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Should you reach the heights of wealth (or more likely, be born into them), circumstances change. Despite our rhetoric about personal responsibility and freedom, we’ve embraced socialism — at the top and on the way down. We don’t tolerate failure here in our socialist paradise. Rather than let companies fail — a defining and essential feature of capitalism — we have bailouts. But bailouts are hate crimes against future generations, sticking our children and grandchildren with the resulting debt.,Esther and I starting out as friends meant we opened up to each other slowly at first, got to know one another without the pressure of a romantic relationship and subsequently nurtured a deep bond over the course of three years. I wouldn’t change a thing, though I wish someone had encouraged me to be kinder to myself in my teens, not to feel pressure to define or explain myself in a hurry. Had I done that, I think I would have had room to grow and develop at my own pace. So if anyone reading this is struggling, just remember that matters of the heart are rarely preordained, nor something you can prepare for or predict; all you can do is trust your instincts, try not to overthink it, and take things at your own pace.,“The risk of an accident, the risk of something horrible happening because the system is structured the way it is, to me, is 1 million times higher than [the chance] that the cameras are going to prevent a real situation,” a parent in Lockport told Vice.,On the other hand, code that relies exclusively on values known at compilation time is allowed to run at compilation time, rather than at runtime. Look at this innocent example which looks a lot like calling printf in C:,Crisis after crisis, our rationales vary: After 9/11 it was national security. In 2008 it was liquidity, and in 2020 it was protecting the vulnerable. But our response is always the same. Protect the shareholder class, protect the executive class. Keep these firms on life support so their owners and managers don’t suffer. Pay for it with debt, a burden to be borne by middle-class taxpayers and, ultimately, by our children. However, history tells us, nearly every bailout, whether it’s Chrysler or Long-Term Capital Management, only creates a moral hazard that results in a bigger failure and a more costly bailout. Every time, we’re told “this is different, historic, and requires intervention” and that taxpayers should bail out shareholders.,Esther and I starting out as friends meant we opened up to each other slowly at first, got to know one another without the pressure of a romantic relationship and subsequently nurtured a deep bond over the course of three years. I wouldn’t change a thing, though I wish someone had encouraged me to be kinder to myself in my teens, not to feel pressure to define or explain myself in a hurry. Had I done that, I think I would have had room to grow and develop at my own pace. So if anyone reading this is struggling, just remember that matters of the heart are rarely preordained, nor something you can prepare for or predict; all you can do is trust your instincts, try not to overthink it, and take things at your own pace.,But so too is an 11-year bull market a historical event. That was the unique event that accrued unprecedented wealth to a fraction of the population. And the corporations that benefited didn’t save for a rainy day — which always comes — or pay it out to their workers so they could build up a protective cushion of wealth, or invest in capital projects that would grow the economy. Instead, they poured it into dividends and stock buybacks, juicing executive compensation (from 2017 to 2019 the CEOs of Delta, American, United, and Carnival Cruises earned over $150 million in total compensation) and shareholder returns. Since 2000, U.S. airlines have declared bankruptcy 66 times. Despite the obvious vulnerability of the sector, boards and CEOs of the six largest airlines have spent 96% of their free cash flow on share buybacks. That bolstered the share price and compensation of management but left these companies dangerously exposed to a crisis.,In C, this is a potentially risky function call because at runtime, code has to analyze the format string to see how many arguments to read in. However, the format string may not match the argument list. In fact, this is bad enough that modern C compilers treat this as a special case, which is verified at compilation time. However, this is a special exception only made for the printf function.,The toxic cocktail, however, is to combine the worst of both systems. For the last 40 years, we’ve been doing this in the United States. We have capitalism on the way up. If you can create value in this country, you can be rewarded with spoils vastly beyond anything comparable in history. If you can’t create value — if you’re born into the wrong family or you catch a bad break — you’ll likely live on the edge and pay dearly for your mistakes. A Hunger Games economy.,It was my 30th birthday. I had a job offer at another company, one that seemed to be staffed with enough producers where I wouldn’t be the one person managing everything. I’d told my original boss about the job offer the day before and he stormed out of the building — left for the day. When I showed up to the office the next morning, the CEO of the company was in town from DC. They told me to come into a conference room. “This is how it’s going to go,” they started. I was to tell the staff — the majority of whom I managed — that I was leaving for personal reasons, and that I had great faith in the company’s future. Then, I would pack up my things and go. And oh, because I’m going to a competitor, I’d be stripped of the phantom equity that was allotted to me. “Procedure,” they said.,In some areas, Zig almost behaves as a dynamic language despite being statically typed. With statically typed languages, no code runs until after you have compiled that code. However, in Zig, you can mark data as known at compile time. If the compiler cannot determine the value at compile time, it is a compilation error.,The logical alternative to capitalism is socialism, and on its face, there is a lot to like. Socialism is rooted in altruism and humanism; it seeks to build up community rather than the atomized individual. These are noble goals. But the sacrifice in productivity is immense, especially with the compounding effects of time. Capitalism creates dramatically many more spoils, so any of those noble goals have more to work with.,I have had an affinity for playing around with different programming languages for over 20 years. This is an attempt at recollecting some of those experiences — ideas which really stood out in each language or which I have in retrospect seen the significance of.,This list is highly subjective. It is a list of features representing ideas that caught my attention. You will always find people who think some other feature or idea is more prominent or important, but that is fine.,While New York State Legislature has issued a moratorium on facial recognition in schools, Governor Andrew Cuomo is yet to sign the bill, allowing Lockport’s system to continue.