Noughmad @ Noughmad @programming.dev

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There's nothing "inexpensive" about that though.

On the other hand, I recently started doing the other kind of magic with cards. That sounds really cheap, all you need is a $5 deck of Bicycle cards, some YouTube tutorials, and you're all set. Turns out, that can be a money sink as well if you decide to go deep (or wide) enough. Still far less than MTG though.

Most people are rational actors

Have you met any people?

Where are the bridges? How do you walk from one side to the other?

Oh yeah, right, of course. But how do you even drive from one side to the other?

It is great because it allows you to eliminate bad candidates very quickly. It can't be the only test, but it's very useful as the first one.

I think they meant 3/7/21 instead of the standard 3/5/15.

Um ... Tankies and Nazis often disagree with each other. Are they both doing something right?

A Windows version becomes considered "good" the exact moment a next version is released. No sooner, no later. Those are the rules.

Also state capitalism, the economic system of the USSR.

No Niles?

I was a pretty big fan of Frasier so I'll probably try to see at least one episode (when I can get it in Europe), but I don't have hopes up. It seems nobody else does either.

On the other hand, Rodney Trotter? This just seems weird.

The wealth will finally trickle down!

There's a great test for programmers called FizzBuzz. It's an extremely easy task - print some numbers (maybe 1 to 100), but replace them with Fizz if they're divisible by 3, by Buzz if they're divisible by 5, or by FizzBuzz if they're both.

Many reasonable people consider it way too easy - if you can write this, it doesn't mean that you can write complex programs, or that you know the applicable languages, or that you know anything about the business domain.

But interviewers know that it's a great test because a lot of so-called programmers still fail it.

Everyone will call you a market socialist because that’s what you want.

Yes.

And despite all your railing against anything resembling a free market, I still don't see any downsides of that.

"free markets", the fundamental ideology of capitalism

Wrong already. The fundamental ideology of capitalism is that people with capital reap the profits (through control of means of production, but also means of living). You can shorten that to "rich get richer". But nothing related to markets.

In fact, there were several instances of capitalist economies without a free market. Nazi Germany comes to mind - the government bought weapons, supplies, and everything else, but they were contracted from private corporations controlled only by "desirable" individuals. Other wartime economies apply here too, to a lesser degree - with rationing but still private ownership.

And yes, capitalists are always afraid of a genuinely free market, because they don't want competition.

The two cases were "do (meaning 'emulate') their economy and policies" and "do (meaning 'have sex with') their people". No "have" anywhere.

Do you understand that a law banning slavery is a piece of regulation? Would you agree that society is more free with that regulation, or less free?

The same logic applies here. The market is free when everyone can freely participate in it. Which means that we have to stop (regulate) those who want to prevent people from participating (i.e. monopolists).

Read the comment that I replied to. It does not say "have", but "do".

They didn't say "be" Scandinavia, but "do".

Also tankies claiming to be anti-imperialist when people want to leave your empire.

I actually don't know, neither happened so far. Let's find out.

Do you mean their economy and policies, or their people? In either case, I agree.