mrmuagi

> 1) You never save money building it yourself

Yes and no.

The deciding factor besides fixed cost of tools is your time. Consider kitchen cabinets. Sure you can build them yourselves, but it'll take weeks, maybe a month of your time which when compared to ikea/box store cabinets you could spend more to save time. If you want to spend even more you can get some custom work done at the cost of having little to no effort needed.

> How is thus an excuse?

Because it is a causal factor and not an excuse?

> South Africa, Russia, etc. all have grave issues.

I agree. See, we have so much in common.

> either have objective criteria, or we don't

I am not invested in any criterion discussion, merely because I'm not into political science, I am merely firing back at the original poster at their "first world" vs. "third world" views and obvously flippant tone in their message with the audacious preface of not being flippant.

The specific causal factor I understand is white flight and the associated downstream effects. That's pretty objective and measurable (tax base), but it's more of a powder keg analysis. The real cause of fault is in the pipes as the other commentor shared, something I did not fully understand until now.

> Note that I wrote "in any first world country". I'm sorry if your country does not qualify as such.

> I'm not being flippant here.

Sorry to say, (Canadian here), yes you came off as being flippant. The issues with Flint seem to be larger than my understanding, but it was not the least contributed by issues and injustices with the demographic (majority black) and the lack of federal aid. Saying it's not a first world country isn't wise of you for these reasons and more.

> Then the best solution is to keep paying for bottled water, or to move.

Obviously not the best solution, just a bandaid over the problem in lieu of the fact that "Bottled water is 3,500 times worse for the environment than tap water".

> you can't trust the country where you live to provide you with access to clean drinking water, then you have literally failed

No. The government around the citizen failed. Saying the the victim failed is quite telling of your assumption that the individual is to blame if the government has in some capacity, in some municipal area, failed.

> literally failed the UN's Sustainable Development Goal no. 6

The goal is tied to a future date, you cannot fail it by definition in 2021. I'm sorry to say, and I'm also not being flippant here, basic math and logic is taught in "first world countries", your comment here is obviously a failure of such, and I'm sure, there's probally a UN goal I could quote as well. See what I did?

> are much more capable of finding routes out of corporate energy draining traps

(X) to doubt. See original poster for statistics on animator. I have no doubt other "artist" jobs sold to youth has same pitfall.

I've talked to some "artists" and friends of before, they all say the same shit. The music industry is hard to break into. You can't paint a dollar but you can paint a house. Nobody cares if you draw nice, the reward for the effort is not there and worth the issues in your wrists, so you hope to earn enough to hire people to do it for you.

> than the rest of the chimp troupe.

The artist in your caricature is a dressed up chimp paid to paint then I guess.

> The rest have no hope really other than to claim their salaries justify whatever meaningless shit they are made to do.

Ah ye olde it's-all-meaningless shtick. I and others work for our salaries doing interesting things and enjoy it. To turn your projection back to you, it sounds like you were not a capable in finding a route of a corporate energy draining trap. Perhaps you should become an artist?

> to the point where we suspected he'd 'developed a taste for them' and was secretly snacking on these keycards.

Perhaps the UK Office show was a documentary after all.

It's also something valuable to learn that naivety is something you can possess and be abused. Some of my friends in high school shared the awful jobs they had, and I realized very early on (thanks to runescape), there is a predatory force that could leave someone worse of than they started. Luckily there were no real established MLM or such, the worst was an eldery lady recruiting teenagers to "bulk buy" merchandise and sell it themselves in some god forsaken way to cut out the middle man and strike gold. Our friend group tried to dissuade him to the obvious scam, but he took his uncle's advice to heart rather than ours, the same uncle who professed the largest provincial university in our province was a scam. The company you keep is important for sure.

I am unable to make the connection between WilmerHale, Pinkerton, and the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre (a la 1929) as there seems to be none. Are you implying WilmerHale has a connection to the type of notoriety of a gang slaying?

Blame it all you want, there's something to be said when the human brain can extract joy from virtual people getting the rough end of it. It's almost like blame shifting the origin of the internal emotions to external pixels makes the vision humans are something other than just evolutionary maladjusted techno-primates and of godly origin and that-thar-pixels is the work of satan and couldn't be otherwise.

This just makes the per-person metric a useless metric. There's not a lot of space flights to even point it out as a issue.

> Take aikido. Why are there so many people doing that?

I blame Steven Seagal here.

That sounds like what it is from my experience as well but it's really up to professor.

One exam was really hard such that your new grade was sqrt(#correct/#total). Another was to make new total the value of highest correct score, e.g. everybody in class got 0-20 out of 100, new total is 20.

I mean, you're right that this is a problem and it gives people the ability to shoot themselvesin the foot but bytes and byte order is apart of a C programmers framework for better or worse. I want to argue it gives you incredible control of the data at the lowest level and that's the tradeoff. If you write non portable code, it seems like you have to go out of your way not using standard portability types. If you define your own struct types I can see where this goes awray, but I think " __attribute__((__packed__))" eliminates alignment spaces for that case.

