Many people have recognized this fact. Hemingway for example.
"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
-- Hemingway
In a world of corruption such as this, the smarter you are, the harder it is to remain unconscious of that fact and thus not be miserable.
Figuring out what to do about it, which means also having realized that it is not impossible to fix, is the only cure (other than lobotomizing yourself).
For those in pre-solution-realization phase, read "Atlas Shrugged" for the start of an effective cure.
I absolutely agree it is a mess for other reasons as well; but let us attack it on all angles, and I think security is the most important one these days.
Kinda good points; however: Wirth's law is more true for commercial software where profit is the motive. Amdahl's law only really makes sense in parallel computing. All that is beside the real point; which is that in this post-Snowden world, we should not be sacrificing security for performance.
Moores Law works to make it eventually more than fast enough.
Moores Law does not help it get more secure.
How about we work on things that mater in this post-Snowden world, like increasing security -- and let Moore do the performance improvements! Seems a more reasonable and efficient approach, no? Adding more attackable surface area to the Kernel is not a good idea at all. It is an NSA wet dream.
This is quite obviously the NSA adding massive additional attackable surface area to the Linux kernel.
They did it to SSL/TLS, they did it to many others, they are now doing it in earnest to Linux.
First systemd, now kdbus. Keep this up and OpenBSD, or something else, is going to kill the Swiss cheese that Linux is becoming. I love Linux, so it is sad to see this happening.
Solved this without even a pencil and paper, just in my head, in under 60 seconds while being distracted by another person in the room asking me what to have for breakfast. There is only one possible answer as the others pointed out; you are definitely wrong that the answer is indeterminable.
The whole ruckus surrounding this problem seems to be more a reflection of the sad state of the intelligence in our population, rather than anything to do with Asia.
Contrast this (Chinese eugenics) with our dysgenic system of subsidizing defective genetics for the profit of the medical industry, and, well, the obvious result is that western civilization is in big trouble!
Python 3's asyncio / co-routines is the reason to write any new project in Python 3.
The API is tiny, and the result is beautiful.
If you haven't seriously tried using it to implement something that really benefits from such computer science innovation, then you have simply seen nothing of Python 3 yet. There are many types of logic that are vastly simplified with such a programming paradigm. Faster to code, and far simpler to debug. By orders of magnitude. One example you could try if you cannot envision one is to implement a high performance network protocol. I for instance implemented the SSH protocol from scratch (RFCs) in a matter of weeks. I though it would take months before I tried, especially since I had never programmed in Python before! As I said, the API is tiny. Learning it (Python and Asyncio at once) was so easy and ended up taking such an insignificant amount of time compared to the vast quantities of time and headache saved, that, well, I just had to write this post with all that extra time and energy!
Check it out! You will find that it is beyond worth just addressing whatever fears or problems you have with making the switch.
(See my valid but then NSA downvoted answer to the question below regarding GO vs. Rust that no one else could answer and were forced to make jokes about -- if you are wondering what I mean.)
One force having all knowledge and controlling it, even using their advantage of information asymmetry to control it, I would say, is different enough from EVERYONE KNOWING THE TRUTH, that yes, perhaps we can have this discussion.
When a super human entity such as a corporation gains such control over humans and thus politics as does a media conglomerate such as Sony, then YES, it becomes quite obviously VERY political!
Because there is a battle going on. The lines are being drawn. People who where fighting this battle will see this happening before those who were unaware to start with; however, the lines are now being drawn thanks to Edward Snowden, and this battle is becoming visible to all.
Meaning: GO was dead at birth from out of the sphincter of the NSA.
Clearly the tyrants of today disagree with you. They would not be trying so desperately to ban guns if they did not fear an armed population!
Also,
In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915-1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
In 1929 the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, over 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, 13 million Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, the mentally ill, and others, who were unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, over 50 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, one million "educated" people, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
That places total victims who lost their lives because of gun control at approximately 86 million in the last century. Since we should learn from the mistakes of history, the next time someone talks in favor of gun control, find out which group of citizens they wish to have exterminated.
A striking work force isn't going to work when you are easily thrown into forced labor camps because you have been neutered in your ability to defend yourself.
