tburkhol @ tburkhol @lemmy.world

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Every function the government fails to provide is an opportunity for people to pay for a commercial alternative. Where functioning countries provide national healthcare, Americans can pay private companies. Shutting down FEMA is an opportunity for companies to offer new kinds of disaster insurance, an opportunity for Trump-branded temporary housing, Trump-branded search & rescue. The list goes on.

Much more practical to revoke her church's tax exempt status.

Demonstrations like that really emphasize just how much energy a modern lifestyle requires. Switching from human power to fossil fuel power let us scale energy use so high without a second thought, just keeping food cold inside a warm room, nevermind traveling at 400 mph.

I don't think he understands the difference between a government and a corporation. Like, he imagines the US is just his now. Just a big hotel, he can buy and sell bits of it to make money. Buy Greenland and Tiktok, sell Puerto Rico and the USS George Bush. Add a cover charge for Canada and Mexico.

That's the mistake: putting it in the open ban list instead of the shadow ban list.

Dev acting in #resistance or dev making an honest mistake? I suppose we'll never know.

On the flip side, do you think a Swiss person living in Asia would be ignorant that 8 is a lucky number?

Elon Musk & Sergei Brin are Gen X, but Bezos, Gates, Tim Berners-Lee, Steve Wozniak, and most of the people who built the technology GenX grew up with are Boomers. Zuck is a Millenial, but just barely. You could make a decent start of life as GenX knowing nothing about the technology, but they were still young enough to learn new developments easily.

I'd buy that if he didn't start his statement with "I live in Switzerland." 8 may be a lucky number for him, but he absolutely knows what 88 means.

It's a lot easier to point at online trolls' anti-woke criticism of your art than to admit you made shitty art.

"The insurance companies are the good guys, fighting against outrageous hospital charges, doctors fraudulently demanding excessive tests and care, and odious government regulations."

That's great. I rotated through an ortho lab in the 1990s, and the joint replacement kits back then included a sterile, disposable drill that you were just supposed to throw out after the procedure.

Just want to me-too Ruaidbrigh's reco's and to point out, as a long-time homeowner, that you don't have to do all the renovations at one time. For me, at least, there's a big difference between spending $1000 to replace all the switches in the house and spending $100 to replace a couple switches every month or so. Big difference between spending the whole weekend re-wiring switches and a quick after-coffee task.

I dunno, if Trump 2 treats student loans, and especially the Borrower Defense Loan Discharge program the way the Trump 1 administration did - blocking various 'streamlining' procedures, imposing a statute of limitations, and using the Secretary of Education's discretionary powers to block, delay, and minimize repayments, then it will be a long time before they rack up Biden numbers.

Yeah, one house on fire next to you is probably fine, although I've seen that melt the siding off neighbors. All the houses on your block, especially when those houses are only separated by 6 feet, is a completely different situation.

Even if one specific house is a concrete bunker, if it's in the middle of normal homes, the bunker still faces potentially 1000 degree temperatures from surrounding homes, and shit's going to burn.

You could pave everything; put in some 100-yard paved firebreaks; who know what else. Or you could just accept that there's going to be a lot of climate refugees fleeing high risk US states. All the heads-in-sand people thinking it was just Tuvalu and Kiribati at risk going to wake up and find out it's LA and Miami, too.

Before he went national, NYC politics were more important to his business, and NYC politics - like all major metros - are Democratic.

In US metros, they're typically around 2% of the home value, with discount maybe 50% for owner's primary residence. Depending on the locality, the home value may be reappraised every year only only after a sale. If you bought a $100k house, planning retirement on $1000 annual taxes, and the area gentrifies your house to $500k, the extra $4k/year in taxes can be a budget buster.

My first server was a single-core Pentium - maybe even 486 - desktop I got from university surplus. That started a train of upgrading my server to the old desktop every 5-or-so years, which meant the server was typically 5-10 years old. The last system was pretty power-hungry, though, so the latest upgrade was an N100/16 GB/120 GB system SSD.

I have hopes that the N100 will last 10 years, but I'm at the point where it wouldn't be awful to add a low-cost, low-power computer to my tech upgrade cycle. Old hardware is definitely a great way to start a self-hosting journey.

He's paid Trump something like $3M/day. I'll put up with a lot of shit for $3M.

Although, now I think about it, after I've collected a few hundred mil, that next $3M probably wouldn't seem so compelling.

So much of nvidia's revenue is now datacenters, I wonder if they even care about consumer sales. Like their consumer level cards are more of an advertising afterthought than actual products.