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Germany and Switzerland do also have homeless people. Normalized to the population they're fewer though (about 39'000/80mio population for Germany compared to 550'000/300mio in the US, or 335'000/80mio for germany if you count people who are wohnungslos [=homeless, but sometimes can sleep on a friends couch, a trailer or something])

Additionally low-skill people are hurting here as well and the government makes the issue worse by allowing mass immigration of low skill labor: in 2017 alone 88'000 immigrants from EU-17 countries (a record low figure) arrived, 80% of them are low skill workers. There are many more frontier commuters. Switzerland has 8mio inhabitants out of which 25% are immigrants that have not yet been naturalized. So yeah, for low skill citizens the real wages have not kept up with cost of living (obviously rent prices go up with mass immigration since government doesn't make it easy to build upwards or outwards) and in quite a few places taxes had to be increased to pay welfare for jobless migrants which has lead to quite a bit of discontent among low skill citizens. Saddest thing about this whole thing is probably the mainstream left-wing reaction to the whole issue: they want to increase or keep the current levels of low-skill immigration and at the same time tell low-skill citizens that they're voting against their own interests by voting for a right-wing anti-low-skill immigration party.

Sources: Been to Germany many times and live in Switzerland. I see them at least 5 days a week. 39k figure http://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2015-10/deutsc... 335k figure http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/sozialstatistik-immer-mehr-obd... 550k figure https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/16/homeless-cou... 88k figure https://www.sem.admin.ch/dam/data/sem/publiservice/statistik... 80% are low skill figure https://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/studie-zum-arbeitsmarkt-vier-von-...

Seems like the bolivar's and wow gold's value were on par around june/july 2017 (provided that these tweets are accurate):

https://twitter.com/KalebPrime/status/877070731942789121 https://twitter.com/KalebPrime/status/885997066140475395

Apparently World of Warcraft gold is more valuable at this point than the Venezuelan bolívar fuerte: https://twitter.com/KalebPrime/status/952648572729724934

Maybe to give a concrete example:

When /r/anarchism (left leaning sub about anarchism, antifa, communism, ...) mods refused to enforce reddit's rules relating to the incitement to violence, reddit only removed the mods in question instead of closing the sub.

When /r/physical_removal (right leaning sub about pinochet 'memes') mods refused to enforce reddit's rules relating to the incitement to violence, the sub was removed.

When /r/nazi (third position leaning sub about national socialism) - well, I don't actually know whether the mods there refused to enforce reddit's rules. It's been removed.

I dug up the study by Stone Temple to see what kind of questions were asked (eg: are the questions really trivial or not) and they provide a few exampled in their write up. I am actually seriously impressed by how well those "personal assistants" work compared to what I would expect. Kudos to the engineers who built those things!

(Disclosure: I never worked on any of those, nor do I work for any of the companies making them)

It's been done before by the UN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodia#Vietnamese_occupation...

TL;DR: Regime in cambodia genocides about 1/4 of its population between 1975-79, is removed from power by Vietnam. UN helps recovery from destruction of society by previous govt & transition to new govt which after some initial chaos stabilizes. It's still not a proper democracy, but at least it isn't genocidal.

Considering the extremely difficult circumstances (a genocide so bad that it destabilized society & vietnam being an authoritarian regime), I am actually impressed by what the UN managed to pull off.

I suppose that's one of the UNs weakness in that they lack the ability to enforce a lot of conventions.

Shouldn't he have been removed quite some time ago for violating the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide?

TDP can apparently be configured to be higher or lower (12-25W).

See https://www.amd.com/en/products/apu/amd-ryzen-7-2700u

I really like this even though I think it only makes for a minimal increase in privacy due to either SNI[1] or quickly grabbing the cert of an IP revealing the hostname if no SNI is supported.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication

Such is the nature of trying new stuff. Fairly often it fails and the effort is at least partially wasted.

There used to be a time when twitter tried to brand itself as "the free speech wing of the free speech party"[1]. Obviously they have changed their stance by quite a bit.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/21/twitter-f...

It seems like even the local firefighters and police stepped in:

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/914472762030379012

https://twitter.com/catalannews/status/914453409453023232

What a violent mess.

Especially the post-hoc rationalizing they did in that blog post - that was just insulting. I just couldn't help but get the impression that whoever wrote it thinks that the readers are either ignorant or stupid. It's probably just that whoever had written it wasn't experienced in cleaning up a mess and never intended it to be that way though.

I would have hoped that their answer to impulsive decisions would be 'checks and balances' to prevent it from happening again.

Out of interest: what is the reason/are the reasons that made you switch?

>bigotry

>intolerance toward those who hold different opinions from oneself.

Quite an ironic comment.

There's a chilling effect to this. If checks and balances at cloudflare are so nonexistent that the CEO having a bad mood results in the company violating its own policy - well, you set the precedent no matter how much you're claiming that you didn't. Precedent is determined by your past actions, not by what you claim.

Blogging what appears to be post hoc rationalizations doesn't make this any better.

>That experiment was done in STEM academia recently, and showed a 2:1 hiring advantage for women.

Back when I was still at university I was on a hiring panel for a new prof.

In a first step we ranked all the applicants using qualitative and quantitative metrics (the rankings across qualitative/quantitative and people on the panel was very similar when we compared rankings at the end) and then we handed in a shortlist with the best male applicant and best female applicant. We did this to make the Gleichstellungsbeauftragte (="diversity officer") shut up and thought that since the ability gap was really noticeable it'd be a no contest. How wrong we were. Despite being in the upper part of the bottom half of our ranking, she got the job.

That was the day I found out that I wasn't at a meritocratic institution as I had previously thought and left a few months later. That sort of thing really isn't good for your self confidence.

>hey uh, independent of whether we agree with you, can you please cool it because this is USA, Bay Area 2017 and you just can't say shit like that

You make the Bay Area sound like a somewhat dystopian, closed and repressive place. Is it really like that?

I find it fascinating that (pressure) grouting is shown as something revolutionary and new here.

>Those who are in first category are happy, others not so much.

Here's a thought: the people in society with the lowest income have to pay for this just like everyone else, yet they are the ones least likely to benefit from it.

It is unfortunately a pattern that you'll find widespread in what the EU does. It benefits the the people with already higher income in the member countries way more than those with a low income. Sometimes it even makes the bottom of society subsidize those with higher incomes than they have - as is the case here.

True for old games, but for them the single core performance is enough (except maybe supreme commander with 5'000 units on the field). Looking forward with DX12 and Vulcan more cores seems to be more future proof.

Plus shouldn't XFR (or Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 Frequency for Intel) somewhat alleviate that particular issue?

>the current representation of senior female engineers both at Facebook and across the industry is nowhere near where it needs to be.

Where does it need to be and why?

Ryzen looks really promising, but I'll wait for naples since I want the additional PCIe lanes (and cores).

All in all I am really happy with AMDs comeback - finally some competition.

On a only slightly related note: there's a guy who drove across a lot of Asia and Europe on a C90. He filmed some of it and cut it togheter. Here's an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2LEgowbzSc

What if I told you that it was the people who forced the government to be fiscally responsible: https://www.efv.admin.ch/efv/en/home/themen/finanzpolitik_gr...

Many countries in Europe, including Switzerland, were ramping up debt. In Switzerland this was stopped by the people via a vote in 2001. In the eurozone it took the debt crisis.

Wait - there are people who take stuff posted on tumblr and 4chan seriously?

I purely visit those two places for entertainment. Sure it's a bit repetitive, but the sheer absurdity makes me laugh and that's good enough for me.