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> $100M wedding to show off their wealth?

Who do you think got that $100m spend? Didn't it go to all the service providers? The caterers, the people who worked the function, hotels, food distributors, the musicians, the travel agencies, cab drivers, coffee shops, etc.?

Or do you think it was just thrown into the water?

Heck, I know middle class people who spend $50k on a wedding and I think that's obscene, but their right.

> Or you can spend it on elections.

Many people spend a portion of their wealth in elections. Even middle class voters.

The vast majority of that 1 trillion is being applied to productive means.

is your solution to tally up all the "wealth" periodically, and then "distributing" it to all the humans equally? And if we did that, how does it ever get allocated to productive means?

> now tech is the richest.

what do you mean?

The wealth is generally applied to productive means, it isn't being hoarded or consumed.

> If wealth in excess of a billion is taxed 50% annually,

So you would take that wealth away from productive application?

> What exactly do you intend to do with infinite wealth? What kind of life do you lead that isn't satisfied by what would be otherwise normal constraints? I'm asking seriously

You allocate it to productive means, you don't consume it.

> the ceiling should not be high for you.

have you thought through how you would even operationalize a ceiling on the amount of wealth that someone might control or have?

even a rough heuristic from you would be interesting to consider.

> Because money is zero-sum, there's no way for one person to have a lot of money without others having less.

Yes, there's been a fixed amount of money since the beginning of time!

Individual policies do not define a party's leaning.

The GOP has lefty economic policies too: protecting public pensions & healthcare, government-funded fertility treatment, protectionism and industrial policy.

Dune is fiction.

The origins of modern humans rights provide a better guiding light than religion. However, there's a pragmatism to turning to religious institutions for they hold great power over the many.

> affordability, but growing anger over inequality

When it comes to wealth, the ceiling should be unlimited AND the floor should be high.

> It is a narrative that interweaves with AI, too. AI is supposedly an efficiency boom. In the macroeconomy, who is the "efficiency" we are chasing for, who benefits?

> Who is getting the money that was "saved"? Regular people do not have more more money or time. The "efficiency" is for people who are already very rich, to get richer.

Pension funds and investment vehicles chase profit growth. The vast majority of people have a stake in that.

> It’s certainly a deficiency in most modern humans as we aren’t out chasing down prey, but that doesn’t mean it was never a useful trait.

Balance. The inability to "focus" attention at the likely relevant thing as a matter of course is suboptimal. You don't want to get distracted by the wrong thing when it is a matter of life and death.

I don't know that your theory is any more likely than a theory of ADHD being less likely in those before-times because it would get you killed because you're not paying attention to the right stuff and nature then stomps on you. Not that I have any reason to believe this idea.

> From US point of view even right wing European parties are socialists, that is how extreme late stage capitalism is.

Americans consider Germany's AfD or France's Rassemblement National as left? I don't know that that stands up to scrutiny.

> “A plank of wood must not be carried along a pavement. It can only be moved if it is being unloaded from a vehicle or taken into a building.”

Is that a good law or is it a barnacle? Is it enforced in the UK?

> there is disagreement over whether it is a difference or a deficiency,

Deficiency, since it gets in the way of successful, effortless living.

People say they "suffer" from ADHD and use it as an explanation why some things harder for them than for others, etc. Many complain. People classify it alongside other mental health issues.

It's a bug, not a feature. Would anyone without it wish for it? Would anyone with it and given the choice for it to be gone choose to keep it?

> And now I'm in the real world where you can do almost anything. It's not just software platforms that are the problem. Should I apply for jobs? Definitely. Which jobs? And what about the other paths? Should I also write some SaaS and hope I get acquihired? Which one? In which platform? Should I learn how government contracts work? Probably can't get one as an individual, but should I learn about them anyway? Should I pay the fees to found a company, even though it's just me and doesn't have a business plan, to look more legitimate to potential customers for the thing I don't even know yet?

Check out the book Algorithms to Live By.

In this particular case, you could make the values fixed length strings. Somewhere, performance and memory trades.

> Are there any games that are not “walled” games?

Some games approximate infinite play: Minecraft, Roblox, EVE Online, Second Life, Gary's Mode.

However, even they have technological, economic, and rule-based boundaries.

> he term has been used to denigrate anyone who has done well with computers or who dares to be excited about them in ways that rub some people the wrong way

bro, it is the inflated sense of self-importance that's the annoying part, bro.

Instead of plugging into a "broad tech community", how about a more niche community around a very particular product or activity (e.g. 3D robot part design & printing) - there are bound to be interesting people with whom one can also chat about a range of other tech and non-tech topics.

You can store the strings separately and have the dictionary hold references to them.

Conceptually:

dictionary<i64, StringReference>

             |

             +----> "hello"

             +----> "a much longer string"

             +----> "x"

> how would you represent a hash table where the values are strings and at random, the program inserts or deletes a random string?

Goose has a built-in generic hash table called dictionary<K, V>, provided by its standard library.

https://aardappel.github.io/goose/docs/stdlib.html#dictionar...

> How is memory for JSON allocated on stack?

Check the features section (https://aardappel.github.io/goose/#features), which starts off with how memory works.

> to use this and not C++

Why Goose - https://aardappel.github.io/goose/#why-goose

Lobster is the author's other programming language, previously discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47239955

> Obviously the guy is replying to something that you can't see without logging in twitter.

I could follow the link and read the thread and I don't have an X account.

You can also check out the language's website by googling "goose programming language", which should lead you to: https://aardappel.github.io/goose/index.html