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Yeah, I do. Usually when an "anti-imperialist" tells you to read more, that's what they mean. What are you thinking of, then, Settlers?

So, capitalism is itself defined more than one way depending on who's talking, and I only have a problem with some versions of it:

In the sense that certain people get to just own stuff, while others have to work, I'd say capping wealth at like 7 digits would be a simple solution. You can save up a few million across a high-earning but normal career, but nobody makes it to 8 unless they're a bigshot. Over time random social mobility should hopefully smooth out the remainder of class distinctions. If not, maybe 6 digits, although some dentists are going to be pissed.

In the sense that we organise our economy around profit motive and competition, I don't have an issue with it because it seems to work well. If you need to buy something, there's always somebody selling it and vice-verse. If you look at history, or at the crazy supply chains that exist to facilitate that, it's quite an achievement.

In the sense that people privately own the means of production, there's a bit of a trick deciding what the means of production even are. A foundry definitely counts, and a toothbrush definitely doesn't, but what about a van, which you could use personally or to transport people? You could licence them separately depending on use, but then you couldn't work as a "rideshare" even if there was a major shortage of taxis, which is dumb red tape. It's far more productive to talk about things in terms of their market value rather than getting any more granular, which is why the law usually does that.

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You have to see the issue there. The first one that definitely happened that comes to mind is the great molasses flood. It's not actually a funny thing and a lot of people died, but it sure is a funny concept.

The Hawaiians adding the Union Jack to their flag for no reason because they liked the design is also pretty top-tier.

Relevant XKCD.

Love you too.

Cool story. You're right, it's not an exact science, so why are you so sure about your perspective on it either? I think the answer is "identity".

As for my reading list, I've probably gotten further into Das Capital than you have, and it belongs on the side of electrification that it was written on.

Yeah, they have a very alternative interpretation of geopolitics and they're loud about it. If there was a flat earth instance with users that spammed every physics thread there would be some grumbling just the same.

Misleading headline, the main point of the note was to to avoid confusion with the West Bank which is under different and often opposing management, as you can see in the article.

That being said, denying Palestine's right to exist is exactly as wrong as denying Israel's, however wrong one may think that is.

The local copies cease to exist online. Remote copies on other instances stay. There's a number of communities I subscribed to that no longer exist independently, but which I can still see on my old instance, for example.

If coding teaches you anything well, there's no bound to the different ways you can screw up. Don't use bad languages on purpose.

I did know the difference, but I didn't realise it ran one line at a time! I had kind of assumed it at least did one pass through everything before giving output. Thanks.

I'm familiar with the early history, I've dabbled in it in modern times, and of course I've seen all the ways it's bad memed about ad-infinitum (and have to agree).

I didn't really think I had to be able to write a book on it to say it doesn't deserve the use it gets, and I don't think it's outrageous to imagine that there's a connection with the hasty genesis. So, I mentioned that off-hand. If it's actually unconnected my bad.

Which is kind of what all LLMs are doing. Guess the next word, and don't be wrong most of the time; repeat.

There's a lot more English-language data to start with, so it's inevitable they did this or else just trained it primarily in English.

Alright, thanks for the help with terminology. I'm a bit confused about changing types at runtime. I thought a compiled or interpreted language stopped having types at runtime, because at that point it's all in assembly. (In this case of course it's scripting, which someone pointed out to me elsewhere)

The standard itself is 7-bit, since wires were deemed more valuable than endpoint logic for the teletype machines way back then. If you're running it on an 8-bit byte machine you could do it either way, although I'm not sure what the point in parity checking individual characters is. Modern software uses 0.

Are they? I thought I'd heard this in an African context specifically. The jist was that there's endless roughly equivalent species that don't do multiple blood meals, which would basically just take their place for everything but spreading pathogens.

I wish there was a way to actually measure what people mean. As far as I can tell, there's a lot of people just like me who think the Palestinians have gotten an unfair shake, but have nothing against Jews, or in some cases actually are Jews. The actual antisemites are also quietly in the same spaces. I really don't think hate is the main motivator overall, but I can't prove it either.

Sadly, that particular chant is probably going to have even more staying power now that it's under attack.

TIL. Obviously I've avoided using it much.

So how does that work? Is there a few implicit conversions that are allowed, but if you really write something weird it will complain?

I'm going to say that's the exception that proves the rule, assuming they were structural parts and not a minor controller chip for de-icing or something.

The company themself announced it without being prompted, and if whoever introduce these unapproved parts into a small number of engines is caught there's going to be real hell to pay. The stuff that stops you from falling out of the sky is serious business, and is largely treated as such.

On the other hand, a software function that's hacked together and inefficient will just fly below the radar, and most people will prefer two cheap outfits to one that's actually well made for the same price, so quality goes right out the window.