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Not that big: impact: https://www.pcgamer.com/cyberpunk-2077-amd-rx-6800-xt-vs-nvi...

So, in lower resolutions/level of details AMD wins. In 4k Ultra NVidia leads by 4/5 fps. But you for 4k you probably want 6900XT/RTX3090...

The full text of the proposed resolution is here: https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-13084-2020-...

Relevant part:

"Competent authorities must be able to access data in a lawful and targeted manner,in full respect of fundamental rights and the relevant data protection laws, while upholding cybersecurity. Technical solutions for gaining access to encrypted data must comply with the principles of legality, transparency, necessity and proportionality including protection of personal data by design and by default."

So, what they are saying here is: encryption is allowed but it has to be weak or backdoored. They want "Technical solutions for gaining access to encrypted data". They do want to ban strong encryption (which is the only kind of encryption worthy of the name).

And c) They are more likely to be entrepreneurs themselves, so they have some experience to share.

And if an employee takes this rule seriously and speaks up, they fire them: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/03/timnit-...

What did you expect? Several years ago Google openly declared that they are turning evil :)

If 40% to 60% of population gets fined then that means the law is stupid* and should be abolished. Backlash on law enforcement is totaly understandable.

*"stupid" is relative term. Laws are made for particular society, if almost a half of that society disagrees with the rule then it shouldn't be a rule.

That's not how it works.

First: US make a lot of promises to a lot of countries. If they are not willing to go to war over Taiwan, that makes most of those promises (like NATO pact) basically worthless. So US has to defend Taiwan.

Second: Military confrontation between US and Chinese forces does not mean WWIII - they won't start shooting nukes, it will be more conventional war. We had such examples during previous Cold War: Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan.

Another misconception that has to die is that governments can get away with printing money indefinitely. The concept itself is not new: Roman Empire also did the same, shortly before its fall. Soviet block countries did that before 1989. Venezuela and Zimbabwe also did it. See the common theme here?

Commodities prices might not be increasing right now, but that's not the point. The point is, Jeff Bezos's wealth is approaching $200B, Elon Musk is not far behind. Quantitive Easing and similar policies seem to be designed to increase wealth inequality - one more decade of such policy, one more big crisis, and all wealth will be concentrated in the hands of 0.01% richest men. Meanwhile middle class businesses are being drawn to banktruptcy by COVID-related lockdowns. We are slipping back in feudalism - soon most people will be at mercy of government, and small elite of billionaires.

>> Sarcasm aside, what they're really doing when the sun is out in summer: Lying in the sunlight, eating, walking, eating, hiding under a bush, hiding under piece of wood, bathing, etc all the way until they're 80. Quite peaceful animals

Are you still talking about your pet turtles here? because that lifestyle is not natural for them. If they tried too much lying in the sunlight in the wild they would quickly get eaten by some predator.

That isn't as big problem as you paint it. Yes, Trump was particularily "lucky" (for the lack of the better word) that during his single term in the office 3 Supreme Justices died, so he could appoint replacements. But Obama, George W. Bush, Clinton, George Bush senior, they each appointed 2 Justices. So it seems to me that the system is deliberately designed to capture long-term political trends - Democratic presidents appoint democratic judges, Repliblicans appoint Republicans, and the net result is: Supreme Court reflects society's deeply ingrained values, not its current mood.

Exactly! And the best thing is that, unlike most European countries, executive and legislative branches are actually elected in separate elections. European system with Prime Minister being elected by Parliament is pathological, because it does not provide full separation.

That's why you bring your own security guards with you ;-)

Who said these mansions are empty? Common folks live with their spouse and children. Rich and powerful have a lot more people in their house: security, assistants, maids, cooks, not to mention other rich and powerful people visiting, bringing their own staff with them.

Also, please keep in mind that bail is not punishment, it's just means of ensuring that the defendant will attend their trial. That's why it's refundable at the trial's end. Good bail should be low enough that defendant can afford to pay it, but not afford to lose it.

