phildawes

Not op but I guess the assumption here is that people would rather have less responsibility so need to be compensated to have more? I'm not sure this is true, but don't know if responsibility is its own reward. Maybe the status that responsibility conveys is?

I think the exercise is more about exposing you to other solution options (to 'break your anchoring bias'). You still have to exercise judgement as to which solution is right for the situation.

I don't think he's saying 'it cannot be physically made to work (given enough effort and discipline)'. The impression I got was more like 'if you go down this route then the incremental path of least resistance leads somewhere bad'.

but if any of those common libraries allocate short lived objects, doesn't that ruin things?

You can make that argument about anything. How about betting on a timeframe?

Memory safety with no unpredictable gc latency

depends on the price

He's saying that by getting stock grants the workers own the means to production (=socialism, sort of)

What about order cancels - would you similarly limit those?

Crashed markets reflect a real difference in what people are prepared to pay for assets. That has a real direct impact on how people plan and behave.