1. You overestimate the radioactivity of uranium ore. There are entire towns built on uranium deposits and they don't experience any measurable ill effects. 2. Some designs of breeder reactors like IFR (also called ALMR) cannot create usable weapons-grade fissile materials. The risk of someone stealing fissile materials from a breeder reactor is lower than that of someone capturing an ICBM site, or stealing a complete warhead.
1. Those are reserves, not resources. (Look up the difference sometime). 2. Breeder reactors extend this 20-fold. 3. Thorium extends this further 5 times so that now we're looking at 5000 years of *reserves* (e.g. the amount that can be economically mined at present day price) 4. There are billions of tons of uranium in seawater. 5. Finally, advances in nuclear fission based power generation technology are a prerequisite for nuclear fusion.
Unfortunately they mostly contain thorum or radium, so you won't be able to do anything. BTW ordering "glowing in the dark" stickers might be more cost effective.
Mac OS X in HPC environment? Apple doesn't make HPC systems. HPC systems are either Linux (~90%), or proprietary Unix (a few %). Mac OS X might be used as a control terminal, but it's surely not the thing the calculations run on.
A few weeks ago I found a Linux laptop on display in an electronics store, logged into the root shell. The urge to type in 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1" or "rm -rf/" was very hard to resist.
Could it perhaps be that marketing people took over and pushed up the price of what amounts to pieces of cheap mass-produced plastic that dragged down the company in the first place?
Making pieces of mass-produced plastic is easy. Making the pieces to extremely strict tolerances and ensuring that no set is incomplete or has broken pieces is hard. Making those pieces survive 5 years of heavy use with litle wear is really, really hard. That's why Lego is more expensive than the crap excreted by Chinese factories.
I'd think they could easily cut their prices by 25-50% and still be making a tidy profit.
I'd rather have them keep the uncompromising, legendary quality instead. I encountered exactly 1 bad brick in 10000$ MSRP worth of Lego. I think the fact that the set will not break or wear out in 5, 10, 15 years is a big consideration for families which have more than one child. I have a lot of Lego bricks that survived my entire childhood and are still in very good shape, even though I used to play with them very frequently. The Technic line is essentially precision machinery made of plastic.
So they've managed to stay in business by the power of marketing and the irrationality that people display when buying for kids.
They actually created a product that people want to buy. Is that a bad thing? Coupled with the fact that you can still buy the 'unbranded' sets and that they are reducing one-off non-reusable pieces, it's a good thing.
Have you seen what a lego set costs these days?
There is a reason. The quality of Lego is legendary, so much that they don't even advertise it any more. The parts are manufactured to tolerances comparable with precision machinery. For example, when you place 10 bricks with holes side by side, you can run 12-unit axles through each of the holes, and they always align perfectly. In a new set there are no bricks that don't "stick" together, and the plastic wears down really slowly. I have encountered exactly 1 bad piece in 10000$ MSRP worth of Lego (and they replaced when I e-mailed the customer service).
It's no wonder cheap rip offs that don't even work as well are getting a slice of the action.
Poland is not a very rich country and yet Lego still dwarfs all other brands combined by sales volume... I don't see too much "action" for cheap imitators.
X is not a problem. X is actually one of the best parts of the Linux graphics stack, and it allows very nice things like running graphical applications remotely. Moreover, DRI allows applications to bypass the X server entirely. The actual problems are the drivers, and a lack of standardized APIs for things like video acceleration that work regardless of the card manufacturer. However, this area is slowly improving, for example take a good look at Gallium3D. When this matures, the amount of effort required to implement a video card driver will be greatly reduced; OpenGL, OpenVG and all other graphics APIs will be implemented in the Gallium3D stack, and the Gallium3D driver will be comparatively simple.
Here it says that it won't support OGG, but it manages to support the completely abandoned Windows Media shit. The only unpatented format it can play is WAV. And it records to AAC (WTF!!!!). It doesn't know about SVG, but manages to support WMF (fortunately WMF is not patented). This phone is a giant step in the right direction, but it's still not the 'dream platform' for open source development.
It has native support for SATA3. Disk operations, specifically file transfers, are MUCH faster. Big improvement over previous version.
There are no non-SSD hard drives that can saturate even SATA2. The improvement is not due to SATA3 support but due to them fixing brain damage in file handling. File operations on early versions of Vista are a legendary fail.
It recognized my HDTV card and supported it without me having to dink with it. Big improvement. Same with memory card multi-reader. Very nice.
