one of the more underrated features of them little pcengines apu-2 router boards was that they used coreboot. I never needed to build my own firmware, but I made sure I could, and slept a lot better knowing that I could maintain it my self if needed.
Still a bit bummed that pcengines closed their doors, By far my favorite computer vendor. I miss their little routers and am still looking for a good alternative.
Smart Trumpers are the worst of the bunch. Continuously inventing PHD 5D chess rationalizations for his actions that he immediately invalidates with his next erratic action. Better to just be along for the vibes than to pretend its a strategic, well thought out, well executed plan.
> An activity must encapsulate something much higher level than a single IO operation. So something like "Configure BGP on a router", "Start a VM" etc. It needs to be able to handle retries and thus be idempotent.
I was referring to the workflows, that is, writing the workflows in managed languages, not the activities.
Out of curiosity, are you working full-time on this? I'm working part-time on the same problem, looking to go full time soon, and it's interesting to see how the same ideas are popping up somewhat independently across different projects :) let me know if you're interested in chatting!
Yeah, I suppose that could be true, but I don't think it takes away from the reasoning process and the benefits of holding off on premature full automation.
Competitive edge is new innovation and I don’t see that changing anytime soon. The rules and culture favor it in the US, more so than anywhere else on earth.
China didn’t invent the iPhone or chat gpt. But they excel at optimizing.
Some (many?) book stores do a lot of their intake via estate sales, not just buying from walk-ins. That gets them access to lots of interesting and well-cared-for, if sometimes niche, collections at low prices.
>>went from productive work (someone paying them to do it) to unproductive work.
Umm, that is literally wrong, by your own definition.
>>work something different and still make revenue close to what they earned on their job by selling art.
I.e., they went from an employer paying them to do work to a variety of clients/customers paying them to do different work of nearly the same value.
OFC, if everyone did it, the price of art might decline. Or demand might go up. Or both, or neither. We don't know. But either way, the example subject did NOT convert from productive to unproductive work.
Just as Pindrop's CEO says "Ivan X" is a scammer, the whole incident can be a cooked up situation to drump up Pindrop, or a set up Pindrop created just to sell their product.
I think this is a structural issue. Universities right now are trying to justify their existence - universities of the past used to be sites of innovation.
Using ChatGPT doesn't dumb down your students. Not knowing how it works and where to use it does. Don't do silly textbook challenges for exams anymore - reestablish a culture of scientific innovation!
This was the case when I jumped through those hoops in 2019, but it's much more straightforward now. Passport, phone number (doesn't have to Chinese) plus credit/debit card unlocks up to RMB 50,000/mo, with no fees for transactions under RMB 200.
I argue the studies don't have to answer these questions, because we already have the (uncomfortable) answers.
> 1. Does it cause inflation
On its own, yes, it would create inflation if rolled out globally. However, this is why serious advocates of UBI also point out that we need policies that ensure it isn't turned into a wealth pump into the upper/ruling classes. This entails things like rent, margin, and price controls on necessities like food, shelter, healthcare, education, and transportation, which also requires substantial public investment in those areas to deter or discourage privatization of those necessities. In other words, it means pissing off every landlord, upscale grocer, private hospital, utility company, telecom, private university, rideshare company, rail company, and Taxi owner for the sake of the public good.
> 2. What is the impact on employment/productivity
Generally speaking, humans want to do something productive with their time - it's the definition of productivity that varies from person to person. Those who think solely in economic output will say that negative-profitability employment isn't of value, even if that output has knock-on positive effects in the economy (such as the disparaging compensation for teachers and first responders despite the immense value they create in the long run). It's also why people sneer at the homeless or panhandlers as being "problematic" and "undeserving" of assistance for failing to "pull themselves up [by their bootstraps]."
In reality, taking into account the whole picture, these sorts of individuals could (and studies show, often do) contribute to society better if they had support structures in place that prioritized long-term stability instead of quick KPIs for grant money. It could even be argued that UBI enabling humans to stay home and not work is itself a profitable exercise, since it removes friction from systems that those individuals might create by being forced to exist and interact with modern society and its lack of safeguards. Not only that, but the productivity gains could likely increase as we can finally eliminate "bullshit jobs" and give people the safety nets needed to start their own businesses instead - more restaurants, service experts, inventors, researchers, teachers, and other jobs that are high risk/low reward in the current system, wouldn't be in an economy with UBI and associated policies to provide for necessities and essentials.
> 3. Can we afford to tax ourselves to pay ourselves in a way that makes sense?
We can, but this is arguably the hardest opposition to surmount because it fundamentally means higher taxes on everyone, and that's a bitter medicine nobody wants to swallow. Countries with successful social safety nets have higher tax rates, but also higher quality of life as a result. Unfortunately for the current technocrats and their sycophants (not to mention their industrial predecessors and their decedents), they've managed to convince a plurality of powerful people that the world would be perfect if everyone just worked harder and became billionaires themselves so we'd have no more poor people and thus no need for taxation in principle - a fantasy so high and lofty it makes the MCU look plausibly accurate.
