I happen to enjoy sports gambling and would be sad to see it disappear.
I'm writing this because I want you to know what you're depriving me of. Because _other_ people make poor decisions, we need to take that decision away from everyone.
I like gambling too, I was very much for legalizing it until it happened and I saw how many lives it's devastated, and how vulnerable young people are to it.
Now I don't give a fuck that banning it would deprive me (or you) of something we happen to enjoy.
This is just the same social contract you agree to in every part of your life.
Why can't you legally drive over 100 mph when you know you'd do it safely?
Why can't you own certain kinds of weapons when you know you don't want to kill anyone or yourself?
Gamblers going bankrupt is bad for all of us because they often have families and creditors who are harmed by the loss of the money, and the rest of us pay the price in the form of welfare, loss wages, etc.
For one, we are just discussing financial ruin. Not deaths by guns or cars. And it does not impact you. Or else you would need to just regulate poor spending habits. At worse.
I think in principle just about everyone agrees in freedom and liberty where it does not affect society. We usually disagree just about what constitutes 'affecting others'.
The entire business model depends on most people losing, and those losses often come from people who can't afford it, the industry is structured to aggressively market, addict, and exploit psychological weaknesses, it's engineered dependence
> Because _other_ people make poor decisions, we need to take that decision away from everyone.
Sports betting is to entertainment what ultra-processed food is to nutrition, engineered to be addictive, marketed as "pleasure" and technically a personal choice, but built on exploiting human psychology
You can enjoy a burger or a bet responsibly, sure, but the problem is the systemic design, it's optimized for overconsumption and dependency, not well being, you end up creating problems whole society have to pay for it, it's systemic harm
If you look at the budget, it becomes obvious that the main activity of the federal government is taking money from one group of citizens so that another group of citizens, who are otherwise capable of working, can enjoy a life of leisure for the last 15-20 years of their life. Given that we’ve collectively decided that the bar for when we will massively impinge on people’s freedom is apparently to provide for other people’s idleness, I think it’s completely justified to also impinge on people’s freedom so that we can prevent problem gamblers from totally ruining their lives.
How would you feel if we just banned advertising it?
Im all for people like you having the right to make a choice, but the way its advertised rubs me the wrong way.
Kids are encouraged to watch the games which is a bit of a family event. Then during those games, ads are just everywhere for betting. Then theres a "18+ only" fine print.
We banned cigarette advertisements during sports and I would say we are better for it, but I wouldn't call to ban smoking.
It’s a completely legitimate question. It’s the same moral consideration behind whether drugs and alcohol should be legal. Banning them is good for people who can’t use them responsibly, but reduces the freedom of people who can. Given that we’ve flip flopped on the legality of alcohol, cannabis, and sports betting in the last 100ish years, it’s clear there is ambiguity about what is the best tradeoff.
Go do the xv6 labs from the MIT 6.828 course, like yesterday. Leave all textbooks aside, even though there are quite a few good ones, forget all GitHub tutorials that have patchy support, blogs that promise you pie in the sky.
The good folks at MIT were gracious enough to make it available for free, free as in free beer.
I did this course over ~3 months and learnt immeasurably more than reading any blog, tutorials or textbook. There’s broad coverage of topics like virtual memory, trap processing, how device drivers work (high-level) etc that are core to any modern OS.
Most of all, you get feedback about your implementations in the form of tests which can help guide you if you have a working or effective solution.
Tanenbaum's textbook is highly readable, comprehensive (surveys every major known solution to each major prpblem), and mostly correct. xv6 may be a smaller, more old-fashioned, and more practical approach. RISC-V makes the usually hairy and convoluted issues of paging and virtual memory seem simple. QEMU's GDB server, OpenOCD, JTAG, and SWD can greatly reduce the amount of time you waste wondering why things won't boot. Sigrok/Pulseview may greatly speed up your device driver debugging. But I haven't written an operating system beyond some simple cooperative task-switching code, so take this with a grain of salt.
Funny question since you bring up JTAG and RISC-V -- do you have a cheapish RISC-V device you'd recommend that actually exposes its JTAG? The Milk-V Duo S, Milk-V Jupiter, and Pine64 Oz64 all seem not to expose one; IIRC, the Jupiter even wires TDO as an input (on the other side of a logic level shifter)...
I don't know what to recommend there. I have no relevant experience, because all my RISC-V hardware leaves unimplemented the privileged ISA, which is the part that RISC-V makes so much simpler. The unprivileged ISA is okay, but it's nothing to write home about, unless you want to implement a CPU instead of an OS.
I suggest the opposite. Never DOS, particularly never MS-DOS and never x86 or anything in that family. They are an aboslute horror show of pointless legacy problems on a horrifying obsolete platform. Practically everything you'd learn is useless and ugly.
Start with an RTOS on a microcontroller. You'll see what the difference is between a program or a library and a system that does context switching and multitasking. That's the critical jump and a very short one. Easy diversion to timers and interrupts and communication, serial ports, buses and buffers and real-time constraints. Plus, the real-world applications (and even job opportunities) are endless.
No. They use sophisticated algorithms called propagators to prune the invalid solutions from the domains of possible solutions in conjunction with a search strategy, like branch and bound
8T isnt really that much for America, especially over 24 years. And it's not like China does not spend on defense.
I would be cautious applying broad statements and simple causes. Often we take these opportunities to connect it with whatever pet issue we individually care about. That's why you can see people blaming everything from zoning policies to DEI.
And yet, people keep buying i Phones. They have a choice. And they are opting in to a closed platform. Likewise with PlayStations and Wiis versus computer games.
Consumers largely don't care and are not interested in esoteric concepts like free software. I would be careful about dictating how things should work.
Im also chiming in to say i remember these servers.
Frankly, i never liked the mod very much and only advanced a few levels. But i distinctly remember trying to kill enemies with some sort of lighting bolt move.
I'm writing this because I want you to know what you're depriving me of. Because _other_ people make poor decisions, we need to take that decision away from everyone.