Memory card readers are ordinary USB mass storage devices. There is no OS that appeared in the last ~8 years that doesn't support them out of the box. HDTV card support is nice though.
Windows 7 supports my multi-core proc natively (no driver necessary)
There is just no such thing as a driver for multicore processors. There were once some drivers for the power management functions of AMD processors, but it has nothing to do with whether the OS can run code on several cores / CPUs simultaneously.
That will only work for toy inventions. It takes 3 to 5 years to simply build a 1.0 product. By the time the product is out the door, you have only 2 to 4 years to make any profit.
2-4 years of monopoly is a LOT of time today. On top of that, any competitor after that time still has to reverse-engineer the patent. Remember also that patents are not supposed to allow you to get obscenely rich in reward for your invention, they are supposed to motivate you to invent more!
Say goodbye to a lot of software inventions.
You must be kidding. I have never seen any software invention enabled by patents. In fact, I've seen quite a lot of things that would be very quickly killed by patents. Polish programmers created an eBay clone (Allegro), an MSN/ICQ clone (Gadu-Gadu), a localizer service not unlike Google Maps (Zumi) and a very high quality speech synthesizer (IVONA). I doubt any of these could exist and be successful if we had software patents.
This appears to be done to try to circumvent user restrictions
On UNIX you can just mount the users' home directories 'noexec' and they won't be able to run unauthorized code - an equivalent mechanism should exist in Windows. I also imagine that Chrome has some means to specify the installation directory like most other Windows programs. I don't think those are major issues, and even if they are, they can be fixed easily by Google. The real reasons that IE is still prevalent in the enterprise are: 1. Legacy intranet apps that were written before Web standards 2. Laziness of IT staff 3. Castra-...er, migration anxiety 4. And of course the unimaginable option that the employees don't actually need a web browser to get their work done, so there is little reason to give them some other than the default.
QObject stuff can be trivially integrated to existing C & C++ code.
Duh, that's trivial. The hard part is integrating with other languages, which GObject does perfectly; most bindings for GObject-based libraries can be programatically generated. That's why most people writing a new language go for GTK bindings first.
Yeah, but bindings somehow manage to exist. They may not be trivial or small, but unless you are the binding author yourself you don't need to care that much.
More complicated bindings = more bugs and lower performance.
Same can't be said for GObject - stable C ABI sounds great, but the development is still very painful and annoying and you start wondering whether it's all worth it.
If you don't like C boilerplate, you can write in Vala, which compiles to C sources and therefore preserves all he benefits of GObject while giving you a modern language to work with.
Hydrogen is not actually much lighter than helium. What matters is not the molar mass, but the difference between the molar mass and the average mass of air - this is what generates buoyancy. Hydrogen is 2 g/mol, helium 4 g/mol, air approximately 29 g/mol (it is a mixture, so that's the average value). Ths means that 1 mol (about 22,4 l) of helium will lift 25 g, and 1 mol of hydrogen - 27 g. Therefore hydrogen is only 8% better than helium.
It is notoriously hard to work with power management features of notebooks, because it is hard to find a really ACPI-compatible BIOS. Most of them are broken in some way, or require undocumented voodoo and magic values to behave. There is really no solution to this unless: a) Manufacturers get their shit together and ship functioning hardware, not hardware that accidentally happens to work under Windows (systemic approach); b) Linux gets more mindshare and those issues get sorted out on a per-device basis (band-aid approach). a) is very unlikely, since shipping functioning hardware brings no obvious reward to the manufacturer. Therefore we can only hope for b).
Note that this is not limited to ACPI. In almost every area, there are hardware products that do not comply with specifications they are supposed to comply with, lie about supported features when probed, have bogus device descriptors, reuse the product ID of a different device, do stupid things when supplied valid commands it doesn't expect, etc.
It is quite clear that all along in history, violence solved a lot of problem.
It did, but it was never the most expedient way to solve the problem, because it resulted in the destruction of people and property. Asimov's maxim is not about pacifism; it is about using more effective tools of war (like espionage, political influence, psychological manipulation, propaganda or even assassination) that do not destroy valuable resources.
