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Technically not a Nobel prize since it wasn't one of the original that Nobel created, it was created much later.

Flexible sprint durations defeats the purpose of sprints. One of the main selling points of sprints is having a fixed time period of work, allowing teams to better understand the amount of story points they can complete in a sprint. This way, a big piece of work that takes 500 story points can predictably be completed in 2½ sprints if it takes a team 200 story points per sprint.

>"There is a great deal of ruin in a nation." That is a quote by Adam Smith when one of his students lamented at the "ruin of the nation" when the American patriots had won their independence.

>assuming, browsers are his thing

IIRC he used to work on the Safari browser engine at Apple.

Government would also effectively collapse because they would have significantly decreasing revenue with increasing obligations.

The problem is that the elites will realize that they are better off if they cull excess humans. Any UBI or redistribution would come from their wallets and the wealthy would not want to give up any power they have.

I think the iPhone and the rise of the smartphones are what made the web popular.

I don't think moral licensing is the correct term here. Moral licensing is when you justify doing something that is morally bad because you did something that was morally good. For example, if my wife spent the whole day cleaning, then she may treat herself the last slice of my birthday cake because she feels she earned it.

I agree with this take. A lot of old boomers tell me how there was a lot of pressure to get married and have kids because it was the thing to do. Nowadays, there is less pressure for people to do that.

Bill Gates has always been a lecher. He was a well known womanizer in his early Microsoft years and I believe he has cheated on Melinda a few times too. This behavior seems par for the course.

What do you mean by "not so huge agricultural sector (Slovakia)"? I thought Slovakia had a more agrarian economy compared to the more industrialised Czechia.

I don't think Europe is willing to go all out war over Greenland, especially with Russia pushing from the East.

I disagree. This doesn't really change anything. It's not like China needed justification to invade Taiwan, they already do, nor it is not like China or Russia follows the rules based order, see South China Sea or Ukraine. From their perspective, the rules based order was created by the US to attack them, and the West hypocritically apply the rules where they see fit.

Ultimately, the international rules based order was mostly created to protect smaller and weaker powers that be and to constrain the strong. Since nobody can enforce international law, the strong do what they like anyway.

RubyMine is free for non-commercial usage.

That's foolish. If Russia wins in Ukraine, they would have the two strongest armies in Europe. European states simply don't have enough ordinances and gear to survive a long war.

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Trump is also "buddy-buddy" with a lot of the Gulf States, in fact, he probably likes them more because they have more money to give him. If Israel does something they don't like, such as bomb Qatar, Trump can swing against Israel.

BlueSky is more a shopping mall than a public square: anyone can enter, but security can escort you out if you start causing an uproar.

You can be malicious and incompetent. The only reason we know about project mkultra was because parts of the project were misfiled in the wrong place and were stumbled upon by accident.

No, but it has a stutter.

>he came up with the laws of robotics and then cases on how they don't work. There are a few that I remember, one where a robot was lying because a bug in his brain gave him empathy and he didn't want to hurt humans.

IIRC, none of the robots broke the laws of robotics, rather they ostensibly broke the laws but the robots were later investigated to have been following them because of some quirk.

> Food for thought why Egypt and Jordan refuse to ease the sufferring of Gazans by offering them temporary refugee statuses, until Hamas is eradicated and they could live in Gaza happily ever after.

Historically, Palestinians have destablized those countries. Palestinians assassinated the King of Jordan[1] and a Prime Minister[2]. Not to mention the instability in Lebanon from Palestinian migrants [3]. Eventually Jordan had to expel the Palestinians from Jordan. [4]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_I_of_Jordan#Assassina...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Wasfi_Tal

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanese_Civil_War

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_September

The President is effectively Head of Government, since he can veto any bill (unless rare ocassion that congress overrules, but requires large majority). The President basically sets the agent for policy about what can get passed in congress because of this.

1. You've said that the UI system is tightly coupled with the text editor. What are the benefits to this? How difficult was it to use the UI system with sublime merge?

2. How are you able to maintain stability of the application? Do you have an extensive test suite? What QA do you have in place?

2a. How do you ensure that there is no regression in editor performance?

3. Sublime text is almost 2 decades old. How has the code based evolved since then? Does it have a lot of technical debt, or has the core of the editor aged well and remains relatively unchanged?

>It's the language with the highest ratio of (useful work / LOC), so it's the least verbose language

Why doesn't clojure fit the bill here?

A lot of the names of the pubs came from the depictions of highly recognisable objects (given that the population was illiterate) that they would use to attract customers.

The Roman Catholic Church is more of a country than an enterprise, given the Holy See.

Steve Jobs got fired from Apple, but was rehired 11 years later.

>Well, they are not sustainable, but Ireland no longer relies on them, so it's a moot point.

Not true. Foreign companies are 80% of Irish corporation tax, 25% of Irish labour, 25 of top 50 Irish firms, and 57% of Irish value-add.

>For example, the "Double Irish" arrangement, which is the subject of this case, was only in use up to 2014 (and was modelled on and often paired with the "Dutch Sandwich" BEPS arrangement, so you should note that Ireland wasn't the only EU country playing these games).

The Double Irish was immediately replaced by the Single Malt and the Irish tax regime has started to add more traditional tools to tax evasion (e.g. QIAIF, L–QIAIF, and ICAV).

I'm pretty sure Yandex removed all borders was because the Russian government annexed territory but they hadn't clarified the territory borders that were annexed, so Yandex decided to be on the safe side and remove all borders to avoid this issue.

My presumption is that government spending has drastically increased since then. There are so many more services that the government provides. If you look at government spending, healthcare and social security are the two biggest spenders, which makes sense since the population is ageing and there are a lot more older people to provide money and services for.