It could be handled differently, more acceptable to right-voters, a lot cheaper to implement (actually brings more money in taxes) and with the same outcomes: tax housing progressively.

It works like this: First house owned by someone - normal tax, second house - 10x tax, 3rd house - 20x tax. Applied to legal persons too, but not to commercial spaces.

A family with two adults could own two houses or apartments (one each) and still pay normal tax. A rich person with 3 houses could keep his most valued property with normal tax, rent two and still be profitable. A real estate company would have no choice but to sell.

I have a RK3588 SBC with 5 HDDs and with a good ATX power source it draws about 24-26W from the wall socket. I tried replacing that with a 5A 12V DC power brick and the power usage increased to 28-30W.

Measurements are not accurate, but comparable. I used a Tasmota smart plug - the same one in both cases.

Thanks for the data point, and the vote of confidence. I do not have the best setup to measure power draw (I just broke my dedicated smart plug), but it it may also increase power draw in my case (20 to 30 W, ERYING M-ITX 12500H + 2 nvme SSDs). Your numbers are impressive for 5 HDDs, are they 3.5"?

Anyway, it may be a transient that I am measuring, as the PC turns off during the boot sequence, after the CPU fan starts revving up. My 5A PSU may not be enough, I'll try limiting the TDP and the power brick.

3x 3.5" and 2x 2.5"

Some power bricks are not up to the specs written on them. Get one of those USB power testers that have a barrel plug too. They're very informative in cases like these.

USB is unreliable.

I used btrfs raid0 on USB drives for more than a year. Every month or so, a drive would disconnect from the bus and immediately redetected as another device (sde->sdf). Btrfs does not auto-recover from this. The choices are 1) reboot and scrub, which recovers the missing drive without doing a full resync, but it needs a reboot (any hosted site is offline for 3 minutes) and scrub takes a long time reading in the background, or 2) run btrfs replace which doesn't need a reboot, but the full resync takes even longer than a scrub and increases wear if it's a ssd because it wipes everything and writes all data again.

I agree that USB is unreliable.

I will point out that if you use ZFS instead of btrfs, you can specify drives to be detected via their serial number names rather than their attachment points, so a reconnect will not require a reboot.

Still, don't depend on USB for anything meant to be permanently connected.

USB is unreliable but it's working for me. I've had zero disconnects in a couple of years of using a Terramaster USB-C DAS. I've heard of the problems enough I've even searched logs for it.

I've wondered if my experience is different because I'm using single disks (but still ZFS) instead of any RAID. There is rarely transfer happening across all of the disks.

Can't say. The power source for the drives is also important. I do use a USB 2.5" HDD without an external power source for one of the SBCs I have, and that's stable, but that SBC is powered directly from the GPIO pins, not USB.

Unfortunately, where I need it the most - the router which is also a NAS - can't use directly-powered USB HDDs. Not enough ports. I had to use a hub. I tried 4 models, two self-powered and two powered by router's USB, and none of them was stable. I also tried 3 models of USB-SATA adapters. Two self-powered, one powered by hub (connected to the hubs that had separate power - didn't work otherwise). None of them was stable. It was always the USB-SATA adapters/racks that disconnected, not the hubs.

Then I bought a mPCIe 4-port SATA controller, Marvell chip. Didn't work. It freeze randomly and woudn't even unfreeze with a router reboot. Possibly too much power draw. Then I put a 2-port SATA, ASM1062 and a port replicator. That one works. 2 years and not one disconnect. The cables are a complete mess.

I have not had this issue myself. Drives connected for around 6 months in raid without issue. But also, you should mount your drives using partition UUID rather than whatever linux decides to name them which is not stable as you'd noticed.

One reason is in the article: less immigration does not lead to more native employment. I can also assume that it has no effect on salaries, too. There is an argument in there that more immigration => more jobs for the natives, but it doesn't say if those jobs are the same as the ones for immigrants, and I assume they're not, they're management jobs to oversee the immigrants.

As a conclusion, immigration does not affect low skilled jobs in any way. No matter what the politicians propose, increase immigration or decrease immigration, their situation is more or less the same.

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Did anyone do a comparison like this with DreamBlaster modules?

It might not be better, but you can't use that argument.

I can and as a matter of fact, I did.

Baby steps, but backwards. The option to disable secure boot will be gone any moment now, by automatic updates "for security", of course. It will probably begin with business laptops, then all laptops, then all x86.

This is just inventing new and exciting ways to give mice more human brain diseases.

As if mice didn’t have enough of their own brain diseases!

There actually exist mice facial expression amplifiers (and sound clarifiers etc.). If we employed them, we could get a better insight on their quirks and difficulties.

Did anyone study the fuel efficiency of a roundabout vs. traffic light?

I expect it to be a lot worse.

  - roundabout, light traffic : break, turn, accelerate again, 100% of the time
  - (dumb) traffic light, light traffic: 50% chance of stopping and accelerating again, 50% chance of not slowing down at all.

  - roundabout, heavy traffic : stop, move 3m, stop again, move 3m more, stop again, repeat 10 times, finally turn, accelerate.
  - traffic light, heavy traffic: stop & engine off, start & move 100m, stop & engine off, start again and accelerate.

Mythbusters did a test of roundabouts vs fourway intersections (no lights), many years ago.

Their conclusion i believe was they were about the same in pretty much all regards.

It was highly synthetic, people driving around a small course with roundabouts or fourway intersections, continuously for an hour or something.

Streetcraft on Youtube compared 2 similar routes, one with roundabouts and one with traffic lights. They found roundabouts to be quicker and more fuel efficient: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=012fMI3TdRo

You're missing the variations where you have stop lights to go into the roundabout or the even worse variant, roundabouts that are large enough to have 3-4 zones of stoplights inside of the roundabout itself!

I'll take a roundabout any time of the day, but then I mostly to drive out in the public when the traffic is the least, so any stop lights tend to be more annoying that useful.