Economic freedom follows rule of law. And enforcing rule of law is not a passive activity. Free markets are only possible when governments take an active and benevolent role in society
Reading NextDoor completely disabused me of any notion that smaller government is better. It seems like everyone involved in local politics is an absolute crank. You can see this clearly in New Hampshire were the goofy libertarians who moved from other states gang up to defund public schools.
At least with the Feds they are under a constant microscope. The most heinous corrupt shit in America almost always happens at the local level because they can get away with it
I’ve seen projects that use a mix of unsigned int, size_t, and off_t variable declarations with implicit conversions between them. This seems like a security hazard if you are handling user input because just checking the original input may be insufficient. size_t in general seems extra ridiculous because max(size_t) is a common sentinel value returned by methods and if you aren’t careful and add to max(size_t) it wraps around to -1.