Yes.

Ads, buybacks, etc all bring value to the company. Exploration of renewables past their replenishing rates is the definition of efficiency. You basically want to live in a stone age.

With the exception of water, where the government botched the privatisation, and trains, which are under full government control, everything else in the UK benefited greatly from privatisation. Back in the days you couldn’t even get a phone line installed. The fuck are you even complaining about?

A ratio between resources spent to achieve a specific result.

The previous experience shows that in most cases services run privately are better quality and cheaper. Unless you live in a 3rd world country like the US.

Corporations are more efficient than governments. Getting rid of governments and moving towards corporate dominance is the only move forward.

The problem is that too many believe it’s true.

I don’t understand where the author got the idea that git was production ready in 10 days… Let’s look at git history:

• Official development started on 03.04.2005.
• Git could self host on 07.04.2005.
• Git achieved Torvald’s performance goals on 29.04.2005.
• On 16.06.2005 git was used to release the Linux kernel for the first time. That can be considered the first beta release, which achieved its goals, but wasn’t production ready yet.
• Production ready v1.0 was released on 21.12.2005. That’s waaaaaaaay longer than 10 days.

No good software is released in 10 days.

Git wasn’t production ready in a week though.

Types in BASIC are amazing!

Pretty serious. Recessions affect different layers of the economy at different times. First markets crash, but your income and job security stays the same. Then markets plateau, but workers start losing jobs. Finally, markets start to grow again, but you’re still living under the bridge.

If you’re not a billionaire, this is the best time to invest - you still have a job, but markets are going down rapidly. You won’t have cash later on.

That looks an awful lot like a pandemic mini crash. If you invest in ETF right now, you’ll make shit loads of money out of thin air next year.

I’m a software dev in Europe for over 20 years, worked in different European countries, had loads of male, female, gay and lesbian colleagues. Zero transes.

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Looks pretty meh to me.

Well, to be fair, modern lamplighters in London are not low skilled employees, they’re highly skilled and well paid engineers. So it did work out quite well for them

That’s not due to kotlin.

Every decent piece of software has crap loads of resources: icons, texts, translations, manuals, sounds, fonts, etc. Even hello world app contains at least one resource - “hello world” string and what’s funny is that executable meta data required by operating systems and the string take more space than the actual code to print this string.

Most resources are not consumed by wonky code or dependencies. Most resources are consumed by images and sounds.