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>I don't know how this point makes any logical sense to you, unless you're arguing in bad faith.

Of course it makes sense. How can you argue that Israel is not going after Hamas if Israeli solders on the ground are battling Hamas and dying in those battles? That is literally going after Hamas. Why would they lose solders if their goal was total destruction? They could just nuke Gaza if that was their goal or simply continue to bomb it into smithereens. Why would they put their own soldiers in harm's way?

>Jt's a genocide

No, it is not. Lawyers for one side made an argument and lawyers for the other side made an argument but you are for some reason unable to engage with the substance of that argument

>If you have any respect whatsoever for truth and reality, I urge you to watch or read the arguments presented before saying things like "you have to understand the facts".

Yes, you have to understand facts. A very simple fact is that Israel left Gaza in 2005 and it's security worsened as a result it did not improve. Why? Because Hamas is an organization whose sole purpose is to destroy Israel and kill Israelis. That is why this war is going on right now, and you have to engage with this reality to have any hope of making any sense.

https://nypost.com/2023/11/01/news/hamas-official-vows-to-re...
The Swiss rail network is small but very dense, very punctual, and extremely well designed (the timetable is optimized countrywide across most public transit operators to allow for smooth transfers - it's very rare to require a transfer with more than 15min wait). And it shows in passenger-kilometers stats: about 20% as much as Germany, even though Switzerland is 10% the area and 10% the population of Germany (roughly).

Japan has many things going for it but also some notable issues. The various private operators can be confusing ("oh, your train doesn't leave from platform 4 in this building, it leaves from platform 4 in the Odakyu building"). There is virtually no transit available at night, even within the large metros. Once you leave the main lines the service frequency can be very spotty and the transfers very badly designed. No bike transport even on smaller regional trains (not counting "disassembled in a bike bag" as bike transport).
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> This sounds like Bill Gates. He's chosen humanitarian endeavours that he wants to focus on. I believe its good to have someone who can deploy significant capital on multi-decade projects.

We could consider the counterfactual situation. If this money went to the U.S. government instead of Bill Gates, would it have accomplished more for humanity than from his efforts as an individual?

And to your point, even if this is the case for one billionaire, how does the outcome change if you aggregate the humanitarian utility of wealth across all billionaires vs the totality of that wealth going to various governments?
I followed the instructions to disable the recovery partition as I don't think I had allocated any space to it and upon reboot I was able to upgrade to Windows 11 and hopefully I didn't create any further problems down the road. I really didn't want to mess around with resizing my system partition as the instructions alluded to as the next step. I guess YMMV but I find it amusing that this random bug I ran into is on the front page or Hacker news.
> Research has generally linked economic inequality to political and social instability, including revolution, democratic breakdown and civil conflict.[5][10][11][12] Research suggests that greater inequality hinders economic growth and macroeconomic stability, and that land and human capital inequality reduce growth more than inequality of income.[5][13] Inequality is at the center stage of economic policy debate across the globe, as government tax and spending policies have significant effects on income distribution.[5] In advanced economies, taxes and transfers decrease income inequality by one-third, with most of this being achieved via public social spending (such as pensions and family benefits).[5] While the "optimum" amount of economic inequality is widely debated, there is a near-universal belief that complete economic equality (Gini of zero) would be undesirable and unachieveable.[14]: 1

just from wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_inequality
Right on the rosy red center sir, that is where you can place your lips before that happens in my book.
True meaning of Trustless Environment.
All 5 of the billionaires in the article have almost all their wealth in shares of companies, usually ones they run.

Is this hoarding? Like how is zuckerberg hoarding by owning shares in the company he founded and runs?

What exactly should he do? Sell all his shares? What happens then? What does Mark zuckerberg do with 100bn in cash? Do you tax it? What does the government do with 100bn in tax revenue? Would they spend it better than Zuckerberg?

