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Why would you rather install some random rpm from someone you don't know as opposed to a flatpak?

And not being in a married relationship is another impediment to good sex: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/want-more-and-better-sex-get-...

But of course, if you just can't get off unless you are having unprotected sex with people you can't trust to not have STDs, then yes, I'm sure the mRNA revolution holds some promise. Hope it works out for you.

> This is a weak analogy fallacy, dismissing a strong argument

If you have to back your argument up by some analyist saying companies woudl make more money if they did something other than they were doing, then that does not make your argument strong.

> that has been observed in practice again and again by attacking an "analogous" but worthless pseudo-argument like "of course they're not turning people green".

And yet instead of citing an actual case of this, you cite an analyst that says companies would make more money by not curing diseases. Companies would also make more money if they kidnapped people's children and ransomed them back than if they did not do that, ignoring pesky things like legality and all that of course, but who knows, I'm sure politicans that would allow them to do this would be a dime a dozen anyway.

> Consider scale.

Show me that at scale people are happier if they have lots of anonymous sex and giant group orgies.

But fair enough, if your primary impediment to having sex is that you want to engage in group orgies and just do not feel this is safe enough without better STD vaccines, then the mRNA vaccine revolution may be the silver bullet you have been looking for, hope it delivers for you.

I am pretty sure that it would be illegal to give people a vaccine designed to induce gene therapy that suppresses your immune system in order to ensure people need to get it more than once. And still, I actually trust the pharmaceutical companies to not do this more than I trust governments to not give them permission to do it, as they have been much better actors in the pandemic than almost every government.

Is the inadequacy of existing mechanisms to protect against STDs your primary impediment for having sex at the moment?

I somehow doubt it given that the mechanisms to protect against STDs are much better than before, the treatments when you do get them are much better than before, and even with all of this Millennials and Gen Z are having much less sex than older generations.

> Is the standard library type checked?

There are type hints for the standard library and using `--strict` works just fine if that is all you are using. This does not preclude bugs from the standard library or errors in types but bugs in a statically typed language's compiler also does not defeat the purpose of static typing either and having a static typed language does not eliminate the possibility of bugs in the compiler or standard library either.

It seems people forget that reinterpret_cast, void * (c++), Object (java), (interface{}) (golang) exists. If all you are using is the standard library then you will be able to write much safer code in python than in golang, given it passes static type validation. At least python's type system has generics.

> Are there still mistakes in the typeshed like 2*-1 is int?

I'm sure there are still mistakes, just like I'm sure there are still bugs in most compilers.

Why?

Okay, sure, but this would be quite the feat of medical engineering to hack the immune system to the point where it no longer operates as normal, as the normal function of the immune system is what determines the immune response to a vaccine and the resulting immunity.

I mean they could make one that turns you green and then mark up the one that does not also, that has not been the case, and generally vaccines produced by private companies without government involvement have significantly outperformed every vaccine made with government involvement, and every government action in US and most of the west in relation to these covid vaccines has been to favor pharmaceutical companies that make them over it's own citizenry, so basically it seems that the pharmaceutical companies that made these vaccines are much more deserving of public trust than many governments.

I mean if the pharmacutical companies abducted your children in the middle of the night and ransomed them back to you that would also create a steady revenue stream, not sure why it would be something to consider.

You can compile code using reinterpret cast "incorrectly" in c++ just fine.

> The spirit of a type-system is that invalid code never runs.

> The compilation step in static languages type-checks such that the compiled-instructions wont run if the source-code is invalid.

Nothing is forcing anyone to run code that does not pass type checking with `mypy --strict`.

> Since this isnt how python works, one would reasonably expect the spirit of a type system to be preserved -- ie., to enforce runtime checks.

Python already had mechanisms for this, which again, as I said, already informs the static type checking mechanisms.

Also, no, this is not what I expect from the type hints, this is not what I felt was missing from python before type hints.

What I want from type hints and in python in general is static type checking, I want to know, without executing one single line of code, if I have type errors, that is the key selling point of mypy and type hints to me and the key deficiency that python had without type hints and mypy.

I already had every ability to do runtime type checking in python before type hints and mypy, and they were woefully inadequate in comparison to static type checking.

> Combined with effect being limited in time (say, for half a year) this would create a steady revenue stream.

Why would the effect be limited? I mean it could be, but it could also cause people to turn green, not sure why we would consider either of those to be likely though without more info.

If you are assuming the effect will be limited because the effect of the covid vaccine is limited, this may be more related to covid than to mRNA vaccines, especially since the non mRNA covid vaccines seems to be less effective than the mRNA vaccines, and not more so. And after all, the mechanism of action for mRNA vaccines and non mRNA vaccines are not fundamentally different, both induce an immune response to a pathogen without giving you a disease.

What always annoys me to no end is when people complain that python type hints are not runtime enforced, when this is quite normal for most statically typed languages: C++, go, rust.

