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> ... to receive cloud reimbursements of up to $6,000 USD per month for up to six months

Yeah, but any application with that privilege can log all keystrokes and upload it to a third party. Obviously this privilege needs to be far more fine grained and have limitations, i.e. registering a hook on particular key combinations, rather than listening on all key events.

> the real continuing inexcusable outrage is that Windows, even today, grants all applications full access to read the titles of all windows with no way to disable it.

IIUC, X11 had the same problem, but Wayland allows sandboxing to prevent this?

And MacOS has some degree of sandboxing? But many applications require "Accessibility" permission that similarly gives far too many privileges?

I've been interested in this for years.

Are there other similar projects that you're familiar with? Perhaps targeting other languages?

What are the major problems with this approach to programming? Are large programs hard to work with?

That's very optimistic :)

Isn't it trivial for online poker providers to cheat, i.e. manipulate the cards you receive, and have a fake bot player at the table that can be made to win, etc. ?

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I'm not convinced that it would make a difference, in terms of protecting against genocide or state-sanctioned discrimination, because such metrics can be derived from a thousand other touch points, including search history, social media history/behavior, social network, and so on.

It does however harm the ability for well-meaning organizations to function.

Also, IIUC, China is communist but has a "socialist market economy", so the two are not mutually exclusive.

I tried and gave up on getting Keycloak to use less memory. 500-1500 MB for a server with less than 10 concurrent users is ridiculous. And that's even using an external database.

The problem with the JVM, compared to Go, is the GC; it requires a lot of reserved memory. Go programs use far less. And the SDK is bulky, which can be a problem for container images - although arguably it should be considered irrelevant, as you only download base images once, if done correctly.

I love Java in the same way.

But that free-thinking definition of Java clashes with the mainstream beliefs in the Java ecosystem, and you'll get a lot opposition at workplaces.

So I gave up on Java, not because of the language, but because of the people, and the forced culture around it.

I don't remember the original argument anymore. Something about communism being justification for US warmongering.

Personally I think 19th century communism was context-specific to the 19th century; we now have AI, and central planning could be done with the same computational efficiency as the stock market.

For me, communism is more about fundamental beliefs. Like "Do you believe in Jesus Christ as your savior?", the fundamental question is: do you believe that the state should serve all mankind, and that private ownership should never extend over more than what an individual can reasonably consume? Which then necessitates public service infrastructure and market places.

I think "social democrats" have more thoughts on practical applications. "Communism" is more about fundamental beliefs, i.e. the right to nationalize and collectivize private ownership. For example, it is increasingly clear that Microsoft, Amazon, etc. are becoming tyrants. They should have been broken up into smaller companies years ago. Imagine if Windows, Office, Xbox, Azure, etc. were each produced by fully independent companies? And if those companies were fundamentally obligated to serve the public market.

Try using Google Maps in Satellite View. You'd be hard pressed to find land that isn't used agriculturally.

IIUC, the land that is unutilized or has forest, is either protected, too hilly, too dry, etc.

"Communism" is the age-old American scarecrow that is used to justify the unjust.