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The christian supporters of Israel can also think a bit about the itf soldiers destroying a statue of Jesus in Lebanon if they want to understand what they are supporting. Useful idiots doesn't even start to describe it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpd575n1znzo

The og question is about two centuries earlier. Time matters.

no, but in first century bc and after that the roman world was connected enough that rich young romans were doing their version of the grand tour. Cesar managed to be kidnapped by pirates doing something like that, if I remember it correctly.

the article states that the language can have extensions for different domains, so it is also an option.

You know there is a bubble when the shoe boy starts giving you investment advice.

Again, depends whom you are asking. When the party includes Moscow in the national anthem, you realise that the party sees itself coupled with the USSR. The official line is that the brotherly russian nation helped the forces of good win against the faschists and it would work due to the associations with the liberation war. Many would strongly disagree. The scandals are ongoing even today.

As I commented elsewhere:

I used "communist mind" as a collective term for the ideological framework in which computers were discussed. The state had a party and the party had an ideology and the ideology legitimized the other two, hence all actions of the state and the party had to be justified through it. It does not mean some other kind of consciousness that allowed one to be closer to the ghost of Marx or whatever some people seem to ascribe to it.

I used "communist mind" as a collective term for the ideological framework in which computers were discussed. The state had a party and the party had an ideology and the ideology legitimized the other two, hence all actions of the state and the party had to be justified through it. It does not mean some other kind of consciousness that allowed one to be closer to the ghost of Marx or whatever some people seem to ascribe to it.

Regarding your question, I cannot talk on behalf of everyone. Many who didn't like communism were killed or crushed otherwise in the early years, many who accepted communism did it because of the association with Russia and the historical connection there, many who had their best years in the booming years of the regime until 1970 approx remember it fondly, many who had their worst years in the nineties have a nostalgia avoiding to talk about the bad aspects of it, many didn't give a damn and lived in the system while undermining it, and many of those who would formulate intellectual criticism of it were actually well incorporated in the system to give a damn about what is good or bad. Overall, there were lots of people who disliked both the party and its dependence on the USSR, but there was not a mass movement until the very last years when things started to break down.

One thing to understand about communism is that lots of people believed in it, but for the most part the communist elites considered it a feudal system where one's access to resources made them valuable and gave them power. Anything that would provide the higher ups transparency and accountability would be ruinous for the balance of power and therefore met significant pushback. There was never a technocratic communism because idealists would be either defanged to act as specialist executor clas or outright removed as unreliable players.

Regarding computer usage, it was increasing to the very end, but the desolution of the USSR stopped it and the industry was destroyed in the following crises. The elites tried to modernize the economies, but it was too little too late.

have you contacted the ftc if their regulation is being violated?

Bulgarian is phonetic to a large degree so if you know the sound associated to a letter, you can understandably pronounce it as well.

Regarding communism and computing, deterministic systems where the entire state is knowable and predictible have certain appeal for the communist mind. If you search in the HN archives, you might find even more stories about the bulgarian computer industry with a MIT publication in the mix. There could've been even more, but a combination of distrust towards the new capitalist science and later unwillingness for those pesky machines to show the real state of the USSR economy meant that this was not developed with the full backing of the eastern block.

As I said, this happens when someone tries to sell illegally produced trash created not by brewing but with sugar, chemical essence, and whatever they've mistaken for ethanol. The tax on alcohol creates a black market and some people taking part in it are either dumb or lazy and those are the cases you hear about.

As someone living in the Balkans, home brewing is a national passtime for every nation around. When every family has its own recipe for brewing alcohol, killing ourselves would've been achieved many centuries ago if it was a real concern. Methanol is an issue when some dumbshit decides to cell chemically produced trash on industrial scale instead of buying the expensive ingredients.

Those winning and those asking for this to stop are two different categories of people. The former are the capital holders and the latter are those with no source of capital in their future. If you can merge the two categories, we may talk again. Until then, you need to come up with something better than trickle down in a world where there is no trickling.

for this reason I use shift+enter. I'm blind and not sure if it starts a new paragraph or is just a paragraph break, but works well enough in my experience.

Who controls the present, controls the past. And some people really want to rewrite the past, present, and future.

tbh, models in pipeline are cheaper if local is comparable only to warm water is nice and relaxing. The cursor case is a bit different, but it is because cursor cannot be profitable while competing with their providers and it is not clear yet if they will survive at all or the kimi model will prove itself as a good competition.

negotiations on petrol rights still ongoing.

you get the upvotes for your comments and part of the votes for your submissions. Comment downvotes received are also deducted from your carma, but have a floor (5 downvotes before the comment is dead).

Not sure, there was this nature + nurture thingie.

YOUR RESULT

Both

The Wittgenstein Result

GERMAN 49%

AUTISTIC 40%

Been once to Germany, maybe twice. Can't vouch the other.

Mozilla and Mozla are two different corporations though both under the mozilla foundation.

don't let the nazis take lotr from us

unfortunately, I've had a similar experience with a colleague. it is disturbing to say the least. mainly being put in the position to review an obviously ai generated pr without any subsequent or even presequent thought put in to making it into something that will carry your name.

TBH, the ending of Ra was a big letdown for me and though I like the small stories, I have the feeling that the author has issue building larger arcs. Still curious about this one and might read it just for the premise.

No, but all kinds of people are waiting for those to become government required in different institutions. Selling consulting and integration services could be a big windfall if so.

The gas supply from Russia was announced as secure* until it was not.

* mainly by Russia and people on their payroll that is.

I love the smell of government projects in the morning. How EuroOffice and the LibreOffice/TDF/Colabora drama should be viewed should be through the sovereign software push in the EU. Consulting for the open software which will be adopted in the different institutions will be huge and well-paid and many people are positioning themselves to drink as close to the source as possible. It is reasonable. Not reasonable is the drama and ugly catfights happening in the push for positioning. I hope that the final result will be projects that are robust, funded, free, user oriented, with healthy communities, and not captured by small interests.

I used the title as an example for how confusingly the rest is written. Imagine alternative post:

I'm maintainer to OpenMW and we have specific target audience with specific profile. We have technologies that serve our goals and that we are happy with. We received request for change that we consider undesirable because app image and packet managers have requirements that make them unfit for our purposes. Here is why we chose not to do it and why the alternative is actually perfect for us.

See, much less shits in title and text, no generic attacks against other people and actual information is transmitted.

What I got is that the author is the right kind of developer, talented, producing something, and serving the people, and some other people in the linux community are trying to dim the shine of his light. The key sentence from the piece is:

> Freedom from the tyranny of package managers is the most exciting thing I've ever heard of as a developer.

The rest are a few shits and no init system beyond the title.

I'm not here to make value judgements lacking even a pony in the race, but the author could've been much more coherent without losing retorical strength. Also, maybe he should consider if his use case is the only use case, but that is going too far.