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> Written by a European. Well, I live in Central-Eastern Europe, and even though I 100% agree with the problem statement, the proposed solutions sound unrealistic to me as well ;)

Sitting on death row is psychologically devastating.

> I personally don't understand why people need so much money - healthcare (where I live, we have public health care, i.e., my salary is taxed to oblivion, but if you want good for…

Agree with your points about public institutions and NGOs. Where I live, having NGO projects on your CV could even work against you (in case you were looking for a government job, …

> company that isn't looking to grow I don't think such a thing exists (unfortunately). Show me a business leader that says, "oh we've been successful, we've got orders and new cli…

> The idea that you'll escape by "Working for a public institution" is goofy. I agree. Where I live, "public institution" is code for "infinite inefficiency and corruption".

> It's okay to make money doing one thing, and enjoy yourself by accomplishing something great doing another. Maybe. First, the thing done for money (or the way it is done) shouldn…

Good for you! Alas, as you say, this is mostly pure luck. And not sustainable over the longer term, financially speaking.

Assuming that you save 1/3rd of your monthly net income, and spend only 2/3rds of it on expenses -- which I believe is already beyond what most people can do --, and that you are a…

> I want significant change, but not to my income! That's not it. The issue is (as the GGP mentions) irreversibility (and, I'd add, unpredictability). When you go for a less-paying…

> tech being filled with high paying jobs where you effectively work on issues that directly damage humanity is the issue. And after you have a high paying job its hard to justify …

> I think you are misreading the person you're replying to. [...] They're saying "don't quit just because you aren't great on day 1." That's not what they're saying. They literally…

> as though subscription software is something which has been sneaked in on us Oh but it has (IMO). > users today expect things like instant updates [...] constant bug fixes and pa…

> What is needed, imo, is to leverage the power of centralised, professional operations and development, but to govern it democratically. This means cooperatives where users are ac…

Right. I don't even understand why this article had to be this verbose. It's not like we need to be "convinced" that local is better. Everybody who values privacy and independence …

> unavoidable Well, no. Depends on the person. For some people and for some new undertakings, especially if those people know themselves well already, they can hit the ground runni…

Counterpoint: you'll stop enjoying a new hobby, like learning to play the guitar, when you decide to get serious about it.

> you'll be bad at anything new I disagree. Innate talent / affinity and transferable experience exist. I agree with "10% inspiration and 90% perspiration"; however, given equal ef…

Awesome, thanks! :)

yep, you need both; and in fact the definition includes both: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abelian_group

> The trick works on any Abelian group ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abelian_group -- I'll use ⋆ as the Abelian group's operation, and ~ for inversion, below.) I believe you are …

UEFI variables or not: who in their right mind serializes raw pointer values to any kind of storage (network, disk, nvram, ...)? Why is it that the most security-sensitive areas ar…

> it is the reorganization of the economics of work and the overwhelming majority of humanity will be worse off for it

> this stinks: “This transparency transforms git history from a record of changes into a record of intent, creating a new form of documentation that bridges human reasoning and mac…