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The "disowning" part is somewhat different from the current transaction though. It will be decided by referendum if the "disowning" actually happens and at least the proponents say that Berlin should not be paying market rates for the apartments.

The article mentions a different deal that was struck separately without a referendum. I think there is not much support for buying back apartments for such prices.
In my country, for better or worse, the judges almost always rule in favor of the employee. How about US?
I’m aware they are different and didn't feel the need to qualify that as I think the point being made is very clear:

Pay for data and fortification if you want and can, no matter what anyone else can practically do

Compare yourself to yourself, not gen pop
Most trains have been diesel/electric hybrids for a long time. I assume this is the same, the electric motors are just being powered by the batteries vs the generator, and the generator keeps the batteries charged up now. Presumably that allows them to do more interesting things with the motors which accounts for the efficiency improvements.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_locomotive#/media/Fil...
I did something similar to learn Go & gRPC. I had a python client for displaying a simple COVID-19 report with the option to export as CSV, and had a Go server that sent a request to a public API to collect the data for the report. Did I need gRPC or the Go server? Not really, but when you're learning something new, there's a certain psychological benefit to being able to finish something using the technology you're learning. That, and you can focus more on the learning part instead of getting sidetracked by the other details of a larger project.
Are there any drone platforms that have a gun on them?

Bullets are a lot cheaper than missiles. Predator drones get the job done when you just need a one-and-done missile shot. But a loitering gun in the sky is a fundamentally different weapon.

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I think the issue is that the primary role of the A10, which was to destroy tanks, has basically disappeared. Tank armor has increased to the point where an A10's gun may not be reliable enough.

The A10 exists as a cheap CAS role that it wasn't ever really designed for. A10 has a loiter time of 90 minutes, while AC-130 has a loiter time of 4.5 hours. The air-force would rather be sending in AC 130.

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That being said: if the Army wants the A10, they should get the A10. Air Force's main job is air-superiority, ensuring the skys are clear for other operations.
Steel and lumber are not militarily important? That's news to me.
I wonder how we'd go about building a paid RSS feed. Seems like you'd need to craft an extension to the protocol.
Also reading the source code for the standard library can be illuminating.

Note that some languages have pretty subpar standard libraries. This might have changed but ~10 years ago the Ruby standard library really left some things to be desired. I don't recall the details but I wasn't a fan of parts of it.

On the other hand, the Rust standard library is top notch.
Around here, corporations buy a lot of homes and rent them so that probably affect prices.
A number of public housing here in Berlin is reserved for people making less than a certain amount, having no job at all, or working/living in precarious situations. You can apply for that status at the local gov. It is not flawless, of course, but it at least avoids segregation.

I live in a district that was originally working class, and is being very fastly gentrified now (yuppie myself I guess), and it just sucks that people who've lived here all their lives have to move to completely new environments because this is now an area desirable desirable for rich people.

Same with small businesses, one of my favorite bars closed down recently due to some English billionaires wanting to turn the house into higher margin living. Vice did a documentary on it called "Punks vs. Billionaires". For the people living here, who live in small flats and still pay half their income to it, these "living room" bars, where you do not have to buy to be welcome were absolutely essential. But they all get destroyed now.

Almost all new private housing is for richer people, because they are the most profitable, and lots of them move over at the moment. The state needs to step in to make sure that normal people can still live a decent life around here, too, lest we become a horror show like London.
Absorption spectra and emission spectra are identical for thermodynamic reasons. But emissions happen in the infrared and absorption from sunlight happens at visible frequencies. So if you reflect visible light and absorb infrared light, you can stay cool in the Sun. Conversely, applying ultra-thin metal coatings to carbon-black objects can make them reflect infrared and absorb visible light, which is ideal for solar-thermal collectors.
Maybe more complex.

Legally, you cannot increase rents above 10% of the respective average here. If Berlin-owned rents aren't increasing, this will slow down the whole market.

