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CFFI-based modules should work without a big penalty, but these are generally slower than extension modules.

There is also some research that suggests soy is unhealthy, but since I am not interested in a debate on the validity of such research, I will not link to any of it.

A cow can turn soy into highly nutritious and palatable food, so the resource usage is justified.

Having said that, if you want to eat like an antique slave, be my guest. Have a pint of Soylent(tm), it’s on me.

If you believe that isn't going to last, you can short the market. Just be aware that you're betting against the capabilities of the Fed's printing press.

I disagree, subjectively it had its ups and downs and we are in a down phase right now. YMMV.

I've acquired several tastes since then, I've tried licorice multiple times, to no avail.

This is in contrast to the "non-systematic" approach, which is to have designers use apps like Photoshop to copy-paste design elements and then have developers eye-ball and eye-drop that into code. You may up with lots of redundant definitions for essentially the same visual intent, especially with larger teams.

Most products start out with the non-systematic approach and then may later attempt a switch to a design system. Presumably, this is where this product could help you validate your progress. Whether integration of such a product is a valuable addition to your workflow or a distraction is up for debate.

Imagine being a black person with college or business debt and you see this billionaire rewarding all these felons. I think I'd be voting Trump, out of spite.

They are overwhelmingly felons. The disenfranchisement rate is highest among blacks at 7.8%, so 92.2% of blacks, so the overwhelming majority, is not affected by this at all. What makes you think the majority of blacks would welcome the enfranchisement of criminals that happen to share their skin color? After all, the victims of these criminals are overwhelmingly black themselves.

Also, black voter turnout has been consistently 5-10% lower than white voter turnout except for the election of Barack Obama, where it was the opposite. That means the impact of felony disenfranchisement at most is about as high as non-participation has been in the past.

> Regardless of whether or not you think incarceration of minorities is systemized disenfranchisement...

Indeed I don't think so.

>... I think any loophole that hypothetically allows the system to chose who may vote is a bigger threat to democracy than an incentive to appeal to criminals.

I don't consider it a loophole, becoming a felon is a fairly high bar to getting disenfranchised and the constitution sets some boundaries as to what can be considered a felony. If anything, I would argue that locking someone up for years for selling an ounce of weed is unconstitutional.

Even if we did, there would be tons of complaints about speculators turning a profit on people's health.

The problem is that book authors are not incentivized to deliver "the gist". If all the insights of a book, properly condensed, amount to no more than a pamphlet, people will give it a bad review.

If instead a book has hundreds of pages, there mere act of giving it a "proper" critique becomes costly. Judging a book that you haven't read is frowned upon. Those who could be bothered to work their way through it, on the other hand, are less likely to be critical.

Raising taxes does not necessarily increase tax revenue. Is the last guy on the sinking ship going to pick up the tab for everyone?

Lot of countries around the world intentionally debase their currency to stay competitive. It's a valid monetary instrument. In the short term, currency debasement would lower the standard of living of Americans, but it would make their labor competitive.

Clearly, the US is suffering from the Dutch Disease, except instead of oil it's the dollar that is creating the problem.

So just let the government hire everybody. Build lots of stuff, housing and factories and infrastructure. Print the dollars to pay for all of it, until the dollar collapses. American labor is now cheap again, so those factories can produce at internationally competitive cost.

This is similar to how China does it. The key is that you can't devalue the currency if you have a service economy that relies on cheap imports, but that's exactly the way the US is headed right now.

We can still talk about the pie, how good the pie is, that they don't make pie like this anymore - anything to distract from the fact that the pie has long been eaten.

What they are really protesting is being unable to afford rising rent, which is caused by a lack of apartments, which is somewhat exacerbated by Airbnb, but zoning laws have a far bigger impact.

The same people who can't afford the rent anymore wouldn't want to live in (or next to) a highrise though, so the zoning laws still make sense.

It's not like NY wasn't already a shitty deal from a tenant's perspective before COVID. It just got a lot more shitty. From an investor's perspective, it doesn't look that bad. The selling pressure just isn't there.

For instance, if you're from China and you already own high-rise apartments in a Chinese ghost town, might as well scoop up something in not-quite-dead-yet NYC.

If "I no longer build software" doesn't resonate with you, you just haven't "been there". Again, you're probably in your twenties. Don't expect your rationalizations to last you into your forties.

If you're still a developer at the end of your forties, chances are you will lose your job and your spouse anyway.

> That's how the global economy works, for the time being.

Curiously, people in the less affluent countries report being happier. Also, in the US, most of the money you earn goes into someone else's rent: Your lease or mortgage, your car, your insurance, your loans, your taxes, and so on. It's the American Dream!

> Looking at the big picture, the economy is filled with people who are barely getting by, laid off due to pandemic, and working overtime or multiple jobs, to generate enough income in attempt to sustain life.

If you think those are your two options, that's fine. I'm not telling you to quit your job.

Money isn't everything. If you can do a job that pays less but doesn't depress you as much, you probably should go for it. You won't keep your job as a developer forever anyway, age discrimination is very real in the industry.

I haven't said that either.