> I can assure you that the comfortably rich are not getting richer by loaning money to the average person to buy houses and cars
Isn't this precisely the idea of securities backed by subprime loans? As long as you're not stuck holding the bag you can generate a lot of wealth. The interest rate just determines how quickly you'll need to cash out; conceivably you might even prefer a lower interest rate to avoid raising significant attention.
> Rust seems to encourage a single global allocator strategy, which is not suitable for many use-cases such as OS development and high-performance game development.
I'd really love to hear them expound on this as I'm pretty sure rust has both OSes written in it and access to custom allocators. I just used `TypedArena` for managing memory in a real-time (DSP) event loop yesterday. Hell, you can just spew `unsafe` everywhere and manually manage memory like zig/c's strategy seems to be, although I'm not sure what the benefit would be.
But hey, this isn't a knock—I've just been traumatized by years of completely avoidable segfaults and do everything in my power to avoid the experience.
> It is caused by people developing mental health issues that make retaining employment extremely difficult.
Sadly, there are many other reasons, too. I met a family of immigrants. I learned through their eight-year old son his parents lost their jobs, couldn't find legal employment, did not speak english. As they were at a shelter, I imagine they were decent candidates to be picked up by ICE.
Nonetheless, I agree with your post. This is a solvable problem but it is only solvable at the housing level.
No; however, drivers are pretty easily portable among the distros. The differences are mostly userspace details and driver selection. I can't imagine they have difficulty navigating their own setups.
> Plan 9-based technologies are a part of most, if not all, operating systems today (even Windows!).
9p is indeed a great technology—I would have also thrown in utf-8—but most of plan9's ideas remain quite fringe. I would pay a ton of money for an OS with both bind and browser support. Plumber is still leagues better than anything offered by macs/linux/windows.
That said, I don't see "fringe" as being mutually exclusive with "legitimate". TempleOS had some features that other OS's could use, too—its use of hyperlinking is actually really cool.
I don't think anyone except consumers themselves can speak to why they buy their products. The prevailing dogma that users want Apple to think for them is trivially false.
It's not clear why you'd consider our species particularly interesting for a reason other than intelligence. According to much of human history and culture this is what differentiates us from other animals.
Isn't this precisely the idea of securities backed by subprime loans? As long as you're not stuck holding the bag you can generate a lot of wealth. The interest rate just determines how quickly you'll need to cash out; conceivably you might even prefer a lower interest rate to avoid raising significant attention.