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The only redeeming feature for me is that the scope is so limited... to some number of artists... because an unbounded program would just be an incentive for all unemployed people to lie about being artists... By limiting the numbers means you have to have a crtierion whereby people are accepted. Another program I like is apparently India pays chess. grand masters a bit of a living stipend so they can focus on their chess? I think such things can be better uses of money than the typical wasteful expenditure of government programs... in this case the money goes to people most likely to use it in good ways or people who have shown merit. To become a chess GM is exceptional. Just like being a serious artist as a lifestyle.

I fought like a mad man, because I had to try to become rich in shithole country that was busy imploding and erecting discrimination laws against my class of people... so it was not easy, but success already can be quite hard without a bit of luck... I made it... it was insane... yes it is very satisfying to have financial freedom... but oh boy the price I paid, I dunno if I can recommend it. I was the kind of guy who would crawl through broken glass (like Elon said) to get to success. I used to look. down on people who didn't persue their goals or didn't have grand goals... I do not anymore because I know it's not cowardice it could be entirely sensible. The price of. success can be very high. Sometimes too. high. Especially if you value other things that money does not buy. Still, money buys freedom and options. Which for. a creatively driven person who does not fit in well with the world, this is a VERY valuable thing.

GENDER WARS - just stop already.

Is anyone else tired of this obsession with the genders of people?

I don't care that women are underrepresented in garbage collection, construction, pilots or ceos. Or that they are now overrepresented in college. The only alarming thing is how much resources are spent on trying to socially engineer the ratios.

I agree with your experience - to me it also seems I used to enter a search phrase and get back a page of results that exactly match it, these days, I often get things that only vaguely thematically relate to my search phrase instead. Sometimes I would change a word in my search phrase or add an extra word to make the intent much more specific and still get essentially the same search results!!! Terrible, just terrible.

It would help if you can list the good facts, especially when it comes to free access of information by citizens, or their desire to swallow up the independence of Hong Kong and Taiwan.

You say the bond market doesn't care about inflation ? Well, it should, especially if it isn't transitory.

If you really think one should not care about inflation, then one of us will be proven wrong. (I have put options - i.e. money where my mouth is)

I agree with your argument that a Baron could be gorging himself while a begger starves to death... this is a definite disadvantage of capitalism, but does this disadvantage outweigh the advantages? And how do the alternatives compare... I would say it's still a far leap to say tue system is terrible or worse than most proposed alternatives. I like the saying - Democracy is the worst possible system, except for all other alternatives... which is to say democracy is a way for 51 percent to force their will down the throats of the other 49 percent... but autocracy is still worse in general because it does not have a corrective mechanism like democracy has. The same I believe applies to capitalism. We can improve pure democracy by going for constitutional democracy... some may argue a mostly free market with some taxation is an improvement over pure anarcho-capitalism.

You say by DEFINITION of social utility everyone's contribution should have equal weight?

Are you saying the fat lazy guy sitting on his arse eating cheetos and playing viddeo games have as much value to society as the cardiac surgeon working 14 hours a day and saving several lives per week ?

Why would you bring such a terrible statement ? I honestly hope you are trolling, because if you normalise such bs in your own mind, you are harming yourself - programming your own mind to accept bad ideas as normal, training it to make bad decisions in all areas of your life if you are not very careful.

PS: WHO's definition of social utlity are you using, and why are you uncritically imbibing it ?

Maybe we should just reform money then, capitalism is fine according to your problem description, the problem is fractional reserve banking. Maybe bitcoin, gold, or some similar idea would solve your entire concern? Often times people refer to gold money as "honest money" in contrast to FIAT money (money declared into existence by the government).

exactly. But it has been an all round perfect storm, aided by both circumstance and policy WHILE keeping the money slauces wide open.

Money printing is the base driver of inflation.

BUT: the best anti-dote to inflation is productivity growth. Biden lifting regulations and taxes are both well known enemies of productivity growth.

