Good on him for giving it an honest go. I do think that for fresh installs, laptops feel more likely to run into issues unless you are buying very mainstream hardware or using the OEM image with the driver bundles in the installer.
Also, using edge, native tools, and no cleanup or debloat is just painful. But I suppose the point is to highlight what you get out of the box, and if you used Titus Utils to dump all the quality of life things on the system you aren't really assessing the stock os.
I think there's times where they work better than others and really depends on the dish. If you make a nice vegetable soup with fixed potatoes, and toss in some twirly pasta at the end, then they will work well as a medley and each bring something a little different to the taste and texture. Same with a vegetable curry with potatoes over rice.
If you had potatoes au gratin, and somehow incorporated Mac and cheese, ignoring differences in cook time between the potatoes and pasta, I think you'd feel they were a bit redundant. Not bad tasting, but they aren't really bringing something that different to the party.
When I think about balanced food I always look to the mix of fats, acids, salts, and sugars with starches providing structure for those flavors. So I would look to mix starches that being a different type of structure to make an interesting dish.
He wasn't a cop that I see, and he did call 911. He called 911 then started driving around his block when he saw his daughter in the passenger side with a man who had been charged with raping her. He ran for office because of what he felt was corrupt handling of his case.
No one can really say how much of an execution vs crime of passion this was because the video of the incident was lost by the sheriff's office. The judge probably dismissed the charge of second degree murder because the normal thing with spoiliation of evidence is to assume it is favorable to the other party. If he really did execute the guy the cops should have properly presented the evidence.
Cases have always been dismissed if the state mishandles them to a sufficient degree. So this isn't a new thing.
And the guy ran for sheriff after being arrested and charged because he felt the police were mishandling the case and corrupt. So it feels unlikely that they mishandled the evidence intentionally to help the guy. But without facts it's all conjecture either way.
Without the trial and the evidence the police lost we don't have all the facts. But the framing in the article makes it sound like he woke up to his daughter missing, went looking, saw her in the guys car, and pursued. The police argue that he had time to call them while chasing the guy rather than forcing his car off the road and shooting him.
The timing and little details can matter a lot so I don't want to make a judgement, but killing your child's abductor in a chase is a lot different than killing them in cold blood later out of the blue.
I mean, it'd be pretty harsh for them to publicly publish that the teams commit velocity was down and they were all PIP'd, lol. Not that I think that's likely, but there are lots of possible for cause reasons that shouldn't be shared.
If anything, I suspect the reason is the more pedestrian "moving in a different direction" from the wish list process.
I don't really know the details here as I can't find any other sources or articles, let alone statements by the affected parties.
But the statement that wikimedia is rich because it has 17 months of operating reserves and a profitable unit with $8.1M in revenue seems a bit naive when said about an organization with 650 employees (likely $50M annual payroll) and misses the point, if indeed the point is about union busting as the headline claims.
For me, I'm less interested in the financials and more about the story from the fired individuals. As a monthly donor, if the team comes out saying they were fired for unionizing, then I'm happy to cancel. But if it was more to do with business or operating disagreements, that's another story, even if I disagree with the specific operational decision.
But I tried following the links to the discussion pages and the solidarity pages. But most of the comments seem to be upset about the direction of the community wish list, the loss of the wishlist, and no direct statements about union busting. I then tried searching team member names and fired keywords, and couldn't find any sources or direct statements.
So I dunno. I'll wait for credible first hand statements from the team before I cancel my donation. Cancelling a community request team sucks, but union busting is a completely different ballgame.
It's interesting; I was listening to a recent NPR Planet Money podcast about why the US doesn't have guaranteed vacation like all other high income countries. Much of it boiled down to history and politics, but one point that stuck out to me is that unions actually at one point opposed guaranteed vacation days, because if the government has laws for worker rights and leave, it reduces the demand for unions.
I don't know how much of a factor it is today, but for reference, I have a highly sought set of skills and experience in the US, and I get 35 paid holiday days per year, virtually unlimited sick leave, a two for one 401k match, comprehensive medical and dental, continuing education stipend, etc. Not guaranteed by law, but provided as work incentives.
