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Re: Dhcpcd Will Need a New Maintainer

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Post by chadcmulligan » Sat, Mar 13, 2021, 10:53 PM UTC

fastball wrote: post #74

grecy wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> There are diseases (including cancer) we could easily spend millions per patient on. Pulling out all the stops you could spend 10s of millions. But we really don't have that kind of societal overabundance, not yet. My Mum in Australia had a rare and aggressive form of lung cancer, discovered at stage four. She had almost three years of radiation, chemo, all the associated drugs, scans, treatments and even two diffe…

The calculus is still not that simple. What if that economic output could've instead been directed towards better education for children, or reducing the use of something which is known to cause cancer in the first place (e.g. coal power plants)? The decision is simple for you, because it's your mom. The decision is not a simple one for a society. We do not yet live in a post-scarcity world. Spending on one thing by…

Australia has free education as well, and optional private education. University is paid but fairly reasonable, and there's a loan system, though it could be better imho.

Re: Dhcpcd Will Need a New Maintainer

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Post by zeckalpha » Sat, Mar 13, 2021, 10:53 PM UTC

AceJohnny2 wrote: post #89

pjc50 wrote: post #39

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I call this "Postel decentralisation": everyone thinks there's some kind of system or institution making everything work, but in fact there's just a guy doing it all on his own.

What does "Postel" refer to?

Jon

Re: Dhcpcd Will Need a New Maintainer

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Post by smhost » Sat, Mar 13, 2021, 10:53 PM UTC

pjc50 wrote: post #39

KennyFromIT wrote: post #3

Messages like these are so sad to read. The world will never realize how many people are working tirelessly behind the scenes to keep society moving forward. Cheers to all of the silent (and sometimes not so silent) people that continue to give of themselves to make this world a more wonderful place in their own little way. You all are awesome and we literally couldn't go on with our way of life without you.

I call this "Postel decentralisation": everyone thinks there's some kind of system or institution making everything work, but in fact there's just a guy doing it all on his own.

i mean, even within institutions, it's usually just some person hacking away behind the scene. what else would it be?

Re: Dhcpcd Will Need a New Maintainer

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Post by wslack » Sat, Mar 13, 2021, 10:54 PM UTC

KennyFromIT wrote: post #3

Messages like these are so sad to read. The world will never realize how many people are working tirelessly behind the scenes to keep society moving forward. Cheers to all of the silent (and sometimes not so silent) people that continue to give of themselves to make this world a more wonderful place in their own little way. You all are awesome and we literally couldn't go on with our way of life without you.

Nadia Eghbal's work and writing about this subject was eye opening for me.

Re: Dhcpcd Will Need a New Maintainer

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Post by ronnier » Sat, Mar 13, 2021, 10:54 PM UTC

magnetic wrote: post #43

ronnier wrote: post #36

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Web worked if any of you are having the same issue

Do you need a PayPal account or is there a "take my credit card and check out as guest" option somewhere?

Not sure. I already had an account.

Re: Dhcpcd Will Need a New Maintainer

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Post by nealabq » Sat, Mar 13, 2021, 10:55 PM UTC

pjc50 wrote: post #39

KennyFromIT wrote: post #3

Messages like these are so sad to read. The world will never realize how many people are working tirelessly behind the scenes to keep society moving forward. Cheers to all of the silent (and sometimes not so silent) people that continue to give of themselves to make this world a more wonderful place in their own little way. You all are awesome and we literally couldn't go on with our way of life without you.

I call this "Postel decentralisation": everyone thinks there's some kind of system or institution making everything work, but in fact there's just a guy doing it all on his own.

Relevant: http://ccs.mit.edu/papers/CCSWP197/CCSWP197.html

Postel picked up the role of number coordinator because it needed to be done.

Re: Dhcpcd Will Need a New Maintainer

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Post by flatline » Sat, Mar 13, 2021, 10:55 PM UTC

sjtindell wrote: post #24

aeturnum wrote: post #9

This is a sad reminder of the masses of invisible labor (unpaid and paid) that hold up our world. Social scientists have been studying how labor becomes visible (or invisible) for a while without finding obvious solutions to "the situation." How can we build a world where an infinite procession specialists like Roy can get the care they need and also find and train successors in their important work? Not just because…

Just in my personal opinion, things like a UBI move us towards that world. It wound allow people flexibility.

It would allow flexibility for those who can manage their money successfully, and aren’t horribly unlucky. Unfortunately that population is relatively sparse - the monthly stipend is going to be funneled into the pockets of unscrupulous lenders as fast as you can say, “easy credit”. If it weren’t the US, with our habit of lifestyle inflation and tremendous consumer and educational debt, I’d be much more optimistic about it.

Would it be better than what we have now? Possibly! I’m fairly confident a real social safety net would be better. Or tight regulations around all that liquidity in the market, presumably pulled from elsewhere in the public coffers. At the end of the day it still sounds like wealth redistribution away from properly funded public works.

Re: Dhcpcd Will Need a New Maintainer

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Post by sterlind » Sat, Mar 13, 2021, 10:55 PM UTC

AceJohnny2 wrote: post #89

pjc50 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I call this "Postel decentralisation": everyone thinks there's some kind of system or institution making everything work, but in fact there's just a guy doing it all on his own.

What does "Postel" refer to?

Presumably Jon Postel, who co-authored many RFCs foundational to the internet such as TCP, IP and DNS. As a single person he was very involved in the internet's architecture.

Re: Dhcpcd Will Need a New Maintainer

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Post by ldng » Sat, Mar 13, 2021, 10:57 PM UTC

rasengan wrote: post #65

Dear Roy, It is unfortunate you are dealing with this. I am so sorry and hope for the best. The Handshake founders had an airdrop pre allocated for you in the Handshake Blockchain [1] so there is about $64,000.00 in there that you can claim under marples.name as of writing. [1] https://dns.live/top.html

Maybe he has more urging matter than claiming this ? Thought about the paperwork and taxes handling ? Could you do that for him ?

Re: Dhcpcd Will Need a New Maintainer

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Post by Fordec » Sat, Mar 13, 2021, 10:57 PM UTC

pjc50 wrote: post #39

KennyFromIT wrote: post #3

Messages like these are so sad to read. The world will never realize how many people are working tirelessly behind the scenes to keep society moving forward. Cheers to all of the silent (and sometimes not so silent) people that continue to give of themselves to make this world a more wonderful place in their own little way. You all are awesome and we literally couldn't go on with our way of life without you.

I call this "Postel decentralisation": everyone thinks there's some kind of system or institution making everything work, but in fact there's just a guy doing it all on his own.

There's always a relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/2347/