she had to stay, ok. but why keep working? Jobs can be scarce on an island but maybe you can find something that pays more than zero. Or work remote. Or just take vacation if you have some reserve
I never had the time/brains to get past the learn curve with LaTeX.
Recently I started using a pipeline of markdown to html with Pandoc and then to pdf with Dompdf for project documentation.
Turns out you get neatly formatted printable docs with not so much effort, and the raw markdown stays with the code where it can be used and updated by fellow devs
terrorists didn't fall out of fashion, they just need a break to recover. Hence the retreat from Afghanistan. You can't fight against terrorism if you run out if terrorists
who defines "normal human relationships", if we don't count various religions? IRL relationships can be just as addictive, toxic and financially perilous.
regulations and restrictions do not always work; Most of the worlds population live in places where regulations and restrictions are applied by the state on its citizens, not vice versa
not really, though its sad to see the power imbalance grow in crypto, they still have way less power than a central bank that can just make the money printer go brrr.
Yes, some systems are stable, but many others are not;
And most of the criticism applies to POW crypto. Which will hopefully be outpaced by POS soon.
mmh, but really. You can pass laws forbidding certain stuff. But you cannot enforce that globally. Bans on certain weapons do work to some extent, but there are still people creating and using them. And these things are not only unethical, but also not really useful. Every attempt to use them ended badly for those who tried.
Now imagine ruling out a technology that is effective and profitable and not so obviously unethical.
right, now that you mention it. They also ban research on polish collaboration with the Nazis in WWII.
Come on, if you occupy a country with millions of people, of course there will be some a-holes willing to collaborate, what's the big surprise there?
good luck slowing it down though. It might work in one country, but the result will only be this one country falling behind and becoming an irrelevant province of the earth.
so not unless we have a world government one day. Then indeed we could end up in a society that is balanced and stable for indefinite time, like a isolated tribe in the amazonas, with thousands of years at the same stage of progress, just at a larger scale.
This is btw one of the possible explanations of Fermi's paradox
due to the exponential nature of progress, the span between ourselves and our kids will be greater than between us and our parents.
whenever I read about how evil the boomers are, I imagine how we will be getting it one day for reasons nobody would have thought of today
but it is mentioned, more then once. And it does increase the risk of estrangement, which you would expect. Whatever. One way ore another, once we grow old we become more dependent, physically and psychologically. Finally, we die. This last step we make alone no matter what happened before
the Poland/Hungary point relates to the recent issues with abortions and gay rights respectively. The rules in these cases may be more progressive at least in parts of the US.
But if you take labor rights, these are a lot more humane in the EU
i mean the "getting caught out of own incompetence" part of course.
a recent example was Navalny's call to his poisoner from the FSB. This was obviously NOT an intended leak
poor people also tend to be accustomed to harsh environments (bad neighbourhood, bad school etc) so mindful, maybe yes, but actually stressed to the level that you leave and miss out on smth you have the right to, I don't know...
in my experience at the gym, you don't need to communicate with anyone at all. you take the free equipment, you lift, you make sure to put everything in its place, you shower and go home. wtf?
this was meant ironically of course. What I wanted to say is: all those stars and badges are bullshit, just read what you like.
I've hated books that were on various "best of all time" lists, and enjoyed unknown stuff from the internet with typos and broken grammar. And vice versa.
do not underestimate consumer crap. One of the reasons the Soviet Union went down was the inability to provide its citizens with consumer crap. It had LOTS of stem jobs by the way
when I went to school in Russia the great writers were those whos portraits we had on the wall in literature class. I'm sure she was not among them )))
I've tried reading her book "in memory of memories" got stuck, but not in an unpleasant way, maybe will give it a try later;
to restrain capitalism in favour of what/whom? if you leave out democracy, the government no longer works for you, it becomes a power acting in its own interest just like the capitalists.
the difference between a government and a private institution is just the amount of power they have. There are places in the world run by unrecognized militia, who of course do censor free speech when they can. It's still censorship, although they are not "true governments".
So, if we have a monopoly (oligopoly) on the control over flow of information by big tech, this is effectively censorship. And if the laws don't apply to them formally, then maybe there should be new laws for that.