randomidiot123

I'm not talking about computer systems. It is trivial to write code to handle an arbitrary UTF-8 string. I mean for his own sake, it's probably best to have a real name.

I wrote "chemicals" from China. Not "ingredients" from China. Nothing against China. It's a placeholder for <insert random source of chemicals>

Yep. If preparing the food requires a bachelors degree in food science, chemicals imported from China, and a home laboratory, then it's probably classified as "processed food".

I was not being sarcastic whatsoever. I know two people who have changed their name because they didn't like the name they were born with. My suggestion is 100% dead serious.

Of course they have been benchmarked. Both compile to native code, so performance can be roughly the same if the algorithms are the same. However, figuring out how to design a Haskell program that reaches maximum performance is very difficult, and the code probably won't be idiomatic.

That's the problem with interpreting the Bible literally. God represents something of psychological reality.

Slower compilation doesn't mean slower execution. Scala has "Native" and JVM implementations with different performance characteristics. Scala is a hybrid that allows imperative code with a lower level of abstraction than Haskell, closer to hardware. Thus it is potentially more performant.

It's definitely asking for trouble. Murphy's Law.

Listen man, you’re obviously a very smart guy (I’m assuming your gender), but it seems that you haven’t been exposed much to the “Austrian School” of economics.

Keynesian theory is the orthodox economic religion, which you have fully subscribed to. Austrians are heretics and we are burned at the stake for our beliefs.

I’ve read both sides. The Austrian school is far more compelling and rational. It cuts through the obscurantist bullshit with precision.

To me, Keynesian theory with its justification for continued economic chaos, is for those suffering from “battered wife syndrome”. To accept the Keynesian excuses, is akin to a wife getting brutally raped and beaten by her husband every day, while telling everyone “It’s OK, I deserve it, he knows what’s best for me”.

If you haven’t seriously examined the Austrian side of the debate, have a look at this:

https://mises.org/library/austrian-theory-money

https://mises.org/library/one-lesson

https://mises.org/books-library

EDIT: In the first link, read the paragraph that begins with "In the face of overwhelming arguments against inflationary expansion ..." . The entire article is good but that really gets to the point of inflation.

The money supply is centrally planned. The interest rates are centrally planned. Therefore I call it a socialist monetary system.

You are fundamentally off the mark at every single point. The basket of goods specifically excludes things such as housing which is the by far the number one cost of living here, which leaves that "inflation" figure as an utterly meaningless metric.

> Set them at a low level. That's their job. To maintain a consistent, low, predictable rate of inflation.

Your reading comprehension failed here. I am referring to control of interest rates, which has far reaching consequences beyond inflation. This is the "fatal conceit" of socialist minded people such as yourself. No one on this planet is qualified to control interest rates.

As for the Soviet Union - I was talking about their centralized / planned economy. Socialism. We have a socialist monetary system in the West.

Yes New Zealand is the least corrupt government in the world, apparently, and despite that, the divide between rich and poor is increasing. It has become way less affordable to live here since the mid 2000's and is not getting any easier. We are locked in to a corrupt global system. Our monetary policy is a slave to the global socialist monetary system.

New Zealands actual inflation is way, way higher than 1.5%. You are very naive and gullible if you believe that number. You also have no idea how the cost of housing is determined. Central banks have artificially manipulated interest rates to an extremely low level, where savers are forced to malinvest in things such as housing, which is also encouraged by mortgage rates being way below the reasonable cost, because again, the interest rates are artificially low. The reserve bank governor even admitted they were at fault.

A savings account pays below the real inflation rate here in New Zealand. The cost of housing has increased hundreds of percent over the last 20 years thanks to central bank monetary policy that artificially manipulate interest rates. A shoebox apartment is now ridiculously unaffordable. I can put money into savings that loses money after inflation, and funds a system that is fundamentally corrupt, which leaves me worse off overall than if we had a real free market without centralized manipulation of currency and interest rates.

This centralized artificial interference has caused major imbalances in the economy here. It didn't work for the Soviet Union and it's not working in the "capitalist" world either.

Accumulation of savings is valuable as it can be used for capital investment at the best opportunity. Forcing people to spend prematurely on crappy mal-investment is not optimal. Spending for the sake of spending is not optimal investment.

Simply being born is no justification for stealing by fiat. People should be rewarded for saving capital. Forcing people to gamble their money only to maintain the wealth they already earned is not ethical. It is sufficient for people to be incentivized to spend money on things that are useful or interesting and to invest for higher return where the investment is sound.

EDIT: the money stolen by fiat is not evenly redistributed, and definitely not in favour of the poorest.

It's as gibberish today as it's always been.