john_minsk

That's what the article is about. Most big employers work for Russian market. If Russia stops buying - Belarus doesn't have deep pockets to sustain for years without trade. People most often live from paycheck to paycheck, so if suddenly a lot of them lose their jobs - escalation will be quite rapid.

Risk based assessment. You look at macro parameters that businesses submit and if it flags you among other companies you dive deeper and request information from business itself. More friendly approach to

If you find something fishy - you penalize business for different misconduct and signal them to be compliant in the future.

In general big businesses/taxpayers will be compliant anyway (but use all the loopholes that exist in your tax law)

While smaller businesses will have trouble to be compliant not because they don't want to, but because they can't have their accounting straight.

So there is no good justification for government to scan every transaction without prior justification, since most actors want to be compliant anyway.

I come from post USSR country and have a small fortune accumulated abroad. I don't have to pay taxes from this money, since I'm not a tax resident in my country at the moment. But since laws in my country work against regular people and some of them are prohibitive to work abroad/in modern digital way - the moment I transfer this money back home, our tax authority will pull some outdated law and the burden of proof will be on me (with my bank account frozen)

I DON'T NEED THIS.

So please, 1st world countries, don't send information on my hard earned money, to our 25 year strong socialist dictator.

One more small? benefit: general population will be trained to think proactively and be more organized on these small tasks.

Is it ethical nowadays to hire a driver?

I wouldn't mind switching to Mozilla VPN.

Loved below article. It explains everything. Was recommended by someone else on HN 2 weeks ago.

https://priceonomics.com/post/45768546804/diamonds-are-bulls...

And transform it into rocket launchpad: - fast parts delivery from China on BFR - competition for EU launchers etc.

{joke}

Pretty sure you will have hard time canceling it.

Liked the "Diamonds are bullshit"

Anything similar on watches/suits. THese are mine flaws

I mean, for all fairness, one side is using non-market arguments to disallow acquisition, another side uses non-market ways to get access to this technology. Am I allowed to make such statement?

Just for the sake of the argument: would US allow China to buy a controlling stake in Boeing?

Why is that? Potentially they have a lot of power, but did they exercise it in a wrong way in public so far? I don’t think so

I just came back from Milan and while I can recollect certain situations and pictures, by no means I can "play" my memory as if it was happening to me.

Real experience has so much details compared to memory that I always tend to doubt that my memories are accurate.

On top of that, if you have repetitive schedule I can't imagine you can recreate specifics of particular day. You probably reconstruct the situation filling in your image of familiar places with peculiarities of situation you are trying to remember

Also, I can see that you have ODBC interface for the DB. Any DEMO database I can play with?

Hi. Checked out the demo. Super interesting!

If I want to become a developer and sell the projects on your platform: How can I start?

What is proximate pricing schema?

I really hope they can figure out how to get camera record full day without recharge...

Buy another one...

If something happens in the world able to cause a collapse of our civilization - the preservation of knowledge will be the least of our problems.

I see little point in trying to solve this issue.

But while we are here - we can make copies of useful knowledge and try to have them as in tact as possible...

I hope someone uses this line of reasoning on main TV channels: CHRONICLE, HACHETTE, HARPERCOLLINS, MACMILLAN, PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE, SCHOLASTIC AND SIMON & SCHUSTER are trying to make it illegal to read their books to your children.

All with their logos on the screen.

Oh. Can I dream...

Will add just one last point on humane business practices: if publisher sold me the book so well that I decided to buy one of the most expensive forms of its distribution - he should feel lucky and fuck off.

The comment, under which we have this discussion, gives it very specific context: where will you draw the line in the range of tools to transform audio for fair use.

Why would you consider pen+pencil and free app to transcribe audio to text different in terms of copyright infringement? Does Audible charge you more to use this feature?

What I see here is an attempt to dictate ways in which I can use book I already purchased - i.e. limit my rights.

What I also see: a bunch of companies that are trying to squeeze more juice from the market, which they are not even willing to serve in the first place, because they, being experts in the book market, couldn't figure out that market needs this feature, while a bunch of IT geeks, did.

May be they are worried that this will lead to text leaking to public the minute it appears on such service... idk...

So if they create a separate free app and inside it will allow to load books from Audible and transcribe them - you won't have any issue with it?

Don't worry. They will have white list for top of the top

And I had to call to Croatia to cancel mine. There are definitely dark patterns these guys using. Which was very surprising to see from true-journalism-northern-star

It is not the case. The fact that people tend to forget news nowadays is because there are so many of them. And there are so many of them, because more people are able to break stories like that.

The situation above is a major fuck up of the local authorities. A lot of journalists out there would make a career if they break a story like that and ride the hype wave for the next year or two. So if you want to make something public it is much more difficult to stop you nowadays rather then to publish anything.

Interesting to see that Facebook, being big tech+data driven company, needs a year to gather such statistics.

I would imagine it to be almost real time there...

They won't even notice that. Data collection at this scale is anyway not 100% accurate. Especially for marketing purposes.

On the flip side if their data collection is that good they can see who was on the fence to purchase high-end gear for photo shooting, but bought the deal. That can lead to opening new demographics or targeting them with features people want from top models. Only having full information, you could argue which option is better.

I definitely hope that they don't have data at this level.

I wouldn't mind DLC and virtual slots model, if only it delivered better games in the end.

In reality games became just a gateway to these slot machines or DLCs. i.e. development happened only in one direction: money.

There is no way to explain how 15 years ago developers were able to build incredible open worlds with hours of dialog and tons of possibilities worth 100s of hours of gameplay on a single pay model, except priorities change in the industry. Fast forward 15 years - all the progress and tools, developing practices, experience accumulated in the industry - but no real progress or innovations.

There are still games that push quality mark forward, but mass market is going away from it. Companies like EA have to make a choice: do we fund this game that will sell for 60$ and give 100s of hours of diverse gameplay or do we fund this online game with proven gameplay and sell ingame items for 1$/piece for next 2 years. Both of these games not only differ in terms of money they make, but also in terms of time people spend on them. So EA is better not to fund game 1 at all, to let people spend more limited gaming time on the game that has a potential for more profits.

Biggest bank in Russia (Sberbank) introduced a simple feature: if you know a phone number of a person, you can enter it on their website and if the owner of the phone number has any account with Sberbank you can send him money. The convenience of such feature was so big that it caused people move from other banks to Sberbank just to use it. Eventually leading to government regulation making this feature bank-agnostic.

The point here is: people who are used to Internet and the way things work here can't understand the old-fashioned companies.

Why sending money overseas cost such enormous amounts of money? Why bank fees are so difficult to understand? Why there is fee when moving money within the same bank, when we all know that it is simple transaction in the database?