I don't know if it's the mostly American readership (a nation known for preferring violence over sex), but almost nobody here seems to understand that quote. It doesn't mean "only the incompetent use violence as the last resort", or "wars are wrong and everybody should love each other". It is not a pacifist maxim; It's more a reflection on the means of conflict. It means "if you use violence, it will be the last thing you do, and will prove your incompetence to handle the situation". The Foundation books made it clear that Asimov's definition of violence did not include things like armed deterrence, espionage, psychological manipulation, or even assassination if it meant avoiding a large scale conflict. It meant direct physical violence that results in death of people or destruction of property. In that light, violence is a proof of incompetence, because a competent leader would be able to take over the people and property to use them to his own ends, rather than destroying them.
Net neutrality means: if I have network access, and some guy has network access, we can connect; the ISP treats my connection the same regardless of WHO I'm connecting with. It doesn't mean the ISP cannot differentiate the quality of the connection based on HOW we connect.
This is something else: they are varying quality based on HOW they're connecting to others (what protocol). Note that it's not an outright ban, only a rate limit in order to prioritize of HTTP traffic. The only problematic part is the throttling of upload-intensive services. However, it is not a net neutrality issue as long as they are throttling solely on the amount of bandwidth consumed by a service, rather than who pays them most money to have his service unthrottled.
Remember: Net neutrality is not about unrestricted BitTorrent for everyone. It is about the Internet not turning into cable TV. It is about stopping ISPs colluding with content providers so that they can charge you or deny you access to your favorite websites, in order to ram their own inferior ad-infested versions down your throat. It is about being able to connect to everyone without seeking permission of your ISP or paying extra. It is about Internet access being a binary variable: either you can connect, or you can't. No limited service plans where you can connect only to the ISP's webmail and search engine, and all other webmails and search engines are blocked unless you 'upgrade'. No 'premium sites' you can only use if your ISP has a deal with the content provider that you cannot opt into or out of.
If you are dissatisfied by your ISP blocking or throttling your favorite website or service, by all means complain. But do not conflate traffic shaping with net neutrality. It muddles an already complex issue, and harms our chances to win this battle.
Poor people eat unhealthy because healthy food is really expensive. live on a budget for your whole life to find out.
That depends where you live. Less developed countries typically have less expensive healthy food. (Not organic food, that is a fashion item so it is expensive by design.)
Here's a comparison of costs in Poland. I can buy those products within walk distance from my home (the exchange rate is currently about 3 PLN for $1): - 2L bottle of Coke: 5 PLN - Big Mac + fires + Coke: 13 PLN - Bag of frozen fires (750g): 6 PLN - Tesco salted chips (250g): 2 PLN - Chocolate: 3PLN - 2L carton of Tesco 100% orange juice: 4.50 PLN. (No, it doesn't taste like diluted shit.) - 2L carton of Tesco 100% apple juice: 4 PLN - Pork meat (neck): about 12 PLN/kg - White bread: 1.50 PLN for a 0.5kg loaf - Bell peppers: 8 PLN/kg but cheaper in season - Carrots: 3.50 PLN/kg in winter and spring, less than 2 PLN in season - Potatoes: 1.50 PLN/kg - Apples: 3-5 PLN depending on variety - Salmon: 22 PLN/kg - Cashew nuts: 30 PLN/kg - Almonds: 35 PLN/kg - 3L bottle of rapeseed oil (for fries): 9 PLN - 3L bottle of sunflower oil: 15 PLN - Bananas: 5 PLN/kg - Milk: 2 PLN/L - Tomato juice: 4.50 PLN/L - 15 eggs: 10 PLN - Krakowska dry sausage: 23 PLN/kg - Ham: up to 30 PLN/kg - Yellow cheese: 9-22 PLN/kg depending on variety
So for 2 Big Macs you can have a kilogram of salmon, 4 kg of bananas, or more omelette than you can eat in a day. My maternal grandmother has to live on a tight budget, yet she can afford vegetables, fruits, bread, cheese, etc. rather than processed food.
he reality is there's an unlimited demand for free (or almost free) goods, so somehow the government will have to decide when to stop spending money on grandma.
There is no 'unlimited demand' for healthcare. People do not visit hospitals because they like it, they do it because they're ill. The correct approach is to define upfront which treatments should be covered by insurance and which not.
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1. You overestimate the radioactivity of uranium ore. There are entire towns built on uranium deposits and they don't experience any measurable ill effects.
2. Some designs of breeder reactors like IFR (also called ALMR) cannot create usable weapons-grade fissile materials. The risk of someone stealing fissile materials from a breeder reactor is lower than that of someone capturing an ICBM site, or stealing a complete warhead.
