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>Most of Europe has effectively outsourced its military defence to the Americans

That is a very American point of view. Many Europeans see it more as "The US pay a bigger part than we do in bolstering American control of the western world", which is exactly as it should be. IMO the US should pay exactly 100% of the bill for its own defense and enforcement of its power projection. The US does this to protect the US, not Europe. Europe is only interesting if it is pro-US and as a buffer and economic zone. Old Cold war plans even had plans to nuke Europe to show the USSR that the US meant business in the event of a USSR invasion..

What we see here is a perfect example why I (as a Danish citizen) have heard Denmark called Little America and Scandinavia's answer to the USA by both Swedes and Norwegians. Often living here feels more like living in a satellite or puppet state than a free country:

Do F-35s match our need? No not at all but we better break our own laws to make a contract that only the US can win. Do citizens want a US base the Danish military isn't allowed to monitor for nuclear weapons? No but we still got one (and even though not allowed it still had nukes). Do the people want a NSA like intelligence system? No but even the average elected politicians can't get access to any information about FE and what they do (only leaks like this tell them what is going on). And so on and so forth.

The latest Democratic Perception Index (chaired by the Danish former NATO general secretary Anders Fogh) found when asking people "Who is the biggest threat to democracy in the world?" most rated the US as the biggest threat (if I remember correctly, northern Europeans especially had this viewpoint).

This is just a situation of the puppet doing as it was taught.
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Ads don't have a place practically anywhere. They are annoying in the OS, and also annoying on the websites, in between movie scenes, on the side of city buildings etc either. Reminds me of the Futurama scene:

Fry : So, you're telling me they broadcast commercials into people's dreams?... But how is that possible?

Professor Farnsworth : It's very simple. The ad gets into your brain just like this liquid gets into this egg. Although in reality it's not liquid, but gamma radiation.

Fry : That's awful. It's like brainwashing.

Leela : Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?

Fry : Well, sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games, and on buses, and milk cartons, and T-shirts, and bananas, and written on the sky... But not in dreams.
I think his remarks need to be put in perspective. Compared to any other college lecturers, how do his lectures measure up?

Sure, a couple dozen students who attended out of hundreds perfectly understood everything in the lectures and demonstrated it in exams to Feynman's unreasonably high standards. Does that mean that all of the rest failed to gain any substantial physics knowledge which was valuable in their academic or professional careers? I think not.

Looking at the wikipedia entry for the lectures (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feynman_Lectures_on_Physic...), it says that Feynman taught "the course" once. It's clearly a beefy 3-course sequence that was taught over the span of 3 years. Sounds like it could have been 1 semester a year for each of the three courses in the physics intro sequence. How many students is that? Somewhere in the low hundreds, I guess. 5-10% of the students with "perfect" scores could be "two dozen". That's not unusual and not a failure if larger fractions got a good-enough grounding in physics at Caltech to proceed. I think they did.

Feynman's remarks, I think, are an elliptical self-deprecating way of saying the lectures didn't meet his own standards. That doesn't mean they were "a failure".
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Hmm not sure what you are arguing against here.

I didnt say all progress was good, only that progress has a profile and looking at this specific area: what is it about respecting people and understanding the importance of mental health has not been good.

I literally asked the reader to look at this specific issue.

But i agree not all progress is good and some progress is only temporarily good. E.g. capitalism, advertising, intellectual property
Google has been doing this for years to many users when changing their search engine, and nothing has been made. They own the legislators.
Much of the coal we have is because ancient trees weren't biodegradable. It would just build up because nothing could eat it for quite a long time. Nature also has a waste stream problem.
Who pays for Windows? I certainly didn't.
And where is the evidence that this is actually debris, space junk, and not rock or other "natural" material? NASA projects this idea that space is clean, that the only stuff in orbit is what we put there. That is simply incorrect. Literal tons of material falls onto earth from space each day. Virtually none of it is tracked. Calling any impact the result of "debris" requires some evidence or logic to explain the source.

edit: 2019 paper listing over 1400 detected impact sites on ISS.
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This article really opened my eyes to Gorey’s work! When I was growing up I knew Gorey as an older, somewhat eccentric local author who was something like a family friend. Until now I ever realized he was famous.

I never really understood his books as a 6-12 year old, but whenever he released a new book or edition I would receive a copy with some macabre note/illustration on the inside. My mother somehow managed to keep them safe so I held onto the books into adulthood, but I’ve never revisited them. Maybe I can appreciate them more now.
When I see how our governments evolve I always compare global restrictions to similar processes in multicellular organisms.

