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Kratacoa··on The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded
Both sentences are false.

> The U.S main ideological exports of the last 50 years are neoliberalism, alt-right and techno-feudalism

U.S.A is responsible for the pervasiveness of social liberalism in the centre-left of Western countries, and more specifically the topics of its American version (the so called "wokeness"). It's distinct from neoliberalism, although academic left, and its pundits, like to use that misnomer for anything liberal they want to put down. And I want to point out that all of the terms you used are generally poorly defined.

> Its 2 party would register as far right and center right in basically any other country.

That's also wrong, just look at the current European landscape. American Democrats are not like CDU in Germany, Conservative Party in UK, PiS in Poland, etc. , but rather closer to the centre-left counterparts in the respective countries.

Kratacoa··on A new bridge links the math of infinity to computer science
And formalised mathematics are ignored in mathematical practice by most mathematicians, and even the ones that know of it often don't use that as a foundational language due to relative inconvenience.
Kratacoa··on ClojureScript 1.12.42
There are babashka and GraalVM as alternative backends for Clojure, who aim to be much lighter than JVM.
Kratacoa··on Don Knuth letter about libraries increasingly unable to afford prices (2003) [pdf]
All that stuff lands on LG/AA thanks to those who have subscriptions, i.e. libraries
Kratacoa··on Tell HN: Merry Christmas
I just read your comment. Anyhow, it was Ukrainian, and we adopted Gregorian calendar.
Kratacoa··on Tell HN: Merry Christmas
Бажаю вам всім приємного різдва :)
Kratacoa··on The Philosophy of Kakoune Editor
Kakoune doesn't have exactly a plugin system, but a module one. There are however various plugin managers.

Its customisation is obtained by exposing an interface to the shell with various parts of its functionality.

Kratacoa··on [dead]
Why does this website have nothing on Russia or China?
Kratacoa··on Pooling and Sharing of wealth makes everyone's wealth grow faster
This question seems to misunderstand the topic. The assumption here is not that there is no labor involves, but rather that it its amount is not what determines the value of something it's been put towards.
Kratacoa··on Pooling and Sharing of wealth makes everyone's wealth grow faster
To me it seems that it's an issue with the political class rather than with economical theory; at the very least, I've seen these policies denounced from the outset by the economists I follow.
Kratacoa··on Pooling and Sharing of wealth makes everyone's wealth grow faster
I'd recommend Dani Rodrik's Economics Rules that gives you a view of how economists work, what are their limitations and what is their skillset.

I'll try to answer your question through the lens of that book: the models that economists develop work under the models assumptions, and therefore they quite rarely fit well extremely complex phenomena like inflation; in general, economists treat the problems they face on a case per case basis by comparing different models outcomes', looking at the historical data, discussing the merits of the respective arguments for one or the other policy, and obviously depending on the specific goals you find more desirable (equality vs growth for example). The way the economy is ran is not necessarily representative of the economists consensus, or even that of the economists that are employed by the biggest policymakers, as the policies chosen might be the ones deemed more politically feasible, or more desirable for the particular politician's interests, and not the ones that are economically most sound and well-founded.

By the way, a topic I've been always fascinated by but never inquired further is that of social choice, wherein the economists analyse the incentives of classes such as that of policymakers.

Kratacoa··on Pooling and Sharing of wealth makes everyone's wealth grow faster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_theory_of_value#Criticis...
Kratacoa··on Pooling and Sharing of wealth makes everyone's wealth grow faster
> True. And I agree it seems like bullshit. Now consider the entirety of economics

Have you studied economics?

Kratacoa··on Pooling and Sharing of wealth makes everyone's wealth grow faster
> Well, it's not like mainstream econ cares about empirical evidences either...

Mainstream economics is tested against the real world, both through policies that assume certain models and against historical data.

Kratacoa··on Ask HN: What's the state of consumer genomics in 2023?
> The issue is that in most cases we don't have a way to reliable to say "mutation X causes y".

Why? Do you believe that it's mostly futile to use the SNP markers as clues for further exploration?

Kratacoa··on Ask HN: How do you organize work and personal computers at your home office?
I will not reply to the topic as I do not have any interesting bits to share, however Huberman Lab did a whole episode on optimising workspaces.

[1][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze2pc6NwsHQ].

Kratacoa··on OpenGL 3.1 on Asahi Linux
> But even this way, apple devices have by far the longest lifetimes, macs, iphones will have 2-3 owners easily - so is it really fair to call them out, or is it just baseless emotional reaction?

I would dispute this claim, e.g. Apple settles iPhone slowdown case for $500m[1], just the first link I found looking for "planned obsolescence apple" on DuckDuckGo. This is not exclusive to their iPhones as one can find with a quick search.

[1][https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51706635]

Kratacoa··on How to Beat Russia [pdf]
And you're seriously oversimplifying the situation, lacking in depth knowledge on the topic. Following the news, given the often precarious state of journalism, is not enough to have a "contrarian" (actually mainstream) opinion.
Kratacoa··on Ask HN: Is it worth it to move to London as a SWE?
The leave will be formalised, but it won't become completely effective till they will agree on the new trade rules; until then it will act economically as if it were part of EU.