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The many legislative proposals to date all reflect the crosscurrents of trying to protect the taxpayer, preserve support for the thirty-year fixed-rate mortgage, and keep homeownership affordable to a wide spectrum of borrowers.

It seems to me that making housing affordable is a better goal than making home ownership affordable.

Any program targeted at home ownership should at least be benchmarked to actual ownership and not nominal debt based ownership. So for example, a policy that results in twice as many people taking out home mortgages but fewer people owning more than 50% of the equity in their homes isn't encouraging ownership, it's encouraging mortgage taking.
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Many years ago, I switched from a Palm Pre to an iPhone because I wanted a product that had large market share so that my issues would not be unique and would be quickly solved. I constantly consider switching to an Android device just to avoid using iTunes to sync with my phone.
Wow, it looks like GuixSD has made a lot of progress since the last time I looked into it. https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/
Slovenia, sorry, my mistake.

Yes I remember when your militia shot unarmed surrendering conscripts, using weapons provided by NATO members. All of which was a strong catalyst for the bloody wars which followed in neighboring republics.
You have no idea what you're talking about. Corruption at all levels of government is rampant in Russia. It's the norm to have to pay off multiple officials when trying to get something built/renovated.

Russia doesn't give a fuck about its own people, to the Russian government lives are expendable if needed [1]. The alcoholism and suicide rate in Russia is monstrous [2], and is probably caused by the lack of opportunity.

> In my book, that's almost what a communist state with price controls looks like.

No. A communist state looks like the murder of millions for the sake of "security"[3].

> I'd like my kids to grow up in Russia. I like it that, at least when it comes to personal income, the tax rate is 13%...

Actually it's even better than you think. 13% of $0 is still $0.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_theater_hostage_crisis

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

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book_of_Communism
See, I actually have more respect for journalists who put things like that.

I don't think it's self-important, but I do think it's important to note that you can't send someone an email at 9 PM on a friday and expect a response. Noting that they did not _immediately_ respond is an important differentiation between not responding at all.
Lots of shills here. How's the pay?
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I was there till the middle of 90s i see the worst of the post-collapse, yes things got worse but Putin is not some genius savior who rode in on a white horse to save Russia from evil capitalism as is the prevailing narrative nowadays. Rising oil prices and modernization of the oil industry by a certain oligarch whose company was then taken from him by Putin is where most of the money came from, money then used by Putin to grab more power.

What followed the USSR was a wild west free for all bringing out the worst of capitalism, with even more corruption and organised crime taking over daily lives of just about everyone. It is tragic and sad that Russia could not transition to a modern economy like some Eastern European countries done.

Putin loves to push the story that without him Russia will go back to the bad old days of "democracy and capitalism" of the 90s, and that his way is the only way forward. The whole thing is awful similar to what was argued in Germany in 30s btw.
Theoreticaly - yes, practically - no.

As a person who lives in an ex-Soviet country, which is not Russia, many who have not seen Soviet/Russian reality distortion field (aka political lies) can be too naive to believe them.

Russia, when it's convenient to them likes to exploit western liberalism and naivety. Like here, they (Russian) say that their experts, who know best in the world how BUK missile launcher system works in every aspect, concluded, that Russia did not do it.

Though, I believe that Russia's underground political tactics have not much change from the times of KGB. Possibly, those Russian experts were made (by government agencies) to 'investigate' and produce 'report'. Also do not ignore the fact, that Russians gave their report at the same time as Dutch report was released. The goal was, that the people would see Russian 'report' instead of the Dutch one. The 'dictatorship' cannot let people doubt that they do not have a enemies in the west.
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So aggressive in fact, that Vietnam is courting the U.S. and the Philippines is opening Subic Bay to the U.S. Navy again.

"Yankee Go Home" indeed.
To be fair igor_a started dragging unrelated what-if scenarions about Russia into the discussion.
solu = cell (in Finnish).
I failed to understand anything specific from their page. All feels buzzwordy without much concrete information. I'm very curious what is soluos. I'm assuming that it's some kind of linux, but what is on top. What does it mean to be "cloud connected os"? How open will be os? What is toolkit for app developers? Is it android or something web based or something different?

I'm very curious about the project but at the same time a bit sceptical based on the information they currently provide about the project.

PS. soluos sounds is very close to solusos - old linux distro that was maintaining legacy gnome2.0?

