vkhorikov

> You keep trying to conflate critics of Bitcoin, many of whom have technical & finance backgrounds, with the largely non-technical crowd that didn't understand the web back in the 90s.

People today are as illiterate about economics as they were about the Internet back in the 90s. Just look around and see how many people know what Austrian econ is.

That's like saying you read Playboy because of articles. Price is the single most important metric of Bitcoin's success. Price determines whether Bitcoin will (or how close Bitcoin is to) overtaking Gold and fiat in becoming the world's reserve asset and freeing people from wealth confiscation via hidden inflation tax.

https://translate.google.com/#en/ has this feature too. Its pronunciation is perfect most of the time.

Every single one of what you listed is either FUD or not an accomplishment of socialism.

Specifically:

- Cuba's hospitals are not top notch, to say the least.

- Russia did the rapid industrializing but it already was on this way before the revolution and would be much better off should the socialist revolution never occurred.

- The equality laws for men and women are not due to socialism.

- China enjoyed the economic rise because they freed the marked not because they tied it, it's the opposite of socialism.

>Look at the results of the privatization of European national railways.

I don't know enough about (Western) European railways but I have data about American and Russian railways. Russian railways are controlled by a single government entity and they are a corrupted disaster. Americans tried to nationalize their railways in 1800s and all it led to was higher costs and worse quality.

My observation is that everywhere where markets are let free people get better results. It's true that most markets aren't free but it's not because of the markets themselves but rather because of the government staying on the way.

Except that you can point to cases where free market does work.

Omg, this extension is sooo good!

Do the money holders keep their money in their house? Or do they keep it in banks? What the banks do with the money? Nothing? Or lend it to new businesses/invest it?

That's a quite simplistic Keynesian view of economics. Economy != money changing hands. Savings are necessary for economic growth as they represent unspent resources in the economy that can be put into long-term projects and investments.

What problems do you see with deflation?

Also first so I can introduce a Reaper and make sure no other civilization can advance too much

Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMCrPvtN1G8

Do you need an ORM? http://enterprisecraftsmanship.com/2015/11/30/do-you-need-an...

Great break down. I applaud.

It's not a matter of giving up, it's a calculated choice.

True, the path you described is good, and if I wouldn't have any other options, I would gladly take it. However, I do have other options, and they are more effective, so I decided to go back and focus on them. Doing games at that low margin can't beat those options. Also, it would be a complete change of career path, a quite risky move.

Actually, we figured the Youtubers thing pretty quickly, I just didn't emphasize this stage in the blog. We did try to reach out to them for about a month. With no luck. Only one more or less famous Youtuber posted a video about the game. Another one agreed to take our money and posted a video. Others just didn't respond. I don't know how others manage to market to Youtubers.

Wow, that's a hell of a suggestion. All on point! Where were you when I was still developing the game

I do agree with this one.

Coupling is an important concept but I think this concern can be mitigated by following the DRY principle. That is, if you have only one function that knows about the object’s internal structure (“couples” to it, so to speak), it doesn’t really matter where exactly that function is located – in the class itself or in some other place.

Also, your example isn't entirely valid as you mutate the objects' state.

What city in Russia? Moscow? Also, shouldn't the cost of the flight eat up the difference?

I agree with your performance concerns. In fact, I state them in the end of the article pretty much the same way you did it in your comment.

You are right, inheritance is perfectly applicable to the example from the article, basically because the example is very simple.

The idea is that in more complex scenarios the best practice is to prefer composition over inheritance because modelling every single piece of state with subclasses would be sloppy and unmaintainable.

That is where design-by-contract (or simply put guard clauses) usually come into play.