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Either you're trying to gaslight me, or we're on completely separate levels. This will be my last attempt at interfacing with you.

> Congratulations for your situation in life and happiness. Many people will never know that.

Correct.

> Then you must feel very privileged because of your ethnicity, your country of citizenship, and education.

That's the point. My political ideology is not self-serving. I am part of those who benefit from the status quo. I recognize all of that.

> You're the one that raised the example of the garbageman/artist and just because I point out some flaws in that example, your personal situation makes this a strawman?

You did not even allude to the "garbageman/artist" example. You insinuated that I was "complaining" and "feeling entitled to other people's money", which is trite conservative bullshit.

If we keep "sanitation work" and other difficult, menial tasks to their minimum rather than putting people to work for profit first and foremost, then the people who DO clean toilets and collect garbage will have more time in their week to find purpose and actualization elsewhere. Currently they are overworked and alienated and you would have us believe that's a necessary thing.

I am a white, male software developer. I have absolutely nothing to complain about or envy others. Find something more solid to lean on than a straw man.

If those who feel entitled to the work of others enrage you, then perhaps you should point your anger at the parasitic bourgeoisie who siphon wealth away from society for doing absolutely nothing useful.

What if you are a garbage man and an artist? What if you collect garbage for, say, three days a week?

How much of your labor is absolutely necessary, and how much of it consists in generating surplus wealth for the benefit of your capitalist overlords?

I'm personally hoping "post-capitalism" takes off

Utah will be uninhabitable. You'll have to struggle for survival in the Manitoban jungle.

> Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

Like it or not, it matters why you believe things are "going a little to far", and why you're willing to be vocal about it

To be honest you don't need to work very hard to achieve this.

> The World's Top 26 Welfare Recipients Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion, Says Oxfam

> Argon2 is a key derivation function, the winner of the password hashing competition and should be used for new projects. In case it isn't available, use Scrypt. Any other KDF is nonoptimal.

Probably not worth going for the marginally-better-but-new-and-fancy KDF if you don't have a reliable implementation available for your language.

Pretty much agree with everything else otherwise

How does waving your hands in the air "feel more human" than using your opposed-thumb-equipped hands to interact with some material object?

Primordial guac

I think there's a difference between "enthusiast market segment" and "investment commidities". Also even Yamaha grand pianos aren't typically purchased by individuals. More like venues, etc. AFAIK most of those prestigious Steinway models wind up in the lobbies of luxury hotels. Point is those things justify their prices in a way that $1500 keyboards don't.

But honestly I'm being cynical for no reason here. Those guy can spend money on whatever makes them happy. I am in no place to judge.

Seems less like diminishing returns and more like mass hysteria at this point. The only people I personally know of who are as detached from the rest of the market are those guys who collect Telecasters.

We're talking about an office here, not a SS regiment.