RobertoG

they just do the maintenance when is empty?

I suppose a next experiment could be to reproduce sqlite from its test suite.

All this discussions about 'machines paying taxes' and 'basic income' is just a way of avoiding the obvious question, that is: 'who owns the means of production'?

If machines can make all the work, then, who owns the machines is the only relevant question.

what studies are those?

On the other hand, we know that a lot of those who want the Germans fighting the Russians speak English.

If this was what the Europeans voted for, they will not need to do anything of this. This is done this way so they can modify laws in the dark.

"Another three meetings the Roundtable held were not found in the EU Transparency Register(opens in new window) at all."

That's illegal behavior by foreign interests.

And yes, in practice, lobbying is kind of an unstoppable force.

Those companies have people that its only work is to influence the people in charge. They have personal relationship with those people and they are all friends. It's a good thing to have friends, you never know where you will find yourself when your politics work finish.

If something doesn't work, they will try again next week or next year. It's their work, after all.

Didn't also pass on SAP at some point? I think I read that somewhere.

oh, I get it now. Thanks for the answer.

Really? That sounds strange to me. I still have one somewhere.

Of course the economist would say that. Of course that a trillion dollars have to be replaced. Who is that enemy Europe is going to fight? The Russians? Makes not sense at all.

You think that if Europe spend "enough" America would have not influence? You think that Europe would be allowed to spend "enough" but only in Europe companies?

They like to talk about the bad Russians influencing politics and people in Europe, but compared to the Americans they are flies in the wall. This people that is taking decisions now in Europe, finish later working in the Atlantic Council or something like that. That is the root of the European independence problem.

Maybe, but, in practice, email has been basically centralized too. For most people, it's just too convenient to get a gmail account for free, and forget about any maintenance headache.

I suspect that if Venezuela, or any other country, started killing Americans in international waters because they suspected they were committing a crime you guys will be singing another song. Due process would be absolutely necessary.

That's a different discussion, because this is the killing of foreign nationals in international waters without judicial supervision.

If you are OK with that, then, you are, basically, OK with everything.

pfff... "other people projects".. I was not even able to run my own projects until I started using Conda.

so, they want the people that it's there now gone, and the control of that territory, but they don't want Gaza.

Do you really believe that this have anything to do with the hostages? They want the land, that's it. It could be done little by little or it could be done like now, when they have an excuse. But the end goal is the same.

Do you think that what they are doing in the west-bank have anything to do with the hostages or Hamas?

Nonsense, this is about the land. Israel wants Gaza and the West Bank, and who knows what more, and if they have to go genocidal to getting it, they will. So simple like that. Any other explanation is just obfuscation of this obvious fact.

"[..] gets turned into a project to rebuild Iraq into a western liberal democracy [..]"

It's like the third time in a week that I read this nonsense somewhere.

Obviously,Iraq was not invaded "to bring democracy".

Also there is the assumption that the people that make this decisions care at all about democracy, you get to kill half a million people and still be the good guys:

"See? we bombed them because we wanted to bring democracy, too bad they were not ready for it. Maybe it was a mistake but done with the best of intentions!"

Centrals banks nowadays don't fix the supply of reserves neither. Only the interest rate.

Is there an easy way of downloading the favorites?

Well, I learn a few details with the article, so, thanks.

On the other hand, and maybe is me being too literal, I think it gives the wrong impression about what a generator is. It has nothing to do with one liners using brackets. My generators use 'yield' and look like a 'for' and they are still generators.

>> An estimated 2 billion people understand English globally. That number is only growing.

And what's the reason for that? Exactly what the comment you are answering says.

>> While Excel has probably the most programmers in the world, their instructions are localized.

And what a mess that is. And if you have a problem chances are that the answer will be in English. So, again, you have to know English.

>> And among programmers of other programming languages I bet that way over 50% understand English. So I’d say that most programmers do understand English.

Again, they don't have an option, have they? Who knows? Maybe, someday in the future we will have to learn Mandarin.

Maybe, but not in this particular case.

If we assume this is happening in a Mandarin speaking country, why to hire someone that doesn't speak the local language?

Does this person bring to the table something that the locals can't? Then, there you have your answer too for the guy that doesn't speak English.

Yeah (but as another commenter says, a cul de sac only for cars, not for bicycles or walking).

It's not designed for stop traffic totally, just to disincentivize some (most maybe?) kind of traffic. The idea is also make those areas kind of "independent". In the sense that they should have most of all necessary services. Places for buying your groceries, medical services, small business..

Of course, in practice it's not ideal, they are still learning.

Yeah, the most clear example of that is taxis. Also less traffic makes easy for drivers that bring goods to the shops.

El Prat is not Barcelona, and, still, you have train, metro, public and private bus as an option to arrive from downtown.

The idea that public transport has been designed for tourists is preposterous. The network of public transport extend far away from the touristic places.

Most tourist, and most expats in my experience (I'm thinking in those that don't bother to learn any local language), stay in three or four neighborhoods and think that that's the city and get their impressions from those few areas.

That's the reason you always hear the same histories: pickpockets (stealing from tourists), dirty (drunk tourist peeing in the streets), etc

I fail to see how my comment proves your point and I fail to see how this comment improves your previous argument.