> > 5.1. Remember to free the class instances
> > The class instances have to be manually freed, otherwise you get memory leaks.
> manual memory management in 2026?
The argument is not "pay taxes or we kill you", it's "pay taxes or get out of our town". No one is a slave, if the government asks for too much and provides too little, people will move.
I live in a town with non-trivial taxes. It was my personal decision to move there, no one said "move there or we kill you". When choosing a place to live, I could have moved to some other city/state/country with lower taxes, but I've decided not to. I like that we have working utilities, parks, roads, schools, law enforcement, stores. The town had a vote to increase town tax to raise money for schools and libraries, more than 70% approved.
I don't care about your ethical reasoning about tax types, if you want to live in my town, you contribute to the town's well-being. If you refuse to, on any grounds... well, maybe some other place will be a better fit for you.
Roads, libraries etc. Why is it better that those are paid from income taxes rather than property taxes? Or sales taxes or tariffs etc?
You're arguing "end justifies the means" and "might is right". "My town" and all as you argue.
Unless you truly believe that people choose where and how they will be born, which of course might be the case. And then they only have themselves to blame, as you say.
A hedge fund or a lawyer office with with a huge income but a a small office pays some tax. A sandwich shop close to them which barely had ends meet pays the same amount of tax.
I believe we should tax hedge funds much more than sandwich shops.
> I was messing around with a large language model,
> Again, my assumption was basically that this was just the language model generating a really elaborate narrative.
> That doesn't mean I believe it was actually a non-human intelligence. I can't prove that. I can't even establish that the material came from anything other than the language model itself.
> Or maybe there's something else going on. I don't know.
I think that's the textbook case of AI psychosis..
At least in the US, the traditional taxis were terrible - only way to order is via phone call, you have no idea when your car will arrive, nor how much your trip will cost, there is no easy way to send feedback to driver, and there was a good chance for an generally unpleasant experience...
Uber/Lyft changed this all and actually made the car-for-hire services usable. In my circles, this was the real reason why everyone simply stopped using taxis completely the moment any alternatives appeared.
And Waymo has a nice app and clean experience, and won't take you long way so it can charge you more, hence people group it with rideshares, despite it technically being closer to taxi.
(I understand that in other countries, taxis were much better. Before Lyft, I always felt envious while reading about their taxi systems)
American busses are infrequent and often don't follow the schedule. This means any trip where you have to be at certain time (work meeting? class? personal meeting? some event? etc...), you have to add 30-60 minutes buffer, and that's on top of bus being already slower than the car.
> A bad employee loses money until a manager notices. A bad agent loses money at machine speed, around the clock, on every channel at once, and files a beautiful report about it.
> When banks are asked to finance businesses that are run in part by agents, what proof will they accept? A dashboard? A screenshot? A performance report written by the same agent that spent the money? No underwriter on earth should accept that. Eventually none will.
Good, that's exactly what we need. People believe Big AI companies way too much. We need loud, widely-published stories of AI agents making horrible decisions and wrapping them in beautifully-formatted reports, so that a layman working with AI knows it will lie with the straight face, and even that smart-looking, cleanly formatted report might have a completely incorrect content.
> The class instances have to be manually freed, otherwise you get memory leaks.
manual memory management in 2026?
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