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Comment · 11 months ago
Never underestimate the amount of people that just go where the wind blows
Comment · 1 year ago
I'm saying be more specific not less
Comment · 1 year ago
Haha oh you're right, was misframing in my head the word countable as meaning finite.

I even provide the definition of countable infinity in my counterargument without realising it, though maybe that too is a misunderstanding.

Comment · 1 year ago
You are right because you can recursively add clauses. 'Buffalo buffalo...' or 'This was my dad's dad's dad's...' If you think you have a full set you can always add one more
Comment · 1 year ago
I meant here, though I think there is also tendency in general

As a side note I think the state of current discourse has shown that anything other than concrete language presents too much opportunity to talk past each other. So I don't think talking about yimbys is specific enough (and its too tempting to strawman). Same for magas and libs, they are broad labels for a broad spectrum of people

Comment · 1 year ago
That's kinda the whole point, but noone is framing that situation as the problem. They would rather think that homeless people are innately inferior and thus deserve to suffer, rather than victims of circumstance in one way or another.
Comment · 1 year ago
It never changed from the single-income household era. And people wonder why the high street is dying.
Comment · 1 year ago
The government is accountable (in theory). The government is a different kind of entity with different behaviour to a single human, or even a corporation. Your argument is a semantic one and was not made in good faith I think...

But if the government acted more selfishly , like a corporation (it's heading that way), then yes you are also competing with the government in certain areas. It partly depends if the billionaires in question and your semi-fictional idea of government are colluding directly. In which case you would be competing with a n-trillion dollars of capital for things like housing, some of which is controlled by billionaire beneficiaries. Essentially government monopolies are what you might be worried about, which do exist.

In reality the government also spends some of its money on infrastructure and other common-goods, which creates common wealth. The government (with central banks) also creates money so the idea of direct competition (which makes no sense to me outside of something like sovereignty over large amounts of land / mineral wealth / taxable subjects ) isn't so relevant.

Comment · 1 year ago
If you are competing for resources with billionaires, who's taxes also go down, you are losing money.
Comment · 1 year ago
Compute shaders from a high-level pipeline perspective. How data moves from CPU and between shaders to accomplish a task.
Comment · 1 year ago
Thanks. Yes I was thinking more about the (traditionally) CPU side of graphics or games, things like CPU skinning or skeletal animation.

I was wondering mostly about the FFI overhead. So the question should really be, is it suitable for real-time low-latency contexts? But I have your answer :)

I still would love to find a use for it one day. If there's ever a chance you could go the futhark route and allow for compilation of CPU/GPU routines I think it would be an ideal kind of syntax.

Comment · 1 year ago
Is it possible to use BQN in a high performance context? How much overhead does the runtime, and FFI have? Could it be used for graphics?
Comment · 1 year ago
How much savings do you have? Is it used for rent-seeking behaviour? I think that's the key issue the country is facing.

If you have a little padding no-one will be coming for you.

Everyone in power is desparately trying dance around tax reform. When you tax productive work much more heavily than unproductive work (looking at our etf holdings grow and crowding out home/business owners with buy-to-lets), you are going to get stagnation.

Comment · 1 year ago
it’s more about wealth. You need a functioning welfare state to allow people to take risks
Comment · 1 year ago
I see the logic there, though I think there's more to it. Like quality of work, and reward structures for hard work. Carrots work much better than sticks, with much lower risk of social unrest.

I think those on the broad right are also undervaluing the power of idle hands at this point in time: some small percentage curious people with free time are largely responsible for innovations in society that everyone benefits from, the rich most of all.

We still need at this point, new ideas with which to feed into the training data of the coming AI labor decimators.

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