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I never dismiss anyone's claims. I simply say that if there's evidence that you have - let us see that evidence. But assertions are often made not only without any evidence being offered but without anyone even asking for evidence.
Definitely not. It certainly no longer belongs in "the original vision of the internet" category. Not when it wants to be a part of evil forces seeking to police the internet.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplat...
https://www.eutimes.net/2021/01/thousands-are-uninstalling-f...
https://reclaimthenet.org/firefox-maker-mozilla-calls-for-mo...
Also, it's not just mobile operators. Major ISPs (with millions of customers) have some sort of DPI, or at the very least enforce the state's blacklist (which includes such "nefarious" websites such as FB, Linkedin, Medium, etc)
He refers to himself as "a disfigured descendant of negroes".
"А я, повеса вечно праздный,
Потомок негров безобразный,
Взращённый в дикой простоте…"
Also, here's an interesting article about Pushkin with some African Americans claiming him to be one of their own, with examples from 1929 and 1983:
https://www.livelib.ru/articles/post/63022-kak-pushkin-stal-...
[0] https://ilibrary.ru/text/182/p.1/index.html
EDIT: There's also this article exploring his African heritage:
https://daily.jstor.org/how-alexander-pushkin-was-inspired-b...
Jeff Bezos used to work as a cook at McDonalds in his teenage years.
Technically not true.
They've proclaimed most of these battlefield territories their own, so that is now a technically correct statement.
That war started in 1853, Alexander II's reign began in 1855, obviously he wasn't done since this wasn't even a war he had started...
People need to temper their hot takes on history.
Can I ask you to elaborate with a few examples?
I am somewhat perplexed by that statement.
Are you implying that there are major jurisdictions in the US where WotC wouldn't have been able to fully enforce compliance with their (originally) overly restrictive license?
This seems somewhat unlikely IMO. WotC is a subsidiary of Hasbro, a publicly traded company.
Measures that can be potentially interpreted as restrictive on shareholders' profits seem quite difficult to pass.
2x BigCo's I've worked at, with 1-5K IT staff. Yandex is xbig though, with 5K+.
>That came down to the developers not speaking English at all.
That sounds implausible and not very sane, unless of course you're working for something very static like the government, and the tech stack you're using is set in stone.
Imagine that you're using a popular library and decide to update your dependencies, who's going to read the change logs & the documentation? Sr. Architect?
If you have a security issue and the only writeups are in English, who's going to be trusted to implement a fix correctly if the people can't understand what the problem is in the first place?
However, I'll give one for those who've missed the irony: It's considered gauche to have ubiquitous non-english comments.
Pretty much the only kosher use case is when you have to warn people not to modify otherwise bizarre looking code because of either regulatory, legal, or domain-specific reasons, and listing them in their native language makes more sense, since developers are not legal experts and translating them into English is not in the job description if the app is solely for domestic market.
Wait, what?
Who's in the bubble now?
Core developer Brett Cannon's talk "Python 3.3: Trust Me, It's Better than 2.7" goes over most of the differences at the time (2013):
And a series of static 1v1s is more accurate than a series of 10v10s, 9v9s and so on?
People have criticized chess for pretty much the same thing wrt tie breakers for world championship, classic chess being decided by player's proficiency in a very different format and decision making.
I'm not saying I support the diminishing player count, but perhaps penalties should be deferred until another (3rd total) added extra time in the final match only. Maybe give the teams 2 extra subs if it is still tied after 2nd AET.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190627023833/https://www.fifa....
Alfredo Di Stéfano:
"The best player ever? Pele. Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are both great players with specific qualities, but Pele was better," Di Stefano told El Colombiano.
Di Stefano played over 300 games for Real Madrid, winning eight La Liga titles, and five European Champions Cups.
[0] https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/stephen-hawking-time-t...
RoboCop: Director's Cut | REMASTERED - ED-209 Malfunction Scene (1080p)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_killed_for_bein...
I see single digits per year. Worldwide. What is your definition of frequently?
If you know of more cases with reliable sources then perhaps the article should be expanded.
While Wikipedia is of course not the most exhaustive source, it ranks quite high in Search Engines.
For many people it is frequently their sole source of information for such issues, which is why I see merit for people who know more than I do about the issue to make the necessary edits to expand the article.
"Saudi population has grown rapidly since 1950 when it was estimated to be 3 million, and for many years had one of the highest population growth rates in the world at around 3 per cent a year."
"A civilization is any complex society characterized by the development of a political state, social stratification, urbanization, and symbolic systems of communication beyond natural spoken language (namely, a writing system)."
Even in most post-apocalypse antiutopia science fiction, all of these attributes are present except perhaps urbanization. E.g. a roving gang with a warlord at its helm has a political state and social stratification, and they would still have access to pencils.
Saudi Arabia's capital, Riyadh has this forecast for next Tuesday: 44C(110F). And that temp is there most of the summer.
"Saudi population has grown rapidly since 1950 when it was estimated to be 3 million, and for many years had one of the highest population growth rates in the world at around 3 per cent a year."
"Parts of Martha's Vineyard are only feet above sea level today. Recent projections target Edgartown as the first town to submerge.
In less than a hundred years, you might be strolling down South Water Street in a kayak. A hundred years - nothing in geologist years. In fact, it doesn't seem like a terribly long time in our years either."
Even if he's made more since then, 10-15% of your net worth definitely isn't peanuts.
Not to mention being as high profile as he is, and talking "my legacy this and that", you'd think he would have paid more attention as to what kind of message he's sending by doing that.