Statistically, there might be somebody. And there’s a small crowd worth of people who possibly were to within the minute.

Oh, you just mean it’s a kind of garbage collection that’s lighter on pauses. Sorry, I’ve had the “my pre-Rust pet language already does what Rust does” conversation on here too many times.

That sounds pretty great. My impression is that relatively little code actually runs that often.

but with none of the footguns of manual memory management, no garbage collection pauses, but yet also no evil stepparent style borrow checker to be beaten by.

That part sounds implausible, though. What kind of memory management are they doing?

Enjoyer of political violence falls victim to political violence. Oh no! /s

If these guys were themselves pacifists who prided themselves on giving every idea a fair hearing, I guess I would have a problem with any assassinations. As it is, there’s just one side trying to unilaterally manifest a certain level of civility. One that unfortunately doesn’t seem to exist.

Edit: I believe this complies with rule 6. Lack of concern about violence isn’t the same thing as advocacy.

If AI ends up running companies better than people

Okay, important context there. The current AI bubble will burst sooner or later. So, this is hypothetical future AGI.

Yes, if the process of human labour becoming redundant continues uninterrupted, it’s highly likely, although since CEOs make their money from the intangible asset of having connections more than the actual work they’ll be one of the last to go.

But, it won’t continue uninterrupted. We’re talking about rapidly transitioning to an entirely different kind of economy, and we should expect it will be similarly destabilising as it was to hunter gatherer societies that suddenly encountered industrial technology.

If humans are still in control, and you still have an entire top 10% of the population with significant equity holdings, there’s not going to be much strategy to the initial stages. Front line workers will get laid off catastrophically, basically, and no new work will be forthcoming. The next step will be a political reaction. If some kind of make-work program is what comes out of it, human managers will still find a place in it. If it’s basic income, probably not. (And if there’s not some kind of restriction on the top end of wealth, as well, you’re at risk of creating a new ruling elite with an incentive to kill everyone else off, but that’s actually a digression from the question)

When it comes to the longer term, I find inspiration in a blog post I read recently. Capital holdings will eventually become meaningless compared to rights to natural factors. If military logic works at all the same way, and there’s ever any kind of war, land will once again be supreme among them. There weren’t really CEOs in feudalism, and even if we manage not to regress to autocracy there probably won’t be a place for them.

They’ve really carved out a niche as being just outside the level of militancy that’s politically correct. Punk is back, I guess.

Yeah, I was thinking, depending on the kind of hotpot that’s not an out-of-order ingredient. Clearly, even in China that’s a weird and challenging local delicacy, though, so these teenagers got uber-fined.

Wow, exactly the kind of thing I was looking for posted in 3 minutes. Amazing!

It goes into pretty poor detail on the actual medium itself, unfortunately. How fine were the particles? What was the exact recipe that worked?

Some of the commenters had much more interesting things to say:

The last one gives me one possible place to search next. What are the numbered material types referenced?

Anyway, if it weren’t for the sponsor, the way to make the substrate would have been just a punch, right? Laser cutting and then baking the sheets flat again felt a little unnecessary.

They did without the grotesque luxury of lower case letters, haha.

I mean, I’m sure cost savings on labour were noticed as well. And that’s not a bad thing.

How else are they supposed to program with handheld bar magnets? /s

The wonders of not having a known moron at the controls. Or at least hovering over them menacingly, in the case of the interest rate.

True. But, practices and stories are what a religion is made out of. The dietary laws are in the bible even if they’re interpreted as no longer applying, most of the other things that are forbidden to Christians are still forbidden, and they’re really big on charity and not worshiping other gods. The fasting is new, I guess, as is the specific style of prayer.

I kind of have to go through the rest piece-by-piece.

bearing suffering

Subjective, so I’ll just leave it.

being saved by grace

How that’s interpreted varies massively by denomination and through history. The protestant version I was taught isn’t even the original one historically - everyone had to keep up with their confessions before the reformation.

monogamy to one of polygamy

I suppose there was a pretty decent divergence there, although I’m surprised to hear it as a grievance.

conquest and slaughter

… You’re British. It’s a Christian nation that has a certain history.

and many rituals

Almost everything that happens in a church qualifies as well. Some of the more American-style churches are flexible about it, and drink their grape juice out of plastic cups n fold-up chairs, but AFAIK the King’s church still keeps the old flair.

The Muslims don’t even worship Christ.

He’s #2 after Mohammad. It’s true he’s not worshiped though. You need a trinity to make that not idolatry, which is one of the bones Muslims have to pick with Christians.

That’s not true for all cards, at the very least. Skimming wirelessly by RFID is or was a thing. The whole backbone of the credit card system is designed to expect the number.

Islam is literally a slight rewriting of Christianity.

We did address it. And then everyone immediately changed how they pronounced every vowel.

What do you mean? The Great Vowel Shift happened well before any standardisation of spelling I’m aware of. And there’s plenty of problems beyond just the vowels.

French is probably number two on the shit list, but there’s at least a consistent pattern there.

Does smartcard and wireless actually have an encryption layer of some kind?

English orthography. It’s like this close to being random.

Other languages have reformed theirs (or theres or they’res) to make sense at some point since the dawn of modern literacy.

Why? It’s actually grown pretty much as long as it’s verifiably existed as an identifiable group.

For what little I’ve gathered due to separation of powers. The supreme court is just a designated authority. Why hasn’t there been any movement that just aims to de-legitimize the current supreme Court?

Wait, what? Can you explain a bit more? Like what laws are you looking at, and are they less than 200 years old?

At least in practice, the Supreme Court is as strong as any other American institution. Which, to be fair, is saying less and less, but the faction with all the initiative right now is not the one against racial profiling.