Python already had runtime type checking mechanisms and the use of these does inform the behavior of static type checkers for python like mypy.

All that being said, Beartype is really nifty and seems quite useful.

> Wealth of nations, book 1, actually. "toil and trouble" could be interpreted as "labour". I certainly take that interpretation.

You are free to interpret it any way you like, but then taking your interpretation and saying that is what Adam smith was trying to say, when it is quite literally not what he said, nor even close to what he said, is called lying, and that is not really okay.

> As Adam Smith said, the true price of everything is in human labor.

Cite?

Also who died and made Adam Smith's word synonymous with fact?

Last I checked the true price of anything is the price I have to pay to acquire it, which is incidentally more in line with Adam Smith's actual quote which was: "The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.". The price I have to pay to acquire something translates to money, that I gained through "toil and trouble" so to speak. Quite far from the true price of everything being human labour.

> If you really think there will be significant inflation, go buy a house

You realize the amount of young people who have this option is very low and getting lower by the year? So ... what?

Australia seems to be trying to outdo UK with absurd dystopinism.

> This is the underpinning of modern capitalism.

How so?

Cite?

> So, do you think NFTs can actually change the current status quo? Does it bring anything new to the equation?

No, it does not change the status quo, and brings nothing new to the equation.

To kind of rephrase what you said slightly: All ownership relations exists in world 3, that is their nature, they can't act in world 1. NFTs don't bring anything to the table here, crypto does not bring anything to the table here. With NFTs, ownership relations is still a world 3 thing, and world 3 things still cannot act in world 1. And no enforcement mechanisms we currently have for ownership relations give any special recognition or consideration to NFTs, blockchain or crypto assets.

The only disagreement we have is that I don't think it makes sense to qualify sentences with "capitalist societies" when the claims they make are more broad. It's a bit like saying "all Furry mammals are characterized by the presence of mammary glands which in females produce milk for feeding (nursing) their young", it may be true, but the word "furry" in that sentence adds negative value:

http://www.biomedicaleditor.com/hedging.html

> To strengthen your argument and increase clarity, limit the number of qualifiers in each sentence to only those necessary for accuracy—the remaining qualifiers will then do their job well.

> The reason I've brought out capitalism is because it's the environment in which NFTs were born, and therefore its relationship with it should be talked about it.

NFTs are a world 3 construct (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popper%27s_three_worlds) and has no dependency on any economic system or even society to exist and the problem of using them to represent an ownership relation is not limited to any economic system either, but exists due to factors inherent in both the concept of ownership and what NFTs are. NFTs can't reach from world 3 into world 1 by themselves and this is no more or less a problem in any specific economic system.

So then why did you qualify your sentence with "capitalist societies" if what you say applies to non capitalist societies also? And if it does not, give examples.

> What is reality anyway?

Have you not heard of this concept? Seems to be a bit of copout to explaining the value of an NFT given an NFT, by it's mere existence, has no bearing on anything outside of a blockchain. But if you are unclear on the concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality

And what value does this unique NFT have if it has no enforceable or enforced relation to reality?

For context:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ownership

> Ownership is the state or fact of exclusive rights and control over property, which may be any asset, including an object, land or real estate, intellectual property, or until the nineteenth century, human beings.

In light of this

> In current capitalist societies, ownership of property is fully secured by the military (police) and judicial (law) power of the state.

Any examples of non capitalist societies that actually governed more than just a city for more than just a couple of months where there were no enforcement of exclusive rights over anything?

Because if I can think of none, just for example, USSR would get real pissy real fast if you infringed on the exclusive rights which they thought existed over a whole host of things.

Sure, in most non-capitalist societies people had no exclusive rights to their own labor, or their own persons, but there were still many people who had exclusive rights over things that would be enforced by use of force. And the state did have exclusive rights over the person and labor of their subjects, which is a key differentiation from most "capitalistic societies" as you call them.

> With nfts you're on blockchain, and have the hole network have a consensus.

Consensus of something completely different than the element you are trusting with the web of trust, so ... basically ... blockchain is better because it does not address the problem at all but instead solves a problem that does not even exist in PGP? Or what is it exactly that you are saying?

Has this problem not already been solved by digital signature schemes, and are NFTs not built on these very digital signature schemes, and have the digital signature schemes not been utterly useless for solving the deepfake problem, and have deepfake problem not been completely exaggerated to begin with?

I'm actually unsure what you gain from NFTs over simple PGP except the buzzword factor.

I said: "Rather tone deaf to still refer to it as a masters degree."

Which apparently is forbidden to do. Maybe it hit's a bit too close to home for comfort around here.

> "Masters degree" is too hard to change.

Only if you don't care about the hurt it causes people every day.

> Homonyms exist, words have multiple meanings.

Homonyms can exist and this can still be tone deaf.

> Stop creating problems where there are none.

Since when is the consequences of slavery not a problem?