BUT, if you are coming from a networking/file perspective I can emphathize with you. Byte ordering is a pain for data serialization, even that has chance to cause issues and is no doubt a source of bug and pain.

I never got too into C where I heavily used macros. I've seen some magic in C where you define function tables for objects and recreate object oriented programming but to be frank it's painful mimicry as well here. The best mixin I've seen is where you use function pointers to help de-duplicate code.

I would say C taught and learned correctly can teach you the memory model computers use and the concept of pointers. Other languages do other things better, like Java can teach you about memory management via garbage collection and references.

Hmm, unless I am mistaken, does not using portable types stdint.h u?int(8|16|32)_t fix this?

> The only exceptions are "VIP" contacts from close family.

Curious how you configured this? I'd be interested in this as well.

I think if you were to send the raw frames sure, but wouldn't they just send the delta of the frames (only areas which changed) -- with some sort of compression algorithm and parameters like VNC does?

I did a test a while back where I had a workstation compiling linux with SSD and one with a HDD -- it turns out all the files were cached in the memory (measely 8gb). But for general usage and user experience I would reccomend SSD without any question.

Hmm, swaps the zero problem for a overflow/underflow one?

The price surge we're seeing and have seen. More and more people are holding BTC like gold, so when the value rises their pockets get fatter. Not for any payment, just investment.

I even see it myself, and I don't speak for anyone in that community. I bought some BTC ~4 years ago to buy something and did the math on current value. It's kind of shocking.

> fish without a permit in the wrong place

Are these ecological concerns, ie. protected species or preventing over fishing, or trespassing concerns? I tried searching 'fishing' + 'felon' and I couldn't whip up any laws.

I don't think having everybody insured would be the criteria for it being working either. I came across a lecture about how metabolic syndrome treatment accounts for a large chunk of health care spending (75% [0]), and there's a lot of blame put on added sugars and processed foods. A large push for preventative care would be ideal.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceFyF9px20Y

Pardon the cliche, but we really do live in a society of consumerism. I'm a victim to it to some degree. I've spent a lot of money of stuff that I regret on reflection, but that's what fuels my perspective and makes my lessons learned. If you have material stuff you love, and you don't regret it, kudos, you probably don't need my advice -- but don't think your advice is universal.

But guess what, a nice backdrop in my study didn't help my work. Focusing did. Locking my phone and removing distractions did. This weird culture of buying stuff that aims to magically provide a silver bullet to all problems. Okay, maybe one exception -- plants. They are great.

Protip, if you are a college student on a tight budget, guess what, you are automatically a minimalist :).

> There is a difference between clutter and having some decoration. Proponents of minimalism seem to conflate the two.

See that's what I disagree with, I find decoration in a workspace clutter. And I say to you I am not demoralized. I am happier, more focused and my wallet is heavier without random doodads in my eyeline. An empty workspace is a dream to me. Pure focus is the minds elation in my humble opinion.

> Also whenever someone complains about something being materialistic that automatically sets off my BS detector.

Well, shucks, you caught me! Because I am a here to sell you my minimalist blog, book and podcast!

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Not really.

I promise I am not, but I can see why you BS detector is high. Fad peddlers and the mass media marketing discovered not owning stuff can be called minimalism and make youtube videos on why living in a van is the future, when in reality opponents just say it's just a coping mechanism for not having money.

I'm sure your suggestion is coming from a good place, but dogs can be quite a burden sometimes, and taking care of them properly is a responsibility. I am taking care of a dog right now that has real barking issues and it's quite annoying but I can't blame the dog.

I would not underestimate the minimalism philosophy in reducing clutter. It gets to a point where doodads and clutter is demoralising, and often materialistic and distracting.

If you want to add some replayability, I'd suggest you try Bob's mods. Other than that, I share the same feeling, low replayability contrasted by its high playability.

Deceiving the the other party is a market failure of asymmetrical information. Like being told about a car being all peaches but it's actually a lemon. It's unlawful in most developed countries and is a great way to get a fine and/or a prison sentence.

I don't think that matches reality. Wealth tax is supposedly for the rich, people with high assets already -- not the everyday taxpayer. Getting Joe or Susan to itemize their assets and report it yearly (including depreciation) seems like a lot of extra work -- albeit perhaps you already have to do this for insurance purposes for some house items, not sure, I am Canadian.

I just did some quick research and it looks like the tax failed in Europe [0]. Thousands of millionaires in France just left the country and eventually it was just axed and declared a failure.

Which seems interesting -- the measure of success of a wealth tax seems to be how many rich people stay.

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/02/26/698057356/if-a...

I used enterprise slack ~4 years ago for a job and I remember having these issues every so often. ~2 years ago I used free gitter for a university project and I had the same issues a lot, and we had to switch -- funnily enough, we switched to discord and it was better than all of them.

Just push the consistency date past any human life span and the problem is solved.

I am not that individual, but I listen on 1.5x-2x speed as well for podcasts/audiobooks. I was always a fast reader/listener, and I think it's because I loved listening and reading.

Human interaction is kind of slow yeah, but it gives you time to think.