Now, this depends a lot on how the law will be enforced in the future.
That's fair, but still, you'll be pulling in a lot of really fundamental stuff that JavaScript gets for free. String manipulation, fundamental data structures, iterators, HTTP, JSON (de)serialization, etc.
This seems roughly equivalent to refusing Christian religious exemptions if the person doesn’t stone unclean women or if they get divorced, or Buddhists if they eat meat or get angry and say something they shouldn’t. Nobody is consistent or perfect in their beliefs, and we don’t want them to be, especially if you read the religious texts texts. This is religious persecution by the hospital
The prevalence of the suburban model rests on strict land use control and extensive infrastructure spending. It is intensely authoritarian already.
One reason these “bad leaders” may hit all your bullets is: the team members “call them out” for trying to operate a level above and a click longer term than the day-to-day fire fighting and grind.

The most common team expression of this is “You’re not close enough to it.” Or, “You don’t understand what it’s like.” As if “it” became different after stepping into leadership and the new leader underwent a mind wipe.

They didn’t forget what it’s like. They had derived intrinsic motivation from individual contribution, they understood it, they were great at it, and it still feels more valuable to them than the once removed levers of monkeying with ‘management’. This ‘bad leader’ who was part of the team, genuinely wants to be part of the team, but the team is rejecting their new role. So they stay operating in the trenches, at too low a level to influence the battle or the war.

On the contrary, unless the nature of tech engineering undergoes a shift, a “good leader” should not have to “be close to” the details of today’s particular glitch to remember what such glitches are like in general, and work to fix or remove that class of glitches now and for the team’s future.

Putting this in a metaphor that marries your bullets and this idea:

- Trust your team to roll the daily dice and advance their pieces around the Monopoly board

- Remain connected to whether the game is the same, mentor and advise strategies for wins, talk through whether they’re well set up to own the Orange monopolies…

- But instead of telling them how to play or — worse — grabbing the dice, work to rewrite the rules inside the Monopoly box lid to let their game be more effective and enable better outcomes
This is great - such a strong datapoint that culture is the factor and not guns. Similar to the datapoint Japan provides about suicides.
The article <https://sfbayview.com/2021/03/i-thought-i-was-dying-my-apart...> you posted is quite interesting, actually.

I started skeptical, but by the end tended to believe Ashley Gjovik. So I don't know about Cher, and maybe Ashley kind-of got radicalized by her experience, but she does have a lot of evidence about the apartment issue.

Really worth reading. Lots of research. Data. Environmental impact reports. Kickbacks from developers to the city (<https://blogs.mercurynews.com/internal-affairs/2014/05/19/sa...>). All kinds of stuff. It's like The Wire.

It makes me look at urban redevelopment differently.

Also makes me think differently about "community investment" and such. How much of this is just bribes and protection money?
I am very concerned about invisible inflation from unauditable chains. Mina throws away a great deal of information when committing to the blockchain. We have an opportunity to catch zero knowledge proof exploitation on say zcash or monero because the tx is recorded. But the risk still exists, and with Mina whole classes of exploits are additionally undiscoverable.

How do I know the developers don’t have a trapdoor that enables minting coins out of nowhere?
Is it Stockhold syndrome? After years of GIMP I really disliked the Affinity interface, also it is unusably slow on a very recent computer here. I kinda like GIMP, the good parts.
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Hamilton Beach stainless, 1.75 l. Now 5+ years old, used 7 days a week. It's a good kettle.
SpaceX’s Starlink will come out of beta next month, Elon Musk says
It's a national program administered by a third party nonprofit: https://vehiclehistory.bja.ojp.gov/
Many people’s view points are influenced heavily by the 2008 financial crisis, which was a exceptionally rare and historic event. Demand for housing was artificially inflated due to fraud. Do you think demand is being inflated now? If so, by what, and what would cause demand to shift back?

One possible answer is interest rates being low. However, the trend in interest rates towards 0 / negative has been going on for over 100 years. I don’t see them going up significantly ever again.
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You build the API which implements a move handler, and every turn of the game the Battlesnake engine calls your move API with the full board state information and your API returns a move (up down left or right).

https://docs.battlesnake.com/references/api
It’s also much easier to avoid scams.

Plenty of individual owners will rent out units they don’t actually own , rent it out while in foreclosure, etc.

That said, always see the unit first. Avoid luxury apartments! Get the cheapest place in the best neighborhood
Registration is convoluted. It took days to sign-up as it displayed errors. Then something was "wrong". I opened a ticket, then I had to receive a call from a representative to help "fix that". They asked me several questions. Then I received an email telling me it will be resolved in 48 hours. Then I had to follow additional steps.

