furbyhater

> it was strictly based on who was paid the most (below the managerial level)

The "(below the managerial level)" part is the problem and the reason it is outrageous to people invested in a company but not in a position of power (such as the actual developers/engineers, even in a tech-centric company, at least once it has grown to a given size).

I think the ponzi-scheme is the lie of eternal growth with finite resources (real estate included) combined with the "trickle-down" narrative. It's a pyramid scheme in the sense that it will collapse by its sheer weight before the "trickle-down" effect reaches a critical mass of the population, but those at the top will be very well-off by then anyway. It's maybe just a parameterization problem (wrong initiatives).

The problem is that they are both lobbied / paid for / bribed by the same companies / interest group, which seem to have more long-term commanding power over the evolution of US society than the elected president, so whoever you end up electing won't make as much of a difference. Similar to the time of Standard Oil etc., the rules have changed less than one might think. Maybe the real dilemma in US politics is that there are only two parties that stand a chance (and they both kinda suck, at different magnitudes), it's maybe a problem related to the election system and zoning?

The idea of a fork is that it is independent from what it was forked from, you pull what you like and leave aside negative changes, if the license allows this. At least that's the idea. Of course companies with huge manpower such as google can evolve "standards" in a pace that a small independent fork can't keep pace, but we shouldn't just give up.

Usually the students would run their programs on an emulator instead of the original hardware (this also means they don't need to be provided with a GBA each).

Sublime Text is nice if you care about good engineering and performance.

"We've disabled old TLS connections and insecure cipher-schemes, so websites which used to work will now display an error" doesn't really sound like an improvement for the user. I'd rather see a warning detailing the situation and asking me if I want to proceed (maybe I don't care about encryption when visiting the particular site).

I don't agree with this:

- static responsive add bug: Positive. Users will not get the bad version of Y.

On the contrary, it's negative because the maintainers of X will update Y and introduce the bug to their users (I'm assuming they don't thoroughly audit the source of Y each time they do a version upgrade).

Also, "unresponsive remove bug" should be given more weight since it's more likely to happen IMO.

This discussion is about desktop OSes, not mobile.

It has nothing to do with a lack of capability of the older machine. They just decided it wasn't worth the effort to support the model of wifi chipset present in the older models, effectively killing them off.

The simple explanation is that poor countries usually have a much younger population than rich countries.

Sorry to break it to you but we're well past the "scary because it might (theoretically in a far away future) work" phase. Today IP blocks are practised by all or at least most nations, and even western "democratic" governments are salivating at China's advances in mass surveillance. Some of the worst offenders are Britain and Germany, but France is not much better. Countries with a "free" internet are becoming few and far between (thanks to the "free speech craze" the US is still amongst them, but on the other hand punishments are draconian if you "misbehave").

You're charmingly naive if you think that the Turkish powers that be don't put out an equally staggering amount of propaganda/mass manipulation/willful distraction themselves, in addition to blocking access to the information that they think might be detrimental to maintaining their power.

It's not that simple. Erdogan massively repressed his rivals, such as the parties representing the Kurdish part of the population and their sympathizers (HDP) and the whole Gülen movement, not to mention the young movement protesting in the Gezi Park a few years ago. So we cannot pretend that the elections held were fair and open, e.g. the results aren't representative of the entire population of Turkey.

Took me less than one minute for drawing the line: - click on the fountain pen (stroke tool) - make a stroke on the canvas (click once for the origin, once for the end) - under Tool Options, click on "Stroke Path" and choose the desired thickness, then click on "Stroke"

Voilà, done (without using Google).

It's different than most other foreign currencies in the sense that it's variance in value is MUCH higher than your usual currency. I would consider storing my personal fortune in CHF, JPY, USD, or even EUR but never in BTC.