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All of the following things apply to 2016 China just as well:

* Strong disagreement and polarization on a lot of important issues

* Constant arguing about the best way forward argue on how best to fix economic issues

* Many important problems are ignored, seemingly forever

Believing otherwise is vain provincial exceptionalism. The original comparison is superficial and bankrupt.

With all due respect, digit-wise MIN seems like an unnecessary abstraction in same vein as AbstractManagerFactoryFactory.

If the abstraction doesn't have generally applicable higher-level properties, it's probably not worth abstracting.

After all, bit-wise AND is only one of 16 possible two-argument bit functions. Shall we create a digit analog for all 16 of them?

Did you just make this up? Is the digit-wise MIN abstraction of bitwise AND more widely applicable?

I think you have completed misinterpreted my point to fit your preexisting bias.

My point is that homelessness severity in any given area is correlated with renter density.

Whatever homeowners you think are blocking new developments, think about the homelessness in their specific area. Is it severe?

Think about the areas in SF that have the most severe homelessness, how many homeowners do you think live in that area?

On the causes of homelessness... I don't think it's due to scarce housing. Even if there were more housing available, I doubt a homeless person could start paying for it. Getting out of homelessness is a more complex issue.

Okay then, for the sake of the comparison's relevancy to this post, is China the pristine cathedral to the US's bazaar?

Are you saying that SF homeowners want homeless people walking their streets? If their intention is to increase property value, as you say, why would they want that?

Seems to me like the people who win the most by limiting housing are the landlords who can collect higher rent through scarce supply.

Long term homeowners probably don't care much about yearly changes in their homes worth.

It's totally relevant to my point but let's ignore that for the moment. Do you agree with the original comparison? Do you think the US is like free software? Or is the US more like Open Source? Is the US BSD or GPL? Is RMS the president of free software? China is a pristine cathedral right?

You're not talking about rooted people in the same way I am...

I'm talking about homeowners, you're talking about landlords who charge rent.

I'm talking about people who actually live in the homes they own and have to deal with homelessness in their neighborhood.

You're talking about landlords who own lots of property in SF but go home to their mansions in Sausalito or Palo Alto.

My point exactly agrees with you. SF needs less landlords and more homeowners.

Good observation, except it isn't a proof, it's an example.

The US is as much like Free Software as anything is. That is my point. His comparison is just random fodder based on superficial commonalities.

The US is not like Free Software in many important ways:

* The US has judges. What is the equivalent of judges in free software?

* US law is based on common law. What is the equivalent of common law in free software?

* The US has elected representatives. What is the equivalent of elected representatives in Free software.

* The US is composed of states, counties, and cities? What are the equivalent states counties and cities in Free Software?

* The US has a congress. What is the equivalent in free software?

* The US has jails. What is the equivalent of a jail in Free Software?

Etc.

I could go on and on, but the point really should be obvious by now. The comparison to Free Software is weak and most importantly, unnecessary. China is just as much like Free Software as US is.

Never in my comment did I write or imply that it was the main one. World of difference between "probably would be in better shape" and "definitely would be perfect."

Are you seriously implying that relevant substantive comparisons don't exist? There are many, for instance:

Comparing the US to free software is like comparing monads to burritos.

While SSH seems like the ideal console application delivery platform, it suffers in a major way: no local execution.

This matters when latency matters. Processing all keystrokes remotely sucks over high-latency links like airplanes, cell phones, satellites, etc.

This can also be a pro. JavaScript is a mess in terms of design, increased client complexity, and security. It depends on what your requirements are.

It's a forced comparison. Comparing free software to the US only makes sense at a superficial level. For every successful comparison there are 10x contradictions. I could compare literally anything to the US in the same vein. For example:

The US is a lot like a potato:

* it's lumpy! Both the US and a potato are irregularly shaped!

* it's brownish: the US is a mix ethnically

* it's white on the inside: the US is controlled by mostly white people

* it's high in carbohydrates: the US has a large GDP

etc.

There is more of an incentive for a rooted community to solve the homelessness problem.

I've lived in both Boston and SF and the pervasive homelessness in SF is much much worse.

No

> I could picture living there for a few years at most, but not forever.

Everyone is doing that. It's helping the SF landlords, it's not helping the homeless.

If more people treated SF as a long-term city to put down roots, it would probably be in better shape. How you treat a place changes drastically when you actually own property there.

Instead most people make their money and leave, contributing nothing.

Not quite -- look up deinstitutionalisation. Many varied forces at play here, most unrelated to liberal or conservative ideology.

There is nothing "anti-Windows" about my post. It isn't a biased take, it's not propaganda, it's just fact.

There is somewhat of a logical inconsistency in trying to avoid spyware on Windows 10 that is hopefully explained by lack of knowledge. The purpose of my post is to inform. Not everyone is aware.

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2956574/microsoft-subnet...

Of course, if you're running Windows 10 and trying to avoid spyware, it's already too late.

For this particular client we had Administrator access. SMB was used since we did not trust Dokan and did not want to pay for CBFS.

Yes, goto exit and cleanup resources on error is a common and not frowned upon idiom in C. See Python source.

I've done this, it works.

I think Carmack is conflating FP with good abstractions.

Haskell abstractions are often good because they flow from category theory and there are usually well established mathematical laws associated with them. I'm thinking of the "monad laws" and the "monoid laws."

Mathematicians tend to create abstractions if the abstraction satisfies coherent and provable properties. Programmers tend to be less rigorous about what and how they abstract.

There is nothing about C++ that prevents making good abstractions. It's just the culture of the language. Industry programmers are taught to not duplicate code and to keep functions short but they are not taught the fundamentals of what makes a good abstraction.

This is not really about subroutines, it's about abstractions. Good abstractions decrease cognitive load, bad ones increase it. The one true answer is to aim for good abstractions, and not factor code into subroutines at arbitrary boundaries.

For example, adding two n-length vectors is a good abstraction ("vector_add"). Adding two n-length vectors then multiplying the magnitude of the result by 3 is a bad abstraction.

P-256 is not a safe curve! http://safecurves.cr.yp.to

It wouldn't be enod, it would be rof

Would love something that showed you how the current command was going to be parsed as an argument vector before actually submitting the command (pressing return). Would help with spacing and quoting.

So are you saying operating system is a subclass of platform? I guess but that distinction doesn't seem very useful. It seems more like the term operating system has aged. I'd rather call Windows/Linux a platform instead of an operating system and indeed other people do too. Even then, some people consider it a design smell to consider software a platform.

Long story short, semantic arguments aren't interesting and there's no logical argument against calling Sandstorm an operating system.

Operating system was always a vague term.

Yes it's not Windows but it's a system that host user applications, seems valid to me.