Also - the people who bought the shares from Zuckerberg, what do they do? They just paid 100bn for shares in facebook, are they hoarders now? Are they more evil or less evil than zuckerberg for hoarding?

I just don't understand the conversation around these topics. What exactly should we do, apart from complaining about entepreneurs?

These 5 people have approx $1trn in wealth, do you know how long it would take the US government to spend that? 2 months. Do you think congress is actually competent in spending that money? Can they even decide how to spend it? And it's a one off, remember that!

Would that actually make a different to anything? 2 months of larger spending?

Can someone please explain to me what exactly we should be doing? Like exactly? "wealth tax" has serious consequences, how do you deal with those? Are there examples in history where this actually worked? Like actually, taking 50% of people's wealth, and redistributing it?

What happens once these 5 billionaires just leave the USA and go live in new zealand? Or Singapore, or whatever? What happens if the richest 1000 people in the USA leave?

What happens to all the 18 year old entreprneurs who are going to build the next big companies? Will they stay in the USA?

Please, someone, explain to me how this works in practice.
To separate it from natural constructs. Specifically, to counter claims that certain social constructs are natural constructs.
> The report, Inequality Inc., finds that seven out of 10 of the world’s biggest corporations have a billionaire as CEO or principal shareholder

That is inherent. You cannot be a principal shareholder of a top 10 corporation without being a billionaire.

Make a homeless dude the principal shareholder of a top 10 corporation and he is instantly a(n evil) billionaire.
It’s not a loss leader. Cloud bandwidth pricing is almost pure profit.
I suspect many people are also lured into increasing this escape velocity by keeping up with the Joneses together with easy debt. It’s much easier to get rich if your assets earn, say, 10% (average index return) instead of losing 10% annually via the credit card interest over “assets” that you don’t own.

Especially consumer electronics and cars are surprisingly bad “assets” if you do the math. New phones lose about 20% of value per year. So if you combine that with credit card interest, the return on investment is spectacularly bad.
Even the mechanism predating WALv1 (rollback journal) uses two files. I don't think there is any way of using SQLite crash-proof with just a single file.

Besides, even if the database is single-file it's still necessary to use filesystem snapshotting for live backup, or it's likely to get an inconsistent copy.
> Properly working s2idle

Does anyone actually have that? I'd really love to hear with which hardware/software!
> So that they can be replaced with cleaner power or just to bribe people into staying poor?

This is a straightforward wealth-transfer. It is up to the recipient to decide how they want to use it, but it should be noted this is attached to a statement to not build coal plants. Given the obvious correlation between energy production and economic productivity this should work out ok as well as delivering a long-overdue balancing of power among economically disparate peoples. The last effect is why I know this will not happen until it is too late (probably already).

> So that people starve to death?

That's coming regardless. Nonetheless, strategic targeting should avoid this.
Imagine a future where it is impossible for the poor classes to purchase a home, because some trillion dollar real-estate funds have captured the entire marked.
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The Dutch have a wealth tax too. Actually, it is treated as an income tax: they say that all wealth will produces a typical “fictitious” gain of x% (I think 6%). So, they tax the fictitious gains at 30%. So, that leads to a 2% overall wealth tax.

So, if you have $1m in assets, they assume this money makes 6% a year (60k). On the fictitious gains of 60k, they then charge 30% tax (20k).

I haven’t checked the specific numbers above, but that’s the gist of it. It seems fair on principle, though I haven’t thought about it too much. Would that be a possibility in the states?
"Fuck you money" is when you can just quit your job.

"Fuck everyone money" is when you can just buy Twitter.
I think having 1/4 and 1/3 be whole numbers would be more useful than being able to count on my fingers.
I think the RPi is more of a jack of all trades, master of none. This also applies to performance. It bundles an impressive amount of partially niche, but overall well supported, features (Linux, USB3, gigabit ethernet, okish wifi & BT, HDMI with CEC, GPIO, camera, okish GPU) with a powerful enough CPU and enough RAM for an acceptable price.