On top of this you had supply chain disruptions... meaning fewer good and services chased by an avalanche of money... laws of supply and demand gaurantees price pressure.

It was not hard to predict. The fed played word games with the word transitory because they hoped to psychologically influence peoples economic behaviour to mitigate additional feedback loops I wager.

Wait, HOW does inequality render assumptions about free markers maximising social utility invalid?

You cannot just make such a profound statement without fleshing out the argument for it at least a little bit.

(I'm ignoring the 2nd part about restricting both quantity and price simultaneously - as I am more interested in how you quantity and substantiate your first claim)

People often say the rich must "pay their fair share"... but how is it fair than some people pay MILLIONS of dollars in taxes, while others pay 100s or nothing?

How about reforming the something more towards you pay for what you use?

If you can't afford what you need, you should ask for charity.

"Taxes are the price you pay to live in a stable society"... when trillions are spent to fight wars that you don't support...

"Tax the rich" they say, when the rich pay the overwhelming majority of all tax.

Maybe, just maybe, people get tired of the lies. Maybe not the public in general, but the most productive who get taxed very hard, are beginning to look at how mobile their skills are and how some countries charge far far lower tax rates, and wondering....

It's one thing for the government to take so much from you in the form of taxes, it's another for them to then vilify you and make it sound like wealth and success is evil.

It may be an unpopular view, but I don't believe we should attach ANY MERIT AT ALL to, as you said "women FELT" harassed. The only yard stick should be actual concrete actions of harassment, and those should be dealt with strongly and profesionally.

In this article she complains about guys prospecting for dating opportunities at company social events. Depending on the exact nature of such, it is likely poor form, but is it really sexual harassment?

Or her complaint that "men stare at women working".... what are women like royalty you have to stair at the ground lest you accidentally "stare"?

You cannot and should not punish anyone for using their goddamned eyes to look at anything in their surroundings anymore than you can or should punish thought crimes.

If it is really obnoxious staring, the mature thing is to confront it and make it clear. Beyond that I don't have a solution against people being assholes. I mean if a woman is bitchy to me in a way that doesn't cross the line of breaking company policy, there is nothing much I can do except manage the situation.

BUT: as soon as any real line has been crossed, consequences should get real.

But this woman has so many complaints that seem marginal, mixed with complaints that are very serious like inappropriate touching, that I think she probably burned her credibility.

I mean, if the same person kept coming in to HR with very marginal complains, someone looked at me and I didn't like it, someone asked if I would like to for lunxh and I said no and then nothing further happened... this stuff seriously dilutes and detracts from actual sexual misconduct.

Wait, I'm getting confused about the difference between a vaccine and a therapeutic?

Mcafee is turning around in his grave... to give you a chuck norris thumbs up!

Have "we" ? I certainly didn't. Can I opt out of this "protection" racket please?

I am just as frustrated as the author with the low level of accountability for poor outcomes that public servant leaders face, he misses the point that not everyone agrees on how different trade offs should be weighted. Sweden received major economic and personal freedom and quality of life benefits in exchange for the somewhat increased mortality.

Also his dishonest summation of immigration/refugee issues/numbers doesn't help his credibility.

I would like to see broader discussions of how we can increase accountability for outcomes of elected leaders, or leaders appointed by governmental organizations.

I think this article is a single narrow approach written in anger and frustration.

I share the frustration but would like to see serious consideration of thr pros and cons of different ways to improve the dire level of accountability, and a lot of brainstorming and outsidr the box ideas.

Avoid or illegally avoid obviously not. Optimise, of course. Who wouldn't.

Now the question about "fairness" that rich people can structure to pay less tax than others - they don't -

The top 1 percent in America earn 20 percent of the income but pay 40 percent of the tax.

What indication do we have that environmentalally unfriendly companies are murdering activists?

I cannot imagine that being their best PR strategy, not to mention the fact that murdering your opposition attracts a lot of scrutiny, investigation, and which corp exec would want to risk going to jail for ordering a hit on an activist. Far more practical to lobby or spread counter marketing spin.

