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I was in the area last year. You can take a taxi from the Greek side and they will give you a tour of the new city and an archaeological site. The driver was originally from a village not far from there and knew the parts. I doubt you can go in the old parts (there are fences, roadblocks and guards) but there’s a beach from which you have a good view. The closest buildings are only a few meters away. I didn’t take any photos. As a Greek I was a little apprehensive of going there, but most of my Cypriot friends have no problems visiting or driving through the occupied parts.

In Germany there are a lot of price comparison sites, geizhals and idealo being just two examples. If I am looking for electronics the filtering capabilities of geizhals are way better than Amazon and it is often the case that I can get a better price in one of the many other web shops.

The number of beds per capita is one thing, how many are free or can be freed in the next few days/weeks is another. At least in Germany it was reported that a lot of them were in use and less than half were available for coronavirus patients.

How does that work if you want a table or a figure or an equation? Is it still markdown and still as easy to read and edit by everyone if there are LaTeX blocks sprinkled throughout the document?

Virtues when writing comments on HN, blog posts, READMEs or whatever. When you are writing non-trivial, lengthy technical documentation, at some point you may need markup for examples, notes, tables, figures, cross-references, function parameters, class methods, etc. Sure you could still do something like that with basic markdown, but you would need to write down all your conventions somewhere if you are not working alone. At that point you could just use whatever comes with those conventions baked-in.

I know how to work with org-mode and I’ve also tried the paper notebook. Both seem like they should be working fine, my problem is that I never remember to work on my notes or todos. The last entries are likely at least a few months old.

Typically I just want to start with whatever comes next, I probably already have a plan in my head and it doesn’t occur to me to write something down after I’m done. My workdays vary also significantly (tools, projects, contexts, etc.) so there’s no typical environment where I can integrate something like this into. Even a weekly reminder to write down my hours at the end of the week has failed to trigger action half of the time. It is only irritating when I do miss the notes, e.g. for a yearly review, filling out some timesheets or when googling for the 5th time in as many days for the same info.

I am Greek and we don't use that many commas. Definitely not in this way. I think the Greek language is also not as flexible with comma placement as perhaps English is.

What I've noticed is that some people never learned how to use them. They just write a sentence (or a whole essay) and generously sprinkle some commas afterwards, normally wherever they would make a short pause. I've seen this with colleagues from Germany, Greece, Russia and the US.

I didn't mean to imply that they have to defer to Amazon. On the other hand, countries have in the past done things that were within their rights and were still sued for large sums. I was thinking of cases like Occidental v. Ecuador.

They still don't need exclusive rights to the TLD. I doubt Brazil or one of the other eight countries was planning to create such domains.

Most would expect that to be the Amazon store in Brazil, similar to amazon.de or amazon.fr.

It would be funny, if not poetic justice, if Brazil decided to do just that following this decision. Likely Amazon would sue them and an arbitration court would side with Amazon though.

I have been trying mx linux the last two weeks or so. It is similar to Xubuntu, based on Debian Stable (which was a plus for me) with a polished XFCE desktop. So far I like it, especially some of the tools they have developed on top of Debian.

Well you can try the same with konsole. On my XFCE system it wants to install 71 packages, including stuff that a terminal emulator probably doesn't need like phonon. To be fair, this could also be due to Debian's packaging and it may well be possible to have a leaner konsole package.

From what I've gathered, all MAX planes (including the ones that crashed) have two AoA sensors, but MCAS just uses one. As far as I know there was never an option to have a redundant configuration. The premium add-on was the indication that they disagree.

You can search for "B38M". The top two are the Lion Air and Ethiopian Airlines crashes.

It shouldn't work like this either. If two major chemical companies threatened with relocation and their CEOs told the government it is crippling progress unless it seriously relaxes environmental protection laws you wouldn't want the government to just back down.

At best you have some independent experts with no stake in the game, but even then politics will often result in a compromise that is suboptimal for all involved.

I think you can use pinning to prevent the second scenario, assuming you don't mind the extra manual configuration.

On the other hand, if you want to buy two of them they cost $20 + $3 S&H or $26 with free shipping.

