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Not Greek, but here's an economics Stackexchange question which handles this:

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/27662/do-greeks...

tl;dr of the accepted answer: It's not for tax evasion, it's to make later expansion cheaper. They don't count as "Unfinished buildings". If the house has power (empty or not), or someone lives inside (with or without electrical power), the owner must pay the full 100% of the normal property taxes.
Excuse me, what? If they know what 100% of my income is, they can tax it.

Payments under the table stay there; that money is not part of your percentage. People receive payments and make payments without that money ever appearing on any bank accounts.

This is unenforceable and doesn’t solve anything.
As a kid I loved watching hooded crows breaking snails' shells by picking up a snail, flying a 10 or so feet up into the air and then throwing the snail against a narrow stone path in the park. I've never seen even one crow making a mistake to throw a snail on the soft grass on either side of the path, they would aways carefully aim for the snail to hit the hard surface - which means it wasn't just an act of imitation, each of them perfectly understood the idea behind what they were doing.
Isn't this because that permission is tied to looking for bluetooth beacons or nfc? So if you appear on that to find your speakers anything else might find you too and track you.

This isn't sonos' fault.
I saw this before you deleted it, and i just wanted to say that I would much rather compile to tail recursion than a while loop, but I generally try to avoid explicit mutation (being a scheme guy)
This is why I have started to develop a fascination with vintage sound gear: no gimmicks, just sound from speakers.
For anyone that doesn't know, it's trivial to load OSM onto a Garmin GPS and use is for turn-by-turn navigation, for free.

I've used it in over 40 countries (including Africa, Europe, North America) and it is staggeringly complete and accurate. From the mega capital cities to the tiniest village, it has every single dirt track, school, hospital, gas station, roundabout, intersection, etc. etc.

I can count on one hand the number of times it hasn't been utterly perfect in 4 years of driving around 90,000 miles through 40 countries.

I have no idea how the maps can be so shockingly good in rural Ivory Coast or Burundi, but they are.
I'm pretty sure that is a NP-complete problem (or worse). Which means on the scale of a city all the computers in the world couldn't solve it in a human lifetime. A small town is easy, but in a large city is out of control.

Ignoring that, cities change. You can come up with an optimal system, but people get new jobs, move to new houses, have kids, die, just to name a few obvious things that affect traffic - it might seem minor but they all add up to your optimal system today being wrong for tomorrow.

Even ignoring that, budgets are finite. The ideal solution probably is to tear down all buildings, move the mountain a few dozen miles east, re-reoute the river, change the shoreline, and then rebuild. Any one of them is possible on a small scale, but not on the whole thing all at once (you wouldn't move a whole mountain, but we have created passes).

Really the best we can do is come up with ideas that are affordable and then test them. One thing this can do well (if the simulation is good!) is let us see if fixing one are makes a different area worse - which helps as talk about the trade offs in the projects we can afford to do.
Everyone dies from trying to dereference empty vectors that are != nullptrs at some point in their life. It isn't only APIs that can set traps...

Many people don't see mailing everyone as self promotion for showing off, most often they just don't know whom to address with stuff like this so they try shotgun mailing.

That alone can still be bad though, since it gives every recipient an opportunity to be distracted if they want to be.
Your previous comment came closer to the truth: ActivityPub may work today _as a workaround_, a half-baked alternative to closed silos; but it doesn't have a solid foundation, its problems can't be solved by tweaks and improvements, and that's what every of its critics say.
I am shopping for speakers. I was heavily leaning towards Sonos. Not anymore.
>This isn't marketing fraud because you aren't being sold transisters like you buy lumber at Home Depot.

Funny you say that, because "two by fours" used to be 2" x 4”, but became progressively thinner as manufacturing processes improved.
yeah it's probably just the precision of the process but you might need 2-3 nm actual layers and features to operate. That said, people were dubious of 7nm and said it will never happen. Now we're talking about >2nm .. so who knows
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I'm pretty much boycotting Facebook/Twitter(/Discord), and seriously thinking about boycotting YouTube/Reddit - am I not using the Web (or the Internet - those are not the same...) ?
Best is one of those loose terms that works well for marketing - it could be best because it's the largest set that's free-gratis & free-libre, for example.

Did you have a "best" in mind.

I'd definitely not consider plain satellite imagery to be map data.
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What percentage of customers actually request accessibility features such as screen reader support? I agree that every application should strive to be accessible for screen readers and the lowest common denominator but if the project manager had to prioritize features to develop, they'd choose features that majority of customers are requesting such as the things mentioned on the list.
Well, the idea was that Greece would default on their loans (not that they’d pay back in Drachmas). If not at least pay back a severely discounted debt like Argentina and others have done.