I wonder if much of the middle class here didn't have such things, how many more laws or unions we would have to get them.
So mathematically that serves as a pay cap, because once you get to 100x you are taxed 100%. Some countries do have compensation caps for CEOs that are a multiple of the lowest paid employee, and I tend to like the model because it incentives increasing pay of employees who aren't generally considered competitive or in high demand, and those are the folks that need market intervention most.
In this exact formula, I suspect it would underwhelm. Someone who earned the federal minimum wage, $7.25/hour working full time would get a paltry $15,080 per year. Someone making $250k/year would only pay 16% income tax, a meet decrease. Now, maybe it is good to shift the cost burden more to the ultra wealthy giving relief to even those making good money. But that would require some data crunching to see where the breakpoint is.
I think the idea that taxing the rich is difficult or our tax code is too complicated feeds into the narrative around the problem being too hard to solve. I think the reality is more straightforward:
Bring back the previous top tax bracket of 39% that Republicans did away with. That will bring in a significant revenue.
Raise or add the top brackets on the capital gains taxes.
Add a new top tax bracket of you want to raise more revenue, e.g. 46% above X millions.
When you look at reports by the congressional budget office or independent budget groups, most of the other proposals are noise in the grand scheme of things. Even the buy, borrow, die strategy that gets a lot of airtime (because it rightfully violates most people's sense of fair play) only really accounts for something like 2% of the funds used by the ultra wealthy.
Most of the things like wealth taxes would require more complex legislation and be treated by the courts, certainly going to the supreme court. But the above three bullets would meaningfully raise revenues, are simple in terms of legislation, and have clear statutory authority and case law on their side.
The only thing hard is electing enough people who actually care about the budget and the people.
I worked in enterprise IT for years, including running mail servers, and ran my own personal servers for my home domains for years. The best feeling ever was outsourcing that responsibility. If you want to do it for fun or learning with a test domain, I'd say go for it. If you want to do this for email that might matter, I would not do that. For an illustration on why, research email delivery and email reputation topics. It's not that everything is too complex, but you can easily have something to wing without ever knowing and you just lose email.
If you want a good middle lane, I moved my personal domains to mxroute after buying a lifetime plan. I also know and have tested failing over to a second provider if needed. This let's you make as many accounts and aliases as you want, without dealing with all the delivery issues personally.
I think the science needs to mature more before making causal life choices. Or maybe I'm just living on the edge with my unfiltered coffee. 😃
Studies show that it can increase serum cholesterol, but might also have anti carcinogen and neuro protective effects. My cholesterol is checked yearly and comes back healthy each time, while I don't have the same ready screening for cancer or brain health. I think as part of a healthy lifestyle it comes out in the wash for most people, and an annual blood panel is a good thing to trust but verify.
My daily driver is a 1L French press. 40 grams of beans, ground to 800 micron's in a Kingrinder K6, with a long steep to let fines settle down to the bed, and the plunger only partially depressed to avoid disturbing the bed. Gently poured as consumed. This makes a good cup with a variety of types of beans and roast level. I mostly use locally roasted fresh coffee.
This, of course, is a ridiculous extrapolation. By focusing on the rate of change (doubling) every three months we of course get an absurd result.
Instead, if we simply extrapolate the absolute growth per unit time then assuming the baby went from 10 lbs at birth to 20 lbs at three months (doubling), and we have 40 such time units until age 10, then we get a much more reasonable expected growth to 400 lbs. Which of course is much more reasonable for a 10 year old. Totally reasonable.
Locking yourself out of a system remotely is a time honored tradition. You might be doing it with caching instead of IP tables, but you're still in good company.
But influx from the state, taxes on second homes, deferred payments to pension programs, and a host of compromises. He in no way raised $12Bn in new revenue through taxes to cover the deficit.
Good on him for giving it an honest go. I do think that for fresh installs, laptops feel more likely to run into issues unless you are buying very mainstream hardware or using the OEM image with the driver bundles in the installer.
