Ngl, hearing @graf go on about the big fancy servers they've picked up makes me start eyeballing new hardware of my own. Me being me, I'm eyeballing one of these guys fully loaded: https://www.stealth.com/littlepcs/lpc-860-rugged-fanless-mini-pc-dual-removable-drives/
@saxnot @saxnot if theory says reality is wrong then theory is wrong.
The prices of different things are different in different places as a simple function of what the local market will bear. One undeniable example is cell phone access. You can get unlimited voice unlimited data cell phone access in India for a month for $3.58 USD. You can rent a massive apartment in a capital city for $200, or a small apartment outside the city center for $100. $2 for a meal at an inexpensive restaurant. 60 cents for a litre of milk. 30 cents for a kilogram of potatoes. Textbooks are famously a tiny fraction of the price. Software is a fraction of the price. It keeps going and going.
Someone making American minimum wage would be able to live like a king. That's why it's deceptive to talk about dollars per day.
Maybe they mean ppp adjusted costs, but they don't say that. They just say a number and act like that's it.
There's another side to the same coin that lifestyles can be different in ways that mean you don't need to buy the same thing in two places. In Minnesota you must have a heater, but in Delhi you don't need one so the cost of a heater is irrelevant. There may be licensing costs, insurance costs, and other regulatory barriers that apply in one region but don't in the other which break PPP. One example of this is driving a motorcycle. In the us a motorcycle is one of the more expensive forms of transportation because of insurance costs, whereas in India it's one of the cheapest.
The prices of different things are different in different places as a simple function of what the local market will bear. One undeniable example is cell phone access. You can get unlimited voice unlimited data cell phone access in India for a month for $3.58 USD. You can rent a massive apartment in a capital city for $200, or a small apartment outside the city center for $100. $2 for a meal at an inexpensive restaurant. 60 cents for a litre of milk. 30 cents for a kilogram of potatoes. Textbooks are famously a tiny fraction of the price. Software is a fraction of the price. It keeps going and going.
Someone making American minimum wage would be able to live like a king. That's why it's deceptive to talk about dollars per day.
Maybe they mean ppp adjusted costs, but they don't say that. They just say a number and act like that's it.
There's another side to the same coin that lifestyles can be different in ways that mean you don't need to buy the same thing in two places. In Minnesota you must have a heater, but in Delhi you don't need one so the cost of a heater is irrelevant. There may be licensing costs, insurance costs, and other regulatory barriers that apply in one region but don't in the other which break PPP. One example of this is driving a motorcycle. In the us a motorcycle is one of the more expensive forms of transportation because of insurance costs, whereas in India it's one of the cheapest.
@alex @a @MandyJane They sure hope they can fascist the shit out of this democratic technology. Fuck 'em. Let's book 'em all tickets to North Korea and they can enjoy their socialist utopia.
@WiseNana @ThomasWic Lots of folks will get something they didn't ask for and don't deserve, but there's also a lot of people who have been clamouring for the crap on a silver platter. Unfortunately, it seems that without the upcoming pain they won't stop.
The only thing we can do as individuals is learn from history and prepare so we can come out ahead.
The only thing we can do as individuals is learn from history and prepare so we can come out ahead.
@WiseNana @ThomasWic A lot of people didn't, but enough people did and loudly enough that the federal debt is sitting at 28 trillion dollars with no hint of slowing and almost every politician is talking about all the money they're going to spend on your behalf.
[Admin Mode on] We should be back up to full capacity now. A piece of telecom equipment had an embedded UPS battery, that battery failed catastrophically bringing the equipment down intermittently. Once the battery was replaced, the equipment stopped going down.
@cgarison @Zennblack yes, and also a theocracy is incompatible with a communist regime. The Taliban wouldn't care for the Chinese, and the Chinese wouldn't care for the Taliban
@Zennblack @cgarison I doubt it. I suspect the Taliban might not much care for how the Chinese treat the Uighurs.
@Mitsu https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_Greenland
Going to Greenland is a meme, like becoming an hero.
Going to Greenland is a meme, like becoming an hero.
@Mitsu don't go to Greenland. Tickets are super expensive and you have to fly through like 6 airports in 7 different countries.
https://video.fbxl.net/videos/watch/a0d31255-3f74-4d4b-83be-f8c9654a27f4
A bit of levity, "monster crash" joke song
A bit of levity, "monster crash" joke song
@heidegger14 just organizing your things in a meaningful and sustainable way takes a huge amount of effort up-front. Pays off in the end, but you have to get there to understand why!
>#BREAKING: #CNN Journalist ‘Bernie Gores’ executed in #Kabul by #Taliban soldiers. We are working with US officials to get several more journalists out of #Afganistan at this time. Our thoughts are with Bernies’ family.
They were so friendly as they executed him!
They were so friendly as they executed him!
@Shadowman311 Wait a minute...
Stagflation...
A withdrawal from a catastrophic military engagement that lasted decades...
Is it actually 1975? Are we about to get some really great rock music?
Stagflation...
A withdrawal from a catastrophic military engagement that lasted decades...
Is it actually 1975? Are we about to get some really great rock music?
@polarisera If you die from heart inflammation, is it different than if you die of COVID-19?