I believe eating food from street vendors was the usual way for paupers until quite recently. Recall that it was common to rent a bed for a few hours and share it with someone who worked different shifts.

In my experience people criticize C++ for its safety problems. Safety is more important in certain areas than in others. I’m not convinced that you get better quality with C++ than with Ada

It’s a lot cheaper to hire for Java than for „modern“ languages.

People on HN down-voting facts?

And yes, "you get what you pay for" is part of this.

Have you ever heard the expression "you get what you pay for?"

I’m no expert, but reducing something as complex as a whole country’s economic outlook to just the variable „immigration“ seems like an oversimplification to me.

It’s fairly easy to make cyanotype yourself: https://simplifier.neocities.org/cyanotype

Switching away from clay tablets was a step in the wrong direction.

Those clay tablets needed to be fired and had a negative carbon footprint.

Handmade parchment, or leather carvings if you don’t mind.

Why fire them when you can just reuse them?

Those both require cattle farming, which is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions (at least 10%, perhaps as high as 19.6%, per https://thebreakthrough.org/issues/food-agriculture-environm...). Stick with papyrus or wax, please.

I think instead of „magic“ what we should have more of is honesty about uncertainty. The public discourse would be much less toxic if people honestly said that they’re not sure about something and that the policy they advocate might fail to deliver. However such rhetoric is immediately exploited weakness and strongly selected against.

That works until you had to fix conflicts during the rebase and the commits are no longer identical.

It's hard to compete with something that is allowed to externalize the majority of its costs.

Nevertheless CO2 emissions are going down in the western world, even after you account for trade: https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2