tquai

I know that almost all of my downtime comes from when I overengineer things. And I don't need to "patch my kernel" because my OS doesn't have kernel holes once a week. Linux isn't the only Unix OS out there.

Today, a lot of sysadmins believe that "LAMP" is a synonym for webserver, and consequently there are a bunch of webservers serving static content on a machine with way too many moving parts. Complexity is bad.

"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler." -- Albert Einstein

For this and other reasons, I think electoral politics is one of the least effective places to put energy, in working for change.

Same thing regarding EasyJet comments, which is another "niche" airline. Try flying EasyJet from LAX to NRT, for example.

With US-based carriers, expect low prices, inflating awards points/miles, and bottom-level service.

With non-US based carriers, expect higher prices, no awards programs, and excellent service.

This is my experience flying in N. America, Europe, and Asia.

Does the author define "production" as manufacturing where the exclusive currency used (for raw materials, wages, utility bills, etc.) is bitcoin? If so then I'm not sure of the relevance.

One could make all sorts of clever but offtopic points about a fiat paper currency when viewed through the lens of a P2P currency like bitcoin. "The Canadian dollar is supposedly worth more than the USD today, but what does that mean when the Canadian network has zero nodes?" The wrongness of such a statement leaps out since fiat currencies are familiar to us. In contrast, bitcoin doesn't need a manufacturing base, but this is less obvious since P2P currency is a new idea that people (myself included) don't well understand.

Now, should we initiate a behavior recall? Take the number of McDonalds-level staff in the air (A), multiply by the probable rate of power tripping (B), multiply by the average loss of tickets sold (C). A times B times C = X. If X is less than the cost of some basic decency training, we won't do any. Which airline do you work for? A major one.

In any sufficiently large organization, the people who make the decisions and the people who enact those decisions are separated by distance, background, experience, or other reasons. This is why you see so much dysfunction in large organizations, and it extends to politics and other things that affect you as well. Look for it and you'll start seeing it everywhere.

I took a job in the year 2000, at a company with 3000 email users, listed by Spamhaus. First thing I did was close the open relay they were running. The listing was promptly removed, and the mail queue was back to normal within only a few days. I'm skeptical of your claim. I've never seen a confirmed case of Spamhaus aggression, but I've seen a lot that were disproven, and even more that sound like they were written by miscreants. Like the kind who would advocate DDoS attacks cough.