johnpmayer

Whoa - I was there! This was at a small elm-lang meetup; Prezi hosted this while Evan was working there.

Thank you for sharing this link!

Unless it turns out that strong protections for intellectual property rights isn't correlated with the survival of a sovereign nation. Then it won't matter how loudly the international community complains; China will just do its thing. They're large enough and have the agricultural and industrial base to weather isolation in the way that Iran/Russia do not.

Well yeah, that apparent injustice is the ethical rationale behind a progressive wealth tax, once you've decided to enforce property rights.

A home produces rents. If you live in the home that you own, you can think of it equivalently as a productive asset that provides you one unit of free rent (modulo some quality of life factor based on how nice the property is to live in) every month.

Credit allows people to purchase things beyond their current wealth but rather within their future means to pay (their future productivity and trustworthiness). This is particularly useful for those who aren't born into wealth: Credit is practically the only way for normal folks to access productive capital, such as a home that allows you to avoid paying rent, or an education that in theory makes you more productive in the future.

You are correct to point out that the prediction of one's future ability to pay (their future productivity and trustworthiness) is difficult. But I think eliminating credit (at least when used to purchase productive capital) is throwing the baby out with the bath water.

Yep. It boils down to wanting to work at a place where it's OK to make mistakes, but unacceptable to not learn from mistakes. It's a culture thing, and it comes from the top.

This is silly and short-sighted. There are many people who genuinely want to 'serve and protect', multiple generations in some families. Some people take duty very seriously and in good faith. Applying to be a cop in no way implies that a person holds arrests and the use of deadly force as anything other than a necessary component of the real-world, end-to-end justice system.

> more than one train on a line at a given time.

Seems like the system is capable running different trains in different sections; the pressure/vacuum system is distributed and segmented down the length of the line.

I mean, it's all about "for whom" in this question. What's better, widgets and a polluted stream, or no widgets? Depends on whether society values the fish.

Sure, but then you're paying an attorney, not a bot.

QE is monetary policy. The (somewhat simplified) difference between the two: Fiscal policy is taxes and expenditures; monetary policy is what your central bank does.

There's probably going to be something like do-notation in Elm 0.16.

Authorization is a good fit - express your groups and roles as facts and rules (primitives) and then queries are... queries.