Nah, he’s a cool guy. Everyone around enjoys his company. A little bit of the philosopher of the town.

He does not work, if that is what you mean by giving something in return. However he also does not use many things. We live in a rich country and things are plentiful. What he gets is either stuff that people throw away or that they are happy to give him.

Everyone gets free healthcare in Spain. No matter whether you do pay taxes or not, as long as you’re a resident. There’s places where they offer showers for free in town, however I believe he doesn’t use those places and just washes in the river. To survive the cold of the winter, he has the tent and blankets. To be fair, it doesn’t get too cold where I live. It never snows. The guy goes around in shorts and sandals all year round, doesn’t appear to suffer too much cold. In fact he often complains he has to leave the tent half opened because of heat.

The place where he set up tent is private and owned by someone. It’s a small spot in the woods. Nobody could ever care less. Police can not kick him out because the place is private, and I guess the owner doesn’t give a damn and would rather have someone live there in peace rather than kick them out for no reason. He’s now been staying in that spot for over seven years. I’ve been in the place a few times as he invited me for lunch, it’s pretty nice.

Now, I’m not romanticising anything. This is not a lifestyle I would conduct. I know this is possible and works out because I know people who live this way and they are happy.

I guess tarp is what I meant.

I imagine if this ever becomes a problem, they can just set th and the thorn to the same token in the LLM and it will then make no difference at all which is which.

If this ever becomes a problem in training the solution is extremely easy.

You not working?

AWS down

Oh ok, don’t worry

Carp for best results, may be substituted with salmon or tuna but do not expect the same quality.

I know many people who travel from place to place in a semi nomadic life and work in the fields here and there. Never really heard any of them complaining about their life. They sure have their problems, but that’s everyone.

In many countries the concept of employment is very feeble and most people just do their things and sell them to other people. They live just fine.

I have a good friend of mine who may be related to this comic. He was a trucker and lost his job in the 2008 crisis. After that he decided he did not want to get a job anymore.

He set up a tent in the woods and lives there. He goes down town to read books every day and people give him some money. He has food, he has his place full of books and with the money he gets he can buy some wine to enjoy the day. Cool guy to be around and have nice chats.

He’s got a good life he enjoys. What should he plan for? If he ever gets sick (and with his lifestyle he really doesn’t get sick) he can go to the hospital and they’ll treat him for free. He’s got more clothes and stuff he may ever need as people just throw stuff away and he collects it. In fact he gifted me clothes, backpacks, pans and other stuff.

I do not think he needs to plan much more to maintain his lifestyle. I mean, some planning is good. I know he took down a few trees as he’s planning to make a teepee to have a better kitchen area. But I don’t think much more planning than that would significantly improve his life.

I am convinced editors got the joke and now shuffle reviewers around just so that the worst one is reviewer 2.

Anything that involves statistical mechanics is just black magic. There should be a Nobel prize just for people who are able to wrap their mind around it.

Me: oh it’s a reaction scheme, so they start with this and end up with this. I’ll assume everything in the middle is correct and they get what I asked them.

Also you harvest them every two weeks. Want to sell them already? Just stick them under a plastic carp for a couple of days and they’ll be ripe and yellow.

The bad part is loading trucks of bananas is hard work, those things are heavy.

People are working on that already. Did not work until now as far as I know.

This is a problem that has been known for a while.

Oh, I see. Indeed anonymised data should be fine under GDPR. However it is often very difficult to anonymise data. Some things are easy to anonymise, other are very complex.

For a small company who does not mainly work with data, the easiest solution to comply with GDPR is indeed just deleting the data altogether.

That happens. Still, many companies do not. Some companies are unaware of the legislation.

I was informing one worker of a company of one such law.

Many companies do not break the law even though there are no controls just because that is the right thing to do.

Are you advising breaking the law just because nobody checks?

I’m pretty sure GDPR requires websites to abide to user requests to delete their data. You may wish to review that with your company.

Unless it’s for salad, I just run them under some water. Same for potatoes.

Time is too short for peeling vegetables.

Fair enough, prioritise people who actually work and do things. They deserve housing before anyone else.

Then also people who do not work and make money off of others people’s work may have a house.

Rented a flat from a family for 3 years. The flat had not been renewed in over 60 years, but I was alright with that. The flat had several problems, they never wanted to fix.

One day the electrical system starts going out over and over again, fuses would burn every few days. I had to tell them that in case of fire they’d be responsible for everything I had in the house before they agreed they should fix the electric system.

Since they were going to fix the electric system, they decided to do a bit more work and change the floor and a few things more. They wanted to increase the rent 50% to account for these improvements; even though that is illegal I accepted, since they were in fact improving the flat.

I had to move out for two months while the works were going on. One week before the end of the works, the flat was really not done yet. I asked several times whether it would be ready, because I’d need to find and accomodation in the meanwhile. I asked for a discount of half a month so that I could cover expenses and because nobody knew when they would actually complete the works.

The day before I was supposed to get back into the flat, they decided that I was posing way too many conditions and kicked me out. They decided to keep the safety deposit because a plastic floor old over 60 years had started cracking. 8 months later, they still have some boxes of stuff which is mine but never have time to meet me to give it back to me.

Time has passed and I still have to go to a lawyer, because I the meanwhile I had a bunch of trouble to solve. I’m sure I can win a trial against them, but even if I do win the trial I’ll have gone through a bunch of trouble just to get my safety deposit back. I’ll be doing it just because they need to fuck off, but still…

Now, most people renting places were I live are exactly like this. It is not big corporations, it people who got one or maybe a few flats on rent.