I pay for the services I want because it's more convenient for me (I pay more than €60/month for online news alone, and self-host most of the services I use, which also cost me money). But yes, I use some ad-backed services with an adblocker, and if they went away I would just replace them with truly free services which are just slightly less convenient.

They list the ARMv7 board C1 as €3/month. It breaks down to:

- €1 for the actual machine

- €1 for the 50GB LSSD (obviously it is required to boot)

- €1 for the IP address

(obviously not counting VAT)

Now, the €1 does not appear out of thin air, and in fact you are billed an hourly rate initially, for each of those resources. However, at the end of the month, you get billed whichever is cheaper between the time*hourly rate and the monthly rate (which is €1).

You can also deallocate the IP address if you don't need it. (source: I’m a scaleway customer, and I believe that kind of information is available inside deeply nested FAQ pages somewhere on their website)

That article does not say this. In fact, it more or less has the opposite meaning.

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The alternatives vary according to the issue you want to tackle, so I would be hard pressed to recommend a particular one. And go does fill some vacant spots in language space.

Go really feels opinionated around the wrong things, in order to claim "simplicity" as a feature:

- No generics just mean you're going to be handing interface{} all the way in your stack, it makes things more complex and less readable for no reason (and less safe)

- error handling which is essentially string-based, in 2017? Give me a type system, please

- gofmt is a good idea (just like clang-format or yapf), and having it is great, but the maintainers specifically refuse to add simple features, saying "running it in an automated process is not supported", despite all github projects already having it in their automated CI suite

- go test is good, but in the end it is found lacking

- dep, well, if you don't mind dumping the code for all your deps in the source tree, it's probably ok, but it solves a deficiency that the language should not even have (see next point)

- stability: the language itself is fine on that, but the ecosystem really isn't. The fact that they don't even have the package management quality of python (which I find awful already) is baffling. I don't even know how they could think "yeah, github-importing is a good idea, let's do it". Go is eight years old tomorrow and you still have to rely on third-party tooling to do proper imports that don't burn your house.

It is still an impressive result, and one that might be misused badly, despite the numerous warnings used in the paper.

Yes, Europe is a big place, but the US is too, and it's quite common to travel a few hundred kilometers in europe and see a completely different political situation. Of course they are still large tendencies (synthesized into european parliament groups), but they really don't mean much and more importantly have no decisive power on their own.

That said, with the polarization of political debate, people rabidly defend viewpoints they don't even understand or never thought about rationally. It means you cannot have interesting arguments because you don't share any axioms with the other party, and you have different opinions on basic stuff such as "do poor people deserve to die" or "should gay people be reeducated" or "do we put immigrants in concentration camps", at which point you can only give up and break contact with resignation. Sure, I can interact with people like that on trivial stuff if I have to, but don’t ask me to be overly nice to someone who would rather see me or people I like dead.

A (very) progressive tax rate with a few ways of reducing the tax based on social (e.g. number of children, etc) criteria would probably work better here.

Of course, old code should be upgraded to use attribute names, but it's really convenient to be able to upgrade it painlessy.