LOL

This song reached Poland in the early 20 century, and it is known here by the title "Morskie opowieści" (Marine Tales) - we've got creative, so there are something like 500 different verses recorded. I remember singing that a lot on my high school/college parties :)

Yeah, all that soy lattes start to add up :)

"Value created by you" is not necessarily dependent on your skills alone. You might be the best Java programmer in the world, but if you get hired to write some boring CRM system for internal use in a bank, then the value you created is limited by how much money said bank wants to burn on internal development efforts.

On the other hand, if you get hired by FAANG and work on the "next big thing", like, say, new operating system for smartphones, then the amount of money that can be made from it is virtually unlimited.

The difference between the US and Europe is mostly that: cool, product-focused jobs are all in America, Europe only has the boring, low-risk, low-reward ones. Europe needs to innovate more, that's it.

Yes, but you have to live with the consequences of your life choices.

If you just "work to live", then you'll be just an average employee, with average salary. High salaries and other perks are for high performers.

>> B2B people are always the first ones to let go

I think you might be mixing two different things here: contract type and job type.

Yes, sometimes companies have spikes in demand, for example a project that's delayed and they want to temporarily add some new people. Of course they will use contractors for that, and then those contractors will be let go. But that should be communicated clearly during your job interview, that the role is only temporary.

However, many companies seek people for a long term jobs, and B2B vs employment contract is simply the matter of tax optimization. I know contractors working for the same company for 10+ years. They are definitely not the first to be fired.

There's one thing I do not understand: they are introducing testing requirement, but still keep travel ban for all EU citizens in place. Why?

Most people in the Polish software industry works on B2B contracts, for 30-50% better pay. And we typically don't need employment protection, since there's a line of employers eager to hire us. "Normal employment contracts" are for losers (Ok, they are useful under some very specific circumstances e.g. when you have a newborn baby and need a lot of paid sick leave. Outside of that situation, you're simply leaving money on the table by choosing employment contract).

> ruling party replaced not only the extraneous judges, but also those judges who were lawfully supposed to be appointed by previous government

The problem is that previous government broke the law in more than one way:

1. They appointed more judges that they were allowed to.

2. They did appoint all those judges by means of single parliamentary resolution, despite the fact that Polish Constitution clearly requires voting for each judge separately.

Given those two points NONE of the judges was appointed lawfully, and there was no other way forward than repeal the whole resolution, therefore removing all 5 unlawfully appointed judges.

> Soft drinks are fucking diabetes in a can.

Actually, so is juice - the amount of sugar is pretty much the same in both, and the amount of vitamins in juice is not that big, certainly does not outweight the damage done by sugar.

The secret is to eat fruits whole - this gives you a lot of vitamins that are contained in the solid parts (those which are thrown away when squeezing juice), and a lot of fiber which makes you feels satiated much faster, before you take in too much sugar.

I think 15th of January 2021 is a good candidate for a tipping point. Unless NYAG backs out again, postponing their move against Tether.

I wouldn't take that plan seriously. It probably wil be a huge waste of money, and yield no results.

Access control is not the same as logging - the first time an application tries to access the API the OS checks permissions, asks user to approve/deny, and then stores the user's choice. No need to log the actual API calls at all, no permanent records needs to be created.

Bigger problem is that there are 11.7 B one dollar bills in circulation [1]. Even having that $100k sorted you still only stand 1: 117000 chance of winning.

[1] https://www.titlemax.com/discovery-center/money-finance/how-...

Yes, formally the win was fair, on the surface, but it wouldn't happen without some preparations. The deal made with communists in 1989 made sure that:

1. Communist party members never answered for their crimes, and were free to continue their political careers.

2. Compromised communist judges continued their service in courts, effectively granting communist scumbags immunity for their crimes. Crimes which included stealing huge amounts of money, which then were used for point 3:

3. The only two private TV networks, as well as biggest newspaper were owned/controlled by former communist intelligence officers. This was a great propaganda platform.

You see, that's a downside of peaceful revolutions: you never get a chance of permanently getting rid of your former rulers. Had generals Jaruzelski, Kiszczak and maybe two dozens other top ranking communist been executed in 1989 we might have avoided this mess.

Truth is, only 4 years after supposed fall of communism in Poland communists went back to power by winning democratic parlimentary elections in 1993. Two years later they also won presidential election.