PPS would love to run a linux on a tiny portable device like that.
Not that I know of but I have no idea why not. Ubuntu for Android was a project started 2 or 3 years ago which was based off of the concept of being able to boot up Ubuntu from a powerful phone. The Ubuntu Phone is supposed to have desktop interface but I think they are still working on it. I think some phones do provide a "desktop android" type display when you connect to monitor but haven't seen much about that lately. Not to say it is easy but I'm surprised this isn't widely available yet as I expect many tech people at least would take advantage of it.
Americans :)

That's Finnish for "organic cell".
Strange, I remember going to linux conferences, of which the OLPC talks were heavily attended; competitions to win one were heavily patronised; colleagues going for the G1G1 program. There was a ton of interest in this low-cost, open-source laptop project. I remember the "for the children" argument for why they were partnering with Microsoft. The FLOSS community was pretty vocal in asking please don't do this, but OLPC ignored them. The buzz died, and the media moved on as a result. It didn't matter that MS never shipped in great numbers[1]; the damage was done.

It was mismanaged, absolutely, and the proposed MS partnership wasn't the only nail in the coffin. But with my own eyes I've seen a lot more interest than "noise on blogs". With that silly move, OLPC lost a pool of enthusiastic, free developers and media buzz. It also caused the OLPC chief of software to resign.

Given that you disparage the FLOSS complaints as just "noise on blogs", it's clear you didn't read the complaints. It had little to do with dimes moving from OLPC to MS. The issue was OLPC letting MS use them as a conduit to train new users in 'the windows way' - that MS was effectively going to co-opt OLPC as a loss-leader program. How far would OLPC go with MS? Why bother developing when they're so intent on providing XP on a clearly underspecced machine for it? And how could a sluggish OS actually be a decision 'for the kids'? How else would OLPC break their previously loud promises? The license fees really had nothing to do with the FLOSS community largely abandoning interest in the project.

[1] You're wrong about Windows never shipping. Windows-only machines never shipped, but dual-boot Windows machines did.
Well, it's fine if you call out Russia on principle, as long as that principle applies to the US as well.

But you seem to suggest that the US is a nicer place to live, so it's fine that they've waged aggressive wars all over the globe for more than half a century?
Yep they shot it and admitted it. It's a big difference
Posting link to reddit comments b/c SO moderators removed original teachers comment. Poster claiming to be student is posting as /u/BrownGandalf

If a moderator could /bases/bashes/
I think the article makes two distinct and contradicting points. On the one hand, Twitter is home to cliques. These seem to be closely knit communities that amplify each other's voices (like activists, gamers, feminists, and academics). On the other hand, Twitter is full of abuse. Which one is it? The cliques (or the "ists" in the author's lingo) clearly find enough value in the platform to remain. Presumably they do not abuse each other within the group. "Everyone else seems to have left in a hurry." So we are talking about some kind of unaffiliated audience that gets abused by small cohesive communities? It is a strange logic that is not spelled out clearly.
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why do the call internal storage "cache capacity"? or is it space not used by os that cloud services can reuse as a persistent cache?
It's a real challenge keeping those good first issues (https://github.com/servo/servo/labels/E-easy ) around! It seems like no matter how many we make, they're claimed within a day or two and fixed within a week. Hopefully, as you and others progress to bigger and harder issues, you'll be able to help us open some more of those good first ones :-)
None that caught on, but this has been done many times. The HP TC1100 and the WePad come to mind.
Ah, Russian salad. Very popular in the Balkans even nowadays.
Have you read Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media? Written in the 60s, explaining world phenomena from the perspective of "media" (which he uses to mean something very similar to "technology" - roads and the printing press both qualify) and accurately predicts the effect of the internet on society. Dense, but very worth reading if you're interested in macro societal change.
Not to detract from you valid points (since I think these are important questions to ask) but the rebels do have a small airforce.

Source: http://www.ibtimes.com/pro-russian-rebels-have-air-force-mad...

"Kiev has claimed that Ukrainian troops have destroyed one separatist L-39 military trainer aircraft, two An-2 agricultural aircraft, one Yak-52 trainer airplane and four Mi-24 attack helicopters -- the latter being the most dangerous aircraft in the list, and the only ones built expressly for an armed role."

