Free healthcare and education, guaranteed housing and social safety nets make little difference.

Some people will stop at nothing to get more, no matter how much they already have. (Applies to billionaires and paupers alike). I guess you could call it having an entrepreneurial spirit.

No one steals car stereos anymore though, because you can't sell them to anyone. That mechanism could be put to more work. Heavy, EU-wide supervision and enforcement against scrap metal dealers would probably make a difference.

If I'll update the icecone example to a single vanilla scoop costing $8.45 it still stands for a Californian.

By the way, USD 16.9/hr is on the low end of normal pay level for a IT technician or junior nurse in Sweden. Tax is highly progressive, so at that point they'd only be paying about ~18% total income tax though, perhaps that would be higher in most US states?

If you visit Sweden, don't buy ice cream in the historic area of Stockholm ("gamla stan").

As an American you might think "$10 for a single scoop of vanilla, that's nothing. A minimum wage worker packing groceries earn twice that in an hour back home". But you are not helping a starving ice cream labourer with your purchase, you are simply being taken for a ride. Walk a couple of blocks more and check the signs, and you can buy it at half price from a respectable establishment instead. Most likely the ice cream will be better at the next place as well.

The water/water heatpump unit in my house is 20 years old and has not had any major failures yet. I hope it will run for another ten years before the compressor gives up, but it is indeed approaching its calculated technical lifespan. I estimate it will set me back €10k to have it replaced.

Air/air is the cheaper option over time, even in most of Scandinavia with coldish winters. The main drawback of air/air systems are that they are loud and ugly and therefore annoy both yourself and your neighbours.

Four or five 7200rpm disks in an array can also sustain it for sequential reads of big files. That costs less than a gaming laptop.

A potato can saturate a 10gbit line if the data is mostly in memory.

For lots of small files in random sequence and cold caches it gets a lot harder.

People downthread has written, cat6 was already the goto thing 15+ years ago so perhaps that is what they put in when the office space was built. It is a well built office!

I have a MikroTik CRS304-4XG-IN on my office desk with three out of four ports at 10gbit and it is perhaps 20 degrees above ambient on the outside. Warm but not hot. Passively cooled design.

A normal Windows laptop runs hotter than that when idle.

It is nice moving/streaming large files across the network at 10 gbit. It really is ten times less waiting than with plain old gigabit.

Of course, most of the time I'm working with lots of small files and then the spinning disk array in the NAS has no chance to saturated the this giant pipe, or even a normal gigabit connection...

Considering that you can still do a decent sprint over 400m and have the endurance for ultra marathon distances at lower pace, it sounds a bit odd.

What I learned about IPv4 at the turn of the century allows me to comfortably plan and manage networks up to a few thousand nodes, maybe a few tens of thousands.

I don't work in networking anymore. I really don't care about what those who are in that business. What you need to manage contemporary billion-node size networks and interchange between them is not my problem. You try to make it my problem, but I don't care.

I'll continue organizing the very few and very small networks that are still my responsibility using pre-CIDR ideas.

Maybe it becomes impossible some day. I'll deal with it then.

This was what I thought was my best moat as a senior dev. No other model has been able to come close to the throughput I could achieve on my own before. Might be a fluke of course, and they've picked up a few patterns in training that applies to this particular problem and doesn't generalize. We'll see.

The right to privacy here never meant "noone may know that I exist".

If it aint broken, don't fix it.

If you can choose your own versions and care at all about new releases, you can track latest and greatest with at the very most a few months of lag. Six months of "support" is luxurious in this scenario.

If you can't choose your own versions, you are most likely stuck on some sort of LTS Linux and will need to make do with what they provide. In that case three years is a cruel joke, because almost everything will be more than three years old when it is first deployed in your environment.

Not as much as in some other places in the world, but it is not at all rare.

I did some tests with 3.15-dev on my own reference benchmark a few days ago and noticed that the JIT is finally making a positive impact.

As it looks now, 3.14->3.15 will be the biggest release-to-release Improvement since 3.10->3.11. At least for streaming text processing with significant amounts of pure-python logic.

In the grandparent post I was first replying to, the poster stated that they were in the highest tax bracket that existed in their country, but said there should be more brackets for people who were even more well off.

My opinion is that it isn't unfair to the top 1% that the top 0,1% have the same tax rate, even though they are richer.

I do think it is unfair if the bottom 25% have the same tax rate as the top 25%.

I don't think the actual quality difference under Equal conditions is a large as the TUV report suggests.

My take on the wealth-cap is that it isn't about fairness at all. Actually I think it would be mostly unfair, but that it would be good for society anyway. Fairness is an important value, but it is not the only value.