Also, using edge, native tools, and no cleanup or debloat is just painful. But I suppose the point is to highlight what you get out of the box, and if you used Titus Utils to dump all the quality of life things on the system you aren't really assessing the stock os.
I think there's times where they work better than others and really depends on the dish. If you make a nice vegetable soup with fixed potatoes, and toss in some twirly pasta at the end, then they will work well as a medley and each bring something a little different to the taste and texture. Same with a vegetable curry with potatoes over rice.
If you had potatoes au gratin, and somehow incorporated Mac and cheese, ignoring differences in cook time between the potatoes and pasta, I think you'd feel they were a bit redundant. Not bad tasting, but they aren't really bringing something that different to the party.
When I think about balanced food I always look to the mix of fats, acids, salts, and sugars with starches providing structure for those flavors. So I would look to mix starches that being a different type of structure to make an interesting dish.
He wasn't a cop that I see, and he did call 911. He called 911 then started driving around his block when he saw his daughter in the passenger side with a man who had been charged with raping her. He ran for office because of what he felt was corrupt handling of his case.
Some details I found with a quick search
No one can really say how much of an execution vs crime of passion this was because the video of the incident was lost by the sheriff's office. The judge probably dismissed the charge of second degree murder because the normal thing with spoiliation of evidence is to assume it is favorable to the other party. If he really did execute the guy the cops should have properly presented the evidence.
Cases have always been dismissed if the state mishandles them to a sufficient degree. So this isn't a new thing.
And the guy ran for sheriff after being arrested and charged because he felt the police were mishandling the case and corrupt. So it feels unlikely that they mishandled the evidence intentionally to help the guy. But without facts it's all conjecture either way.
Without the trial and the evidence the police lost we don't have all the facts. But the framing in the article makes it sound like he woke up to his daughter missing, went looking, saw her in the guys car, and pursued. The police argue that he had time to call them while chasing the guy rather than forcing his car off the road and shooting him.
The timing and little details can matter a lot so I don't want to make a judgement, but killing your child's abductor in a chase is a lot different than killing them in cold blood later out of the blue.
It was tossed by the judge because the police mishandled evidence. How is that a frightening precedent?
What a bitch...
I'll see myself out.
I mean, it'd be pretty harsh for them to publicly publish that the teams commit velocity was down and they were all PIP'd, lol. Not that I think that's likely, but there are lots of possible for cause reasons that shouldn't be shared.
If anything, I suspect the reason is the more pedestrian "moving in a different direction" from the wish list process.
I don't really know the details here as I can't find any other sources or articles, let alone statements by the affected parties.
But the statement that wikimedia is rich because it has 17 months of operating reserves and a profitable unit with $8.1M in revenue seems a bit naive when said about an organization with 650 employees (likely $50M annual payroll) and misses the point, if indeed the point is about union busting as the headline claims.
For me, I'm less interested in the financials and more about the story from the fired individuals. As a monthly donor, if the team comes out saying they were fired for unionizing, then I'm happy to cancel. But if it was more to do with business or operating disagreements, that's another story, even if I disagree with the specific operational decision.
But I tried following the links to the discussion pages and the solidarity pages. But most of the comments seem to be upset about the direction of the community wish list, the loss of the wishlist, and no direct statements about union busting. I then tried searching team member names and fired keywords, and couldn't find any sources or direct statements.
So I dunno. I'll wait for credible first hand statements from the team before I cancel my donation. Cancelling a community request team sucks, but union busting is a completely different ballgame.
It's interesting; I was listening to a recent NPR Planet Money podcast about why the US doesn't have guaranteed vacation like all other high income countries. Much of it boiled down to history and politics, but one point that stuck out to me is that unions actually at one point opposed guaranteed vacation days, because if the government has laws for worker rights and leave, it reduces the demand for unions.
I don't know how much of a factor it is today, but for reference, I have a highly sought set of skills and experience in the US, and I get 35 paid holiday days per year, virtually unlimited sick leave, a two for one 401k match, comprehensive medical and dental, continuing education stipend, etc. Not guaranteed by law, but provided as work incentives.