Cell division is globally and locally restricted in the body in ways single cellular organisms aren't. We have "growth hormone" which encourages or suppresses division at certain periods of life and even certain periods of day and night.

And uncontrolled growth we call "tumors" and "cancer" and it leads to the rapid decline and death of the multicellular organism, and with that, the death of all those cancer cells as well.

So who knows what the future holds. Maybe that's not a China thing. Maybe it's a society thing, that we've not wised up to yet.
Why did you chose to direct attention to the one set of circumstances that the comment you're responding to deliberately and visibly contains a hedge for? Arguing against the comment on the unintentional side of the issue doesn't even make glancing contact with the subject that's actually in focus.

If intentional, lying about the ultimate destination and then changing it after pickup is a scummy thing to do.
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I'am curious to know if the barn and noble is a legit version.
As someone who was also raised in the North of England, went to a state school, and also ended up going to Oxford, this article is spot on.

It took me a while to realise that the state educated people were often the more talented ones (they've not had anything handed to them on a plate), and our lack of poshness was actually something to be proud of - not something to feel inferior about!
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I've studied in Cambridge myself, and feel like some context needs to be added here for American readers not to misunderstand something here: Admission to Cambridge & Oxford isn't related to family wealth in the same way as admission to "elite" universities in the U.S.

For example: Tuition fees are in line with government-set rates and are no different for these institutions than other British universities (at least it was that way, back when I was there in 2005-2009). While the U.K. was part of the E.U. these low rates even applied to students coming to study there from elsewhere in the E.U. It is only "overseas" students who are asked to pay significantly more.

One thing that I found noteworthy when applying was also the fact that, for Cambridge, the admissions process had two phases: The first was academic acceptance. Those application forms made absolutely no mention of money. After a student has been academically accepted, there is a second phase in the application process that involves application to scholarships and ends with the applicant having to provide proof that they have the required funds to sustain themselves through the study period.

This was very different from what I remember about applying to universities in the U.S. which asked you to disclose your family's financial situation on the same application form that was also used to decide academic acceptance. That form, incidentally, also asked about things like family members who have attended the same university, etc. ...so there is much less transparency there to guarantee that a U.S. school wouldn't just use your socioeconomic standing directly as a criterion to decide admission.

There are, of course, impediments to social mobility into the class of Oxbridge-educated people, but it revolves more around academics than about money. For example, I found that the students disproportionately came from families where their parents were career academics. The relationship with those families having a lot of money was not something I particularly noticed.

The "poshness" of it all, particularly where undergraduate circles are concerned, also comes to a large extent from free choices that students themselves make to try to socially set themselves apart from their peers at other unversities. For example many willfully adopt "received pronunciation" to replace their natural dialects.
It could also be that they see no scenario ahead where they want the average number of children per woman to be above 3. I don't think China wants back to exponential growth ever. They probably want to find their equilibrium.

Consider if something unlikely happens that completely changes the dynamic of families, e.g. a cultural shift where women stay more at home and have more babies. If the average family started having more than 3 children, they would consider bringing back this system, which could cause big social problems, as it costs more social capital to bring back an unpopular system than to simply maintain it.
As an Oxford alumni, I would personally focus on this more: "But Oxford wasn’t like that. The teaching was personalised, flexible and interactive. That kind of system keeps people like me in the room, fired up and engaged. Kids like me, who don’t flourish in school, can benefit from such attention, and focus, and belief. A good society would strive to give it to them."

Oxford provides an amazing environment if you genuinely want to learn and improve and the university actually seems to care about you succeeding. The time I spent there remain a decade later some of the most enjoyable in my life.
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I think the classic OSS community will be a bad starting point for this just for this reason, you either start by booting off GTK/QT and end up with a bloated monstrosity that many hardcore C++ developers from other domains will bypass or start from scratch and struggle with basics like text-rendering that you mention.

As someone coming from gamedev, I'd prefer something like this to be few files (maybe even single-file-header lib) that mostly wraps win32,osX,etc core API's for a native experience with good accessibility,etc support. My declarative-style experiment was maybe 6-7 files medium sized files (and I think the implementation ran away with C++ bloat and complexity trying to get the API to mesh updates with C++)
Umm okay. Which country do you want me to compare it with? How about some from Africa?

