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Comment: Re:ZFS on Linux (Score 1) 136

by MightyYar (#40193495) Attached to: Making ZFS and DTrace Work On Ubuntu Linux

I use Solaris at work, but as a workstation and not as an admin so while I have a "feel" for it, I can't directly compare them. I would say they are very similar but do have semantic differences... de-facto file locations, behavior of temp directories, etc. I feel that they are more similar than Linux is to either FreeBSD or Solaris.

I looked into both (at the time) OpenSolaris and FreeBSD and decided that FreeBSD's better hardware support was worth the tradeoff in lagging ZFS versions. And not that I anticipated it, but it turns out that the FreeBSD Linux emulation environment was also useful (for running a CrashPlan server).

Comment: Re:ZFS on Linux (Score 4, Informative) 136

by MightyYar (#40190403) Attached to: Making ZFS and DTrace Work On Ubuntu Linux

I have to second this... Debian was always my preference but I tried FreeBSD to get ZFS. For dependencies, ports does some things... differently than APT, but they are similar enough that it won't completely shock your system.

And just like Debian, it is easy to start with an extremely minimal system and only add what you need, so stability and boot speeds are excellent.

I think that Debian is still faster at certain things, though that is subjective.

Comment: Re:Nanny State (Score 1) 1122

by MightyYar (#40190303) Attached to: Soda Ban May Hit the Big Apple

What makes you think these people can afford to pay for insurance, let alone the higher rates that obesity would require?

For Medicaid folks, you could make their coverage contingent on enrollment in nutrition programs or some other anti-obesity initiative.

Unless you suggest that the government institute a mandatory adult reeducation program or drastically increase taxes, the problem still persists.

I think it is perfectly reasonable to require people on the dole to attend a training program as a requirement to get the free stuff.

An adult should be capable of determining whether or not that 800-calorie daiquiri should be a part of their diet and the alcohol in it prevents this decision from being made by adolescents.

Fair enough. So why isn't Bloomberg just requiring an ID to buy the giant drink?

the choices are do nothing and suffer the economic costs (both privately through reduced worker productivity and publicly with increased financial burden on the health systems), provide extrinsic motivation through increased taxation or some other penalty, or put supply-side restrictions on unhealthy foods in a similar manner that has succeeded in curbing pseudoephedrine kitchen meth labs.

I agree that something needs to be done about obesity - I just don't think that the Bloomberg approach will work. The nice thing about having it done in just one city is that this will give economists/epidemiologists/statisticians/sociologists a field day and we'll see how it works out. My personal preference would be to let the private sector make being fat expensive, which the new health care law specifically prohibits. Combine this with educating people who are on the dole (and continuing other public education efforts), and making nutritious food more available to those same people. Hell, consider limiting the types of groceries that food stamps will pay for (that is what Florida is doing). I think there are a lot of things we can try before we resort to treating sugar like a controlled substance.

Comment: Re:Really? (Score 1) 1216

You know, many religious people are quite sane and do not believe that religious beliefs should be imposed on others or involved politics.

Indeed. Religion would appear to be a part of a normal human psyche... and I say that as someone who has yet to be persuaded that there is a need to invoke a supernatural deity to explain the natural world.

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