Because criminals exist, everyone should lose their privacy.

Great logic! They did the same with privacy centric messenger applications, demanding that Signal and others create and hand-over "master"-keys to decrypt all private messages.

Good luck forcing a DAO or an opensource community running 100% peer-to-peer to do anything.

In the future everyone who takes privacy measures will be made into criminals, and so only criminals will have privacy.

In most places in the world, most doctors refuse to give you things that could massively improve your quality of life, lifespan or reduce risks of you getting things which you could get.

I am talking about doctors NOT giving metformin or berberine to someone who has signs of metabolic syndrone and could be prediabtic.

Doctors who won't prescribe supplemental testosterone to someone with a level of 350, or a doctor who will prescribe replacement therapy but not add hcg to it to enhance it while reducing negativr effects.

Or doctors who won't prescribe say human growth hormone for someone recovering from an injury or who may otherwise benefit due to age and low natural production because they "aren't sick".

It seems like a double standard to sue the producers of fossil fuels, but not the users who actually burn them and polute the air with them.

I say sue every person who has ever driven a gas vehicle.

This would only be fair, right?

I'm just glad that this completely not-racist scholarly masterpiece passed peer-review in such a prestigious journal.

I really liked a couple of the ideas here.

What wasn't too clear to me, was the distinction between a component, and it's many instances... I suspect this is a deliberate and actually quite good design decision.... many instances of the same component are merely clones of the base component....

I think a massive need exists for more simplicity, patterns and much more lightweight mini frameworks. See for example the moon js framework as a much lighter weight alternative to vue and react

https://kbrsh.github.io/moon/

I would also suggest that you ignore the haters, and keep working at improving your documentation and how you communicate your ideas.

I quite liked the minimalism of your docs too, and I understand most of what you said, simply because I have also written my own mini frameworks a few times.

But people who have not written their own GUI or component frameworks may not be able to make out head or tail of what your docs are talking about or why you have made many of the unconventional design decisions.

Most of the major frameworks like vue and react contain massive design flaws and beat you over the head with loads of incidental complexity.

Wow, the arguments are just so bad, I feel dumber after having read this article. My first hint of trouble ahead was when the author wrote that Eth lost 10X it's value.

You can lose 90 percent, but not 10 times. You can GAIN 10 times.

Defense lawyers tried to keep the 81-year-old out of prison while he appeals his conviction, saying he's frail and legally blind. Judge Steven O'Neill refused their plea for Cosby to remain on house arrest, ruling Tuesday that Cosby will be locked up immediately.

O'Neill says Cosby could "quite possibly be a danger to the community."

--- Anyone knows on what basis he is considered a danger to the community at 81?

Geeze this conclusion seems rather counter intuitive, a much smaller human population's pre-modern agriculture had enough of an impact on climate so much as to prevent an ice age?

Maybe instead of calling peope "denialists" the respectful and correct term would be "sceptic".

I.E. Someone isn't an evolution-denialist, but rather an evolution-sceptic.

Or vaccination-sceptic.

Or climate change sceptic.

This way the conversation doesn't shut down and people's minds don't block all input. Maybe if you ask WHY are you a vaccination sceptic you can compare facts.

How about it is his money, and he gets to decide what he can do with, including burning it.

Fellow Afrikaansie here. There were some very novel Afrikaans words for computer terminology in that school computer science handbook... However none of it seems to be that useful or much used at all, and English accesses the latest tech and many major western tech hubs.

I suspect this is the case for my languages, especially those spoken in very few countries or by smallish population groups, especially when the language speaking group is not Geographically close to other populations of a grammatically closely related language.

I am busy studying Georgian because I am relocating to the eastern European country. However I remain doubtful that Georgian will be that useful for technical computer stuff, because it has only around 4 million speakers and is linguistically close to almost no other widely spoken language.

I will find out soon, as my language skills and experience with the place collide.