> Anything you build can be exploited against you when you're on the other side of the power balance.

You're responding to someone who's explaining to you that this is exactly the problem.

If an extremist can do whatever they want if they happen to excite people with a "platform that broadly appeals to enough Americans", then the problem is structural, and has to be addressed there, or literally everything you do and have can be undone by the next moron that riles people up again.

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busterarm 2 hours ago | parent [-]

You raced over the key word in that sentence.

Anything.

Your patches will be the sources of your next exploits.

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coryrc an hour ago | parent [-]

No. A language with checked arrays can never have a buffer overrun like C arrays can.

Some things are better. Game theory demonstrates this.

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HDThoreaun 23 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

C is not in any way objectively bad because buffer overflows are possible. Any method you use to check for them comes with costs

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busterarm an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Some things are better but in the case of political systems, you typically can't prove that ahead of time.

Especially when the suggestion is to talk about changing a bunch of variables at once.

That's akin to a revolution, which historically work out badly for the people clamoring for it.

	▲	coryrc 23 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		There's already a revolution going on and we're losing. They stacked the courts. The blood of innocents in the streets and ICE prisons. Either we overhaul the system that got us to this point or we concede. I'm tired of dumbasses in Montana having 50x the vote in the Senate and 4x vote on the POTUS as a Californian. That's not democratic.