squaresinger

4% is pretty meager considering the current inflation.

And one-time payments to offset a permanently-staying inflation is just ridiculous.

Second option.

...and a qwerty keyboard.

That's the thing. I love to use Linux for work, but when I don't want to tinker it sometimes sucks for gaming.

Ok, that makes sense now. You don't understand statistics.

And you don't understand the difference between having laws for rare cases and being constantly paranoid about rare cases.

Please learn some statistics, especially stochastics and probability theory. If you understand the basics, look up some statistics about what you are talking about and then we'll continue talking.

That's the question. At what point is a society with democracy, laws and a police still an anarchistic, stateless society?

To me this quickly overlaps with a libertarian democracy with direct democracy on the local levels, just with a different name. It's kinda scary to me how quickly the left and the right converge here.

Post-scarcity is a nice concept, but that will never happen. Many countries in Europe are effectively post-scarcity if you only consider basic needs.

Here in Austria, for example, we have a thing called "Mindestsicherung" which anyone is eligeable for if they are an Austrian citizen or have lived here for >5 years if they earn less than €1050 a month (median income is €2240). What happens then is the state pays them extra money so that together with their income they earn €1050 (even if you have no income at all). Then you get a flat in public housing and they pay for that too. Also you get free public transport passes, don't have to pay a TV license and get a free basic phone and internet contract. You even get a vouchers for clothing if you need new clothing.

Living, food, clothing, mobility, communication and internet are all taken care of. That's post-scarcity on the basic level.

I have a good friend who suffers from severe depression. He's been living off Mindestsicherung for the last 10 years. He doesn't have a lot of money but enough to go around and still have some money left for hobbies.

Still capitalism is alive and well here with only a low rate of long-term unemployed people. Because people don't only work to save themselves from starving, but because they want a higher living standard and more cool gadgets. So for money to not be important, everyone would have to have everything that they can think of.

To be fair, in 1904 wasn't exactly late stage capitalism yet, but it was failing maybe even more than now. Actually, there aren't many stages of capitalism where it didn't massively fail the poorer people.

Public property doesn't make the situation easier, because now you have lots more people who have to be involved in decision making.

Maybe some people want the road paved but others think it's a waste of their money. Now what do you do? Force the people to pay up or deny them usage of the road? Or would you let them free-load and use the nice paved road without paying for it?

All three options are unfair. If you force them to pay for something they don't want to, that's clearly unfair. If you deny them the usage of the road, they lose access to what they had access too before (the road). If you let them free-load, that's unfair to the people who now had to pay more, and chances are that next time more people will say they are against it, even though they want to have the change, but that way they get the stuff for free.

You do understand that "rate" means "per capita" and thus it doesn't matter if my country has a few million or a billion inhabitants when comparing a rate?

If you are incredibly afraid about an event where the likeliness of it occurring even once in your lifetime is roughly 1:150 000, then it's not called "being prepared" but "being paranoid". Your chance of dieing in a transportation accident is much, much higher and still your response isn't to fortify yourself in your house and never leave it.

Is it called "classism" if our poorest and worst locations are much better than your average?

Also, consider that more people die due to suicide or accidents using their own gun than people get killed by someone else's gun.

They actually discontinued quite a few architectures (in total 15 architectures). But all of them where cancelled, because nobody in their right mind is still running them if not for a youtube video.

Sparc Sun-4, SPARCstation and SPARCserver are probably the best-known ones after 386.

I vividly remember that time when I tried to get Linux running on my old laptop in the mid-2000s. There was no wifi driver for that card in the repo, but the manufacturer provided a driver to download. But it was in C++ source code that failed to compile because it was so outdated.

So there I was as a teenager who barely knew a little C at that time, porting the driver from outdated C++ to the then-modern version. It wasn't easy but I managed to.

I am so happy it's not 2005 anymore, when it comes to Linux.

Now they are openly advocating for genocide. His Nazi-comparison is wrong, because in this case, the one not "handing out" humanitarian aid is the Nazi.

One can be both a Jew and a Fascist.

(I am totally not saying that all Jews are Fascist, because that would be a malicious lie. All Jews that I encountered where really nice people doing their best. But that guy (and a worrying amount of other members of the Israeli government) is a faschist.)