SA - 36

CAR - 20

DR Congo - 13.5

Uganda - 10.4

Nigeria - 10

How about some poor countries from Europe?

Ukraine - 6.1

Bulgaria - 1.3

War-torn countries in Asia?

Iraq - 10

Afghanistan - 6.6
"The Shepherd's Life" is a great book, especially if you know the landscape he's farming. It's only a shame that you've now got a spoiler in discovering that he was so very clever and went to Oxford. Otherwise his is one of the rare stories of lives we tend not to read about.
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He fought Poirier in January and fighting him again on July 10th. Poirier is absolutely top level competition and Conor had him wobbled early.

Also he fought a guy called Nurmagomedov in Oct 2018 who is a sorta ok fighter, good enough to have never lost in 29 fights.

There must be a lot of fighters out there that you don't like if you expect wins over guys of that calibre.
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This is being downvoted, but it hits the point on the head. The differentiating feature of blockchains is removing the reliance on social capital from a technical system. While interesting from a theoretical PoV, it's mostly an answer begging for a question when you consider that social capital is still the driving force in each level of the stack except the technical level.
>nationalism countries compete for medals. Olympic spirit my ass.

If i remember correctly i read some interpretation of ancient Olympics as substitution/sublimation of wars between the city-states. Just look at how the Olympic winners were met by their cities - like triumphant commanders who win battles and wars. In that sense channeling of that nationalistic craze and aggression into a competition is the original Olympic spirit. Humans are vicious/tribalistic/xenophobic/etc. and not emphatic/cooperative/etc. - thus our attempt to see Olympics as the games of the latter may be kind of misguided as it is really the games of the former.
Yeh, it's a real pain in the arse. I used to be able to run my side hustle from the office using company phone, photocopier and network. Now I have to provide all that infra myself, at home!@$#

;P

Seriously: Isn't it funny how forbes, bloomberg et al are singing the praises of Being In The Office - the very siren song of insecure, ego-driven managers all over the world.
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> But keeping Wikipedia online is a task that the WMF could comfortably manage on $10 million a year
This part is disingenuous and bordering on malicious. The linked email (https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2013-March...)

He has editorialized the word "comfortably" and he should have discussed how the estimate might have changed since 2013, but overall I don't see why you think it's a disingenuous relating of the original email. I don't see any relevant nuance in the email that would significantly change my view of the estimate. However, I haven't gone through the preceding emails at all
I don't think the term "space debris" is only applied to man-made space debris. Yes, there are rocks and other stuff out there, and those are just as dangerous as the man-made debris. AFAIK both types fall under the term space debris.

Of course, the fact that there's more and more space debris is quite clearly linked to everything we launch.
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Every sub-reddit is supposed to be an echo chamber for or against a topic, and if you participate in a sub-reddit, you are expected to echo the majoritarian views of that sub-reddit. Or else start your own sub-reddit that propagate your views.

Possible reasons for a Reddit ban include trying to post to a sub-reddit that has suspended or banned you using another account, doxing / harassment or vote manipulation / brigading.
This is a big factor, but poor rural areas usually just blatantly ignore child number limits anyway. So, unlikely to be the sole reason.
> and then to oppose a regional sewer system that might have opened the town up to development.

Don’t forget the part where they already took over the Water Department and stopped issuing new water meters after 1971. That also means no new housing, because housing has to have running water to be legal. For your benefit, we promise. I wonder what kind of “development” might have been opposed in the years after 1968?
I think they are being serious. If you're in silicon valley, I could see $200k being a new grad salary. I wouldn't move there for less than that. The cost of living is extremely high in that area. The vast majority of areas would have much lower salaries. My starting salary was less than $60k. After 9 years and a masters it's still under $100k in a medium-high cost of living area. Median salary for a developer is about $110k in the US.
I ended up going on a paid plan for storing other kinds of files (video mostly). You still get unlimited photos as long as you have your prime subscription, so it doesn’t count towards your quota on the paid side. I figure that’s their M.O. - lure you in with unlimited photos because it costs them next to nothing to store photos and then when they want to store other kinds of files it’s less friction to just get a paid plan. Seems to be the same strategy going with prime video because it is also included with prime but I have subscribed to a few channels on top of that so they get money from me that way.
The key is probably to make the community onboarding and experience as easy as possible, to allow for spontaneous community translation projects like the one in the article.