If you want the traditional desktop experience or a higher workload server, the RPi is likely not going to win against an N100 SBC or mini PC. For many applications besides that the RPi fits the niche of powerful enough to run it, power efficient enough to not worry about it running all the time, cheap enough to not worry too much and common enough to be well supported. Things like single-purpose software packages/distributions are often better supported on an RPi, just because it has become the "standard". Sure, you might find hardware better suited for each use case, but it seems like the RPi can handle most of it and thus becomes the default choice.

As an example, I recently tried out an N100 mini PC to drive my living room TV instead of an RPi4. I liked the option of having a fully featured desktop with decent performance just in case (most importantly Firefox). Plus the N100 on paper has more video decoding options, either via HW decoders or just by virtue of handling more via software decoding. In practice, these advantages were irrelevant for my primary use case (watch movies, series & long-form YT videos). But, I lost out on "it just works" features. The RPi4 just boots into Kodi (via LibreELEC) and works flawlessly with HDMI CEC, the N100 does not have any CEC capability (missing HW feature). Sure, I can use an external USB dongle to get CEC support, but after buying that I am at a far higher price than for the RPi4 + SD card + good power supply + simple case.

Side note: the RPi4 also beat a Pine64+ for that use case, just because I couldn't get the board to play nice with LibreELEC. No CEC and no wifi, even after tinkering for far too long.
> You could argue that what constitutes “humanitarian value” is totally subjective and that decisions concerning such a large amount of money shouldn’t be left to one person. But on the flip side, would you say that most governments actually succeed at representing the average person’s desire for utilizing tax revenue in a way that optimally benefits society? Do they accomplish this efficiently?

Humanitarian value is also quite a broad range. Is someone a worse person for devoting themselves to world hunger while ignoring cancer research? I would say of course not.

As for the question of one person vs a nominally democratically elected government, the western liberal perspective is that government should be by the people for the people, from which it kind of follows that a government that's elected by the people is a better representation of the will of the people than one person who answers to no one but themselves (this also goes for multinational corporations which also effectively answer to no one - yes, they may get fined in certain jurisdictions, but they can navigate where they do business to carve out the fines they'll accept and those they won't).

Where I feel we got it wrong in modern society, especially in the US, is that the centralization of power in a single national government has led to an impossible problem of balancing the competing interests of a vastly diverse country (you see this a bit in the EU as well, where the interests of western and central European countries can be at odds at times, but the EU is more loosely bound than the US). Distributing more of that power to the states/counties/cities would enable decision-making better-tailored to a more comprehensible demographic. It also gives more people the opportunity to participate in governing themselves (that "by the people" part). Only so many people can sit in the Senate, but there are a -lot- of city council positions across the country.
I've followed the instructions and understand that they may seem overwhelming for some users. Instead of using command line methods, I opted for Windows Disk Management to shrink the drive's partitions and create the necessary space.

It's surprising that a script hasn't been provided for this process, which suggests the complexity and potential pitfalls involved. This leads me to believe that the absence of a scripted, simple double-click solution is due to the intricate nature of the task. Consequently, I'm not optimistic about a prompt Windows Update fix, as many had hoped for.

However, I anticipate that third-party developers will soon release scripts or programs to automate this process.
https://old.reddit.com/r/PovertyFIRE/
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In a power outage scenario, you're gonna be saving your mobile battery for more necessary requirements. The geeks can wait a few days for their new kernel version.
the equivalence between money and energy or any other physical quantity is wrong. Money can be literally destroyed in a second, without leaving any trace.

The vast majority of money goes nowhere, it loses value because of inflation, or just pumps up price of stuff that is used for living, such as housing, without "producing" absolutely nothing.
Ok: How do you charge your device?
A had a suspicion that this was against AWS's terms, but I never bothered to look if that was actually the case. Thank you for the heads up!