Several parts of the website display a "Create an AWS Account". I am fucking logged in. I have to click on "My Account", just next to a user creation button, for it to display spinning arrows to log me in (again?).

Once done, cluster creation took forever in a "Creating" status.

There's all that confusion about users and organizations. Root vs. IAM. Adding people or accounts to the "organization" is convoluted as well.

Coming from GCP, this fucking blows. I had non-technical people create service accounts and clusters and VMs on GCP and hook them to our product. I'm trying AWS/EKS and Azure/AKS for testing purposes for our product (which hooks to users' clusters, and I have to try this out). I can't find the web console and the docs talk about installing one.

I'm also doing this because my colleague had to test that, but his account was suspended for some reason.

This is the same frustration with any video player that is not YouTube. When I click, Pause. Don't make it full screen. Don't mute the sound when it was un-muted or un-muted when it was mute it. Just fucking pause. When I hit space, pause, don't scroll to the next thing. Don't automatically scroll. When I hit right or left, go forth or go back. Just don't be fucking stupid.
Thanks for the confirmation I cleaned a few things up and the user profile is now loading it properly and auto-completion works.
I can be a nice blog post, ordering the phases by popularity here and comparing them with the popularity in a general search in Google. Something like https://xkcd.com/369/

It would be nice to have a 2D graph too, to see the dispersion.
This is basically what they say in SICP. Write programs. That's it.

It could be small projects or it could be well-known puzzles you already know. Fibonacci- iterative and recursive, fizz buzz, sudoku puzzle solver, 8 queens, etc.

Storytime: I would work at site when I worked in defense and do 15 hour days. I could sit there and monitor, as the job required, but I was also learning Perl for the job. I had no Internet so I spent all my time writing tools and reimplementing every programming puzzle that I could think of in Perl. In very short time I became the go-to "Perl" guy even though all the "toys" I made in spare time were "stupid and useless" according to coworkers.
The above comment is propaganda. I doubt the person is from Berlin or lives there still.

The Deutsche Wohnen Enteignung campaign has broad and diverse support across the population. This was actually proven in an investigation for possible "radical left" influences, suggested by the conservative opposition.
> That accepted, it is a short extrapolation to conclude that it is also incumbent on society to protect an individual's "Future Self"

Transporter paradox is anti abortion / killing young babies.

Didn't see that coming.

Unless it only protects future selves that have a current self.
The TI is a 16-bit computer. Indeed, that was the deciding factor to get my Dad to buy a TI for the family.
I think your universe is the alternate, clinging to the antiquated notion a device can’t be digital or a blend of mechanical and digital widgetry.

That’s so last century. :-)
Perhaps a better description of the same can be found in 'Goodbye to All That'. I don't have a copy at hand, but I remember it having detailed description of the trenches.
I think that's out of scope for the OP's needs/wants. They like TypeScript for catching basic API mistakes, the only thing they don't want is configuration headaches. I didn't get the sense they would be interested in learning a new language for this use-case, especially since I'm going to guess Cloudflare doesn't publish OCaml types for their JavaScript API.
That book may be a masterpiece. But it will throw a kid off very fast. It assumes a lot of background knowledge in math for some of the early examples. It was written for MIT students and it shows.
So Atlassian actually has 30 days of PTO instead of unlimited, yeah?

Or those "no question asked" is unpaid time off? But then it wouldn't make send because if you already have unlimited PTO why would anyone take unpaid TO.
Well it looks like I've now got two "stupendous" books to read :-)
I feel they were being sarcastic.
I was gonna write a long list of doleances but you know what, Ill give it a chance after all. We re still learning it, we ll figure it out I guess, and if it's cheaper, well, it s more money for shareholders.
>Not all governments are inefficient

Unfortunately Berlin administration is infamous for this, across all parties.
> In this study, the researchers found that they had the most success when vaccinating with neoantigens that bind weakly to immune cells that are responsible for presenting the antigen to T cells.

How strange, isn't that all prediction services aim to finding neoantigens or derived peptides that bind strongly to immune cells? Or do I misunderstand something?
For the unfamiliar: https://www.google.com/amp/s/byorgey.wordpress.com/2009/01/1...
> The housing market is complex, but one point I would like to make, is that if there is now a (global?) opportunity to borrow capital, buy houses on a mass scale and rent them out, that implies to me that there is a failure in mortgage market - families want housing in a location, it is possible to borrow money and buy them, but those families don't have access to that monet.

