Natural resources provide squishy, easy to overcome limits. In reality, most of what limits our economy are flaws in how we implement capitalism.

> Jobs are determined by us wanting to do things.

The desire, *and* the resources. I may want an indoor pool, but if I can't afford it, and neither can anyone else, there's no indoor pool market.

That's why an economy that's constantly drained of its money, withers. Once we fix the forces draining ours, employment won't be the issue it is today. That's why I love Ratigan's classic rant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... He outlines the problem well. Not perfectly, but well.

There isn't that much coding work in the world. High demand is not infinite demand.

* Ad supported
* Pay to win
* Microtransactions
* Completely free

They should change the "Free" button where the cost usually would be to one of these.

This information is important to to know up front and I should be able to filter out "pay to win" because screw that.

This idea is basically a super-simple hashing algorithm, which are commonly used to turn big hard problems into smaller easier ones.

I see no arguments against this guy's ideas, just ad-hominem attacks and people being insulted that someone try and come up with new solutions to old problems. Don't be that guy. If it won't work, explain why.

"I'm not accepting any patches until you fix your bugs" is hardly suspending someone, it's re-focusing them. This is an important part in any software project, and Linus is doing it well here. There's no ambiguity or hyperbole, just straightforward communication identifying issues and prompting action to correct them.

"Start fixing your shit" isn't even remotely the same thing as "stop doing things".

I have a full Windows 7 PC hooked up to my TV and the embarrassing thing is that the PC is quite bad at playing video. Almost no media players adjust the output's timing to match the video being played which leads to tearing and stuttering when playing video where the frame rate doesn't match the default refresh rate on your monitor. You find yourself either constantly manually tuning refresh rates, or living with broken inferior video output. The only player I've found that handles this issue properly is the one in Plex Home Theater.

Another thing which is rather silly is that it can't act as a Chromecast server, even though it has chrome, a network connection, and a massive cpu and ram. This seems like something that it would be relatively trivial for Google to create, and would make chromecasting much more convenient because I would reduce the number of times I have to switch inputs to get chromecasting to work.

I've gotten x-box 360 controllers and setup emulators. I've done quite a bit of messing around, and in the end I've found the PC to be quite bad at being a TV media device.

I like the idea of Android rebuilt to be controlled from a remote and running my TV, but I don't like the idea of another Amazon based walled garden. Also, I see this as unfortunate competition for SteamOS, which seems like a much more robust and open platform for solving this problem, and I'd like to see it win instead, but the low price of this offering and Amazon's muscle will make that a lot harder now.

I've long thought the government should buy out/launch their own free-to-use satellite tv service and treat broadcasting on it like OTA broadcasts. Disallow any two channels to be owned by the same company and poof: the era of crappy tv funded by annoying commercials returns.

This is, and has long been, a huge ripoff. I'm rather sure that Walmart doesn't pay the full 3% that Visa/MasterCard like to charge for transactions, but when you look at the overhead of transactions in the cryptocurrency markets, you can see how ridiculously overpriced the credit card transactions are. The costs here are near 0, and so should the charges be, but the system is carefully crafted to avoid competition, and that's illegal.

XBox has long been known as the most potent example of the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory. Adding a bit of accountability for being a horrible person is overdue.

Nothing qualifies for your definition.

> some central bankers could agree to create ex nihilo enough money to give a billion USD to every bank account in the world.

This shows that you don't understand how our banking or money system works. This is possible with fiat currency, but not ours.

My backup strategy is to keep the old drives from my previous array and put them into a second server, then back up to it weekly. I use a linux software raid 5 setup for backup, with the drives powered off unless the backup is running. I have a script that spins them up, starts up the raid, mounts the filesystem, performs the backup using rsync, then unmounts and powers down the drives. I only can back up about 1/3rd of my main array, so I have to be choosy, but a large amount of what I have stored is replaceable non-original content that I'm content to simply have one raided copy of, so I just exclude the right folders and I'm good.

The servers are currently in the same room, which makes me uncomfortable, so I've long considered creating a mini-server for a relative and setting it up in their home as an offline backup. Using a commercial service would probably make more sense, but I'm not sure I'm comfortable with that yet.

Another thing I'm considering for my next setup is using ZFS for the backup filesystem and keeping snapshots as long as I can for a combination backup/version control. I'm interested in how efficient that would be with vm disk images where the file changes every time, but only small parts of it. Would it detect the unchanging portions, even if rsync re-writes parts that didn't change, or would that cause duplicated space usage? Does anyone have experience with this?

This was probably just a negative cache entry. Someone on Comcast (possibly you) probably tried to look up helpmatt.org before it was propogated to all the root servers, and 75.75.75.75 got a lookup failure and cached it. Negative caching is part of proper DNS operation and it can last a while. DNS is full of delays like this.

FYI... It's working just fine now.

root@atomrouter:~# host helpmatt.org 75.75.75.75
Using domain server:
Name: 75.75.75.75
Address: 75.75.75.75#53
Aliases:

helpmatt.org has address 192.155.89.14
helpmatt.org mail is handled by 20 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com.
helpmatt.org mail is handled by 30 aspmx3.googlemail.com.
helpmatt.org mail is handled by 30 aspmx2.googlemail.com.
helpmatt.org mail is handled by 20 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com.
helpmatt.org mail is handled by 10 aspmx.l.google.com.

That technology doesn't sound very promising.

People who claim modern currency is baseless don't understand economics. Modern currency is backed by *everything*. Gold, Real Estate, Cars, Businesses. Everything that is used for collateral against a loan becomes backing for our currency. Crypto-currency is based on scarcity like gold was, and thus makes a terrible general purpose currency because it's vulnerable to manipulations, and rigidity that make it easy for bankers and insiders rob everyone. The modern form of debt backed currency is the most flexible and least vulnerable to manipulation there has ever been. Our advanced modern currency has weathered the pressures of the current economic stresses extremely well, and dramatically lessened the impact of the current problems with our economy. If you want to look at what things where like with a scarcity backed currency, look at the economics of the US pre 1913. It's full of horror stories like the panic of 1893 and 1873, and even some events where bankers conspired to not give out loans to anyone to buy up houses cheap and re-sell them for a profit once they all agreed to give out mortgages again.