smitty1e

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   by smitty1e 1y ago

   Are we? I would enjoy the privilege of walking away from Social Security like the misguided idea it is.
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   by smitty1e 1y ago

   I call it the "Ditt-Kuh-Pow", the Dumbest Thing That Could Possibly Work. Said that in in a telephone call one time, and the guy leading that was all "I'm mildly disturbed that you had a verbalization for that."
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   by smitty1e 1y ago

   And then there was a bloody civil war to eliminate chattel slavery. These days we have more sophisticated control mechanisms involving government regulations.
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   by smitty1e 1y ago

   I don't disagree with your point, which is, I think, that the Amish are essentially freeloading on the security afforded by the surrounding society. Indeed, the smaller "tribal-esque" approach of the Amish may be considered s
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   by smitty1e 1y ago

   Indeed, and the infrastructure behind these are very communally owned. I guess if the unit of group analysis stays small enough, they can avoid the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons .
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   by smitty1e 1y ago

   Merging all the dimensions of the question into Value as a function of Cost seems part of the challenge. Value is such a subjective concept. You finally get down to "We all need things transcending pure utility, connecting us to storie
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   by smitty1e 1y ago

   One other nit was that WSL2 does not expose the USB ports to the Arch guest very easily. So I had to install USBIP on the Windows11 host, and bring in a tool chain and compile a Linxux 6.x kernel in order to add external storage for my QGIS
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   by smitty1e 1y ago

   Yes, Moba provides the X11 functionality to allow me to run QGIS under Arch and see the maps.
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   by smitty1e 1y ago

   I run Arch under WSL2 and then in ~/.bashrc: WINDOWS_IP=$(ip route | awk '/^default/ {print $3}') DISPLAY="$WINDOWS_IP:0" Now I can use the mighty mobaxterm from https://www.mobatek.net to just
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    by smitty1e 1y ago

    Less scatalogically, everything has a lifecycle.
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    by smitty1e 1y ago

    Years of pent-up frustration that were spleen-dumped into the post, as far as I can tell.
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    by smitty1e 1y ago

    Philippe Kahn is all: "Wut?"
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    by smitty1e 1y ago

    > What we’re exceptional at is survival. We've wandered pretty much the entirety of the planet and made it to the moon. Nuclear weapons. Controlling the scope of the conversation to exclude the counter-arguments, too, demonstrates
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    by smitty1e 1y ago

    Or it may be like everything has a lifecycle, and that of public education has run its course.
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    by smitty1e 1y ago

    3. If we don't, who eats the blame when the strategic failure comes home to roost?
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    by smitty1e 1y ago

    Judging by the moderation, public education is apparently a sacred cow whose holiness must remain beyond question. I repent of my heathen unbelief.
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    by smitty1e 1y ago

    Maybe the word "public" deserves more attention. Taxing people to fund education seems to be reducing the product to glorified day care. Those with means (and I would be one) send their kids to private schools for a variety of rea
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    by smitty1e 1y ago

    If capitalism were a thing, could someone market a newly made chip-free vehicle?
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    by smitty1e 1y ago

    > That being said, what he is literally saying there is he made all his money young then coasted. I actually doubt that is what he did since he seems like one of those people who doesn't sit still, but the quote doesn't paint h
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    by smitty1e 1y ago

    "Fa(ir|re) is what you pay to ride a bus"--LT Nicholson.
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    by smitty1e 1y ago

    Lwn.net comes to mind.
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    by smitty1e 1y ago

    Will there be some Orewellian tipping point when people begin to revert to barter in order to enjoy a bit of, you know, liberty?
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    by smitty1e 1y ago

    You could amend the Constitution to define an algorithm to calculate districts. The bun fight would then move to the data informing the algorithm.
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    by smitty1e 1y ago

    Thanks for the usable archive link. AI erodes human skill like advertising erodes site utility.
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    by smitty1e 1y ago

    TINFOIL HAT SAYS: Since you used the P-word, consider the 2008 election and the possibility that a similar bubble-bursting occurring at the appropriate time to maximize chances to flip Congress in 2026.
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    by smitty1e 1y ago

    I was at one of the named outfits years ago. The internal website had an article on the main page: "Here are the Partners in this year's delegation to Davos." I realized: wow, I work for the Illuminati.
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    by smitty1e 1y ago

    On the topic of technology life cycles, can anyone suggest important writers/references?
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    by smitty1e 1y ago

    As If Any Intelligent American Indvidual 'Ad Ideas
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    by smitty1e 1y ago

    It does raise the idea of managed backward compatibility. Especially if you could control at install time just how far back to go, that might be interesting. Also an immediately ridiculous graph problem for all but trivial cases.
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    by smitty1e 1y ago

    Has been for a very long time. Consider the Rule of Seven[1] against the historical data. [1] https://www.brainbok.com/guide/pm-study-notes/rule-of-seven-...