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My thoughts as soon as I read the README: what’s wrong with asdf?

I’m not mad at what you’re saying. But politicians, in America at least, have no stomach for any such adjustments to the status quo.

You missed the point. There is no “middle class.” There is the proletariat and bourgeoisie.

I’m not sure of that. In fact, I hope that’s the outcome. I worry that capitalism has destroyed the revolutionary spirit.

Back that "most" up with facts. I'm not sure how much we can trust Zestimates.

> It incentivizes resource allocation most optimally, whatever optimality is within applied bounds.

Exactly. And in the current bounds the optimal allocation is more into the control of fewer. Also, capitalism is a zero sum game, thus the disincentive to give what you've got.

> By applying regulation and laws to the system, the bounds.

Sure. But those regulations and laws are being repealed or revised to be toothless. And there are many places on earth where laws have no meaning.

> And I can assume you're agreeing to pay the incredibly bloody tab destabilizing our society will have?

And capitalism doesn't have an incredibly bloody tab? Take a global perspective to see the many useless wars in the 20th and 21st century that have been fought to extend the market for capital.

Or consider that our planet is fucked by global warming thanks to "optimal resource allocation" which takes no account for long-term consequences, but only short term gains. Do you think that when the oceans rise, the plants die, and the water is too acidic to drink society won't be destabilized?

> isn't the issue that capitalism is amoral?

How can you call a system that disincentivizes collective care of one another "amoral"?

> but it means we need to augment capitalism

What a pithy phrase! You said yourself that capitalism doesn't incentivize those with to help those without. How do you augment capitalism to incentivize such behavior?

And to be clear, I'm not saying that the bourgeoisie should be helping. I'm just saying they don't. I think we should burn capitalism to the ground and build something better.

The middle class is the designation for the part of the population the owning class has duped into thinking they are temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

I'm in partial agreement with you. But I don't think the middle class will shrink, I think it will disappear.

The real threat to humanity from AI is not a Skynet or a Matrix like intelligence. The threat is that Artificial Intelligence WILL make labor irrelevant. When human capital has no value, we will disappear.

Don't kid yourself into thinking that those who owns the means of production will stop to help. If they were interested in that, they'd be doing it now. There's enough money and food to feed everyone on the planet. People still starve.

I love the uptake of neo-brutalism in web design. This site is a great example.

That’s the point. It’s invalid swift syntax, but it takes >40 seconds to tell you that.

I think this is the correct way to handle this. I don’t know how many times I’ve been stymied by integer arithmetic and precision loss by implicit conversion. How should this be handled? Should the int be converted to a double before the operation, should the double be converted to int before the operation, or should the result be converted to an int or a double? As someone who writes code in many languages in a day, these implicit conversion rules can be difficult to remember. It’s best to enforce the developer to be explicit about the intention.

This article is HN bait. This community is full of intellectual elitists who delude themselves into thinking that they are immune to the things that seduce common people. We’re all common people.

> Because we don’t live in a vacuum? I don’t want to be around erratic, constantly outraged and disinformation fed people. And before you say “well, you don’t have to”, keep in mind that those people hold as much voting power as you, possibly more, because hordes of fanatic will eat whatever shit their influencer overlords will tell them.

I would not rebut with “well, you don’t have to.” I know that we have to. But what is being complained about here is not a new problem enabled by the internet. Disinformation has been around as long as humanity has (see religion). This attitude that “those people” have as much voting power as I do is the kind of thinking that disenfranchised women and non white men. (As an aside, it’s funny that you think voting actually matters and that the populace has a say in anything that goes on in the halls of power).

This type of intellectual exercise is nothing more than mental masturbation: it serves only to make the writer feel good about himself. You can’t force others to value what you value. And you certainly can’t shame them into it by calling them intellectually obese.

> What exactly makes you so outraged about the article?

Don’t worry about me. I don’t feel called out by this article. I’m careful about what information I consume, don’t spend my time on socials or YouTube, and I’m comfortable with my choices. What irks me about this article is that it serves no purpose but to cut other people down for their choices that don’t harm others.

What a bunch of drivel. The way that the body processes sugar as an analogy for how the brain processes information is just wrong. This nonsense is the same kind of horseshit that’s been peddled for years about television and stinks like the work of Nicholas Carr who claims the internet is making us stupid.

So what if someone spends a ton of time consuming information you don’t think is useful? It doesn’t affect you. Get off your intellectual high horse and go for a walk.