It's nice to see that the Weblate project itself provides some guidance (and checklists) around community-building: https://docs.weblate.org/en/weblate-4.6.2/devel/community.ht...

(perhaps expanding that could be one meta-method for improving the accessibility and suitability of Weblate for situations like this. agree that hosting -- or having something available online that works already -- can often be an obstacle to adoption too)
Reality is nuanced in a way that nothing was actually listening, but there were also other stuff going on that people don't expect, like credit card companies selling purchase history data, or companies buying data sets to aggregate, correlate and de-anonymize them. But the fact remains that whenever there's something, it's going to be abused.
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> that's a contract Uber is making with the driver, and they should absolutely cover the difference

No one here is arguing otherwise.

> If they find themselves losing money on that, then they can and will update the guarantee message

What is your conception of "update" here? Someone receives an offer for a given payout. The driver accepts and goes to pick up the passenger. The passenger gets into the car and then changes the destination, nullifying the entire set of conditions that were in play for the original arrangement. Does your "update" involve something magic, like a time machine?
> Now I'm not sure whether I'm subject to the GDPR and if I should change something on my website.

Do you use cookies or cookie-like functionality (localstorage etc) for purposes other than those essential to the function of your website (such as logging in, keeping track of items in a cart, or other user-visible legitimate functionality)?

If you only use them for that, you are not subject to having to display a cookie banner. Otherwise, you have to give the user a way to refuse opting into having you do that.
Sounds like a good plan to add some space junk in form of a cubesat with solar sails.
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That really depends on the country. In the Netherlands gifts over &euro;3244 are taxed 10-40% depending on the specific situation.
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This is one of the most important project for humanity. Of course they want to secure it.
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If you go back and check he lost both those fights. He also looked kind of terrible against Poirier, and nothing like the Conor who gave a fuck and took the belt from Eddie Alvarez.

Is he a top 10 fighter in his weight class. Absolutely. Is his paycheck in any way in proportion to a skill as an athlete. Not even close.
Larger 'innovative' projects ostensibly run by young researchers are often projects the institute/professor had already planned and done some (mental/political) groundwork for, rarely (ie never) were they on the intiative of the young researcher. Bandwidth for personal input from the young researcher was in practice very limited. Might have been a peculiarity of the department, afaik they attracted very few with their own money (and thus their own direction).

The further you are from the clinic and thus the bread and butter of the massively overpriced commercial instrumentation makers, the more freedom there is. So, whatever you choose, your impact is limited. If you want to make a real difference, my impression was that you better cozy up to industry or step over altogether.
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https://www.who.int/news-room/commentaries/detail/modes-of-t... seems to use airborne to mean transmission in small droplets.

Airborne transmission is different from droplet transmission as it refers to the presence of microbes within droplet nuclei, which are generally considered to be particles <5μm in diameter, can remain in the air for long periods of time and be transmitted to others over distances greater than 1 m.
One of the most jarring things about violence in SA is that the crimes are usually property related, but there seems to be a complete disregard for life by the perpetrators. Robbers will quite often gun down their victims or security, even if they're not trying to actively resist. I don't really know what the cause for this is.
Do you think universities still offer knowledge otherwise not accessible anywhere else?
I mean, there are courses that require "hands on" experience and guidance, but for things like IT, how uni is any better than e.g. Udemy, free lectures from around the world and meetups?
Archive.org has a tons more work to do (they have many side projects beyond Wayback...) and definitely could scale to a Wikipedia size organization, if they had the fundraisers.

Otoh https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive#Ceramic%20a...
124/28 is only 4.4x income.

Property in the UK is more like 9x.
Also comp educated and went to Oxford. I feel like in the last 5 years or so it's become "uncool" to be posh. Feel like this has been instigated by (in the West) Brexit and Trump bringing the Establishment down a notch.
Depends on the people; I was under the impression that another strategy is to not worry about whether the extra kid gets a hukou.
On one hand I agree with you; on the other hand, they are getting paid to perform, and that includes the interview by contract. The problem with performances such as those interviews, or theatre plays, is that they need to be done in a timely manner. I think it is reasonable that their career worsens if the reliability is not there - even if there are perfectly legitimate causes for it such are not being emotionally able. Same way there are career issues if you break a leg during a tournament.

Regarding dignity, these people do have alternative paths to earn money, so if they choose a job that they find undign, they can just resign.