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It super easy to prevent AI from becoming skynet or even just stopping it from running rm -rf / but you have to understand proper system security; use namespaces and VMs, please.
It's pretty rare to have a machine now days without integrated graphics so it's easy enough to just use the integrated GPU for the desktop environment and only use the dedicated/Nvidia GPU for games/CUDA stuff.
TBH Archlinux and NixOS have the easiest Nvidia experience because IIRC I think Ubuntu still defaults to Nouveau?
The issue with popular distro's like Ubuntu defaulting to X11 for certain hardware is it allows companies like Nvidia to de-prioritize Wayland support. Even in the best case, Nvidia's Linux docs are still written assuming Ubuntu + Xorg which is very unhelpful.
I bet we'll finally see proper Wayland-focused documentation and more Wayland compatibility updates from Nvidia within a year or two just because Ubuntu changes the default.
For high paying, outcome oriented jobs like software and engineering; exempt is kind of practically required since you may need to work >40 hours some weeks but that high effort is already reflected by the high salary.
I think the intention was to help the economy move from hard, manual labor jobs to easier, comfortable office jobs.
The simplistic is to just bin roads into N categories and every mile it increments your monthly usage category N road type. The categories could be anything like road type, time of day, current congestion level, etc. There's actually little reason to track the specific location or road name.
Why would a democratic society tax itself needlessly? LVT is by definition limited to a certain proportion.
The entire thesis of my OP is that the last 200 years of protections of property rights are now quickly leading to a "rent-seeking state by a plurality of various oligarchies". At least the political state uniformly distributes power instead of dividing the country between land/home owners and renters.
> People should have a right to use the property they own in the way that generates maximum value for them
A LVT only encourages you to do so efficiently... you could easily move to a rural/undesirable area and have all that freedom and now much lower overall tax rate. If you aren't paying the LVT back to society you are by definition depriving someone else of the very freedom you wanted to protect. It's a fantasy to think that everyone can have the property freedoms you describe.
> If there's a loophole such as lack of sales tax for car washes, fix that, but let the playing field remain even.
My claim is that the playing field is not currently even rather it is massively in favor for low-capital, low-labor, and low-regulatory businesses (like car washes) and additionally incentives ostensibly designed to encourage real estate development (1031 like-kind, treatment of real estate as depreciating, etc.) are now primarily used to either speculate on existing real estate or build the minimum to gain ownership/interest in speculation. If you take all the cash you have, you can only buy a finite amount of land. If you build a low-capital but profitable business like a car wash, you are only limited by the leverage limits imposed by lenders.
> If desirable high value businesses aren't able to compete with car washes, isn't that the market doing it's thing? > but what are the 2nd and 3rd order effects of such a change?
Tautology yes, as desired no. Technically yes because the market is shifting towards low-capital and low-regulatory businesses because they have a more predictable ROI. The goal isn't to disfavor the more capital & regular intensive businesses just regulate them. i.e the influx of car washes is the undesired 2nd order effect of some other policy e.g. minimum parking for restaurants and apartments (likely no such rule exists for car washes so now you need less land a car wash vs a restaurant).
Raising regular property taxes (land+improvements) is just easier solution than waiting for far-reaching tax reform like LVT. IMO it's better to correct the market even if it means raising taxes overall in the short term.
The real business of car washes is real estate, it's profitable enough to get 3-4x leverage with a low interest loan.
TBH I think real estate used to have high information asymmetry between local residents and large investors; low property taxes and generous loan terms under this primarily benefited small businesses, individuals, etc. I think the internet and increased observability into far away projects erased this (a ring camera costs a billion dollar PE firm and Single home owner the same); now the same policies we have had are allowing easy arbitrage between low cost fed/PE cash and predictable "dumb" business categories; car wash, self storage, etc.
I take pride in the fact I haven't been to a car wash in probably 3 years and have likely gone myself less than 10 times total. Rain and the occasional wet rag is good enough for a depreciating asset.
A shopping mall isn't liable (in most cases) for the products or services sold by the individual stores yet it can choose to not allow certain businesses (tobacco, gambling, 18+ stores).
