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Is this not being hosted on a Linux box somewhere? Sure, it may well not be, but Linux is common enough that it could be.
by EliRivers 8y ago
Is this not being hosted on a Linux box somewhere? Sure, it may well not be, but Linux is common enough that it could be.
- roenxi 8y agoI can claim that for the list if you want. Torvalds is American and lives in Oregon; most of the major Linux contributors were sponsored by American companies if I recall correctly. Red Hats and IBMs of the world. America must be doing something right.
- EliRivers 8y agoAmerica must be doing something right. It is indeed. And a lot wrong too. This that you said; "It would be easy to have great life expectancy by raising the cost of living to be so high the poor are all forced to leave." I don't understand. Is that how France did it?
- roenxi 8y agoI don't know anything about France except that they are a good case study in nuclear power and they are currently rioting in the streets. Maybe? I mean, rioting on the streets could be linked to high costs of living and I wouldn't be surprised, or it could be something else entirely. Anyway, the point is you can't just compare life expectancy and have it mean something. It is completely plausible that life expectancy could be higher even if the medical system is worse.
- airstrike 8y ago> America must be doing something right. Since Europe gets to enjoy all those benefits without lifting a finger, I'd say they're doing it righter.
- Tor3 8y agoThat was tongue in cheek, perhaps? Torvalds is Finnish. Of the Swedish minority in Finland. He lives in the US now (he moved to the US when he got a job in Transmeta), but that doesn't make him American.
- contrahax 8y agoIn America it does.