1. Those are reserves, not resources. (Look up the difference sometime).
2. Breeder reactors extend this 20-fold.
3. Thorium extends this further 5 times so that now we're looking at 5000 years of *reserves* (e.g. the amount that can be economically mined at present day price)
4. There are billions of tons of uranium in seawater.
5. Finally, advances in nuclear fission based power generation technology are a prerequisite for nuclear fusion.
Some more information:
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/cohen.html
Why stop-gap? When using breeder reactors, the uranium in seawater will last for about as long as the Sun will shine.
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/cohen.html
Unfortunately they mostly contain thorum or radium, so you won't be able to do anything.
BTW ordering "glowing in the dark" stickers might be more cost effective.
Mac OS X in HPC environment? Apple doesn't make HPC systems. HPC systems are either Linux (~90%), or proprietary Unix (a few %). Mac OS X might be used as a control terminal, but it's surely not the thing the calculations run on.
A few weeks ago I found a Linux laptop on display in an electronics store, logged into the root shell. The urge to type in 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1" or "rm -rf /" was very hard to resist.
Could it perhaps be that marketing people took over and pushed up the price of what amounts to pieces of cheap mass-produced plastic that dragged down the company in the first place?
Making pieces of mass-produced plastic is easy. Making the pieces to extremely strict tolerances and ensuring that no set is incomplete or has broken pieces is hard. Making those pieces survive 5 years of heavy use with litle wear is really, really hard. That's why Lego is more expensive than the crap excreted by Chinese factories.
I'd think they could easily cut their prices by 25-50% and still be making a tidy profit.
I'd rather have them keep the uncompromising, legendary quality instead. I encountered exactly 1 bad brick in 10000$ MSRP worth of Lego. I think the fact that the set will not break or wear out in 5, 10, 15 years is a big consideration for families which have more than one child. I have a lot of Lego bricks that survived my entire childhood and are still in very good shape, even though I used to play with them very frequently. The Technic line is essentially precision machinery made of plastic.
So they've managed to stay in business by the power of marketing and the irrationality that people display when buying for kids.
They actually created a product that people want to buy. Is that a bad thing? Coupled with the fact that you can still buy the 'unbranded' sets and that they are reducing one-off non-reusable pieces, it's a good thing.
Have you seen what a lego set costs these days?
There is a reason. The quality of Lego is legendary, so much that they don't even advertise it any more. The parts are manufactured to tolerances comparable with precision machinery. For example, when you place 10 bricks with holes side by side, you can run 12-unit axles through each of the holes, and they always align perfectly. In a new set there are no bricks that don't "stick" together, and the plastic wears down really slowly. I have encountered exactly 1 bad piece in 10000$ MSRP worth of Lego (and they replaced when I e-mailed the customer service).
It's no wonder cheap rip offs that don't even work as well are getting a slice of the action.
Poland is not a very rich country and yet Lego still dwarfs all other brands combined by sales volume... I don't see too much "action" for cheap imitators.
X is not a problem. X is actually one of the best parts of the Linux graphics stack, and it allows very nice things like running graphical applications remotely. Moreover, DRI allows applications to bypass the X server entirely. The actual problems are the drivers, and a lack of standardized APIs for things like video acceleration that work regardless of the card manufacturer. However, this area is slowly improving, for example take a good look at Gallium3D. When this matures, the amount of effort required to implement a video card driver will be greatly reduced; OpenGL, OpenVG and all other graphics APIs will be implemented in the Gallium3D stack, and the Gallium3D driver will be comparatively simple.
http://www.forum.nokia.com/devices/N900
Here it says that it won't support OGG, but it manages to support the completely abandoned Windows Media shit. The only unpatented format it can play is WAV. And it records to AAC (WTF!!!!). It doesn't know about SVG, but manages to support WMF (fortunately WMF is not patented). This phone is a giant step in the right direction, but it's still not the 'dream platform' for open source development.
It has native support for SATA3. Disk operations, specifically file transfers, are MUCH faster. Big improvement over previous version.
There are no non-SSD hard drives that can saturate even SATA2. The improvement is not due to SATA3 support but due to them fixing brain damage in file handling. File operations on early versions of Vista are a legendary fail.
It recognized my HDTV card and supported it without me having to dink with it. Big improvement. Same with memory card multi-reader. Very nice.
Memory card readers are ordinary USB mass storage devices. There is no OS that appeared in the last ~8 years that doesn't support them out of the box. HDTV card support is nice though.
