I’d love to know why people are happy with others making a fortune not through hard work, but through buying land and letting others hard work increase its value.
In the case of these pubs it sounds like they’re being priced out of the area through no fault of their own while trying to run an honest business so I don’t quite follow your logic here…
I understand your pessimism but believe IPv6 is coming.
I worked on network management software, the kind of software that runs on out of band networks that are unlikely to ever need IPv6. In the beginning IPv6 was a required feature for sales but it was accepted that no one was going to use it so little effort was put into testing it. More recently, it HAS to work. It is being used in anger internally in large telecoms companies.
I expect adoption to proceed at a glacial pace until some tipping point. Consumer ISPs will be the last to adopt it.
I think it is fair to say that the USA rediscovered war fever after the attacks on home soil. It resulted in the land invasion of two countries.
> There's a phrase people sometimes use about a nation's collective reaction to events like Pearl Harbor -- war fever. We don't know what a true war fever feels like today, since nothing in our recent history compares with it; even a popular war like the gulf war was preceded by months of solemn debate and a narrow vote in Congress approving military action.
I was unfamiliar with the author but when I read this bit I started hunting for a publication date - 1997.
Matt Stoller claims that the USA's problems with egg prices are a result of a European duopoly on hen breeding and USA cartels leveraging exclusivity agreements. I have no way of knowing if that is true or not.
This brings back some (unpleasant) memories.
But otherwise I admire the minimalism.
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