easily bored. but new to parenthood - he's 6yo. festival stagehand VETERAN. märklin n00b. arduino n00b. IoT n00b. dreams of bass proficiency. hex-based wargames. g.u. msfs 1988, unused.
fwiw... done vic-20, cp/m, tape readers, punch cards, vax vms, pl/c, pl/1, dos tsr's, other retro atrocities. and then along came c & unix v6. SATORI!
"If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough." -Mario Andretti
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- euroderfIf you reuse currrent form factors for larger denominations, people will exploit it.
- The current half dollar is a rejected monster. Nickels should be too.
Shifting a decimal place works for me. Prices when I grew up up in the 60s & 70s were a fraction of today's. Penny candy WAS REAL! And the "five & dime" had stuff for, well, nickels & dimes. Not a lot, but some things. Nowadays it's dollar stores (a blight on the landscape) - their prevalence tells ya sumthin'bout the disposable income situation of many, many citizens.
- Nickels won't, because of quarters/dimes math. But yes, the penny tray is freed up.
- OpenAI needs to grease some palms via crypto, just like the numerous shady characters receiving (non-J6) pardons.
- > defence and medical advancement research
These are America's choices. And it's America's choice whether to wield these in world-leading competitiveness or as ossified self-serving bureaucracy.
Other countries make other choices about where to do world-leading R&D (that Americans can take advantage of as lower prices). Chinese solar, for example.
- Well, maybe not so much fight depression as fight lethargy ?
- Finland leads the world in per capita coffee consumption. My pet theory is that in the winter it fights depression, and in the summer the sun is out late at night and you're saying to your friends: How could we possibly go to sleep now?! Moar coffee!!
- So this lake freezes before others in the area ?
- > more insulation
Why is this ? (Sorry if it's a stupid question.)
- Keeping track of "-ize" versus "-ise" is a PITA, mainly because (a) American English uses both, altho not interchangeably, and (b) on teh interwebz there's always an inconsistent grab bag of dialectical usage. For those reasons I for one have settled on "-ise". My 0,02€, ymmv
- Kind of a "Minimax" interpretation. Whereas in the USA, when you hit bottom it's so low that you probably ain't comin' up again.
- As an aside, Finns have said to me that in general Finland is open to adopting political & economic ideas from Sweden, letting Sweden be at the leading edge, with the caveat that first Sweden tries them out... and IF they work they might be cribbed by Finland.
I don't know whether this attitude still prevails tho.
- Hmm perhaps US Declaration of Independence could have cited "certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Contentment".
- As a Murrcan greybeard now having lived more than half my life in Finland, I agree with your second-paragraph observations on the people and the mentality.
The level of societal trust here is still very high. I say "still" because methinks Western media and social media serve to erode such things. My 0.01€, YMMV.
- > There is also a religious element to suicide that cannot be overlooked.
Also a genetic component.
- When I was going to grad school in DC, I'd suggest to classmates that we place bets on the date of the first person dying of exposure in the city every winter.
This bet kinda horrified some people, but I think I got my point across.
- Tunneling is expensive. But didn't more cities used to elevate their metros over city streets, in the manner of Chicago's loop ? Isn't this doable for contemporary projects?
- You don't see many cops in Finland. You just don't.
Firstly because the social benefits system keeps a lot of people out of trouble ' call it bribery if you like, but it meets basic needs. Secondly because there's a lot of private "security" types around - for example in the supermarkets, keeping out drunks and dealing with shoplifters - letting the police focus on the real stuff.
- Unrelated, but this reminds me of Americans' opinions of their congresscritters: Congresscritters as a whole are a terrible, corrupt bunch, but your own congresscritter is amazing!