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Without a plea bargain, he would have to worry about incarceration as soon as he stepped down, is my point.

I don’t know if we should be so sure that he will be gone in three years. There is no incentive for him to relinquish control peacefully. We’ll have to give him a plea bargain, or a pardon of sorts, to incentivise him stepping down. Without one his back will be against a wall (or iron bars in this case), and he will gladly escalate to stay in power to avoid incarceration.

Hot take - Along these lines video games score incredibly well.

Arguably not a “toy”, but it’s interesting to think about.

That bot is cute, but every kid is going to kick it over. Its not realistic to have in a park.

Sending funds overseas is much easier with crypto than with traditional banking.

For the most part all I need is an address. That’s it. Then it takes a couple minutes to transfer - done!

What do you think about zcash? They seem to have solved the private transactions problem, have a better anonymity set than monero (and are accepted at exchanges) and are actively working on faster consensus.

Disclaimer, I currently work at a zcash corp.

It pretty easy. I personally think it’s much easier than in traditional banking.

The hard part is that for day to day things you still need an on ramp and off ramp, but that is changing as merchants accept crypto directly.

Ah, yeah, I missed that one.

Yeah, which book are we talking about? Reamde features crypto heavily, but I remember having bitcoins at the time it came out.

Honest question here - is this getting downvoted because it’s untrue, or something else?

It would have to be a very special dart. Cars are mostly aluminum and foam. A piercing dart would be dangerous and a magnet would really work.

I think that's definitely a prevalent sentiment. There are enough scams that the stereotype is probably well earned.

Eh, I think this falls right into the traditional hacker ethos of doing what seems cool, it's just that what you think is cool may be different than what I think is cool.

I want to make games, but I know how much time that takes, so I understand that to make something cool I need funding to be able to focus on that cool thing. Crypto can be a tool in this case, and I personally would prefer mining to watching ads.

Hackers are great and analyzing systems and figuring out what they might support, despite the original designer's intentions.

How would you feel about a free game spending one frame per second mining a cryptocurrency? This would be as an alternative to a one-time purchase (and as an alternative to ads). So, you could play a full game for free, indefinitely, and have a small portion of compute do mining, and at any time you could pay a one time fee (purchase) to turn off mining forever.

(Edit: added stuff in parens)

That’s putting a pretty low price on human life.

It would be used by the right too, if they weren’t toadies.

Honest question- which one is fake?

Do you mean “but that doesn’t make AT&T _their_ boss”? Because in this scenario I’m paying AT&T, right?

Exactly. If Uber is really just providing a service to the drivers, the drivers should be paying a subscription to Uber while taking money directly from the customer.

(Edit) And they should be setting their own prices!

The 50’s called and wants all its mechanical lever-actuated extendo arm-clasps back!

Joking aside, the present always has a tangential future that never comes to be. Right now the current zeerust is “AI and robots doing everything”. Continuing to have humans do it is good enough.

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> Not practically possible in regular democracies.

In what kind of irregular democracy is this practical? Not arguing, just curious.

I'm not sure I would visit a subreddit called "fucknintendo" for an unbiased opinion on a Nintendo product.

> You’re constantly thinking about lifetimes, ownership, and borrow scopes, even for simple tasks.

As a professional Rust developer, I don’t find I do this. I occasionally think of those things. But I do remember a short adjustment period when I was learning Rust that I would get frustrated by the borrow checker. Of course, that’s it doing its job!

I will always reach for a language that has sum types, pattern matching and async support. Catching errors at compile time is a boon too. It doesn’t have to be Rust, but after those requirements- why not?

I don’t think that will happen. There are still problems with React and folks are going to address those problems, sometimes by rolling a completely new UI layer.

> it _feels_ like there should be a better way

Yeah, totally. I have those same feelings. It's hard to fight it because `.lock()` and friends do _feel_ heavy!

> but that, in turn, means that you have to lock that RwLock every frame, also not great.

Unless that RwLock is in contention to get acquired every frame I doubt it will add anything significant to the frame time. Worrying about things like this without profiling can cause a lot of unnecessary complexity when planning abstractions in Rust.

Furthermore- UI updates are usually all run from the same single thread, so it’s unlikely the other widgets could even contend for that lock! You might be able to get away with the lock approach and you may even be able to use Rc<RefCell<_>>, which would get a little speed up.

Sounds like a hypothesis! You should do a study on that.

> maybe people were thinking, ‘we’ll sacrifice some culture war things for this good economy that’s going to come from this administration.’ It doesn’t seem like that’s happening.