I honestly can't believe how bad the performance of the Snaps are.

I have three boxes, all identical, running NixOS, Arch, and Ubuntu. The Ubuntu box is perpetually out of memory, MS Teams crashes continuously, and at 16GB RAM, it is perpetually at 95%.

Same workstation, build, serial=($ubuntu_serial + 3), running NixOS and nary a problem. Same for the Arch box.

The reason that I installed Ubuntu in the first place was to support PA GlobalProtect, which doesn't work properly with Azure AD authentication (at least in our configuration).

So... it will probably go away to be another NixOS machine for purely dev stuff.

This is highly unlikely, and if it is true, then you are unethical and deserve to be fired.

Your job should be important in producing a timely result. If you are requisite to your task being completed, then you have failed to provide the company with either technology or knowledge to account for your inevitable absence, and you should be fired.

You will leave your company, or your company will leave you, eventually. One of your responsibilities as a prosocial individual is to ensure that either of those eventualities are as painless as possible. Save your pennies, build your skills, document your practices, and crosstrain your peers. If you have no peers, then document more.

Most of the parents that report to me are prosocial in that they are taking care to raise responsible, caring, and educated future citizens that can assist us in making the world a better place, even if just a little bit. Those that choose not to procreate in a fit of environmentalism or nihilism are doing us a favor in one way as they are removing possible genetic markers for hormonal states or brain structures that create defeatist or depressive states. However, it also seems that they might be reducing the potential pool of greater than average IQs to select from, thereby reinforcing regression to the mean.

I support the parents that face the challenges of an economy that is designed to work everyone to their highest output and has thus reduced the prosocial aspects of having a more 'hands-on' family. They work very hard. They try to overcome unfair perceptions by changing their hours or working extra hours. The are generally more dependable in work quality than single workers.

Luckily, I work in a space where I can collect metrics and have shown that despite their own and other peoples perception, they are either more productive or about the same. Those metrics will be important if things do not improve financially, and I need to make hard decisions later.

Incidentally, the single workers have experienced a greater decline in productivity. I expect this is due to the lack of perceived responsibility, and lack of self discipline.

It seems to me that the title of the article is clickbait. The genetic markers for lactose tolerance have been well established for quite a while, and follow the already established linguistic ties of migration. For instance the same marker is present in India, the other off-shoot of the PIE language group.

However it is NOT possessed by the majority of the Indian subcontinent, and highest concentrations of lactose tolerant people are concentrated by known regions of genetic exchange between Europeans and aboriginal denizens of the area.

So... they chose a rate that was too low. That's somewhat understandable as they were probably depending on oil/tar sands royalties to make up the difference. I'm surprised they didn't use Norway, Sweden or Russia as benchmarks.

I certainly haven't spent the time to work the numbers, but a flat tax has the benefit of being the simplest and most transparent means to collect income tax. Every other method becomes increasingly convoluted as you have to adjust to different circumstances, rather than having something that is very easy to tabulate and adjust for in your expenses.

For the US, I'd rather take the failing approach of Alberta than the current failing method that only benefits the oligarchy.

The point is that the rate wouldn't have to be 40%, if everyone were paying. Those on low income would still get subsidies, and probably more generous ones.

Last I heard the flat tax estimate was ~10% to fund the current government, bump that to 12.5% to enable better living standards?

Also, industrialists paid the nobility in England and Scotland to increase rents and/or straight run people out of villages that were near a thousand years old so that they could have more hands to work in the factories in the cities. Not for the benefit of the people, but because they needed to raise production without increasing cost, aka, profit.

So, capitalism was not responsible for the increase of happiness by itself. There was altruism, and the general increase in the rate of knowledge sharing, which was caused by technology and freedom of association. Many evils, both subtle and obvious have been perpetrated by capitalists. In the US, the oil companies bought up light rail and trolley lines, then shut them down so they could sell more carbon black (tires) and fuel to cities using their budget for subsidized public transportation. (This is documented in cases against Phillips Petroleum, Conoco, and others [Los Angeles being the most egregious example]) Those companies lost the lawsuits but had destroyed the infrastructure causing long term harm to quality of life, the local environment (smog, noise, etc), and the global environment (global warming, oil spills).

Another example is drug costs in the US vs abroad. Or perhaps you'd like to take the opioid crisis? Maybe the privatized prison systems? Payday loans? Credit card usury? [it was once illegal to set an interest rate higher than 10%]

Payday loans are another fun example, because the same system is used to fund the transit of slave labor into the United States. The 3rd world worker offers their homes (that have been in the family for generations) as collateral on a loan to pay the coyote to get them into the US, then they get payday loans to cover their initial living expenses, and earn a unlivable wage where they are housed in unsanitary conditions in worker domiciles on the farm/ranch/plantation owner's property.

How much would it cost to raise the wage to something above a functional minimum wage so that American workers would take the job? 25 cents per head of lettuce, and just over 12 cents on a can of soda.

