You're right it could've been a lot greater however you should apply the same analysis towards the USA as well.
If you're black you're all but barred from participating in the space program. This was only recently acknowledged in a Hollywood feel good movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Figures
That is a travesty and a loss for everyone, but you cannot compare those two things in good conscience.
>All the while they were actively preventing 399 men from receiving the same treatments.
And:
>The emergent consensus among scholars is that, of the 14 million prisoners who passed through the Gulag camps and the 4 million prisoners who passed through the Gulag colonies from 1930 to 1953, roughly 1.5 to 1.7 million prisoners perished there or they died soon after they were released.[
I just picked one egregious example to compare to Korolev and other researchers that suffered. If you want to compare systemic examples like the Gulags then the Jim Crow system that effectively instituted slavery [1] and likely killed way more than 1.7 million people. Alabama alone imprisoned 200,000 blacks as effectively slaves[2].
Again I am not trying to dismiss the crimes of the Soviet Union but I almost never see the same analysis applied to the US.
I find the criticism of cprop a bit bizarre. Configurations of apps have many use cases. Some people package config files with the app on the classpath others use fs. Some do a combination of the two. Others use environment variables. Any practical configuration lib should be able to handle these use cases if the need arises.
The fact that the author finds it odd that cprop parses edn and calls it "type coercion" like it's a negative is strange. What would the author prefer? max-connections-num to be a string? If you want strings put quotes around the values.
> This is backpressure: your home-grown configuration system resists being extended, and it’s a good thing.
Or there's the real world where you need to address a business concern to get things working where someone asks a reasonable request to be able to override a setting with an environment variable. Luckily your configuration library already handles this and you can go back to doing interesting work instead of bikeshedding your home-grown system that resists change.
Many people in the tech industry don't realize the tradeoffs they are making by participating on FB. This is to say nothing of the nontechnical crowd who make up the overwhelming majority of the site.
My wish is that mainstream news media would cover these issues. It'd be great if most of FB's users thought about the troves of personal info that they are providing not just about themselves but their friends as well.
Because Mickey Mouse is an idea while a farm is not. Claiming ownership of metaphysical concepts like Mickey Mouse is very different from claiming ownership of something that's scarce and rivalrous such as the farm.
There is a great book available for free about the topic: Against Intellectual Monopoly[1] which does a great job detailing how IP is actually destructive to innovation and hurts society as a whole. The authors cover many topics from pharma to tech.
> You seem pretty accustomed to economics. Can you explain how exactly or why would anyone buy any items (that's what currencies are for after all) using a deflationary currency?
This is identical to arguing: Why would anyone buy computers when they are getting cheaper every year. At some point you make a choice where your preference for owning a computer is greater than your preference to save money.
> So actually, in my view, BTC as a currency is already failed. No one will be eager to buy online (perform an actual exchange) when he can buy the same items using USD, because BTC will possibly have a higher value tomorrow. While the USD almost certainly will not.
Gold is deflationary. When gold was the primary currency for the world commerce was very vibrant. Gold not being currency is a fairly recent development.
People currently purchase things online with bitcoins when they could use dollars but choose to use bitcoins. I think it's very early to write off bitcoins as a failed currency.
If you're black you're all but barred from participating in the space program. This was only recently acknowledged in a Hollywood feel good movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Figures
The space program was bootstrapped by Nazis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
I'm saying they achievements could've been a lot greater if the system didn't try to mutilate and murder it's subjects: https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history/40-years-human-exp...