It would mean building a society of high taxes, rigid policies, and a massive reduction in (or outright elimination of) loopholes for wealth preservation, especially across generations. It'd mean punishing hoarding of wealth, as that would (rightly) signal exploitation rather than success. These are things most people simply aren't ready for, because they still believe themselves to be one lottery ticket, one inheritance, one startup, one IPO, or one crypto boom away from being billionaires themselves, and don't want to accept that the outcome of the 99% is to work for the rest of their lives before dying in destitution of some form under the current system - a depressing reality to be sure, but all the more reason to change it.
So there you have it. If all you look at is the current system as-is and shoehorning UBI into it, then obviously you have a slam dunk case for why it's a bad thing. UBI advocates like myself, however, acknowledge that it's merely one component in a larger transformation of society itself towards more equitable outcomes, one where colorful pieces of paper are inherently devalued for necessities like food, shelter, healthcare, education, and transportation, while increased in value for actual luxuries. It's an inversion of our present society for the betterment of all, and that's why it's incompatible with the questions you raise above (which seek to preserve a broken status quo).
"Alarm inside the Treasury Department over signs of distress in the US government bond market played a key role President Donald Trump’s decision to hit pause on his “reciprocal” tariff regime, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent raised those concerns directly to Trump in their meeting that preceded the announcement, underscoring the concerns shared by White House economic officials who had briefed the president on the accelerating selloff in the US Treasury market earlier in the day.
The market turmoil has rattled administration officials and market participants because it’s the exact opposite of what historically occurs in moments of global economic crisis or volatility. US Treasuries are considered the safest corner of the market. It’s the place investors across the globe flee toward with the assurance that the dominant US role in the global financial system will ensure asset safety.
But at the same moment Trump’s tariffs were causing foreign leaders to question the durability of longstanding US security and economic alliances, the rapid selloff of safe-haven assets raised concern that financial markets have similar concerns.
Trump acknowledged he’d been watching the bond market, telling reporters after the announcement the market is “very tricky.”
A spike in yields in the 10-year benchmark was of particular concern for Treasury officials. When the yields rise, US consumers face higher costs on things like mortgage rates for homes and financing costs for businesses."
You're not wrong about ethical considerations, but the CDC operates socially and politically as well.
Back when the vaccine was new, an objection from some parents was that the vaccine might be viewed as a license or permission for their daughters to be promiscuous. There was a substantial headwind.
The public wasn't yet generally aware that HPV could cause head, neck, and anal cancers in men. If a doctor approached a parent back in 2010 and said they wanted to vaccinate their son against head, neck, and anal cancer, that advice wouldn't have been heeded in many cases, and would have cost the CDC some amount of its standing with the public
That's simply not true. I use mental arithmetic skill every day. It's irritating or funny when you come across someone who struggles with it, depending on the situation.
But he's also brought the whole of the US down to the mud that he enjoys fighting in.
The US shouldn't be taken seriously any more, world wide. Trump, and his Project 2025 conspirators, have proven that the US system of government had a loophole, and have taken full advantage of it to perform a hostile take over.
US soft-power was what allowed the US to dictate US law to other countries. US law doesn't even mean anything in the US itself, so the rest of the world should be suddenly ignoring a whole bunch of historic US-pressured behaviours.
Given the deportation discussions, I'd say one of the first things to go would be extradition treaties. I'm hoping copyright duration madness retracts entirely back within US borders as well.
> Also — secondhand books are generally outdated, undesirable, and/or damaged
This is true if you take any book whatsoever that someone wants to give or sell to you.
It is not true of any book store I've ever seen. They reject or recycle the crap.
It's sometimes true of shelves of books in flea markets. Rows of forgotten once-popular authors from the 1910s or whatever, that likely (for those particular copies, anyway) no human will ever read again, you do sometimes see.
Used this or at least a very similar technique a few times to fix boot issues.
I've got a version of the mounting command that I think is easier to use:
for f in proc sys dev run dev/pts ; do mount --bind /$f /mnt/$f ; done
Change the "/mnt/$f" to whatever mountpoint that you're using which would be "/rescue/$f" to align with TFA.
I don't know what difference it makes to have /run mounted, but once you chroot into the mountpoint you can mount the boot partition etc and run whatever grub or mkinitramfs command you need to fix stuff.
My theory is they are counting on sting operations to be quite a PITA to set up. They cost money whereas writing tickets all day brings in money. It would probably take a pirate targeting the home of a chief or showing up when the chiefs grandkids get home from school as these pirate often do with vans.
Books in Australia are really expensive. This is because Australian publishers have managed to extract their own big cut from Australian consumers. Part of this is because they publish memoirs from any politician and partly because the printing industry is concentrated in some swinging electorates.
Yeah and another thing I’ve noticed is the current administration has won on negativity. It seems to be the image of America as some kind of wounded animal who is acting aggressively to protect itself from China. It might not be the case but perception is important and in my opinion it’s changing.
It’s almost like Americans are now begging for low tier jobs or something.
It's pretty annoying in customer service when someone handing you back change has difficulty doing the math. There's been many times doing simple arithmetic in my head has been helpful, including times when my hands were occupied.