Wikipedia also has a list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_equipment_of_the_Unite...
It's the same thing online. The law states that all websites in Russian language that have more than 3000 visitors per day have to be licensed and registered as mass media, or they get shut off. Lots of anti-Putin websites like grani.ru, navalny.ru are completely blocked.
Yes, this is pretty much exactly the point. The "freedom to tinker" we had in the past has played a big role in enabling the things we have now. If we lose that freedom, we'll be reduced to a world where the only innovation comes from big corporations, or possible from academics who are controlled (via purse strings) by those same big corporations.
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A handful of conversations and a couple months of travel will not give a Westerner an understanding of Russia. The vast majority USSR emigrants under a certain age (that is, people truly familiar with both systems) would disagree with you in the strongest possible terms. I'm one of them. There is no moral equivalence.
The proposed approach is allarming in a way, but if you see it in a unit test way, it is ok as long as there are sanctions on the provider when a client realize (using input and output) that the software is not running as advertised
The storage for the filesystem is supposed to be cloud-focused, so we're going to be sending a lot of content up and down all the time. I wonder why not an 802.11ac radio then, and only n?

Also, am I wrong in feeling like 1200mAh is small for a mobile computer battery?
I meant difference not about the fact that somebody shot the plane, but the difference in reaction.

Why Russia blocked tribunal? What about all that clowning around investigation, throwing a new weird version about accident (what about the version that goes about frozen bodies or version about shooting down the plane by Ukrainian Su-25 that can't reach that altitude? All of this went through Russian state TV channels and other state people (Investigation Committee etc.)
Likely because it's a cloud-based operating system where local storage is only used as a cache of data in the cloud.
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Effective birth control isn't recent - it was a reasonably flourishing industry and concept by the 1850s (including rubber and skin condoms). American birth rates plummeted from 1800 to the mid 1800s because of this.

Modern innovations have certainly made birth control more convenient, but I think the biggest changes have been social.
We're different. Part of American foreign policy is that "truth is the best propaganda" not the only propaganda, mind you, but the best.

The West also does have a policy of expanding liberal democracies and integrating them into a world trade frame work. Cases where we don't follow this policy is in areas where we're afraid of a counter weight emerging.

For example, the Middle Eastern policy is one where we foster instability to keep the Arab / Muslim world from unifying. Yes of course the war in Iraq is a travesty, but in America and the West in general we know when we get into tragic wars. To the point where even Jeb Bush has admitted that the war was a mistake.

The Russian mindset is different. It's more... brutal? I'm struggling for the right word. But if you look at Russian war doctrine during the cold war and (especially) World War 2, you see this apparatus that is 100% ok with using logic that ends with millions of suffering countrymen. Where propaganda and killing political opponents is acceptable. Where sending a man into space even though your scientists tell you he won't make it back alive.

The West doesn't stand for this. We have our (sometimes blatant) propaganda like the rest of them, and we make mistakes, but our jails cells look nothing like those in most of the rest of the world and our press isn't nearly as controlled.
Like I said, an example would be helpful, because I don't see how that's possible. (Unless we're talking about nonlinear devices like transistors, which doesn't seem like what the parent poster was talking about.)
The article is awfully light on what exactly was sold to the Ugandan government.

The article states the technology can be used,

"to spy on the enemy, collect data, intrude enemy systems, intercept enemy communication and also manipulate transmissions.
"It can covertly be deployed in buildings, vehicles, computers, mobile phones, cameras and any other equipment deemed worthy for information extraction or surveillance."

I mean from the article it could be anything - a software interface on top of standard CCTV cameras, voice activated microphones on government and government sympathizer personal electronic devices or just a piece of analytic software for parsing through data they've already collected.

Doing a bit more digging it appears that Finfisher (the tech sold to Uganda by Gamma Group) is a spyware tool that uses common security exploits including phishing and social engineering to infect target devices and monitor them. It appears to do this in a somewhat automated, click-to-launch, way.
And yet they are our only weapon against business owners who are just as clueless but lack the incentive to pay a competitive wage. When it comes to salary negotiation, it's nice to have Shithead in your corner.
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And a brain surgeon. But it's still strange.
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Yes, as a result of worsening relations with neighboring China. The US is aggressively pivoting to the Pacific and it's aimed at China.

Which was my initial point.
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This is really awesome. This is exactly what I've been looking for. Your service is compelling for me too as I've been thinking of doing some katas and putting them somewhere.

My only (very slight) quibble is that in perusing the terms of service you talk about having license to promote a user's profile/recordings. This is reasonable to me, but could potentially get in the way of moral rights if the profile/recordings are ever modified. So I don't mind if you modify my recordings, but I definitely mind if you modify them and then promote them as mine.

If there is any way you could modify the terms and conditions to indicate that you won't do that, then that would be great. In some countries (Canada for instance), it is not possible to waive your moral rights, so this is probably in your best interests too.
Looks like a movement and not a hardware product. The first thing they say is that there are people who will disagree and that's a good thing because it means they're doing something great and innovative. There are other possible reasons.