Windows 7 supports my multi-core proc natively (no driver necessary)
There is just no such thing as a driver for multicore processors. There were once some drivers for the power management functions of AMD processors, but it has nothing to do with whether the OS can run code on several cores / CPUs simultaneously.
That will only work for toy inventions. It takes 3 to 5 years to simply build a 1.0 product. By the time the product is out the door, you have only 2 to 4 years to make any profit.
2-4 years of monopoly is a LOT of time today. On top of that, any competitor after that time still has to reverse-engineer the patent. Remember also that patents are not supposed to allow you to get obscenely rich in reward for your invention, they are supposed to motivate you to invent more!
Say goodbye to a lot of software inventions.
You must be kidding. I have never seen any software invention enabled by patents. In fact, I've seen quite a lot of things that would be very quickly killed by patents. Polish programmers created an eBay clone (Allegro), an MSN/ICQ clone (Gadu-Gadu), a localizer service not unlike Google Maps (Zumi) and a very high quality speech synthesizer (IVONA). I doubt any of these could exist and be successful if we had software patents.
The same must be true for boys because you even managed to misspell /.
This appears to be done to try to circumvent user restrictions
On UNIX you can just mount the users' home directories 'noexec' and they won't be able to run unauthorized code - an equivalent mechanism should exist in Windows. I also imagine that Chrome has some means to specify the installation directory like most other Windows programs. I don't think those are major issues, and even if they are, they can be fixed easily by Google. The real reasons that IE is still prevalent in the enterprise are: ...er, migration anxiety
1. Legacy intranet apps that were written before Web standards
2. Laziness of IT staff
3. Castra-
4. And of course the unimaginable option that the employees don't actually need a web browser to get their work done, so there is little reason to give them some other than the default.
QObject stuff can be trivially integrated to existing C & C++ code.
Duh, that's trivial. The hard part is integrating with other languages, which GObject does perfectly; most bindings for GObject-based libraries can be programatically generated. That's why most people writing a new language go for GTK bindings first.
Yeah, but bindings somehow manage to exist. They may not be trivial or small, but unless you are the binding author yourself you don't need to care that much.
More complicated bindings = more bugs and lower performance.
Same can't be said for GObject - stable C ABI sounds great, but the development is still very painful and annoying and you start wondering whether it's all worth it.
If you don't like C boilerplate, you can write in Vala, which compiles to C sources and therefore preserves all he benefits of GObject while giving you a modern language to work with.
Hydrogen is not actually much lighter than helium. What matters is not the molar mass, but the difference between the molar mass and the average mass of air - this is what generates buoyancy. Hydrogen is 2 g/mol, helium 4 g/mol, air approximately 29 g/mol (it is a mixture, so that's the average value). Ths means that 1 mol (about 22,4 l) of helium will lift 25 g, and 1 mol of hydrogen - 27 g. Therefore hydrogen is only 8% better than helium.
Aye. Linux is no utopia, though. Truth is, Windows works pretty darn well so long as you cater to it's "special needs" properly.
Aye. Windows is no utopia, though. Truth is, Linux works pretty darn well so long as you cater to it's "special needs" properly.
It is notoriously hard to work with power management features of notebooks, because it is hard to find a really ACPI-compatible BIOS. Most of them are broken in some way, or require undocumented voodoo and magic values to behave. There is really no solution to this unless: a) Manufacturers get their shit together and ship functioning hardware, not hardware that accidentally happens to work under Windows (systemic approach); b) Linux gets more mindshare and those issues get sorted out on a per-device basis (band-aid approach). a) is very unlikely, since shipping functioning hardware brings no obvious reward to the manufacturer. Therefore we can only hope for b).
Note that this is not limited to ACPI. In almost every area, there are hardware products that do not comply with specifications they are supposed to comply with, lie about supported features when probed, have bogus device descriptors, reuse the product ID of a different device, do stupid things when supplied valid commands it doesn't expect, etc.
It is quite clear that all along in history, violence solved a lot of problem.
It did, but it was never the most expedient way to solve the problem, because it resulted in the destruction of people and property. Asimov's maxim is not about pacifism; it is about using more effective tools of war (like espionage, political influence, psychological manipulation, propaganda or even assassination) that do not destroy valuable resources.
