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Java - write once run anywhere*

*: Conditions may apply.

I do like the concept that developers need to submit to yearly flogging to keep the app in the app store. Otherwise there'll be millions of orphaned apps and thousands with duplicate functionality.

By mandating a yearly punishment the number of apps will fall through attrition and your app stands a bigger chance to get noticed.

Well, you started this chain by making a comment stating that there is no ethics without god. That comment was both factually wrong (I’m sure you can find plenty of faithless people doing amazing things), and insular in that it claims virtue is unreachable to those without faith.

Maybe you should take this criticism as an opportunity to research examples of people that don’t share your faith, but whose positions you respect. I’m sure you can find some.

> and now the world is run by tech executives who don’t have a clue.

They do have a clue, what's missing is any sort of belief in the value of ethics.

> [diplomacy] was inducted into Games Magazine’s hall of fame alongside Monopoly, Clue, and Scrabble.

It takes a diplomacy player to deliver such a backhanded accolade.

I suspect the industry wants to be regulated, but not like that.

This has been happening for decades. It's pretty common in summer, which used not to be an issue since peak use is during winter.

This may come as an issue if air con develops fast, though.

Just after your quote:

> EdF responded that it "assumes full responsibility for the technical and financial aspects of dismantling its nuclear plants," and noted that it was currently decommissioning nine reactors, so had a good basis of experience. It also pointed out that its funds set aside for decommissioning were audited by the Ministry of the Environment, Energy and the Sea the previous month.

And, a little bit earlier, the article author's assesment:

> There are well-developed plans for dismantling these (which have been shut down since 1990 or before) and work is progressing.

Please don't cherry-pick articles.

> without counting subsidies

Every energy industry has subsidies. Believing that one of them should work "without subsidies" simply misses the mark.

Make an all-team demo on new frontiers in benchmarking technology.

> Please get used to it.

The novel title: "Don’t Build The Torment Nexus".

That is the kind of discussion where people end up saying "Oh okay, but we can FIRE ZE MISSILES".

AWS will never willingly stop serving the EU, and oil corps will (unfortunately) never willingly stop selling oil. The US govt could force it, but that would be the end of US-EU relations, and probably cause a breakdown of internal us politics.

The US is pushing its hand as much as it can right now.

That reliance is increasingly seen as a bomb about to explode rather than a boon.

US tech financing and promoting far-right parties doesn’t help their case either

> Canada is corrupt as hell, just no one cares so it doesn't make international news.

So is Europe. It's just not at the point the US reached, yet.

> but there is a lot of bureaucracy and the bureaucracy is iron law.

Yeah, an organized and powerful administration is the basis of rule-of-law system. The opposite isn't entrepreneurship, it's a state of widespread corruption where laws are toothless.

It doesn't benefit upstarts who want a fair environment to start a business, it benefits megacorps with their own militia of lawyers to bend the rules, and pockets deep enough to lobby for the removal of rules that can't be bent.

> One thing that is common about middle democracies is that prioritize a bureaucratic elite structure over an entrepreneurship culture

No, that's just the 2010s propaganda fed to you by people who assert that not letting them do whatever they want is "bureaucratic". These very same people are completely fine lobbying legislature for more moat when they benefit from it.

The difference between "middle democracies" or whatever that means and the US is just that politics aren't corrupted enough yet that they can buy whatever they want.

> Same problems that regular rings have, yet people still wear them.

In some jobs/hobbies, it is highly recommended to wear soft metal rings, and add a structural weakness to the ring in order to limit finger injuries, in case you forget to remove it.

Doesn't mean everyone must do it, but as with this post, it's a good point of view to get before making a choice: not everyone rides horses, but the same injuries can happen in everyday life.

Sure, but not in the IT service.

> You have no standing to demand "accountability".

You should learn about this wonderful thing called democracy. Also why not everyone is allowed to work with radioactive material in their shed.

I agree with that. I'm just not sure all of us have the same leeway to improve the codebase, and the cost isn't the same either. When you have less means, you spend them more sparingly.

> Patching that up by using comments as a 'map' isn't the right way to deal with that.

There is no right way. Only grey ones that help relieve pain for the team.

> Refactors and rearchitecture are.

Yeah... if you have the cash and the people. Usually, mature codebases are driven by limited investment with proven business value, because the sweet VC money is no longer there (or never was, in some industries).

If you don't, reachitecturing is vanishingly rare, and your refactor budget is limited and you spend it carefully. If a piece of code hasn't moved recently but still comes up frequently when onboarding newcomers, documenting the code may be more profitable and less risky than changing it. It also helps preparing a case for a potential refactor.

> Smart developers don’t write mazes.

You don’t choose what your forebears have written, though.

European swallows migrate to Africa in winter [1], they move through Spain and the middle-east, and a few more adventurous through Italy and Sicily ; and that's why they "bubble up" there first in this view. But you can see that, in the dead of winter, barely any swallow is left in the peninsula.

It would be nice to see the dataset extended to Africa and the middle-east.

[1](swallow migration patterns): https://tbhpartnership.org.uk/news/migration-marvels-part-2-...

there has been two rounds of cash offers for dissenters to leave. People staying are probably not the kind that will publicly raise the issue.

> This and previous submission about the Automattic board attempt to fire the founder should be used as a lesson that you should never ever give up control of your company to anyone.

I'm afraid in this case, this "should never" barely makes Mullenweg's top 10.

> The fact is Tailwind core is an MIT-licensed open source project.

That entitles you to fork the project, not to expect the maintainer to do what you want.

> I can't believe people are saying that with straight face.

That's the consequence of a broken education system when it comes to teaching history. Empires rarely come to terms with what they did, and never while they're in power.

...Against US imperialism anyway. His credentials when it comes to other empires isn't spotless.

Their press release seems to center on:

> Europe now has sovereign access to space. [...] Customers around the world now have a sovereign launch option at their disposal.

They apparently try very hard to ignore Arianespace.

> Prediction markets are a wonderful idea

Yeah, it's just like being able to take an insurance policy on other people's lives. It's a wonderful idea for all of 15 minutes until people start getting murdered.

> bare minimum of regulation

No amount of regulation will solve the issue when what you can take insurance on is not regulated.

Prediction markets are to insurance the same as crypto is to banking: a speedrun of all the frauds that happened in the past until the perpetrators are sent to jail or regulated so heavily that they are virtually identical to what they were supposed to disrupt.