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ben_vulpes: show me how to save my wot from impending doom, and i'll give
a shit.
williamdunne: Waste is
a fact, there is no real way around it
assbot: Logged on 19-05-2015 03:06:37; decimation: I suspect one cannot be against 'basic income' and 'insurance for all' without being
a nazi in modern germany
trinque: lol, I give that
a 50/50 on working out
BingoBoingo: driving alone on
a road in the middle of nowhere during the day, just might take first place
trinque: I used to get
a lot of thinking done driving between the major cities in TX; past
a certain hour there's nobody out there
trinque: driving alone on
a road being
a close second
BingoBoingo:
A bicycle is just dead wait that's going to get stolen as soon as you have to go inside
a building
assbot: Logged on 19-05-2015 01:15:30; justJanne: If you have small narrow streets, distances between 10 and 15 km, and
a huge amount of people on tiny space,
mircea_popescu: i get it, you got how to throw
a great party down, once someone prepares the cupboards. very impressed.
assbot: Logged on 19-05-2015 00:59:33; justJanne: Because the US is
a reference point as worst case civilized country.
mats: dear god EMET is
a shitshow
mats: "The average class of 2015 borrower will graduate college with just over $35,000 in debt, according to an analysis by Edvisors, ...[that] makes the class of 2015 the most indebted class in history, graduating with
a whopping $56 billion in student loan debt."
trinque: next time you're in
a restaurant try to spot the XP running on the terminals
mats: for the enterprising d00d there r
a number of 0days in there
mats: you'd think there's not
a good reason for the kernel to need PostScript
mats: another fun fact: there's also
a Turing-complete PostScript VM in the kernel
trinque: then 5 years later that's
a part of history and you can't change that, who are you?
trinque: dev is insecure about whether his app covers all cases so he does things like that, builds
a goddamn scripting layer into the thing because you know printing needs that
trinque: mats: windows' spooler thing has
a language in it?
mats: fun fact: there is
a Turing-complete printer control VM in the winders kernel
trinque: dad beat mom, son is
a radical feminist
decimation: I suspect one cannot be against 'basic income' and 'insurance for all' without being
a nazi in modern germany
☟︎ mats: absurdly expensive compared to the cost of
a 5.56 round
decimation: there's no doubt that
a 'real' chemical attack is gonna result in alot of deaths
decimation: "Soldiers from all branches of the Armed Forces, civilian first responders, and some foreign military attend the chemical school for training in various types of chemical detection and survival through several courses including practice in
a hot zone where actual toxic agents such as the Sarin and VX nerve agents."
mats: when you can just dissolve
a tablet of CS in
a spray bottle
mats: i have
a hard time believing VX was used in
a training event
decimation: I had
a friend who went to 'real' MOPP training - he was suited in
a room with VX gas.
mats fondly remembers training event where we were forced to go MOPP 3 (overboots, gas mask, most of the NBC gear) with body armor and run around the track on
a summer afternoon
mats: this guy definitely knows
a bent supply dude
mats: meanwhile they pocket 70% of what the unit actually allotted for
a meal
mats: because its "up or out", if you aren't worthy of
a promotion according to n metrics, you gtfo
decimation: it's funny. the troupe of the corrupt supply sergeant probably has
a good basis in fact
mats: can't imagine the kind of devilry
a bent brigade quartermaster or commander can get up to
mats: i witnessed
a pretty serious amount of theft and graft, even at the company level in .mil
pete_dushenski: and they're awful to work for if you have ambition and half
a functioning intellect.
pete_dushenski: post offices are just
a special counter in
a corner of pharmacies
pete_dushenski:
a year, mebbe
a year and
a half is perfectly sufficient to understand the insanity-on-
a-stick that is state-run anything.
assbot: Logged on 19-05-2015 00:48:25; mats: i recommend
a stint as
a govt employee
justJanne: Still it's not
a distance that makes
a car useful, but would be ideal for biking.
