> But guess who else produces nothing of value for society and loves life? Retirees!
A retired person can produce MORE value for society by contributing their time, talent, wisdom (as of this post, un-addled by AI) and NOT turning the wheel of "productive work" that only moves that insane distribution of wealth farther "right" in most charts.
They even contribute great posts on HN. Hint.
The downside of retirement is missing out on the free air conditioning at work, when those $300 and $400/month bills arrive [0] Pay or fry.
Also, medical plans not subject to the savaging of medicare, medicaid and the VA going on. Pay or die.
[0] it's very peaky here, so solar doesn't pay for a very long time.
I envision sysadmins rebooting 10,000 servers, each one asking to verify the op's age, and even better, each time a web server forks off a process. (OK, this is hyperbole, but sometimes you need hyperbole to point out absurdity)
But not to worry. Very large companies "somehow" manage to get exemptions adn carve-outs from California laws that burden most of us. It's the golden rule. Whoever has the gold, rules. (stares at PG&E bill)
Do you remember the disappearing "billionaire tax"?
No idea how this will affect much of FOSS, for example, source code and binary repo's being blocked (I haven't read all the fine print).
"Shoot, if you must, this old gray head (with a camera, thank you) but spare free and open source operating systems, I said."
I guess it is users' accounts, so service accounts are exempt? I would hate to see a headless server rebooting and waiting for an age verification from a service account at a power or water sanitation plant...
Maybe all laws should have a "dev environment", starting with the politicians. All their systems will demand their age and proof of age for say 12 months? Toaster, washer, dryer, cell, dishwasher, car, calculators, etc. Then, if they still want to pass the law, 3 months of red teaming by the "general public" for all the systems that have their data. And, if they still want it, go for it.
I don't recall a time when there was so much assassination of world leaders. Sure, Putin knocks off enemies by various means, and many people have had "accidents", but not top political and military leaders. (by other countries, and Oswald was likely a Russian agent, IMO)
Better students of history, please correct me if I am off the mark.
Sounds to me that this is how kids learn to spin their own operating systems (a la LFS, Gentoo)and apps.
This is how people bought personal computers when the mainframe priesthood banned them.
It appears that very soon, young people will "de facto" need to have this level of competence in order to survive and thrive in a world of "in loco parentis" operating systems and apps.
The latin reveals my age, but one thing about my age:
People my age did exactly that. We built our own hardware when there was none. We compiled (or copied) operating systems and apps. A couple of my friends wrote an operating system and a C compiler.
"My generation" created this entire internet thingy, installed and web-based apps.
Indeed, dumb-asses are going to level up young people.
Meanwhile, all available hardware will only allow attested operating systems that conform to regulations. All hardware that does not conform will be illegal.
Before they do this, it will be easy to lock the internet to only allow attested operating systems online.
I'm sure Xers and millennials are totally going to be okay with a visit from the school cop when their little one is caught with an illegal operating system and looking at charges that could ruin their college and job prospects.
The cheap money will run out long before then, the cop will leave, the school abandoned. There will be forever protests and skirmishes on the long march through collapse.
I mean, wouldn’t an even slightest clever adversary do just that? Launch a bunch of decoys(party balloons, drones, whatever) amidst one they actually want to actually use as an attack vector?
Would the pentagon just play an expensive pew pew and potentially miss the real one?
More Epstein papers released.
Wag the dog. But this is not a movie. It's real war, large scale death and destruction.
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