I use Rust and C at work. I quite enjoy Rust, but I currently have no reason to believe C won't outlive it, by a lot.

I get that too many regulations is a bad thing. But when we talk privacy and personal data there should be no gray zone. It has to be black and white. When I see a stupid cookie banner I search for "Reject all". There's no some data that companies can collect and process without my consent, they just shouldn't be able to collect anything without me actively opting in. Business never respects anything, but profits. Seeing news about relaxing these laws with the "AI" going after this leaves a bitter taste. And with them also trying to push the Chat Control thing, it gets even worse.

`free(NULL);` will crash on some platforms that gcc supports, I believe.

So it’s pretty clear we need to adopt solar radiation management r&d asap. Because that is the only feasible way we will stabilize the heat balance in the next few decades.

The total salary would go down if you did that

They might get another job.

People dont think holistically about the economy. They think there are jobs. When they go there are that fewer jobs. Immigrants come in a steal jobs. Etc.

But in an economy, each richer consumer creates more jobs. The McD employees now buy better food, creating work for that supply chain. Or they can pay for education. Or they buy a takeaway coffee more often.

The immigrants who come and do jobs work hard for lower pay them spend that money into the economy.

If the total salary has gone up, for less work done, it is a positive change. You can solve the inequal distribution via taxes and benefits.

Start: 100 people paid $100

After minimum wage change: 90 people paid $125, 10 people paid $0

After tax increase: 90 people paid $113 + $12 taxes, 10 people paid $108 from taxes

Now everyone is paid at least as much as they were before, and fewer people are forced to perform labour

In practice it was only 3% unemployment not 10%, which means the tax increase is less and there is more of an incentive to continue working. You can also pay the displaced workers less than their original wage, to reach an equilibrium where everyone is happy with either work+more money, or leisure+less money. Or have it be age-based with an earlier retirement. Or have people work part-time.

We need to stop seeing having a job as being inherently good. Being able to live is good. Humanity should strive for 100% unemployment.

They are working the same hours elsewhere for free?

Small decrease in employment in exchange for ~25% higher wages for those employed? Did I get that right? Obviously every single row in the dataset is a unique human, but overall sounds like a big success?