[-] [email protected] 12 points 4 hours ago

Zombie processes are hilarious. They are the unkillable package delivery person of the Linux system. They have some data that must be delivered before they can die. Before they are allowed to die.

Sometimes just listening to them is all they want. (Strace or redirect their output anywhere.)

Sometimes, the whole village has to burn. (Reboot)

[-] [email protected] 10 points 5 hours ago

Definitions matter, 18% of American households are millionaires. Many of them live just as you describe.

Ultra wealthy is likely much higher. Let's say $100 million or more. This is unlikely to happen overnight (in the literal sense.)

I don't see how it wouldn't change you. Even giving the money away would change your time use. (If I gave away $10 million, I would be checking on how it is used. And be very critical.)

Even just removing annoyances will change you. A nicer car, then why deal with traffic. Food prep turns into no going to the store, which turns into not knowing about advances in checkout scanners (see George HW Bush during some election.)

Maybe it is not your not changing. The world always changes. Will you change with it?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Search Amazon for "window heat pump".

I cannot comment on quality or efficiency.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago
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For under $500 one can get a window heat pump. (They are likely as shit as the $200 window A/C.)

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I keep getting a red banner saying “Toastify is awesome” when updating. What does it mean, and what should I do differently?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I don't think so. Most people have heads. That crossbow will still need room to move.

Maybe it could work if the platform were raised 6 inches.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Gotta buy land first. Like 10 acers if you want to grow most of your own food.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The first step is to make it work (at all, even badly).

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

My point was what do YOU do? Not what should one do.

Most people get ice cream and ignore the situation.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 5 days ago

Volunteer to help get good local politicians elected.

Help a local charity.

The impact will be indirect, but inpactful.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

Volunteer to help get good local politicians elected.

Help a local charity.

The impact will be indirect, but inpactful.

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How would one actually calculate the full "fruit of labor" in work that includes several people doing different tasks?

How to calculate between people doing the same task producing physical items seems easy. Add in customer service, sales, and development, and it seems easier to focus on what other groups pay for those skills, which is not what I want.

It also seems looking at the difference between having the role, and not. However some skills are mandatory, just less involved.

Feel free to simplify, but different tasks is a must.

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I don't like subscribing to nonphysical things. I can read a physical paper a month after it arrived. Digital is faster, but I tend to lose it before I have read it.

I need a recipient in my pocket. Too often my virtual thing is lost, my device fails, or things reboot and I don't have my secure 24 digit password with me.

I won't subscribe to a digital only anything. Physical and digital is nice.

Edit: They don't even have to be identical. A digital daily with a monthly print would be nice.

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Hello friends. Work email is crushing me. The ticketing systems, plural, email me on everyone's tucket. (Because some people only work tickets via email and others through the web interface.)

Are there any email clients or servers that allow new email to land somewhere other than the inbox? Or allow my view to start elsewhere?

I declare email bankruptcy daily....

Send whiskey.

Edit: I was unclear.

I have filtering, but those all happen after the mail is in the Inbox. I get a quarter second of crazy emails and previews and things moving, then they are gone. (Outlook sucks.)

I don't even want to see that shit. Not at all.

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Today, I was playing with an immediate annuity calculator. For about $106K (USA Dollar), one can get a 10 year Immediate annuity that pays about $1K per month.

For $1 million, 9 people could be covered for 10 years. For $1 billion, 9,400.

Every American could be covered for the next 10 years for ~$35 trillion. Rolled out over 10 years, it could be $3.5 trillion per year.

I am better able to reason about annuities, than government spending, so this started to put the costs in perspective for me. The costs also stop being as "squishy".

UBI would be life changing for many. Those with lots of income already would be paying about 30% back to the IRS.

There are lots of optimizations. For 60% more, the term could be doubled to 20 years, cutting the annual rollout cost by 20%. I bet costs could be improved when purchasing $1 trillion of anything. Annuity rates are also not great right now, so there a likely better structures.

Thoughts?

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Last Thursday, the medical colossus UnitedHealthcare applied for an emergency exemption that would fast-track its takeover of a medical practice in Corvallis, Oregon, in a letter warning regulators that the practice might close its doors if the merger were not approved right away.

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Pretty sure I will be asking a lawyer, but I want to learn more words and concepts first.

A possible new job wants to own any intellectual property I create and wants me to declare anything I want to keep as my own. This seems normal in my industry as they will be paying me to do some thinking.

Issue is that I have a number of ideas I have been developing. I am going to float some of them as products in my own time, though this may be years from now. Most of these are outside the current market for the company as far as I know.

How is this typically handled? I presume I don't need to have copyrights or trademarks prior and can just list tentative titles.

I am also a little unclear on the spread between "intellectual property" and "an idea I am playing with".

Thoughts? Concepts to investigate?

Edit: I did Internet search this, but I have not found working keywords.

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Article from 1999, referenced study likely from earlier.

The average American walks less than 75 miles a year - about 1.4 miles a week, barely 350 yards a day.

Thank you to @[email protected] for pointing this out.

Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240218142310/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/bryson-s-america-why-would-you-walk-1079183.html

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"I don't know if you saw this study the other day, but what this study clearly shows, is when people have the ability to come downtown to an office and don't, when they stay home, sitting on their couch with their nasty cat blanket diddling on their laptop ... if they do that for a few months, you become a loser! It's a study. We're not losers, are we?"

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