That was not the first time either:

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/5144

Coincidentally I started reading on D last weekend. There are lots of things that are appealing to me (at least in theory since I haven't used them): UFCS, modules, pure, @safe, contracts, support for "D-scripts" using shebang, etc.

I just need a project and some time to play around with it, but my first impression as someone that worked with C++ and Python in the past is really positive.

If you still check the quarantine folder once a week, do you even need the challenge email? At most it will take a few days longer to reply to a valid email and then you can whitelist the sender.

I've heard good things about maps.me, but I've only used it briefly. The quality depends a lot on your location.

Could you expand a bit on your recommendation? Do you mean just ES6? Do you have specific resources to suggest? What do you think about all the associated tooling for writing, compiling, testing and debugging, when starting? Is a browser and a text editor good enough, or is a minimal setup vital, in particular when one is building something that is more than a toy project?

The salary is compensation for your work and is typically based on your skills, experience and responsibilities. As a remote worker you have the option to choose your location to get the quality of life you want. Should I get a 50% raise just because I decided to move from Canada to California to enjoy the weather?

If the company forced you to be in a high cost area, then by all means they should adjust for it. If they want their employees to be in a specific area they could add a bonus for it.

Think of it the other way. Let's say we have two people with exactly the same skills and experience, the only difference is that one lives in SF and the other in Sri Lanka. They both provide the same value to the company but according to the calculator, if the person in Sri Lanka gets $100,000 the person in SF should get $438,000. Is that fair?

Postbox also has an old enigmail addon (based on v1.2 from 2011).

> BTW what makes you prefer GUI over text almost-GUI? My experience with email is that it's 99% text.

For me it is the fact that setting up a GUI client takes 10 minutes and learning to use it even less. If it was the same with mutt, I would switch in a heartbeat.

I tried gnus and mutt in the past, but gave up on them after a few days. I was spending too much time tweaking the config, trying to remember shortcuts or googling how to get it to work the way I wanted to. IIRC even displaying Greek with an ok font was a problem on gnus. That was 10+ years ago, could be that the documentation is better now and a good-enough setup is easier to achieve.

There was a thread not too long ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14387329

> Stealing fingerprint requires access to your fingerprint in the first place.

This is not as difficult as some might think. We leave them all over our devices for example, but physical access is not even necessary. Jan Krissler managed to get the fingerprint of the German defense minister 2 years ago using only photos of her.

A blog post by Mozilla on the topic of package signing with an HSM:

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2013/02/13/using-cryptosti...

> I disagree because the EU does not allow me to buy what I might want to buy.

This is not true. What they are trying to ensure is that you buy what you think you are buying and it is reasonably safe. If for example you want to buy a fake aloe product you can, it is just not allowed that it says aloe on the packaging.

> There is nothing about honor in the system that I want.

The honor system in this case means that the company is responsible for controlling itself and not defrauding consumers. They can still decide not to obey it and there is always the possibility that someone might check.

See public transportation in many cities as an example. You don't need to prove that you bought the ticket to get on the bus (the company trusts you), but if someone checks you pay a fine. I would say that this is not very far from what you want.

> If you are found to be fraudulent you should be sued for a lot of money

Well the problem with this is the "if" and the "when". It might take years for the fraud to be discovered and not all damages are easily fixed with compensation money (e.g. medical problems may arise). There is also no way to make sure that the money is recovered. Companies do go bankrupt. For the managers of a company, a 5% chance of a company-killing lawsuit in the next 10 years may even be worthwhile, if the profit is high enough and they (personally) can get away with it. And then there are those companies that are too big to fail anyway (too many workplaces lost, too many people directly affected, etc.)

> consumer more options

I'd rather have two options for which I am fairly certain that they are safe and not fake, than ten or twenty that could be anything. Leaving the checking to private initiatives and/or self-control is at least blind optimism. The incentives are not really there. At best it will be done only for things where the potential for large compensation sums is high.

Exactly what I thought. The website needs to know whether the battery is low or not, not even how much time it still has. Let the API return a true/false to that question and, if necessary for some usecases, hide the rest behind a default deny permission.