i'm curious who you think pays american tarrifs
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hollerith commented on AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers: study cnbc.com/2025/08/28/gener... · Posted by u/pseudolus
Tariffs are just a massive government revenue generating consumption tax on particular industries. We would expect unemployment among the young trying to enter those industries to be hit hardest.
Do you understand that American employers don't have to pay American tariffs?
hollerith commented on Unexpected productivity boost of Rust lubeno.dev/blog/rusts-pro... · Posted by u/bkolobara
Yes, the secret of Rust is that it offers both a) some important but slightly subtle language features from the late '70s that were sadly not present in Algol '52 and are therefore missing from popular lineages b) a couple of party tricks, in particular the ability to outperform C on silly microbenchmarks; b) is what leads people to adopt it and a) is what makes it non-awful to program in. Yes it's a damning indictment of programming culture than people did not adopt pre-Rust ML-family languages, but it could be worse, they could be not adopting Rust either.
>important but slightly subtle language features from the late '70s
Programming-language researchers didn't start investigating linear (or affine) types till 1989. Without the constraint that vectors, boxes, strings, etc, are linear, Rust cannot deliver its memory-safety guarantees (unless Rust were radically changed to rely on a garbage collecting runtime).
>it's a damning indictment of programming culture than people did not adopt pre-Rust ML-family languages
In pre-Rust ML-family languages, it is harder to reason about CPU usage, memory usage and memory locality than it is in languages like C and Rust. One reason for that is the need in pre-Rust ML-family langs for a garbage collector.
In summary, there are good reasons ML, Haskell, etc, never got as popular as Rust.
What did he address that forum about, that caused this reaction? What was the claim against him?
I forget what he addressed the forum about. This happened about 7 y ago.
ESR writes a blog where he extolls libertarianism and is often skeptical of political progressivism.
I was. My parents had first versions of analog cell phones and they were truly live savers no one ever complained about how they will destroy society.
From the start, people complained about how cell-phone users felt entitled to talk on them in public libraries, movie theaters and on public transportation.
I heard George Friedman on the GP Futures podcast yesterday saying that the US considers present-day India to be a minor player. Sacrificing India to bring Russia to the negotiating table and to signal to China that it is not being encircled is a low-risk high-reward play. No one is going to remember this in a couple of decades when India will be big enough to matter.
He accepts that the US is being hypocritical when it asks India to stop buying Russian oil while it has its own dealings with Russia. But it is the implementation of the adage "do as I say, not as I do" to politics. Basically, the US does what it wants because it can.
This is precisely why I pay zero attention to arguments based on morality/hypocrisy/do-the-right-thing in politics/geopolitics. Might was/is/will always be right.
(I heard that episode.)
I'm reminded of Richard Nixon's explanation for his diplomatic opening towards China: according to Nixon, the only countries that matter are the US, the European countries, the USSR, Japan and China.
hollerith commented on World's Tallest bridge completes key load-bearing test [video] bbc.com/news/videos/c5y3r... · Posted by u/thunderbong
China has built so much amazing infrastructure in the last 10 years. Somehow it does not get noticed by the rest of the world. Personally, I think it is because the rest of the world does not want to acknowledge the truth, which is that they are legitimately a superpower.
China needs to keep young men employed to reduce the probability of riots and revolts. Unlike the US's private sector, China's private sector is incapable of employing enough young men, so the government employs many of them in building roads, rail lines, dams, bridges, cities, etc.
I'm not particularly impressed, especially when I see video of new cities with almost nobody living in them.
But why?
The Chromebook user makes a doc, closes the lid, and finds their doc on their phone or web later.
Why wouldn't the Windows user get the same UX?
The expectation is that your data's available anywhere. Even linux users are going to want backups of their own choice so it's available anywhere.
Maybe the user has turned off internet connectivity to help himself to stop procrastinating on the web to help him get the document written.
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