It’s too bad he kinda chickened out and didn’t call the ECBs bluff. I say kinda because I don’t think he ever intended to execute Grexit as he had threatened, but was rather using it as “leverage” but they saw right through that. Syriza should have made him do it.
you are mostly right,
there is a great book on this theme called "Crashed"

"https://www.amazon.com/Crashed-Decade-Financial-Crises-Chang...

i't was the same story in most of the east europe. west banks where overexposed in the east europe, they pumped the "rising" markets in the east, and once the money stooped coming everything stopped. and now the west banks lobbied to give those local branches more modey so that they where not so exposed any more.
> Taxes for all shareholders are deferred until they sell

Sorry, but this is plain out wrong. If you are shareholder and get dividends, you pay taxes. Even before you sell.
How many times have they found this? I feel like I see this headline once a month.
Just an FYI, at least on previous patchers it turns off SIP. I’ve turned it back on and haven’t had an issue, but it does display a warning on boot that things may not work.
Title is highly misguided. "Nasa identified highly probable zone for mining water ice"
Revive your brand through wild slides and sell high profit old products. Interesting strategy.
>Debts of government were written-off about 50%

That's a huge bargain for the banks compared to bankruptcy and its impact.

And the Greek government (much less the people) still doesn't see that 50% write-off, since instead of defaulting and making a clean start with it, it's forced to take new lifeline loans, sell off assets at special ultra-low prices, and still repay everything. The current debt after a decade of "aid" is larger than the initial value - meanwhile their GPD has took an impact similar to that of war.

For a private company or citizen, it would be the equivalent of not having the option to go bankrupt, but instead be sold to slavery.
My favorite way of low tech conflict resolution is prevention. For instance, don't draw arbitrary borders through multietnic nations when colonizing them, don't arm random militants to fight your proxy wars or don't topple democratic regimes just because they want to get rid of your crony "capitalists".
I've needed to do that for HTML. If you need to put part of a document inside an iFrame (perhaps because you don't trust it) you have your backend generate <iframe sandbox srcdoc="..."> and nest it.
Seems that, while it may be optional (e.g. for Android devices), you simply will not be able to set up your speakers if you disable it:

"This allows Sonos to detect your nearby speakers during the Setup process. If you leave this disabled, you will not be able to setup your speakers."

The iOS explanation that it's only used to auto-fill a zipcode is insane and presumably inaccurate, given the Android permission's description.
I'll add that internet is also in many ways a combination of "stupidity/laziness (the easiest part to fix) and bad incentives, business practices and regulations". Actually, you might be able to say that about any public resource, because the bad parts of most things are some configuration of those problems.
Total kinetic energy delivered is a sensible metric for a direct fire weapon, your choice to compare a tactical weapon like a gun with a strategic one is not very helpful.

It leads to a whole family of fairly useless remarks, such as pointing out that neither magazine size nor calibre, commonly held to be important numbers for guns, are not very useful measures when applied to ICBMs.
I don't yet now how this works, but for me it reduces a 900Mb image to 300Mb, very cool.
Do you have a template for this? I'd like to submit such a request to my own city.
This is all because of the purchase by Sberbank (This is the largest Russian bank reporting to the government) of Rambler. In Russia, the chance of a fair trial in this case is very small. Sberbank simply “collects assets” and wages an unfair fight for money. It is a pity that the man in Russia and now he will be so pressured.

Given that almost all media in Russia are subordinate to the state, a very small number of people find out about this situation and this is very sad.

First, lawmakers are crashing Yandex stocks, now this. It is sad that I live in Russia ...
It's very unfortunate the site does not have a clear path for caching pre-rendered tiles (from OSM.org for example). The only real choices you have are either the ones from leaflet-provider or rolling your own render server.

For something like having a single country at couple decent zoom-levels, I would rather not go through the trouble of setting up a complete render pipeline when pre-rendered tiles that are cached and hosted locally would suffice.
Better to ask for forgiveness than permission.
> Gathering the approximate location of your Sonos system allows us to auto-populate your registration postal code and predetermine the radio locale for your system so it is configured as soon as you are done setting up your system.
I don't think that sort of abstract question is useful. Forget autonomous vehicles for a second: if a driver runs someone over because they fell asleep they're at fault, if a driver runs someone over because their brakes failed the manufacturer's at fault.
Every Bluetooth speaker system management app has to ask for the location permission on Android. Bluetooth scans and location permission are tied together.
I don't have experience of generating vector tiles myself, but I do have a lot of experience with osm2pgsql and PostGIS now. From a quick look around, https://sparkgeo.com/blog/vector-tile-server-using-postgis/ looks quite accessible, but glosses over how to use them in the frontend.
70% of Americans own their own home. Are 70% of Americans rich?
That's good advice. You can direct the conversation to pains they may have that your solution/product solves, but essentially a salesperson is there to identify pain.
That could happen in any country. That's a corporate dispute.