Why are we even discussing guns? They account for less than 0.5% of deaths (excluding suicides) in the USA. You are two and a half times more likely to fall to your death accidentally than be killed by a gun. You are three and a half times more likely to die in a car crash.
Heart disease kills 28 innocent people in the USA every 25 minutes! Cancer kills another 28 innocent people in that time! More innocent people die from car crashes every minute than die from guns. Does a mad gunman kill 28 people every 25 minutes? I haven't even heard of any more such shooting this week, nevermind every 25 minutes since the Sandy Hook incident.
Guns don't even make the top 15 list* (below)! And #15 ranks in at 2.8% the amount of deaths as #1. In the interest of tackling problems that would actually make a meaningful difference, looking at causes at that small percentage of the problem is really a waste of time.
If any remember not too long ago, the 'year of the shark', it is much like how that 'epidemic' of shark attacks was suddenly so pressing in our consciousness. Not because you had any chance at all of dying of shark attacks, but simply because the media had chosen to spotlight the infinitesimally small amount of deaths caused by sharks. Just as you have no chance to die of sharks, you have no chance to die from guns. Just because the media purposely chooses to fill their pages with mostly gun crime doesn't mean that what they choose to report actually reflects the ratios that exist in reality. The tyrants have an agenda to disarm the people so that they can more easily enslave them. Just as the tyrants of Russia took control of the media in order to sway peoples opinions to suit their agenda, the tyrants of our countries have long ago done so as well.
In the USA, approximately 6,755 people die - every day. Twenty eight people dying is a sad thing, but irrelevant to the 6,755 people that die every day! The national media focuses on this negligible number of deaths because it suits the agenda of the parasitic ruling class. If they didn't choose to focus on it (for weeks and weeks even), then it would just be another 0.4145% of the deaths that occurred in a day.
Guns are our only defense against the next Trotsky, Stalin, Lennin or Mao once again purging a 100 million of their own people. Let's ban cars instead of guns. It would prevent more deaths, and cars are a lot less important to our freedom than guns. I would rather walk or bike to work than be thrown in the next gulag or purged because we allowed the tyrants to disarm their people.
Note that it is right to exclude suicides because: a) really, those people have the right to die, b) only half of suicides are by guns, thus you would only cut suicide by 50%, and c) you wouldn't even cut it by 50% as probably most of those people would use another way to kill themselves just like the other 50% of people who commit suicide do. Regardless, even if you don't exclude suicide then you are still more likely to die from falling or an auto accident than by a gun.
Proof of the pure BS that the media is stirring up against guns:
From the CDC's: National Vital Statistics Report, Volume 60, Number 4 (January 2012)
Numbers for 2010 (latest tabulated in the 2012 report):
Total deaths in 2010: 2,465,932
595,444 Heart Disease
573,855 Cancer
137,789 Chronic lower respiratory disease
129,180 Cerebrovascular disease
118,043 Accidents [A]
83,308 Alzheimer's
68,905 Diabetes mellitus
50,472 Influenza and pneumonia
37,793 Suicide [S]
37,843 Septicemia
31,802 Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis
26,577 Essential hypertension and hypertensive renal disease
21,963 Parkinson's disease
17,001 Pneumonitis due to solids and liquids
... ( ^ top 15 )
16,065 Assault (homicide) [M]
472,889 All other causes
[A]:
118,043 Accidents (total)
-> 37,661 Transport accidents
---> 35,080 Motor vehicle accidents
-> 25,903 Accidental Falls
-> 600 Accidental discharge of firearms
-> ...
[S]:
37,793 Suicide (total)
-> 19,308 Suicide by discharge of firearms
-> 18,485 Suicide by other means.
[M]:
16,065 Assault (homicide)
-> 11,015 Assault (homicide) by discharge of firearms
"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know." -- Hemingway
In a world of corruption such as this, the smarter you are, the harder it is to remain unconscious of that fact and thus not be miserable.
Figuring out what to do about it, which means also having realized that it is not impossible to fix, is the only cure (other than lobotomizing yourself).
For those in pre-solution-realization phase, read "Atlas Shrugged" for the start of an effective cure.