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Childish Western philosophers. Not a single mention of Indian metaphysics which has deeply studied this problem. Not to be taken seriously.

Coding is transforming a set of problems into a particular level of abstraction. Higher levels of abstraction exist (team, business model, etc.) and it's perfectly fine to find them more fulfilling and interesting as one goes. I haven't coded in years as a result of being a founder and then CTO of a largish company. I don't miss it because my head is in a completely different place but equally absorbed in solving problems. And people are fascinating - hacking people, groups, teams, customers etc. is much more fuzzy and presents interesting problems as well.

Biometric collection is always for specific purpose. General purpose, compulsory biometric ids exist only in Malaysia IIRC.

If the creator of this is reading this - can you please stop flipping the board every time we click 'Next move'? It makes it impossible to follow the game. Thanks

Try having a default value for a key in a JSON document that isn't null. In Go, this is pure torture. Then compare with the serde library for Rust. Go's lack of generics makes this kind of use case much harder than reasonable.

so is not having women in STEM. Pick your poison.

The JQ stackoverflow community is VERY helpful.

Cannot accept user inputted script for json transform because Security nightmare! That's JQ's and JMESPath's secret sauce.

JMESPath is nowhere near us powerful. No unique(), for example, which is very important when munging JSON

The problem is not of small modules. The problem is lack of dependability. If the language patrons stand behind a set of modules and guarantee continuity and availability, it really doesn't matter what is in them and the world can continue regardless of how insane the module or the whims of any one author. This is not about the technical merits of having or not having a stdlib. The module in question could have been anything.

Making this about is-positive-integer misses the point that this is a social/political problem not a technical one. A language ecosystem must address concerns of business continuity as first class concerns.

Correct. You can discharge any financial obligation with the legal tender and the recipient is obliged to accept it. We're saying the same thing.

Yes and at some point you need a token of value. Imagine the plight of the itinerant tradesman as he herds his chickens through the forest from village to village simply so he can trade.

No no, food is far too cumbersome to be a token of value. Much better to slip a tiny token into ones waistband and exchange it in the markets. Gold was an exceedingly good token of value.

Diamonds are not currency because they are not easily divisible. But they have been a store of value for centuries now, and that makes them money.

The value of gold depends on the supply of it. The value of silver depends on the supply of it. The value of gold does not depend on the supply of silver. The two are separate currencies.

So for a currency to be stable, its supply has to be stable. The supply of other things need not be.