> USG has not deleted and re-issued their USD even once so far afaik. Other countries do it more often.
Interesting side note: they did it once, just after the ratification of the US Constitution. The Revolutionary War was funded in some sense by devaluing the Continental Currency of the time, denominated in "Dollars". You could argue that the "US Dollar" only came to being with the coinage act of 1792, but as a Brazilian I'd say "Potay-to, Potah-to"
And beyond pricing strategy, there are people who feel that a fair price is intrinsic to the product (e.g. the amount of work that goes into it). For example, it's pretty common in the classical guitar luthier world for there to be a decade-plus waiting list for some masters. They refuse to scale up their prices to “market-level” (i.e. a couple years max, takes months to build a guitar), because they don't want the guitars going to someone for purely economic reasons. Mind you, these are still very expensive, five figure instruments.
(edit: you could obviously think of it as a strategy that maximizes some other utility function in which profit is just one parameter)
While I agree with most of what you've said, I'm not sure I see a use-case for the distinction between Hyphen, Minus and Hyphen-Minus. Specifically, with having all three. If I were designing Unicode, I'd remove the Minus sign specifically. That way, if you absolutely need to e.g. use an old font that used long minuses (in old texts they could be even an em-dash), it would still be _encoded_ as the parseable expected by every software to date
I would remove Hyphen-Minus, whose only reason for existence was that the mechanical typewriters saved a key by using the same character for both purposes.
Distinct hyphens and minuses are necessary both due to their different meanings and due to their different traditional appearance in any typeface that does not have fixed width.
At most the en dashes could be unified with minuses, because they normally have identical appearance, even if they have different meanings.
The minus symbol aligns with the + symbol and numbers, en- and em-dashes align with text (and there should be different forms for use with lowercase, and all caps settings).
This one is as infamous as it is useful. Modern CPUs have the same instruction, but without the built-in loop (fused multiply-add).
Likewise, modern CPUs have dedicated CRC instructions, ARM Thumb 2 famously has an instruction for case statements (jump tables, instructions TBB/TBH), and many more.
The VAX was way ahead of its time, but failed to deliver on performance due to not having a pipelined or out-of-order architecture as is industry standard today.
My other favorite instructions on the VAX: the CRC instruction, the CASE dispatch table operations, and, glory of all glories, the _3-parameter_ operand + operand + destination instructions.
Frankly, I tried to go into depth on this because it was really interesting. I am embarrassed to say it was tough to find sources outside Quora and Reddit. It's possible this HackerNews comment parent might become the canonical source :)
As a Brazilian, I'm here to tell you: that's how it starts. If this isn't curbed, you'll have a presidential candidate thoroughly linked with them in ~20 years
This has been happening in the US for more than a century now. I'm not saying that it shouldn't be stopped but our government system is pretty well designed to prevent things like this from rolling up to a national level.
The bigger call out is that people who are trying to vest more power in the federal government should look at stories like this and realize that it's a bad idea.
I kept reading the post and had a growing feeling of “oh my god, it's like Perl but MORE.” Only when I got to the end I saw the footnote that it's indeed Perl 6
Having lived in São Paulo most of my life, I'd like to corroborate this. The groups tagging buildings generally have nothing to do with (other) crimes. The only unsettling part was the time I saw that that the wall below my 6th floor bedroom window had been tagged overnight
