Posts by kick@blob.cat
(DIR) Post #A01h2PTPupaK0TsLZI by kick@blob.cat
2020-10-10T17:59:43.168302Z
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@shebang @feld Sorry for the delay; I'm not as fast at typing as I used to be.Inefficiency is inherent in every possible system; minimizing it is a fine goal, but taxation, while inefficient, can fix more inefficiency than it creates.For good examples of this, look at governments stopping price fixing (though there's a (correct) argument to be made that for many things this could be fixed if intellectual property was abolished), and the commonly-replicated effect of just giving poor people money saving money overall, along with the (again, solidly-replicated) effects on public health by eliminating consumer-side healthcare costs (trading inefficiency now for efficiency later) and one of the only policies the US government handled correctly in decades, ePacket.For a bad example of it, look at the breakup of the Bell System. But then consider that the Bell System was responsible for nearly every worthwhile non-Soviet technological innovation in the past hundred years, hired an incredible plurality of global PhDs, and was working on things that would still be considered science-fiction today. It was a previously-government-allowed monopoly that was broken up by the government.Taxation, done properly, is a boon. And so is government interference.It can go very poorly: look at the existence of modern intellectual property laws.Minimizing inefficiency is the correct goal to have, but you have to look at it and weigh what the alternative is (inevitably, also inefficiency, just in a different currency than, well, currency).Decreasing taxation on the lower end of the spectrum is seen as a positive by both sides; raising the tax burden for the richest 30% while eliminating it entirely for the lower half seems like it would fix more inefficiency than it creates, even if it's not a long-term solution to the problem.Taxation done properly can actually increase the freedom of a market, and the people. It isn't synonymous with market fixing, and historically has even occasionally been used to decrease the cost of market-entry.If looking at the margins to see where the most impact can be made, a better solution to making the market freer (and bettering the common person's life) under the current system, rather than decreasing the tax burden on the most wealthy, is eliminating or ceasing the enforcement of international intellectual property treaties for poorer countries, and for richer nations to switch from means-tested welfare to just giving citizens money (this is uncontroversial in economics; you'd do well to read Milton Friedman, an economist who shared exactly your view on efficiency's endorsement of the concept).(I see people mentioning child labor bans in the notifications bar; I want to point out that that's a policy that made sense when implemented but doesn't now that there aren't long-term physical consequences to most forms of labor.)
(DIR) Post #A01hdBordzTcNFRfXc by kick@blob.cat
2020-10-10T18:06:20.549738Z
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@allison @p It's actually really common among internet types, believe it or not.
(DIR) Post #A01hqACkxUJL8Ao6PA by kick@blob.cat
2020-10-10T18:08:42.854345Z
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@tuxcrafting @allison @p It's pretty easy to get if you're shut-in or even just don't often have citrus.
(DIR) Post #A01iIcP9hmMohSAudU by kick@blob.cat
2020-10-10T18:13:50.694649Z
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@allison @p @tuxcrafting Have you considered eating actual food though?
(DIR) Post #A01ig7RKU2pVc7Oio4 by kick@blob.cat
2020-10-10T18:18:06.543020Z
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@allison @p @tuxcrafting While cooking per-say isn't needed to have a reasonable diet, it definitely can help.For starters, do you have a stove? Or an oven?
(DIR) Post #A01ipMyo4l4iPsT32W by kick@blob.cat
2020-10-10T18:19:46.970800Z
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@absturztaube I exist!
(DIR) Post #A01ocGEmQq0VSw4UeO by kick@blob.cat
2020-10-10T19:24:38.597932Z
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@absturztaube no uHi!
(DIR) Post #A01tFKcEUG1k9fvXBg by kick@blob.cat
2020-10-10T20:16:30.611453Z
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@absturztaube I've been doing well; I hope you have been, too!
(DIR) Post #A01wEwSCcTr955k1GS by kick@blob.cat
2020-10-10T20:50:03.631153Z
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@georgia It's an SS13 clone for people who aren't autistic.
(DIR) Post #A01wkBKjLdoKCq8u2a by kick@blob.cat
2020-10-10T20:55:41.553974Z
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@georgia It wasn't an insult or something, if you took it that way.Read the "Gameplay" subheader here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Station_13Basically, SS13 is incredibly intricate mechanically, but the gist of the game is the same thing as Among Us. Among Us is just the Antagonist mechanic described in the subsection, while slimmed down to only a handful of jobs, and being significantly less intricate.
(DIR) Post #A01ygsRBLWEsdniDUu by kick@blob.cat
2020-10-10T21:17:31.078435Z
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@georgia I'd expect you'd enjoy both of them, actually.
(DIR) Post #A01yvimbWW1T2eoJcG by kick@blob.cat
2020-10-10T21:20:12.167098Z
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@georgia @e @net https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/issues/1776#issuecomment-343471767
(DIR) Post #A01zQcRx7TxONRssQy by kick@blob.cat
2020-10-10T21:25:47.264437Z
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@georgia @e @net You should probably keep it in your home directory.
(DIR) Post #A01zdTxO0XfFnjija4 by kick@blob.cat
2020-10-10T21:28:06.926095Z
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@georgia @e @net ...a tsv is just a spreadsheet, isn't it?
(DIR) Post #A01zsulmbI11IseTrM by kick@blob.cat
2020-10-10T21:30:54.432488Z
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@georgia @e @net I'd just try moving it to your home directory and then runningsh e.shI'd imagine the tsv is probably the output of the script.
(DIR) Post #A020joasIECzUsm5Ee by kick@blob.cat
2020-10-10T21:40:28.040986Z
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@georgia @e @net Probably a conflict in (what I'd guess are) GNU vs. Busybox utils, but without seeing the script I have no idea. If you pipe `cat e.sh` to `less` or `more` (remember, the syntax for that is `cat X | less`), you should be able to figure out what it was trying to do.
(DIR) Post #A020owmZH8VoLEgubw by kick@blob.cat
2020-10-10T21:41:22.373629Z
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@georgia @e @net They can be viewed in any spreadsheet viewer, including LibreOffice, I think.
(DIR) Post #A020zHASL1tgSen1hQ by kick@blob.cat
2020-10-10T21:43:15.231335Z
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@georgia @e @net My guess is now "It's a bash script, which isn't POSIX compliant."Try:bash e.sh
(DIR) Post #A021GuWDHlk5QeNKrI by kick@blob.cat
2020-10-10T21:46:26.387942Z
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@georgia @e @net Read the script, you've got how it works in front of you! That's the cool thing about interpreted languages.
(DIR) Post #A0pUn0t54dMCrqKZEG by kick@blob.cat
2020-11-03T18:38:01.320132Z
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>accidentally follow-request someone who uses the same handle as someone you know on hereI hate namespace collisions.