Have you seen a completely unmoderated social media site? It's either ultra niche or riddled with spam, fraud, and other low-quality content.
It's really simplistic to only bring up social media when the larger topic is "should private control of common platforms, markets, and network effect relationships be allowed"? The real estate and many critical B2B industries are FAR more insular and controlled by arbitrary groups.
Should McDonalds Inc. be liable for franchises selling expired food and/or should they not be able to control a franchise at all? Franchise contracts are way more controlling than any social media ToS yet people pay to join them.
At (inflation adjusted) price X in location Y + regulator time/cost Z, the number of housing units that can be legally built has decreased considerably. Part of this is we've exhausted undeveloped/raw land and haven't upzoned in most locations.
The fixed costs and regulatory hurdles for building housing units can certainly be reduced - if the political challenges can be overcome.
Even some relatively sane regulations like insulation and safety standards could be re-evaluated. The issue is we are not doing any cost-benefit analysis of these regulations; even a 10% increase in the average home price should logically have a large impact on overall quality of life; that extra 10% spent on housing (~$50,000) in young adulthood reduces retirement savings >$300,000 assuming 8% returns, 30-40 years of investment, etc.
Meta's headset is Android based so it has 18+ years of low power, ARM performance and power tweaking. And Apple is using their in-house M series chips.
Microsoft's bread and butter is B2B; Azure, Office, etc. The Xbox and consumer divisions are just too small to take on high cost, novel devices. They've historically not been great at branding or marketing direct to consumer either. (Zune, those Microsoft store commercials, etc.).
IMO there's not a lot of regular OSS for building embedded systems that comes with A/B partitioning, watchdogs, secure and verified boot - it's all custom at every org and tailored for individual products.
[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/android-14-patches-r...
Is that really a feature? Having to use a mess of vendor kernels and overlays that patch anything from ffmpeg to GTK to chromium just to build a 5 year old, EOL kernel version that still doesn't do what the board was advertised as supporting.
E.g does a SBC really support accelerated video decoding if it's only via patched libraries that are also 3 years old?
IMO the embedded Linux ecosystem seems to really hate Linux since it rarely follows standards (especially in user space) or upstream drivers, etc.
Individual maintainers just commit Nix code to build the packages... Do you mean you want their Git commits to be signed?
Edit: I guess that is what you mean. That is distinct from package (binary) signing. How do you know that a distro's repos built using the signed commits? NixOS is actually better suited to prove that an particular commit produced the package.
2. Check out Waypipe, it works really well and supports all application types unlike X11 forwarding. It's more like VNC but easy.
3. Last I checked Zoom screen sharing does work via the browser. The only feature I remember missing was screen control. Same experience with MS Teams too.
Sure this but also: the evidence does exist and it will be a huge expensive, inconvenience, and maybe dangerous unnecessary tests/surgery for >90% of the population. Really someone has to do the math to determine the inflection point; X% of people will get some early cancer/positive result found early, Y% will get a false-positive and undergo expensive and unnecessary procedures, and Z% will still get a false result but have cost some amount of money and time.
From a public health perspective, this is unlikely to be the best-next-thing because so many people die from more preventable diseases/things or lack access to health care at all. Is it a obvious service for the upper class in SF? Certainly, because the market thinks they are 5-30x more valuable than the average person so 2.5k is nothing to be extra certain of their survival.
Does that sound weirdly dystopian? Sure, but it is just moving your chance of living (for the next year as our unit) by 0.00001% or less. Most people would not spend 2.5k on a 1/100k outcome.
Windows programs ship with all their necessary libraries and/or link against the Microsoft c++ resist packages and you can have many different versions installed. Your MSI installer has to install the libcurl.3.dll instead of it being shared with other programs.
Docker and Flatpak fix the userland part the kernel part is already stable by "definition". Stuff may still break overtime but no more than it does on MacOS and Window. It's not broken by design anymore.
Since PEP 665 was rejected the Python ecosystem continues to lack a reasonable package manager and the lack of hashed based lock files prevents building on top of the current python project/package managers.
Strangely enough since raw milk is sold for "dog/animal use" that limits any liability for human consumption since it's explicitly sold for not human consumption.