kazoomonger

> The poor do not elevate the poor out of poverty.

What a bizarre, paternalistic take. This is the same sort of narcissistic logic that led to Reagan's golden showers^W^W trickle-down economics.

I mean, I agree about entrepeneurs. Historically, the thing that has lifted communities out of poverty has been entrepeneurs in that community that contribute back to it. In other words, the poor very much elevate the poor out of poverty.

The rest of your comment (e.g. "and, yes, the rich") is just weird apologetics for people that don't need it, and can pay for it anyways, so why are you wasting your time doing it for free?

It's not a "no true Scotsman" argument because "help" is a vague term to begin with.

Lots of churches say nice things while extracting maximum revenue from their congregation. Can you point to any actual political changes that have occurred as a result, or is it just some nice words?

They really don't. You're misusing the word "lobby".

Churches and charities don't lobby politically for poor people, they take them on as a righteous burden to bear. Some churches and charities are even used as tax breaks for rich people.

Unions used to, to some degree. They've mostly been neutered and have very limited political capital.

"It's everybody" just does not capture reality.

I got a tax benefit semi-recently by buying an electric car, about $7500. It was the largest I've ever gotten. Compare that to one small crumb of Trump's tax deductions that was covered by the New York Times. A $70k tax deduction for hair styling.

It's just not the same. Wealth gives you an outsized influence on politics, which lets you accumulate more wealth, at a faster rate than those poorer than you.

That was a lot of extra words around the crucial bit:

> It is based on incentivizing behavior through tax breaks/credits.

Who do you think has time and money to spend lobbying for new tax breaks to their benefit? Hint: it's not the poor

In sane countries, the "popular view" holds, as it should. Not so much in the US, though. The IRS knows how much I make, I want them to send me a form that says "we think you made this much, if that's true and you have no fancy deductions, sign here".

Then I just sign a form and return it instead of slogging through the bullshit that Intuit et al has lobbied for.

When using tooling that accepts YAML (or JSON) configuration, I always want something to say "this is what you can write that will have an effect".

As a specific example, when I'm writing a snapcraft.yaml, I want to be able to view a schema to see what all I can put in there. What's important is that the schema is actually used by snapcraft itself for validation, otherwise it's no better than the rest of the snapcraft documentation, which is pretty meh. Schemas are also easy to digest for other tooling, so e.g. my editor can automatically highlight when I make a mistake, without having to specifically write a plugin for each tool that accepts JSON/YAML

You cannot seriously be trying to advocate for hospitals being run with unvaccinated staff.

> We treated your asthma attack, sorry about the covid that you got while you were here, hope those two things don't affect each other

I have to agree with the other commenter that you're either not arguing in good faith, or you're so blindly ideologically driven that you've thrown basic reasoning skills out the window.

This is a pretty lazy dismissal that doesn't even make clear the connection you're trying to make.

How is open salary information the same as paying everyone $1M/year?

THC is still illegal at the federal level, if that's what you mean. The federal government is just being dragged kicking and screaming into sanity by individual states that are legalizing it.

I think you're looking in the wrong places. I recently bought a nice bike for $600 that worked great on a 100 mile ride. If I hadn't gone to the fancy, trendy bike co-op, it probably would've been cheaper.

Since I can't edit the above comment, one additional thought is that your criticism is valid for a language like Python, which has a much higher tolerance for abstractions such as green threads being built into the language itself. It would've been interesting if Python had gone with a solution other than async/await.

I'm also a little confused when you say "Rust started with green threading/fibers". I think the term "fiber" is overloaded here, but Rust did start with green threads (M:N preemptive multitasking). Rust now has support for cooperative multitasking via async/await. From what I can find of UCMG, it kind of misuses the term fiber. Looks like it's just green threads that the kernel is aware of?

> But 10 years out it's not entirely implausible that if Rust had stuck with fibers that it may have driven the required OS improvements ...

Rust would've been a language nobody had heard of. It wouldn't have driven anyone to do anything because it wouldn't have had widespread adoption in the first place. As-is I'm using it in embedded programming and loving it. I certainly would never have picked Go for that.

I think you're not really understanding Rust's approach here. Green threads would be much too heavyweight to build into the language itself, and would mostly preclude it from being seriously used in interesting domains like embedded programming.