IMHO they are selling hype and not a computer, as evidenced by the fact that all technical details are vague and buried.

The more I read the more I doubt this is even real. All development is done behind closed doors, even their forum is hidden and accounts manually activated so you can't see what's going on.
I've never seen any in Manchester without the sticker. Yellow rectangle with the name of the company (Uber, Street Cars, Kingsway. etc).

I'm surprised there wasn't any more pushback from the entrenched firms here, as they've spent the last 10 years treating both the customers and drivers like absolute dirt.
well, you still have to worry about the science part.
Similarly, early AI research tried to mimic how humans learn, and now we have machine learning, which doesn't learn in the same way as humans do but is still quite successful.
IIRC the ruling said that storing of all data without any reason is illegal.

The obvious solution: Store nearly all data without any reason.
> Well, one killed intentionally from 150k up to 600k people [0], the other one (if it was "him" and if it was intentionally) some 300.

Can't tell if you're joking or just don't know anything about the region. The Second Chechen War under Putin claimed some 25,0000 civilian lives [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Chechen_War
You must be Serbian :) (I'm Romanian). It's impossible to be neutral in Central or Eastern Europe. You can't trust the West because of the war with NATO; we can't trust Russia because of Moldova/Transnistria conflict and the feeling that Putin would love to spread us in Siberia like his idol(Stalin of course) did with other inconveniently placed nations (including some unlucky Moldovans). I really hope NATO and Russia will not use Romania and Serbia against each other. There is zero support now in Romania (and in Serbia too I guess) for a conflict like that but hey, speaking of the omnipresent propaganda, anything is possible right ?.
This reminds me of a film from 1960, "The Home Of The Future: Year 1999 A.D." [1], where even more household chores are automated (for example, meals are delivered and stored frozen, and take only seconds to heat up).

However, for some reason, the wife still stays at home (and goes shopping) while the husband works and pays the bills. This made me think that the only development which is harder to predict than technological progress, is sociocultural progress.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RRxqg4G-G4
I first read about this idea in http://www.amazon.com/Orthogonal-Galaxy-Book-ebook/dp/B00QD3...
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A given level of technology allows a county with given resources (e.g. petroleum, good engineers, conquered peoples being exploited far away, etc.) to have some total amount of wealth. The ruling class will give the bottom 99% some part of the wealth (not 99%, but hopefully 50%) to keep them subdued.

The closer technology is to Star Trek's replicators, the more realistic free housing, food, utilities are. In such a society, people are by default artists, not farmers or workers. The people who becomes doctors and teachers and do not get compensated by their patients or students, need to be compensated by the government which needs to have something people want.

In the USSR, people spent most of their money, time and energy just hustling for the basic necessities.

Note: I was born in Leningrad, but know of life there only from my parents.
Here is Stephen Jay Gould on Joe DiMaggio's great 1941 hitting streak:
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Author here. I don't think you can blame English colloquialism for that... But I did answer the question - python is used because it's gratifying, or has been in years past. But what's also interesting is whether this will hold in the future, and for some of us this may lead to a different conclusion.
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At least in the US, the whole recruiting industry hit its nadir during the dot-com bubble of 2000. I remember getting a cold-call from a recruiter, "Hey, got a great gig at a soon-to-IPO startup for a Solaris and Linux guru", "No thanks", hang up, the phone next to me rings, same dude, literally just dialing up the extension tree.

My boss at the time had a strategy where whenever a recruiter called offering "top notch" development talent, he would demand that he only wanted people with >15 years of java experience (remember, this was in 2000, and we also weren't a java shop). If they said, "Absolutely, no problem", they went on the banned list. Most recruiters failed this test.

The whole market was so frothy, I remember people who went from being bartenders to high-end tech recruiters making crazy money and doing coke with their clients in the bars they used to work at...and then back to bartending when the bubble burst.

Today, I feel like it's settled into an annoying-but-manageable background noise. I still get random recruiter reachouts, "Hey, I have an immediate opportunity for a contract Oracle DBA in illinois at $20/hour, interested?" (no, of course), but at least it's easy enough to hang up on them.
Could you expand on that? If you can't negotiate with the owner, how does shithead help?
They are more likely to negotiate against you than for you. They will tell you the company is offering less than what they actually are, and they will tell the company that you are asking for more than you actually are. Then, if it's at all close, they don't have to actually negotiate, they can find the middle on their own and both of you are happy with the outcome because you didn't know the original set-point.