danielpbarron: i bike amongst
a sea of cars (ct shoreline gets crazy in the summer)
justJanne: If you have small narrow streets, distances between 10 and 15 km, and
a huge amount of people on tiny space,
☟︎ BingoBoingo: Bikes don't have
a clear niche where the really beat pedestrianism, motorcarriages, or rocket plane
justJanne: In
a few years, the US will have reached the level of freedom that somalia has.
justJanne: Where they do their physical work, rent
a flat, but food — those things are taxes.
danielpbarron: it's not
a matter of where to live, but where to claim juristiction
danielpbarron: and he claims juristiction in the Most Serene Republic, and not your joke of
a country
danielpbarron: because my employer doesn't have
a physical basis of operations
justJanne: Can you provide
a real life example?
justJanne: Because the US is
a reference point as worst case civilized country.
☟︎ justJanne: But again, the idea of the Nordic model is huge personal freedom, at the same time
a stable society that provides
a great basis for everyone.
justJanne: Most of the things need to be
a competition, others need to be nonprofit monopolies.
justJanne: And? Were they replaced by private competition or
a private monopoly?
justJanne: But
a governmental monopoly is always better than
a private monopoly.
justJanne: If the government rents
a train for that (like Hitler did, the companies profited heavily) or if they own them (like the GDR did), changes nothing.
justJanne: That is not
a part of the discussion.
mats: i recommend
a stint as
a govt employee
☟︎ justJanne: Every. Single. Time.
A governmentally owned institution got sold to
a US investor they either closed down 2 days later, became shit, or just expensive.
☟︎ justJanne: Then they went to stock market and became
a private company.
justJanne: Reminds me of Deutsche Bahn.
A large railway company. Everything was fine, perfectly on time, cheap, profitable.
mats: jurov: i don't follow. so, because rent is high, folks should get
a min wage/basic income
justJanne: And if you break your leg and can't work for
a month, you starve to death.
danielpbarron: it's
a population that is still only
a couple generations off from having the crap kicked out of it
justJanne: It's not
a childish fantasy of it's the currently best working system.
danielpbarron: i don't think anyone here is taking the side that the U.S. is
a good example of how things should be
mats: you're high if you think setting
a price floor in
a market doesn't unduly affect market conditions
danielpbarron: justJanne,
a minimum wage prices the cheap labor out of the market (the company will prefer not to hire them at all)
mats: subsidies AND minimum wages are
a shit idea.
mats: would rather take it than work at McDonalds for just shy of
a thousand bux
a month
justJanne:
A minimum wage might encourage the company to actually be more efficient.
justJanne: yes, they can transport
a package for 20$ across the continent over night, and make
a profit.
mats: lets use the US Postal Service as
a model. something like 200 junk mailers are responsible for pumping $billions into the thing, and they pay
a pretty penny to be able to shit in your box at commercial rates (in US, cost of letter is $0.49 -- junk mailers pay 5x that)
justJanne: ah, the good old "I can live in
a cave" defense
mats: somalia's not so different from the rest of the world. quite
a bit ahead of its time, really
justJanne: and then you have
a highly competitive, almost unrestricted market for the rest
mats: nordic model works because you live in
a universe that appears utterly detached from economic reality
danielpbarron: you know star trek is
a work of fiction, right? those were all
a bunch of professional liars
justJanne: with
a combination of free trade (think Quark), and basic life enough for everyone
mats: trinque: its good stuff, i've watched every ep prob
a half dozen times
mats: yer
a leaf on the wind
mats: 'star trek' is
a hell for some folks.
justJanne: there are some laws: (
a) every insurance has to provide
a basic plan for the same price, (b) everyone has to have at least this plan, or more
danielpbarron: except it's
a very specific shot as per what the normal people voted on
mats: its
a beautiful notion. its also not going to happen unless we go post-scarcity, upon which we will revisit the whole thing
mats: i get that you grew up in
a soft place, and believe all folks deserve
a fair shot at doing whatever it is they feel
danielpbarron: right but how does it include that if it's taxes? the government forces you to have
a savings plan?
trinque: jurov: if I had
a kid right now I'd be able to pay for it just fine