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Don’t touch things unless you have a good reason to do so. And when you have a good reason, touch it exactly as much as you need - but never more.

This assumes a lot about how Reddit works internally. They might just store every edit of each comment forever.

Assassins will be assigned to the assassins assigned to the assassins!

At the time it was their lowest selling home console ever. Only Wii U has done worse since. Meanwhile PlayStation 2 is the highest selling console of all time - even to this day. The disappointing figures of GameCube led Nintendo to find their own niche with Wii.

GameCube is still my favorite game console of all time.

No worries! I love conversations bashing on 00s-style OOP principles.

And I’m confused why I got two comments going into the OOP tangent, when I made no mention about it at all.

Programmers are hyped about Rust. It’s a programming language that has a legitimate chance to replace C and C++ for performance critical applications. So any new project in Rust increases the possibility of a future where C and C++ are programming languages of the past.

Rust has many safeguards against some common errors that may cause security vulnerabilities. It’s by no means bulletproof against all vulnerabilities, but it’s something.

Socialist ideas is to move away from the idea of private ownership. Everything is owned by the “people” in collective (which in practice often means the state). You don’t own your cellphone, your computer or your shoes. They’re all provided to you by the “people” (the state).

The roads in your example are paved by private companies in a competitive market (often funded by tax money). They may have been selected by the state to do the work at an agreed price. Next time some other private company might do the work because they compete with even better prices. This process is not socialistic.

I like some of the goals of it (like evening out the economical inequalities), but I don’t think socialism is the right way to do it. Democratic welfare state systems found in Western European countries are much better solutions (and hasn’t turned into authoritarian tyrannies).

UBI might also be a good option, but currently there have been no large scale implementation of it yet.

We’re long past the hunter-gatherer reality with a world population of 20,000, which your post concerns.

Even ants and bees falls into the trap of having one tyrannical leader all the workers are serving.

Capitalism takes into account for basic facts like human nature.

It’s mentioned in the post

Because I can get my fucking point across without them

In that case Apple’s board of directors is about as diverse as Microsoft and Google.

They changed owners or something a few years ago, which means Roman Mars got more time to work with actual podcast stuff instead of being a manager.

99 percent invisible is a good one. It’s about the stories behind things we take for granted in the world. It can be anything between ambulances, country borders and the lyrics of who let the dogs out.

It was a long time ago I played it, so I’m not sure how well it has aged.

But I recommend Ty the Tasmanian Tiger. It’s a platformer where boomerangs are your weapon. Over time you unlock different kinds of boomerangs with different perks (like fire boomerangs or exploding boomerangs). I remember it being quite fun at the time.

The terminal is a power tool. I can do stuff with it that’s slow or inconvenient with graphical tools.

I really like the piping capabilities of the Linux terminal. Incredibly useful for text processing.