I mean more that I always have to look it up to double check. But I like the tip to remember by thinking of the sequence and the numerical order. That does help!

I’ve not come across such a use case as I’ve only ever written applications where we own both the service and the clients. Thanks for the explanation.

I agree. I’ve never run into a situation in my professional work as a software engineer where there has been confusion about these two terms.

The only problem I have is that I can never remember which one maps to HTTP status codes 401 and 403. But that’s just a personal quirk.

Words mean specific things, let’s not dilute or overload the definitions of other words to avoid a confusion that may only exist in the mind of the individual writing the blog.

We already have so many overloaded terms in software engineering.

I keep reading criticism of JWTs that involves impersonation or replay attacks. With JWT (or non JWT bearer tokens) you use a refresh token. It seems to me that if an attacker gets a JWT they also have the refresh token. So how are JWTs inherently more insecure than other authentication methods? Almost all data passed over the wire nowadays is TLS encrypted.

In my projects, we have used encrypted JWTs and it seems to me a fine solution. Log out can be implemented in a user facing client by deleting the JWT and refresh token. Given a short enough expiration time, this is sufficient for most use cases involving user facing applications. Isn’t it? Generally, at least in the domains of the applications I’ve worked on, users only intend to log out of their current application when logging out. Meaning if they are signed in on their phone and on their desktop browser, when they sign out in the browser they don’t intend to also log out of their phone application.

The only downside I see is that if you want to log out of all sessions it is impossible to implement without maintaining session state in the server.

A good start to fixing the shortage of healthcare providers would be to permit more medical schools, allow more students in per year, and reduce the cost of an MD. Because medical school costs so much, more and more graduates are going into specialties because they won't make enough to cover their loans and live comfortably as a family doctor or general practitioner.

> I think the benefits of a capitalist healthcare system are underappreciated

What benefits? The benefit of mortgaging your home to pay for cancer treatment? The benefit of having your access to healthcare directly tied to your employment (especially considering that many wage workers are kept from working more than 35 hours a week lest they become eligible for employee sponsored health plans)? The benefit of having folks like Martin Shkreli corner the market on generic drugs and raise the prices, not because manufacturing costs have risen but because they are seeking windfall profits?

Seriously, what benefits? We have this silly notion that capitalism provides us with choice, and that this choice is a desirable good in itself. Choice is overrated. Health care is a commodity. You walk into any doctor with a broken arm, diabetes, COVID, pneumonia, depression, or any one of hundreds of other maladies, and the treatment for those will be the same regardless of the physician or the hospital or the clinic.

Totally legal. You can have your doctor prescribe 50mg Naltrexone and 300mg Bupropion and you can take them at the same time every day. It's the same drugs in the same ratios. Contrave is not novel in any way. There's substantial prior art. And yet a patent was granted to cover this combination and prevent anyone else from taking two generic drugs and combining them into one pill.

> Capitalism actually works if you let it.

This argument is always that if the government would just step out of the way the private market would provide for everyone and there would be full employment. As though somehow things like minimum wages and OSHA are what keep capitalism from reaching its full potential. As though things were better in the 19th century.

I've read Friedman and Hayek. The world they wanted is a terrifying world indeed.

Not really sure what that has to do with anything. It would be easy for the USA to keep Novo Nordisk from doing business within its borders and have a nationalized pharmaceutical company produce the drugs at cost.

This is a very disingenuous argument. There's a huge difference between a doctor making $300k a year and a relatively small amount of people making millions (or billions) selling easily mass produced chemicals at prices that can't be afforded out-of-pocket. And you know this, but you think you're being clever. It's not clever.

When it comes to pharmaceuticals, the patents are ridiculous. Take for example Contrave[0]. It is a combination of Naltrexone and Bupropion, both of which are no longer under a patent. Put them both in the same pill and it's under a new patent.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naltrexone/bupropion

The USA should nationalize the health care industry and all the pharmaceutical companies. Illness should not be a source of profit.

Start teaching. Join a group that teaches programming to underprivileged folks, communities that are marginalized or underrepresented in the tech world, ex-cons, etc. I teach at a diverse state university and it has rekindled my passion for computer science. There’s something rewarding about watching confused students “get it.”

Great story about an attempt to make just such a calendar[1].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Dreaming-Code-Programmers-Transcenden...

The Android SDK is well documented with examples throughout and hyperlinked to examples and posts which explain some content in greater depth.