I wonder if much of the middle class here didn't have such things, how many more laws or unions we would have to get them.
So mathematically that serves as a pay cap, because once you get to 100x you are taxed 100%. Some countries do have compensation caps for CEOs that are a multiple of the lowest paid employee, and I tend to like the model because it incentives increasing pay of employees who aren't generally considered competitive or in high demand, and those are the folks that need market intervention most.
In this exact formula, I suspect it would underwhelm. Someone who earned the federal minimum wage, $7.25/hour working full time would get a paltry $15,080 per year. Someone making $250k/year would only pay 16% income tax, a meet decrease. Now, maybe it is good to shift the cost burden more to the ultra wealthy giving relief to even those making good money. But that would require some data crunching to see where the breakpoint is.
I think the idea that taxing the rich is difficult or our tax code is too complicated feeds into the narrative around the problem being too hard to solve. I think the reality is more straightforward:
Bring back the previous top tax bracket of 39% that Republicans did away with. That will bring in a significant revenue.
Raise or add the top brackets on the capital gains taxes.
Add a new top tax bracket of you want to raise more revenue, e.g. 46% above X millions.
When you look at reports by the congressional budget office or independent budget groups, most of the other proposals are noise in the grand scheme of things. Even the buy, borrow, die strategy that gets a lot of airtime (because it rightfully violates most people's sense of fair play) only really accounts for something like 2% of the funds used by the ultra wealthy.
Most of the things like wealth taxes would require more complex legislation and be treated by the courts, certainly going to the supreme court. But the above three bullets would meaningfully raise revenues, are simple in terms of legislation, and have clear statutory authority and case law on their side.
The only thing hard is electing enough people who actually care about the budget and the people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticarcinogen
I mean, there is. You can also do a Google scholar search.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C21&q=anticarcinogen
It's anything that inhibits cancerous growths or properties.
I worked in enterprise IT for years, including running mail servers, and ran my own personal servers for my home domains for years. The best feeling ever was outsourcing that responsibility. If you want to do it for fun or learning with a test domain, I'd say go for it. If you want to do this for email that might matter, I would not do that. For an illustration on why, research email delivery and email reputation topics. It's not that everything is too complex, but you can easily have something to wing without ever knowing and you just lose email.
If you want a good middle lane, I moved my personal domains to mxroute after buying a lifetime plan. I also know and have tested failing over to a second provider if needed. This let's you make as many accounts and aliases as you want, without dealing with all the delivery issues personally.
I think the science needs to mature more before making causal life choices. Or maybe I'm just living on the edge with my unfiltered coffee. 😃
Studies show that it can increase serum cholesterol, but might also have anti carcinogen and neuro protective effects. My cholesterol is checked yearly and comes back healthy each time, while I don't have the same ready screening for cancer or brain health. I think as part of a healthy lifestyle it comes out in the wash for most people, and an annual blood panel is a good thing to trust but verify.
My daily driver is a 1L French press. 40 grams of beans, ground to 800 micron's in a Kingrinder K6, with a long steep to let fines settle down to the bed, and the plunger only partially depressed to avoid disturbing the bed. Gently poured as consumed. This makes a good cup with a variety of types of beans and roast level. I mostly use locally roasted fresh coffee.
Dead Man's Fingers
This, of course, is a ridiculous extrapolation. By focusing on the rate of change (doubling) every three months we of course get an absurd result.
Instead, if we simply extrapolate the absolute growth per unit time then assuming the baby went from 10 lbs at birth to 20 lbs at three months (doubling), and we have 40 such time units until age 10, then we get a much more reasonable expected growth to 400 lbs. Which of course is much more reasonable for a 10 year old. Totally reasonable.
Locking yourself out of a system remotely is a time honored tradition. You might be doing it with caching instead of IP tables, but you're still in good company.
Gift article from the NY times explaining.
But influx from the state, taxes on second homes, deferred payments to pension programs, and a host of compromises. He in no way raised $12Bn in new revenue through taxes to cover the deficit.