Rambler sold their NGINX "copyright rights" to a shady law firm (Lynwood Investments CY Ltd).
Everyone is crying doom and gloom but I see a mostly seamless transition.

The more cargo management responsibilities a driver has the later they will get automated. These are also the most senior and well paid drivers. Truck drivers who will be replaced first are going to be the steering wheel holders that drag a dry van from loading dock to loading dock. These are also the most junior and poorly paid drivers.

As automation takes over we'll have fewer people taking entry level trucking jobs (because the jobs won't exist or the pay will be too low) and the industry will automate the harder jobs as the supply of experienced enough drivers slowly drives up and pushed the cost of a driver for those jobs high enough to be worth automating.

I'm sure some people will lose their jobs but I doubt we'll see millions of unemployed truckers and the value of a CDL tank.
Well, does it actually matter? Even if they're tracking you, are you that important for it to be a problem?
Canada Geese not Canadian :)
I found OSM to be better than the competition for hiking (it has more trails mapped) and walking in cities (pedestrian only shortcuts are well mapped).
Windows also pretty much "lost" on servers...
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Slightly OT, but Sonos is a nightmare. The software keeps getting worse and worse and has mandatory updates constantly (every 2 weeks or so?) When the system wants to update you can't do anything, not play music, not anything.

"Updates" deprecate hardware that used to work fine, and... adds advertising for new hardware!!
Sonos has history on this kind of thing: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/10/sonos_privacy_compl...
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But even if they "owned" nginx - what does it get them? The community would immediately fork it and change the branding.

The same happened to MySQL when Sun was bought by Oracle when MariaDB was forked - though I concede MariaDB isn't as popular as I hoped.
StreetComplete is fantastic, alas there's no iOS version.

And after a while getting used to it you may want to configure the "questions" StreetComplete asks you.

Better not answer every type of question than get discouraged or fed up with the umpteenth "is there street lighting?".

Of course, if you can stomach being bombarded with questions every few meters, more power to you!
I hear you.

There's a good chance that, if you're like me, your anxiety about putting it out there leads you to tell yourself that if you just do this one other feature that it'll be ready. So you wait, and you do it. But it isn't quiiiite there yet. So you repeat that cycle. After a while, you've built up your expectations — both of how good it'd have to be to receive attention, and of what kind of attention you'd need to receive to justify the investment of time — that it's almost an impossible bar to meet. So … you don't ship.

I'd encourage you to ship things earlier in the process. As Matt Mullenweg said, "if you’re not embarrassed when you ship your first version you waited too long." (https://ma.tt/2010/11/one-point-oh/)

I'd also be more than happy to give you friendly-but-honest feedback, if it'll help. Email in profile.
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I think using AdNauseam is not such a great idea in general as you’re surrendering your IP address and other information to every tracker on every webpage.
I’m actually still running the last Apache release. It’s a large project however and the thought of maintaining it entirely by myself is daunting.
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Perhaps not as often or quite so capriciously
It's ironic that the post would say security is a PL issue, but not adress capability-safe PLs like E, Pony or Caja…
Basically irrelevant on platforms other than the web—no iOS user will think you app is dated because it looks like the apps Apple makes, ditto Windows, Android, and so on—and even there I’ve seen this repeated as folk-wisdom but have never seen anyone back it up with data, nor go a step farther and find out exactly how trendy and how expensive a GUI needs to be for a given audience not to bounce (it seems, surely, this would not be constant)

Meanwhile lots of successful sites don’t follow design trends the way every designer and startup seem to want to, and others do spend a lot of money fucking up their UI but not in a trendy or attractive way, particularly, and are successful nonetheless.

I suspect “minimum viable design” is much cheaper and more straightforward than a lot of what’s being treated as necessary to attract users, and has less to do with following trends or cute animations or whatever than simply appearing to have been updated some time later than 2005.
If you reply to this comment with your name full and postal address, I'll consider your question a serious one.

And before you say "but one is private and the other is public", you have no guarantees as to how Sonos will use the data or how securely they will keep it.
About 6 years ago I bought a Sonos Connect as a gift for my father. This was the first and only smart home device I had bought at the time and I wasn't really thinking about the privacy implications at the time. Years have passed and he was not using so he gave it back to me. I was surprised by the permissions required to setup a device, and appalled by the lack of support for streaming from a Linux system. They could've made it so simple by have the server run a web app. They also made it so hard to play local music. Luckily there's BubbleUPNP so that works, otherwise it's totally not worth it if you have a local music library and do not want to pay for Deezer or Spotify; Chromecast Audio works just as well and it's 10x cheaper - the only thing missing is Gapless playback via DLNA. However, Chromecasts also require location during setup. I wish there was a non-Google privacy-friendly alternative for Chromecast.
French version states you can disable location access and enter your postal code manually to list local radio broadcasts in a section, and that you can’t proceed with installation on Android it you don’t allow it as it won’t find nearby devices. Huh?

