It would be great if people stopped dismissing the problem that WASM not being a first-class runtime for the web causes.

So, what policy do you change after you learn that economic activity always concentrate on a small part of the city? You go and outlaw a natural law?

1. Stop restricting what can be built, especially in the super valuable city centers

2. Shift taxes off of building (which punishes development) and onto the passive holding of land (which discourages idle land speculation)

In other words, change man's laws, not nature's.

You know that both of those will make the disparity larger, right?

You aim to build more centers and less outlying regions.

Do them publish the banned coordinates in a list too? Maybe they could put the reason at each line.

Yes. The claim that you don't need more than 3 decimal places is laughable. Your artificial design doesn't need decimal points. At all. You probably can do even better by ignoring the last 4 bits completely.

That said, the article is very interesting, and that claim applies on different contexts. It's just aimed at the wrong one.

Well, you can't measure it, so it can't matter.

NATO countries need to keep their military close to the Noth Atlantic to protect Greenland from recent unexpected threats.

As an article that was here recently claims, every verification you do in a chain increases the total time of your work by an order of magnitude. So, it's only work optimizing any productive task if you already removed most verifications.

Now, some people claim that you need to improve the reliability of your productive tasks so you can remove the verifications and be faster. Those people are, of course, a bunch of coward Luddites.

> But there is an entire cohort of people who can think about specifying systems but lack the training to sdo so so using the current methods

Nah, it will be extremely surprising if even 1 such a person exists.

On the other hand, there are lots of people that can write code, but still can't specify a system. In fact, if you keep increasing the size of the system, you will eventually fit every single programmer in that category.

Compared to 11?

I'm thinking...give me a minute....

Take your time. It's updating...

Well, the local file search is much better on ME at least.

It's better if nobody does it than to send it to the randomizer.

Ok but you need peer reviewed publications to graduate with a PhD.

And if you retort that the whole academic system is obsolete, well, it still carries a lot of prestige and legitimacy that makes politicians interested in maintaining it, so it's not going anywhere soon.