I don't know if it's the mostly American readership (a nation known for preferring violence over sex), but almost nobody here seems to understand that quote. It doesn't mean "only the incompetent use violence as the last resort", or "wars are wrong and everybody should love each other". It is not a pacifist maxim; It's more a reflection on the means of conflict. It means "if you use violence, it will be the last thing you do, and will prove your incompetence to handle the situation". The Foundation books made it clear that Asimov's definition of violence did not include things like armed deterrence, espionage, psychological manipulation, or even assassination if it meant avoiding a large scale conflict. It meant direct physical violence that results in death of people or destruction of property. In that light, violence is a proof of incompetence, because a competent leader would be able to take over the people and property to use them to his own ends, rather than destroying them.
Yes, you just need to log in.
Moreover, if nobody approves or reverts your edit in 90 days, it goes live automatically.
Someone's missing the point of net neutrality.
Net neutrality means: if I have network access, and some guy has network access, we can connect; the ISP treats my connection the same regardless of WHO I'm connecting with. It doesn't mean the ISP cannot differentiate the quality of the connection based on HOW we connect.
This is something else: they are varying quality based on HOW they're connecting to others (what protocol). Note that it's not an outright ban, only a rate limit in order to prioritize of HTTP traffic. The only problematic part is the throttling of upload-intensive services. However, it is not a net neutrality issue as long as they are throttling solely on the amount of bandwidth consumed by a service, rather than who pays them most money to have his service unthrottled.
Remember: Net neutrality is not about unrestricted BitTorrent for everyone. It is about the Internet not turning into cable TV. It is about stopping ISPs colluding with content providers so that they can charge you or deny you access to your favorite websites, in order to ram their own inferior ad-infested versions down your throat. It is about being able to connect to everyone without seeking permission of your ISP or paying extra. It is about Internet access being a binary variable: either you can connect, or you can't. No limited service plans where you can connect only to the ISP's webmail and search engine, and all other webmails and search engines are blocked unless you 'upgrade'. No 'premium sites' you can only use if your ISP has a deal with the content provider that you cannot opt into or out of.
If you are dissatisfied by your ISP blocking or throttling your favorite website or service, by all means complain. But do not conflate traffic shaping with net neutrality. It muddles an already complex issue, and harms our chances to win this battle.
Poor people eat unhealthy because healthy food is really expensive. live on a budget for your whole life to find out.
That depends where you live. Less developed countries typically have less expensive healthy food. (Not organic food, that is a fashion item so it is expensive by design.)
Here's a comparison of costs in Poland. I can buy those products within walk distance from my home (the exchange rate is currently about 3 PLN for $1):
- 2L bottle of Coke: 5 PLN
- Big Mac + fires + Coke: 13 PLN
- Bag of frozen fires (750g): 6 PLN
- Tesco salted chips (250g): 2 PLN
- Chocolate: 3PLN
- 2L carton of Tesco 100% orange juice: 4.50 PLN. (No, it doesn't taste like diluted shit.)
- 2L carton of Tesco 100% apple juice: 4 PLN
- Pork meat (neck): about 12 PLN/kg
- White bread: 1.50 PLN for a 0.5kg loaf
- Bell peppers: 8 PLN/kg but cheaper in season
- Carrots: 3.50 PLN/kg in winter and spring, less than 2 PLN in season
- Potatoes: 1.50 PLN/kg
- Apples: 3-5 PLN depending on variety
- Salmon: 22 PLN/kg
- Cashew nuts: 30 PLN/kg
- Almonds: 35 PLN/kg
- 3L bottle of rapeseed oil (for fries): 9 PLN
- 3L bottle of sunflower oil: 15 PLN
- Bananas: 5 PLN/kg
- Milk: 2 PLN/L
- Tomato juice: 4.50 PLN/L
- 15 eggs: 10 PLN
- Krakowska dry sausage: 23 PLN/kg
- Ham: up to 30 PLN/kg
- Yellow cheese: 9-22 PLN/kg depending on variety
So for 2 Big Macs you can have a kilogram of salmon, 4 kg of bananas, or more omelette than you can eat in a day. My maternal grandmother has to live on a tight budget, yet she can afford vegetables, fruits, bread, cheese, etc. rather than processed food.
he reality is there's an unlimited demand for free (or almost free) goods, so somehow the government will have to decide when to stop spending money on grandma.
There is no 'unlimited demand' for healthcare. People do not visit hospitals because they like it, they do it because they're ill. The correct approach is to define upfront which treatments should be covered by insurance and which not.