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FWIW, I read that to mean "not shared with the backend".

One of the reasons that Apple does a bit of due diligence during the onboarding of a developer and establishing a developer agreement is to ensure they can reliably take legal action against developers that abuse the system.

The possibility of being banned from the Apple App Store ecosystem and/or legal reprisals is one way to deter unwanted behavior that can't be blocked through technical means.

Scandinavia is not an example of socialism and these countries and aren't trying to implement "equity of outcomes".

> We don't really need equality, we need an equitable outcome.

Let's set aside for a moment that it isn't even clear that "equitable outcome" at the level of a society is desirable, lets just consider the fact that every attempt to use force (i.e. government regulations, taxes, penalties, laws, etc.) to move significantly in that direction has resulted in catastrophe with the societies devolving into systems of corruption, authoritarianism, and scarcity. Have you discovered some new mechanism to avoid that outcome?

How many times do we need to experiment with communism, socialism, or other utopian philosophies before we realize they don't lead to a better society?

The Earth, without humans, has had much higher CO2 levels in the past and yet it isn't like Venus.

Nope. I was asserting that confusion comes from people believing that a "lossless" conversion exists. Sorry if that wasn't clear.

The biggest misunderstanding I see in these types of discussions is that there is a lossless conversion between binary floating point representation and decimal representation.

Very few values have exact decimal and binary floating point representations.

> the env work is just to prevent Venus #2

There is no science-based predictions that climate change as we understand it today, will lead to Venus #2. That idea is just fodder for climate hysteria and sci-fi fantasy films.

> It's a race between turning into venus and turning into mad max's thunderdome.

It is hard to tell how serious you are in that comment, but just in case, worrying about runaway greenhouse gas effect turning Earth into another Venus is climate hysteria.

Poorly thought out energy policies due to climate hysteria have a good chance at creating considerable political unrest though (not sure about "thunderdome" level of unrest).

Turns out when you restrict access to energy (e.g., by increasing its cost), people get upset.

> Ruby is slow and encourages an esoteric convention over configuration style of OO code.

I think you are commenting on Rails, not Ruby when you refer to "convention over configuration". Even in Rails I'm not sure what "esoteric" means in your comment and that approach isn't even related to the object-oriented concepts.

> the professors are literally practicing communism and giving away the book for free.

Ah, no. That isn't communism.

Does your theory apply to the content consumed during the training of LLMs? If not why not? Where should we draw the line regarding intellectual property rights?

> Would you criminalize 'approaching' someone

That is a very misleading summarization. It is a short article. The law requires several conditions:

    * approach a police office
    * approach has to occur "knowingly or intentionally"
    * the officer has to be "lawfully engaged in the execution of his official duties"
    * the approach has to happen *after* the person has been ordered "stop approaching or retreat

Your definition of "solved" is quite a bit different than my definition of "solved". Especially if you are going to just pretend that the economics aren't to be included in the solution.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by 90%. 90% of what?

You can't just have 90% of power generated by renewables and 10% by fossil fuels because there are times when you get 0% from renewables and so your fossil fuel plants need to provide 100% of the power. So you spent all that money on renewable infrastructure and didn't even get the benefit of shuttering your fossil fuel plants.