I seem to remember a lot of arguments when Netflix first introduced a cheaper-with-ads subscription that "not everyone can afford ad-free subscriptions" and that somehow it would make things better.

Ignoring the fact that the play was obviously to get the ad-subscription up to the current cost of ad-free subscription.

And now I think it's Disney introducing ads to all subscriptions.
So, no doubt Netflix will do that soon in order to "innovate" the line-go-up.

Yeh, it's clear there is a suitably similar amount of water in the glass each time, even when there is water in the dish below

Ah, it was part rant that misinformation is difficult to disprove before it drops out of the public awareness. And that also applies to harmful policies: they are easier to bulldoze into action than a well thought out social/progressive policy.

But I do agree that a "you have won capitalism for your generation and your children" wealth cap is needed.
It's probably like 10 million per person in the family, 5 million of liquid cash and 5 million of investment.
Still very generous.

And yeh. So many "please don't riot or mob us to death" policies and mechanisms are also being suppressed, bypassed etc.
If those are no longer useful, maybe a return to riots and mobs is in order

Preface:
Sorry for the wall of text.
It's all just drunken rants, and I doubt any of it is meaningful.

If everyone on earth worth more than $5 million were suddenly killed and all their money/assets were redistributed to the public, you know what would happen?

THE WORLD WOULD BE A MUCH BETTER PLACE

Yes. Unfortunately such measures are blocked by both science and functional governments.
There is no way to place such stringent limits on anything. "Owning more than 2 dildos" is a silly law, because anything is a dildo if you are brave enough.
"Owning more that 5m is assets means you get killed" is a silly law, because a massive financial upheaval (suddenly having your dildo collection massively appreciate is value) would mean so many people killed or having to be revived (ie, when your £10m collection of dildos suddenly is valued at £2m... Very distressing).

I think it's more of a "you have won capitalism" tax.
10m per person + 2m per child. Or something like that.
That's the cap. Beyond that is taxed at 99%.
Earn 100million? You keep 1 million.
Higher taxes on extra homes and actual luxury goods and services (private jets etc). Have an EAT: Essentials Added Tax of 0% (or remove taxes on things like tampons, deodorant, toothpaste & brushes, body soap & shampoos, toilet paper, condoms.... Things that promote hygiene). Have a SAT (survival added tax) of like 5% on fresh veg, bread, meat, eggs and milk (things required to live). And have VAT (value added tax) of like 10% on things that ADD VALUE to the essential survival things (bread, ready meals, cookies etc). Then have an LAT (luxury added tax) of 20% on fancy things. And have an FAT (fatality added tax) of 50% on things like cigarettes, alcohol, fast food, sugar, processed foods... All the modern bullshit. Then an EAT (existential-threat added tax) for things like petrol, diesel, natural gas, methane, ethane etc.

did they just figure this out now? Because the other 8+ billion of us have known this for years, and have been screaming about how this is a really terrible thing. The entire population of earth has never been in agreement about anything before

Well, it takes actual studies and scientific proof to enact meaningful change.
While the billionaires can just pay for that change via lobbying.
Politicians are not specialists on anything. So they rely on specialist. And billionaires can serve up "specialists" in the right place at the right time to get their own opinion valued more than common sense and general opinion.
Billionaires can own entire "impartial councils", they can (do?) own the news cycle, they can saturate media with their opinion to the point that "scientists confirm Y, but public opinion goes against Y".
See the whole climate change denial and greenwashing, I think there is the same going on with "open source" Vs actual open source, the whole "AI is the future, AGI is here, don't lose the AI war" bullshit. Next up will be water, we are getting to the point where it's all about water (but probably not for citizens).

And yet, the requirements to refute all the bullshit require SO much more work and investment than is required to generate the bullshit.

I don't know what the solution is. When companies are "worth" more than countries, there is no way a country can compete. Even sectors of a country (IE "local councils").
They just get bought out. And all these bought-and-paid-for (previously) trusted sources become untrustworthy, but the evidence lags the actions making them untrustworthy... Of course society slowly gets dragged down to the worst of it.

Maybe that's the takeaway:
Nobody can predict everything. So the established and trustworthy things get corrupted faster than the corruption can be revealed in an indisputable way.
There is no way to prevent the corruption, it can't be predicted.

Yeh, probably sucks for a lot of disabled people as well.
As a tall person myself, I have used similar and haven't had an issue. But there are taller people than me, so maybe I am not tall enough.
Bus stop benches are also horrible. As are most seats in fast food restaurants. Airplane seats are also too small.
Some seats aren't meant for a long time of sitting, or have other priorities I guess.

There is also only 1. Not great if you need a break at the same time someone else does.

I develop in containers, which means I don't have to install dependencies on my host.
While it's overhead, it's never that massive.
Sure things like Codium and all the tooling takes up a lot of memory... I don't think I've seen over 10gb of "dev related" memory.
I feel like people are significantly desensitized about how much data 1GB actually is.

I hope everyone uses this new UDP thing!

It has a seat.
You go in, sit down and rest a little.

I've seen them at big conferences and big offices (although, most are private pods for work, some offices do have little private/quiet booths for sitting in).

Humans ARE the resource

Just 2 alphas doing alpha things

Of course Brits don't want to become a minority in their home country... who would? We all know how badly they are treated

Absolutely wild comment.

I'd rather have a more ambiguous name that is clarified by context than comments or docs.
create(obj) is useless, but if it is namespaces and properly typed user.create(User user) makes a LOT more sense.
Granted, that is a very narrow example, but it gets the point across: let context carry context, and use it properly.
Something like import {create} from 'user' (and using it with merely create()) is less useful that import * from 'user' (and using it as user.create())

We namespace things to help split up code. Lean on the namespaces when using that code!