threads. Most of
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by wakawaka28 6mo ago
>Doubtful you will find life safety and automation equipment on the shelves of your local retailer. Nevertheless most of this gear is made overseas. When it is made in the US it depends heavily on foreign components. >USA excels at ma
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by wakawaka28 6mo ago
There are many concrete disadvantages to writing things in Rust too, not to mention rewriting. But you are right, these are different solutions and they thus have different characteristics. As for your "as if it disproves their point&q
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by wakawaka28 6mo ago
That's actually not a bad idea, since apparently it can be used for whole operating systems. But certainly, if you started doing that, any code using the exception would need to be exclusive to Fil-C to benefit from that.
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by wakawaka28 6mo ago
They do wear out...
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by wakawaka28 6mo ago
Sure, it's not implemented in Fil-C because it is very new and the point of it is to improve things without extensive rewrites. Generally, I think one could want to recover from errors. But error recovery is something that needs to be
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by wakawaka28 6mo ago
>And inability to prove correctness does NOT imply incorrectness. And inability to prove incorrectness does NOT imply correctness. I think most Rust users don't understand either, because of the hype.
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by wakawaka28 6mo ago
Seems like a niche use case. If it needs code to handle, it's also not apples to apples...
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by wakawaka28 6mo ago
I don't think runtime error handling is impossible in Fil-C, at least in theory. But the use cases for that are fairly limited. Most errors like this are not anticipated, and if you did encounter them then there's little or nothin
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by wakawaka28 6mo ago
Every EULA already covers this basically. The real problems are: people agree to it, and the government can do an end-run around the constitution by simply purchasing data or hiring contractors.
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by wakawaka28 6mo ago
So, no videos of festivals or politicians speaking? How about legally recorded conversations or anything else exposing corruption? Body cam footage? Harassment is already a crime. Take care not to come up with oppressive laws to deal with a
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by wakawaka28 6mo ago
It's not the rhetoric that should convince you, it's the logic. The rhetoric here is purely to liven it up.
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by wakawaka28 6mo ago
Oh yeah? Go try to buy anything at any store not made abroad. Go try to buy a car not reliant on foreign parts. Or a computer, or a phone, or medicine, or clothes... It's not easy.
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by wakawaka28 6mo ago
It's the best deal they are gonna get from anyone and it comes with implied US protection against Chinese aggression.
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by wakawaka28 6mo ago
China didn't manufacture all the world's stuff back then. A Chinese official has literally responded to complaints from the Philippines over fishing outside their territory or something with something very close to "China is
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by wakawaka28 6mo ago
China could easily invade the Philippines too, presumably.
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by wakawaka28 6mo ago
Some people really need shit spelled out to them. This does a great job of doing that in a small package.
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by wakawaka28 6mo ago
I'm not saying it's math-heavy, but it's not necessarily simple. Also, just because something has math, doesn't mean it's more complicated than everything else.
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by wakawaka28 6mo ago
>x doubt... Ah so you are an academic. I have been in both places. Industry people have to not only think of ideas but implement them with real computers. In some cases the computers must be built specifically to solve the problems. Mill
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by wakawaka28 6mo ago
Software engineering is not necessarily shallow in any sense. Reasoning about large and imperfect systems can be so much harder than finding average publishable CS results. But the difficulties are often so particular to the software and si
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by wakawaka28 6mo ago
You just described a bunch of hard and continuous work, and oversell the "almost guaranteed" part. Nothing is guaranteed in life, except death and taxes. Entrepreneurship can be harder or easier than working for someone else. Some
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by wakawaka28 6mo ago
It definitely was oversold, but I don't think it's right to fault people for picking CS because of the money. That is essentially the point of getting a job, and most people do not actually get to live their "passion" --
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by wakawaka28 6mo ago
I think you can find something bad in every state, even "rich" ones. Edit: Who the hell would downvote this?
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by wakawaka28 7mo ago
Perhaps, but solar panels will NOT get cheaper as a result of oil becoming more expensive, even if the price hike is somehow permanent. They are manufactured through an energy-intensive process. Unlike the solar manufacturing cost problem,
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by wakawaka28 7mo ago
Suggestible people follow instructions and (sometimes) take fewer risks. It is simply infeasible to logically convince people of every single thing that they ought to know. I hate to infantilize people in this way, but even the most capable
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by wakawaka28 7mo ago
The real estate would be more valuable than the panels, presumably. So it's not like they can just keep expanding forever. As for the vulnerabilities, this is not based on guessing. We've produced solar panels in the West even rec

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