Re:SETI@home Is in Hibernation
by ben_w on Saturday March 18, 2023 @04:43AM
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Or, alternatively, that they were only so low before this because someone decided to skip maintenance for 50 years.
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Ah, the good old pass-the-buck-to-my-future-self strategy that is leaving the US with trillions in infra repair bills to be paid by my (millennial) generation and younger.
*waves in British*
• Long-term debt used to buy off the slave owners in 1837 and not getting fully paid down until 2015: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Compensation_Act_1837
• Napoleonic war debt was also still being serviced until 2015: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/repayment-of-26-billion-h...