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  • I hear what you're saying. I counter with low effort LLM reply. I don't live by what LLMs say, but they generate some good starting points to go and do much more narrow research.

    I don't think it's entirely Reagan's fault, I think the idea existed before him. He just sold the idea to the American public. So I guess I could fault him for either believing in it, or just saying he did to support the desires of the wealthy.

    this really is Reagan’s fault with his so-called trickle down economics

    CLAUDE 3:

    "Did any American politicians, economists, or general capitalism principles regarding 'trickle down economics' exists before president Reagan? What examples of trickle down economics existed before him? Did he invent the idea, or just the phrase?"

    The concept of "trickle-down economics" predates President Ronald Reagan and his administration's economic policies. However, the specific phrase "trickle-down economics" became more widely used during Reagan's presidency to describe his economic policies, which were based on the idea that reducing taxes on businesses and the wealthy would stimulate economic growth, creating more jobs and wealth that would eventually "trickle down" to the broader population.

    Examples of trickle-down economic principles before Reagan include:

    1. The "Horse and Sparrow" theory, attributed to the French economist Jean-Baptiste Say in the early 19th century, which suggested that if the rich were allowed to get richer, their increased consumption would benefit the working class.
    2. In the 1920s, Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon, under Presidents Harding and Coolidge, advocated for lower taxes on the wealthy and businesses, arguing that it would spur economic growth.
    3. The "Laissez-Faire" economic policies of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which favored minimal government intervention and regulation, with the belief that unfettered capitalism would benefit society as a whole.

    While Reagan did not invent the underlying economic theories, his administration's policies and rhetoric, particularly the use of the phrase "trickle-down economics," brought the concept to the forefront of public discourse and became closely associated with his presidency.

    It's important to note that the effectiveness and fairness of trickle-down economics have been heavily debated among economists and policymakers, with critics arguing that it primarily benefits the wealthy and does not necessarily lead to broad-based economic growth or income redistribution.

  • These are good suggestions for tech people IMO. I was thinking more general population that just wants to buy a product and use it as is. My mom isn't going to get a laptop and then install linux. I'd have to. 😇

    I've never heard of BQ before, so that was an interesting mention. I didn't look hard enough to find out if it was available in the US.

    I think the overall sentiment I'm conveying is that as a consumer, I'd like to just stop doing business with entities I deem bad faith (which is easy to say until you need a new TV and the 'good' company TV is twice as expensive). There's not a lot of choices for average people in this category (big tech). You'll be exposed to them almost out of necessity. I suppose appropriate regulation for those giant companies, and the US wont, but at least the EU will.

    I also wonder if MS/Google/Apple were EU based corps, if they would take the same actions? I can't say how much of an average EU country's economy a company like Microsoft would be, but just the thought of how much that would be makes me think they'd get preferential treatment in which ever country that would be. I'd have to look at brands like BMW and see how they did doing that MPG scandal, things like that.

  • Yes. 🤷

    Nobody wants to be spied on by their perceived enemies. Also, how do you expect us to maintain an appropriate level of hypocrisy if we don't constantly do hypocritical things?

    I wish we would go after foreign investment, ownership, and political meddling as much as tiktok

  • This seems to be an improper interpretation or over simplification of the article.

  • You remember how all the US politicians are funded by the same huge corporations and rich people who all benefit from the regulators doing nothing but pretending to care?

    Remember how the politicians pander to Americans by blaming rich people for all of life's problems and saying they'll make them pay their fair share, but those politicians have multiple houses and blatantly conduct insider trading every day, but Americans still vote for them time after time?

    I'd like to say you could just not use their products, but that means you have to replace windows with some other os, not buy a major manufacturer cell phone, or do much else 🤷

  • Yeah, but money can't control CCP like it controls the narrative here. That's not acceptable... /s

  • I'm sure there's someone who thinks the FDAs take on some issues is propaganda.

    These days, we seem to blur all the meaning behind things.

    What's the difference now between an opinion or view that you disagree with, and propaganda? People assert everything is propaganda of some kind.

    Same thoughts about hate speech,.jokes about stereotypes,.etc. I'm in no way advocating for hate speech by the way, people just have very broad views on these things now.

    I'm not sure how platforms can allow freedom of speech without hate speech and propaganda, it's all based on views, priorities, morals,.values, and a society's tolerance of certain things.

  • I keep asking myself why I haven't blocked lemmy.ml

    I keep telling myself I'll lose ideas or comments from the good users there...

    At this point, I'll have just blocked all their users individually

  • Yeah, it's frustrating when people in turn can't find good medical insurance.

    The trade for sometimes higher pay or flexibility in assignments doesn't work when you can't afford insurance or other benefits.

    Assuming you were even being paid about permanent positions.

  • TrueNAS is a propose built solution.

    You'll need to use it the way it's designed, which is extremely capable, but reading the manual is mandatory or you'll do it wrong and then it will suck. I know this.

    There's TN Core, and Scale. Ones based on FreeBSD, one's Linux. You can compare for your needs.

    TN can be an enterprise solution if that tells you the capability.

    Edit, it's meant to be a storage solution. Scale adds containers. It's not great IMO as a general purpose server OS .

  • Unless you are forced to use the same network interface, always use dedicated NIC, vLAN when possible.

    Like others mentioned, if the VM is on a hypervisor where you can use that to present the disk, you should try that.

    Examples would be NAS box with two interfaces, use second one for iscsi. Connect that to switch with different vlan. Connect something like proxmox second nic to iscsi vlan. Add remote disk in proxmox from iscsi nas. Add disk to VM.

    This idea spans all different tech.

  • You have any idea the wide spread feelings on this?

    It sounds like that's what we should be doing in more countries,.US.

  • I am the guy that passed you doing 75 on our beltway that's 55 (singing I just can't drive... 55!) 😉

    I mentioned this because lately, I've almost been mowed over a few times, and I usually drive right, until I can't. I don't change lanes rapidly or in multiples, no texting, but I've been passed by people changing multiple lanes and shoulders, always on phones, etc.

    People are angrier

    Dude, I don't disagree. Maybe they feel too busy, hate RTO, don't know.

    It's very aggressive lately.

  • Ha.

    There's a bank in China that avoided total pownership because they are running novell.

    Mostly because the malware wasn't expecting it. who would?

  • racist attitude

    Did this mean they personally hardored a racist viewpoint, or somehow affirmed policies that separated opportunities based on races? Or they denied that racism exists?

    Do you think the institution supported their viewpoints, or they were the outlier among more enlightened people? Would they have been fired if they would have been less subtle about it?

  • I think you comments are well said.

    Do you have any examples of

    ...various racist arguments...

    From a university, paper, or article where that was being taught? Or are you talking just generally not allowing that as an acceptable view view.

    Did you experience these in your higher education?

  • It is interesting to think about if that's more economic, and maintains the same quality of work overall.

  • I was lucky when I started and people took chances on me. In return I take chances on people I think could have great potential.

    We have something in common here.

    While posting code on GitHub is slightly dev specific, I think the principles you've shared likely goes across a lot of industry. If people show initiative, are life long learners, they'll probably land something, with or without a degree.

  • Obviously, there's a lot of 'it depends on the person' in this topic. At least in my mind. I think you're right in that both things (degree/camp) create good and bad results.

    I get a lot of dumb looks, and wrong answers.

    • Do you have any experience hiring a person who passed that test, who wasn't a degree holder?
    • Do you have any experiences where someone failed that test, wasn't a degree holder, and you hired them anyway?
    • Do you feel you could put a ratio to it in your field/employer?