Looks like a case of coarse grained access rights required to enable very specific, time bound setup features, but then again that’s what the underlying platforms ask for/provide (like, 5min BLE beacon requires location access, which also grants GPS)

Not being able to complete setup without it though is not OK.
My privacy matters to me.
In the German version it explicitely stats that I can manually fill in the fields if I do not give permission. Additionally I do not find the mandatory on the English version of the page, only "requires" - can't this mean that Sonos requires this permission to fill in some data fields, but well, if you do not give permission then the data is left unfilled? Seems badly worded - can anyone check this?
Rambler was bought by the Sberbank (the largest state-owned bank in Russia) in August this year
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Why every Bluetooth speaker system needs separate Management app ?
It doesnt help that the FRA is pretty awful and stuck in the 1880s.
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I bought a ZP100 in 2007. Gave it to my parents about 4 years ago.

I was last in their home about two months ago and it was working well.

What hardware have they depreciated?

I’m kind of astounded at how long they have supported the original product line.
Crows are pretty imaginative and playful.

For example, see this video of a crow tobogganing on a snowy roof.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dWw9GLcOeA
A bit of context.

Rambler used to be a somewhat successful and independent Internet company, but in dire straits recently because it's lost the market to its primary competitor - Yandex. So very much like Yahoo vs Google.

Now it's been bought out by Sberbank - the largest state bank run by a good friend of Putin. Sberbank is looking at becoming at becoming an IT monster, being a provider of just about everything - from food delivery to banking, with huge amount of Big Data at its heart. Delusions of grandeur at taxpayers' expense.

This lawsuit is the first big move of the new Sberbank's management team in Rambler.
I did say it was an attempt. :)
(OP here) I think that it's a fair point that hosting costs can often be a small part of the total cost of developing and operating an application.

The only extra thing I would add to that is that you can usually use boto with all of the other cloud providers. I believe one of the main aims of openstack (which I understand at least OVH runs) is to make code written against the AWS APIs portable.

Totally agree that many of the proprietary parts of AWS function largely as billing footguns. However I have subsequently been told of AWS lightsail which is another, cheaper, way to buy what is effectively EC2. Strangely people around me rarely mention Lightsail - I suspect that many corporate users don't use it.
"You win or you learn" is such a good framework — especially if you take time to process after each game / release / quarter / whatever. I heard an Ultimate coach say that once, and it totally changed my perspective on what we were doing out there.
That's no way to fight Communism! Also, this runs the risk of not having any active conflict to motivate military spending with.

More seriously, prevention is a strategy that is complicated to apply to existing conflicts, and those are the ones we have a most pressing need to resolve. I do agree that "bomb more" doesn't work very well.
Do you keep the 75% in cash under your mattress? Or do you electronically transfer it to investment accounts?
> Don't stock buybacks basically transfer wealth from the company to the shareholders? The major advantage this has over other means

No, because the shareholders already have the wealth that is in the company, since stock is a form of wealth. It makes some part of the wealth shareholders already have liquid, though.
Any country that has SORM laws passed.
I was recently given a webcam by a friend to use while I was away on vacation. The app wouldn't let me set it up until it had correctly identified my physical location.
On top of that there was some glitch that prevented the app from doing it and it kept defeating itself.

Backed right out of that one.
It's incredible how people would just agree to anything an app asks them to do. If most people didn't proceed past this point, the manufacturer wouldn't be getting away with collecting that data.

How is someone's physical location data required to setup a webcam?
So anyway. Same crap.
Can I test your algorithm in some of my writing?
Do you know if there's a way to do this with built in garmin navigation in cars?
Really? It's been my experience so far that updating has been anything but mandatory, it's very easy just to say no, or to not even use the sonos and app drive it from spotify instead.
The fact that you presume him to also be American is another super American trait.
I certainly have never sold a product I developed.
Have you?
I would expect 70% might have a mortgage but owning - as in not having to pay the mortgage because you own the home entirely - would be well under 70%.
We've had a Sonos a few years, and we was initially extremely happy. And when it works, it works great.

But the software is horrible. More often than not we have trouble connecting to the speaker, and sometimes give up in frustration.
Audio equipment that can display advertising? I think I'll pass.