Because if you're just new'ing an object for the lifetime of the project then its destructor isn't going to be called when the program ends. That would be unexpected behavior.

3% is not going to be enough, expect 3 times as much cuts by the year end, then twice more as much in the following year. The money isn't flowing, once the money is not flowing the cuts start. Money flows when the economy expands due to actual increase of production or money flows when it is handed out for free by borrowing, printing. Once the flow slows down or stops, the music stops, everyone tries to grab the closest chair. Every company will be shrinking this year and in the subsequent years, until the attitudes change, government actually shrinks by a couple of orders of magnitude, rules that prevent productivity become unenforceable and/or are rescinded, gold replaces fake paper as money, then people will start rebuilding.

We dont complain about educating children on copyrighted works.
In fact if we did our children would not be very knowledgeable.
Same goes for AI

How did he know which was real and which was virtual?

What if tools like steam engines and AI can create sandboxed virtual realities (Ã la holodeck) in which individuals can explore religions and violence to their hearts' content without affecting anyone who chooses not to be affected by your choices?

Remember how Moriarty got so distracted by practicing evil in his AI world that he thought it was tbe only reality, but everyone outside his program was fine?

Can popes even imagine like that?

C++: You accidentally create a dozen instances of yourself and shoot them all in the foot. Providing emergency medical care is impossible since you can't tell which are bitwise copies and which are just pointing at others and saying "that's me, over there."

(cribbed from https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww-users.york.ac.uk%2F~ss44%2Fjoke%2Ffoot.htm, but widely circulated in the 90s)

I'm part of the 1/3 that voted against it. I'll bitch as much as I want.

It's tests, baby, all the way down! Midterms! Quarterlies! Weekly quizzes! Your grade is now 10% attendance and 90% exams! Good luck! Just be thankful they aren't oral.

you know, over a decade ago I wrote here that the government will be eliminated, that gold will become defacto currency, that debts will have to be paid and restructured, that laws will have to be rolled back, that government will be scaled down due to self destruction and lack of productivity. This id happening. I postulate that government has no authority and that individual has the right not to be stolen from by the government. The country you speak of used to exist before this giant government and it will exist after it.

Imagine for a moment that government is 100% efficient, so it is that efficient at taking money from Bob to subsidize Jane. The problem is not lack of efficiency, fraud or abuse, the problem is the very concept that Bov should be feeding Jane and that government will enforce that.

Why dismiss so off-handedly my own lived experience? What if you added "your mileage may vary" to the ends of your posts?

"A troll is someone who posts an INFLAMMATORY message with the intent of upsetting the reader. A troll is MALICIOUS."

Why do you get upset and how much does it say about you that reflexively seeking to silence and repress the message is your go-to response?

Are you aware that not even China's official budget can hide a near-trillion dollar deficit (note: local spending is left out), and they don't sell bonds?

What can we learn from China's government's printing money to finance fiscal deficits (rather than become beholden to bond vigilantes)?

I am convinced a lot of self-proclaimed neurodivergent people are just too lazy to actually learn social skills and want an excuse not to do so.