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  • Sounds pretty ideal. I am not political scientist, nor do I think political scientist can have solid prediction about success of a macro political system at this level of a abstraction – it is simply too complex of a system.

    I feel from the past experiment regarding socialism, there seems to be a conflict between large state and large state serving the will of the people. Power corrupt: for a social democracy to be functional, I believe needs to have (at least the following) two characteristic:

    1. Most people should not have to feel the worry for the lack of resources. Thus, wealth display will naturally be unnesscary, if not frowned upon. Eliminating the culture of admiring people with excessive assets.
    2. A strong democratic system that discourages the consolidation of power under a couple oligarchs.

  • Socialism only states the public ownership of means of production (sometimes called capital), but there is no requirement in the removal of market.

    One of the way socialism can develop is when the cost of capital is way below cost of labour, making worker owning their own capital trivial.

    However, there is really no requirement on the side of removal of market, universal healthcare, or universal educations etc; these are often consequence of a strong public sector and (at least attempts at) efficient allocation of resource through said public power. In most places people usually equate socialism with big government, that IMO really is Marx-Leninism (which is formulated by neither Marx or Lenin, but Stalin).

    Marxism–Leninism holds that a two-stage communist revolution is needed to replace capitalism. A vanguard party, organized through democratic centralism, would seize power on behalf of the proletariat and establish a one-party communist state. The state would control the means of production, suppress opposition, counter-revolution, and the bourgeoisie, and promote Soviet collectivism, to pave the way for an eventual communist society that would be classless and stateless.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism–Leninism

    Either with market or not, in a socialist society, worker are still compensated for their labor and expertise. In the scenario I described earlier, even more than a capitalist society, since labor is the more valuable resource given the low value of capital.









  • I have heard way too many “performance in the ballpark of C”, most of the time it means in some cherry-picked example it is slightly slower than C, and most program is 20-50 times slower.

    The language design honestly remind me of the old PHP: uses hashtable and array as primitive data structures, and free memory at the end of a function to achieve memory safety.

    It seems quite unbelievable to me that it is gonna have C-like performance, since hashtable is usually quite slow compared to even heap access (direct stack allocation, of course, is the fastest); but I would be happy to be proven wrong.



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    It is repairable (replaceable mobo and battery); supports microSD card; and file transfer through officially-supported self-hosted cloud, most common cloud service, and/or USB.

    They have public feature roadmap, and is a very sustainable company that prioritize existing customer over releasing new product.