Not correct: A share is a contract issued by the corporation entitling its owner to a share of future profits. So you're not buying a corporation, just engaging in a contract with it.
I hate Citizens United as much as the next guy, but this isn't a good argument against it.
What about non-voting shares? Can it be ownership if you are not included in decisions? I've never really thought about it, but now I believe that what GP was describing is exactly how those are made (or should be made). So at least not entirely wrong (no wait, they would also include a share of assets on dissolution, but that too can be done through a contract with the entity owned by regular shareholders)
> A share is a contract issued by the corporation entitling its owner to a share of future profits. So you're not buying a corporation, just engaging in a contract with it.
A contract of indentured servitude (if you consider it a person), which we consider a form of slavery and therefore illegal.
Wouldn’t the opposing view imply that you are allowed to have political opinions, but only as long as you go at it alone and don’t organize too much with others?
For all I know that might indeed be a better way of running society, but that’s definitely going to take a big constitutional amendment.
The real issue is not so much the speech, but that money is considered speech in the US, so Citizens United apparently gives corporations the right to donate to political campaigns. A lot of people would like to stop that channel for corruption.
I used to think prayer was really dumb too, but then I started practicing Metta meditation created by Buddhists, and I realized it's very similar to Christian prayer. The power of Metta and prayer is actually the change it makes in the one praying. Wishing well for others improves one's whole outlook and posture in the world.
The "official" way to pray outlined in the Lord's prayer isn't selfish (other than asking to have enough food to get through the day), and is asking for redemption / forgiveness rather than specific goodies. This is the right way to do it.
Compassionate meditation has been tested pretty well: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2944261/
...so: Praying for yourself is indeed useless to you, so prayer is useless to the selfish. Praying for others, sincerely, will help you.
Ain't that grand!
The problem is that TypeScript is terrible at codegen, there are no standard extension points like we have with javac and others. So we are forced to do these crazy hacks at the type level rather than just generating types as you would in other languages.
Not familiar with the capabilities of javac, but in my imagination, I'm referring to a tool that runs prior to the typescript compiler, that just writes the intended source as text. Typescript never knew it wasn't in the repository or anything.
This is what happened to me in middle school. I wrote a bunch of programs to “help” me with algebra II tests and ended up inadvertently learning an insanely marketable skill in the process.
Similar story here. I wrote programs in TI-Basic to help with some exam questions, and wrote summaries in TI NoteFlio. I ended up getting so many few-euro donations for them from everyone who used them. 30 minutes before the exams, exchanging these things over the TI-link connection.
Of course, nowadays all these TI calculators have exam mode, which blocks the internal memory and a bright LED to indicate this mode is enabled. And the older calculators, with practically the same feature-set (TI-83, TI-84) are now forbidden (should clarify still the same TI-8x calculators are allowed - but only if they have exam mode). Nothing is fun anymore these days.
Same but high school. I ended up porting the Drug Warz game onto my TI calculator and playing it while in class instead. Now some ~23 years later I'm a python wizard.
It's not just people who gave them data who should be worried. If a close relative gave their info to 23andme, they probably have enough data to associate your DNA with that relative. For instance my mom did 23andme and now 50% of my DNA is in this private commercial database without my consent and this data is completely unencumbered by HIPAA privacy restrictions.
Food for thought, they found the Golden State Killer using the DNA of a third cousin. So in a familial pool of hundreds of people, if even 1 gives up DNA then you could (with effort) find out anyone else. Provided they're in a good spot on the tree, you can't do much with a 5th cousin.
Of course the Golden State Killer was extenuating circumstances. He killed about a dozen people and sexually assaulted over 50 women in the 70s. But, it makes you wonder about the future of criminology.
I am halfway through this book and wanting to read it slower because it's that good. I think we could make a pretty cool AI powered ARG based on the lore.
Don't forget the many, many negative issues SOME people get from nicotine.
I loved nicotine, but it terribly exacerbates my rheumatoid arthritis in my hands, inflames blood vessels in my lower arms (to the point of waking with my arms completely numb in the middle of the night) and gives me terrible heart palpitations that woke me up (if I consumed nicotine a few hours before bed).
I had to get some surgery on my fingers, and the staff seemed relieved to learn I don't smoke. Something about narrowing blood vessels making this kind of operation less successful. Not sure if they were just trying to cheer me up or it's an actual thing :-)
One thing that postgres does not solve very well is reactive UIs. Postgres does have listen/notify but it requires much more boilerplate and infrastructure to set up than Firebase/Firestore. For example I'd like to be able to run a query and get notified that the results have updated when any of the affected rows change.
Solving this is high on my list with PGlite (https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite). I have a bunch of iteas/thoughts that I hope to get to at some point (IVM, streaming queries, result diffs).
When PGlite (or SQLite) is used with Electric (https://electric-sql.com/), we already provide good reactive primitives. But we hope to improve this so that where possible the full queries don't have to be re-run.
Agree. If you want a fully reactive database (and not just hierarchy-based reactivity like Firebase) but want to keep your ACID + relational data modeling, check out https://convex.dev .
Htmx doesn't help with this problem (knowing whether the underlying data has changed in order to update the UI). It's a common problem in any kind of collaborative app.
I would much rather inherit and optimize someone's postgres DB with specific scaling challenges than a prematurely optimized multi-database solution built for "web scale".
I hate Citizens United as much as the next guy, but this isn't a good argument against it.