Are we at a stable spot now or am I just overindexing on my personal understanding?

Would we be insisting everyone writes bad 90s style OO code because that's the professional standard? How do you have standards when the field is still figuring itself out?

The Chinese media landscape doesn't support anti-Chinese narratives and the US/UK media landscape, while totally free, somehow never produces anti-Anglo narratives[1]. It's not a conspiracy, it's a culture.

[1]: There are safe anti-anglo narratives where various defeated/killed people have a valid grievance and we should all cry about it, as long as they're all dead and a non-threat.

I mean, yes, you also can't get away with organizing an opposition, but they really do care about social cohesion and good family values above and beyond that.

(Also, one should always note that the BBC is state owned when they write articles full of invective like this).

I can't disagree with that, reminds me of the quote from the movie Rounders: If you've been at the table for 30 minutes and you don't know who the sucker is, you ARE the sucker.

Like, do you know many addicts or seriously mentally ill? Have you tried pressuring them into being better? How did it work out?

I'm not as positive as you are about what makes California (and Seattle) create/attract so many, but it's definitely an outlier compared to "everywhere".

There are many, many places in the world that are much poorer and don't have homeless encampments all over the place.

Like, a pure researcher for a corporation might have some genuine overlap and shared interests where breakthroughs in the research benefit both parties, but an ethicist?? For a legal construct that's defined by and bound to sociopathically pursue profit? Come on now.

I put "food" and "airplane frames" in the "worth it for state intervention" category personally. Memory is obviously not food, the question is whether it is airplane frames at this point in time. Maybe? I'd give it a solid 55/45 maybe. But we shouldn't sponsor korean/taiwanese companies, so what's the plan for an American memory company?

The arguments for infrastructure being managed more tightly by the government is because it's a natural monopoly that everything depends on. Memory isn't a natural monopoly, if we found ourselves in a spot where we all depend on 3 companies then that's not a law of nature, we need more companies.

Posting instead of researching in hopes someone smarter can chime in, because I'm lazy.