When you are profiteering on millions of units, a little change makes it far more profitable for you and your cronies. At what cost to society? Are the owners of these businesses using that extra capital to make the company more resilient for their workers? Or are they depending on government hand outs (taxation of the middle class) to make up for the dividend payouts and stock buybacks?

The leadership of Jet.com had already taken over quite a lot of the technical leads inside Walmart about a year after the acquisition. The dead weight was shifted, some people moved to Bentonville.

This is nothing really, other than laying down a brand in favor of another brand.

The other argument is that you have to usher in an even more militaristic state to enforce such taxation measures as people begin to work harder at dodging taxation. Then you end up with the middle and lower classes enslaved to the government tax debt treadmill while the highest earners either find an external tax shelter, move their income abroad, or continue to use other methods to avoid paying taxes as they do now.

UBI is a loss in the US because we do not have a reasonable control on immigration because we have already driven the working class wage down as far the corporate class is willing to accept, so they are importing cheaper workers, or exporting work.

Finland has a small native population with a relatively large number (12%) of foreign residents and workers. The residence and work permitting process has a high participation rate, which keeps UBI from being heinous.

California alone looked the universal healthcare and UBI numbers and it would bankrupt the largest economy in the country due to the aforementioned variables, among others. It's not apples to apples, or apples to oranges, it's more apples to appaloosas.

I would argue that the their level of hardware restriction required them to think deeply about decisions, like what are the ramifications of dropping everything into an undifferentiated melange of a directory?

I work with a lot of new *nix nerds (meaning those who have 10yrs exp) and I find that they are much more inclined to dump things into directories and to be less circumspect when cohabiting directories on the same filesystem, until they have a major failure in a system because of disk utilization by logs or some cron gone wrong.

As someone said having /bin (vital stuff), /sbin (vital admin stuff), /usr/bin/ (required shared stuff), /usr/local/bin (optional shared stuff), /usr/X11R6/bin (X always needs to be isolated, just because you don't want to have to wander the filesystem to find a driver).

Just because you don't use the system in a way that exposes the utility of the structure, does not mean the utility of the structure has no value.

Sorry I left out the $10 per household for the 800Mbps uplink from the office.

You definitely need to look into your state and municipal govt. There are exurban towns (Bixby, OK) that feature GB to the home. They defended it and won.

I live on 20 acres, 1.5 miles from a lake, 25 mins from the nearest town. I don't have city water, or natural gas. I have 570Mbps/54Mbps right this moment.

However, you do have to vote and take action when needed. I lived in a little town in NE OK, when I couldn't get decent speeds to my home, I found some other folks, ranchers with kids and the like. We rented a room in a strip mall, put up P2P antennae on the roof and enjoyed 50Mbps. Total cost, ~5K. $400 outlay per person, with a recurring cost of $12 per month for power and rent.

We ran in for 4 years before I left the keys with one of the guys who still lives there, still using the same set up.

Gotta tell ya, that's a you thing. To paraphrase "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?", I've never fantasized in dabbling in water colors.

The exaggerated are there to create the drama of movement. It just so happens that exaggerating certain curves in the anatomy creates the impression of dynamism. At least that's what I remember from some art book somewhere...

Given that the UK and Ireland were, at the time, reported far fewer community spread cases than continental Europe (esp Italy) it was a reasonable tactical decision. The EU Zone countries allow free travel between them with little friction, which logically infers that the virus will spread more quickly inside the Zone than to countries that are Zone adjacent.

At the time, I thought the idea of him not blocking all travel, everywhere, including land borders for 10 days to assess the current status and spread an under reaction, but he had a Catch-22 situation. If he reacted decisively, which is the most effective decision, then he would have been beaten about the head and shoulders for being a fascist/racist/xenophobe, even more than he was. If he waited longer, then he's a dolt.

The answer is in the middle. He's a moderate who is trying to matriculate the nest of party politics and avaricious bastards while also maintaining the ability to achieve his political goals, and make a lot of money for himself and his family. This is where most of our politicians tend to end up, because it profits them most. The traverse a path that maintains a tolerable level of satiety for the populace, and satisfies the politician's personal wealth.

Besides hanging all of them at the end of their term, I often feel at a loss of how to stop the looting of our people by the people in power.

True, but there will much greater cost to re-establish that supply, which creates greater lag, which increases cost.

The bet here is whether it is cheaper to do preventive maintenance (cost reduction via offset in whatever manner) than it is to do a rebuild.

I know which way I would bet.

Agreed. My personal favorite is when he claimed to have the highest IQ in the room and that he went to university on a full academic scholarship and graduated at the top of his class. This all within 5 minutes... and most of it was provably, objectively false.

That is different than what we are currently seeing. It appears that he gets lost mid sentence, has trouble following complex thoughts. He may not have had the brains before, but he generally recovered or counter attacked with far more agility.

I really wish both parties had been able to foster better, and younger alternatives, but the Boomers are still a large and active voting block.

My wife thinks that the Biden disaster is going to be used to attempt have Hillary ride in on his coattails as a VP. Then Biden dies from an aneurysm (he has a history) and she becomes president. Unfortunately, he seems such a poor choice that I have trouble disagreeing.