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...which he apparently forgot all about the very next day. I don't know what they had him juiced up with (maybe Pervitin, appropriately?) but that's the most coherent I've ever seen him before or since.

The simple solution to the contradiction you propose is: He is a doddering old fool, who is controlled by dangerous demagogues. (And actually, this might describe his predecessor as well.)

But that doesn't mean we can't appreciate when they occasionally do something good (regardless of their motivations), and this is one of those times.

That last one was a win.

Ah the "expert fallacy." No, there are very few "experts." Mostly just career deep-staters or unelected-bureaucrats or whatever else you want to call them. Just look at the great results we've gotten so far from the "fleet of drug experts."

10 SUPPORT $CURRENT_THING

20 GOTO 10

> All we have been able to find out is that it's written in visual basic 6.

That alone should already tell you everything you need to know...

> All auditors are concerned with is version numbers.

That's because they're all* automatons with hard-coded brains that compel them to reduce fuzzy concepts like risk to a 1 or a 0. /vent

*Well, every one I've ever interacted with, at least.

"Snowflake?" Either you're projecting, or that doesn't mean what you think.

Don't forget that there were people like Rich Salz who took their ball and ran home crying[0] because of a freaking word. Was this just a fit of temporary 2020-insanity that was going around? Nope - apparently 1 year on, it's still intolerably reeecist to have a "master key" in cryptography.[1]

[0] https://twitter.com/FiloSottile/status/1279190119703085057 [1] https://twitter.com/RichSalz/status/1435327330335997952

I already can't commit to a master branch or have a master key, because reasons.

So in order to prevent book burnings we must...burn books that advocate book burnings?

When it's at the behest of government, there's a word for that.

> I want to get a dog and stop running in place in BigCity.

I can't recommend this enough!

> it's not necessary to hold these groups to the standard of being logically consistent and rational all the time

Not that we can't forgive and make mistakes, but aiming for other than "being logically consistent and rational" is likely a road to Hell, or rudderless at best.

Not myself, but channeling another: "Research on toxic communication patterns in relationships shows that contempt is an accurate predictor of divorce." https://www.emberrelationshippsychology.com/blog/the-mistake...

Any time I hear a political ad, it makes me think of the spoof ones in Vampire Bloodlines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ovLsFhd-EM

And the military was running pysops on that too: https://gizmodo.com/pentagon-social-media-psyop-military-rus...

And then there was this plan from 2019: "Providing lethal aid to Ukraine would exploit Russia’s greatest point of external vulnerability. But any increase in U.S. military arms and advice to Ukraine would need to be carefully calibrated to increase the costs to Russia of sustaining its existing commitment without provoking a much wider conflict in which Russia, by reason of proximity, would have significant advantages." - Overextending and Unbalancing Russia https://web.archive.org/web/20190601000000*/https://www.rand...

Talk about shooting the messenger! You have nothing to say about the crimes they exposed?

Did you unironically make an ad hominem?

Well it sounds like you got it figured out what's best for everyone's health, ethics, and economics. Thankfully we have wise people to tell us what we can and can't work on...

I'm reminded of Margaret Thatcher's response to this: "He'd rather the poor were poorer, as long as the rich were less rich."[1]

Every ethical dollar earned is a byproduct of value creation. Maybe you meant something more like "as long as he's not ripping off his customers," but otherwise that's an odd thing to say in response to someone who makes good money but is still looking for side jobs.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdR7WW3XR9c&t=48s

TLA+ [1] and Idris come to mind. Also Clojure Spec [2] For the specific case you mention, "taint analysis" would be appropriate.

[1] https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2018/11/09/tla-with-les... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLBGkS5ICk Edit: links

(Sincerity not snarkiness, and wasn't a downvoter) Do you not have an emergency fund? It was always important, but hopefully 2020 was a wake-up for most people.

Thoughts on Functional Programming just had a short episode about Smalltalk. The thesis was that its ratio of functionality to small size was due to the willingness to repeatedly rewrite it in pursuit of improvement.

https://ericnormand.me/podcast/rewrites

> People are just hell-bent on re-learning 200 years of banking history firsthand.

Maybe just the last 109 years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Act

Or just the last 79 years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Reserve_Act

Or just the last 51 years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_shock

Or just the last 15 years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing#United_Sta...

Or just the last 2 years https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL

Or just the last 1 year https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/oct/19/democrats-s...

Or just the last 6 months https://www.businessinsider.com/trudeau-canada-freeze-bank-a... https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action...

Or just the last week https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2022/08/11/irs-to-ad...

Maybe BTC isn't the answer, but there are some real downsides to "standard banks and payment processors."

> and people with a criminal government/monopolies

So...everyone?

Tip-of-the-hat to our founders, for sure! But I'd say they were architecting a government, not a society. That's a very important distinction, and without it you can end up with some really destructive Statist/Authoritarian stuff.

Regarding those first 25 years or so: Jefferson's attempt to ban slavery in 1784 failed by 1 vote. Then there was the Whiskey Rebellion in 1791 and then the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. So, nothing's perfect I guess...

"FBI Foils FBI terror plot!" Happened in Michigan, too.

I wasn't necessarily suggesting to "do nothing and make no effort" - That's a strawman and false dichotomy. Sure, we can generally try to do more of what works and less of what doesn't. But usually the type of people who want to "architect society" end up being the worst type of "rules for thee but not for me" tyrants.

I think one of our greatest failures as a species is the hubris of _thinking_ that we can "architect a society"

Upvoted. Why in the world was this flagged? I don't think it's off-topic, since the topic is particularly relevant to git newbies, and the committing of stuff that shouldn't be in the repo is a huge problem I've observed in that group. (Not just credentials, but all sorts of junk like binaries and logs and tempfiles, and individual settings.)

It's such a common problem that there's been many tools and workflows that have been set up to mitigate it. This situation often results from not having those tools and workflows in place to give even the "idiots" a "pit of success" to fall into.

e.g., pre-commit hooks installed on dev machines by team policy, and pre-receieve hooks on central repos, both along with CI jobs running truffleHog etc. And even that is downstream of proper code design of minimizing credential use, and focusing/localizing it into files which are already .gitignore'd

These days https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo is superior.

You're free to do what you want of course, but that's a shame. So many great shows.