Not sure I see the issue. Renting and owning has very different risk profiles, which is why you'll find people can rent a place they're unable to buy.

The risks are with loss of income, e.g. due to job loss, sickness etc. Such things are somewhat inevitable in the span of a 30y mortgage. In such a situation the tenant can move to more appropriate alternative housing, e.g. moving to a smaller home, a home that's not as well located, sharing a home with others, friends, family etc.

In the case of an owner it gets trickier, typically the person would eventually be forced to sell the house to be released from the contractual obligations to pay the mortgage. The risk events' probabilities correlate, i.e. you're more likely to lose your job in an economic downturn, as does everyone else, which means home prices are more likely to be low during an economic downturn, meaning a forced-sale during such times can mean you're selling your home for less than the value of the loan, leaving you not only out of income, out of a home, but also with a sizeable debt.

In other words, there can be reasonable explanations for why a government could buy homes and rent them out to tenants who can afford the rent, while those same tenants could not afford an equivalent mortgage.

Second, I think it'd be very sensible to assume that the government is not going to be renting out these units at market rate. In other words, they're subsidising the tenants, with taxpayer money. That's why the rent would be affordable, but the purchase would not, for the tenants. If anything that implies this decision is lowering the effects of inequalities, due to in-effect a redistribution of wealth from rich to poor.
Just as COVID started, my friends and I were planning a trip to Victoria, BC to participate in one of Battlesnake's live tournaments. Travel restrictions put a stop to things, but ever since then, Battlesnake has had an amazing online/virtual presence and we've been able to participate in multiple events through Twitch. I'm using it as practice to learn programming languages that I don't normally play with at my day job. Also learning a ton of game theory and data structures/algorithms along the way!
FYI: this article is under the Style section, so not the same journalists that cover serious medical news.
Yep! The old saying "you get what you pay for" applies to Mechanical Turk like everything else. We tried outsourcing a project to Mechanical Turk and ended up spending more time on reliability and quality controls than it saved is in doing the manual work ourselves.
I know right? Only people who have something to hide would care if some bespectacled reprobate snaps down-shirt shots of them on the subway to share the 'experience' with their fellows.
AC 130U is an Air Force CAS with a 105mm howitzer and Gatling Guns.

The F35A is also supposed to be able to do CAS missions, especially with drones that can deliver fuel to the uncontested battlefield.
Rodney Brooks talked about building an ant robot trying to mimic the real thing. He said a real ant has hundreds of thousands to millions of sensors while the robot his team built had 150, and they only barely could handle that. The data living things gather from their environment and the processing used on it is absolutely mind boggling.
Maybe. That would be a pretty bad scenario. Just less bad than anything else, I guess.
"It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living." - Franklin Roosevelt 1933

Personally I including having a family in a "decent living", and given the standards of the 1930s where women were generally expected to be homemakers I doubt Roosevelt intended this quote to suggest two working parents.

I realize that a segment of the population has been working to redefine the minimum wage and what it's for, telling us that it's for teenagers who don't need a living wage, but let's be clear: at it's inception minimum wage was supposed to provide a family a comfortable living.
> It's definitely against the license terms. You're supposed to distribute the code that generated the distributed binaries.

It does look like Synology are not abiding by the GPL here, but a minor nitpick: GPL v2 has no such requirement to distribute the source with the binaries. But if you don't, you do have to tell people they can get it and provide it in "machine-readable" format on request.

See https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html section 3b
Yes, also the single take gimmick in "1917" was needlessly restrictive. It sort of prevented the camera from freely looking at the scene, by the need to have the principal character always in view.

Also we are still waiting for a reasonable movie treatments of the Russian/Austrian/Italian/Turkish fronts in WWI.

John Buchanan's "Mr Standfast" would make a fine WW1 film if ever filmed.
Some of them seem to be recent porting requiring backward engineering, probably from the Spectrum: will authors like Rasmus Moustgaard have performed a full BE, or are there tricks for a speedy porting?
Having your children abducted and held for ransom. People wanting to kill you because they think you put microchips in their bodies through a vaccine. Not knowing if people you meet are just trying to extract money or publicity from you.
Agreed. If someone I was with was wearing these, the conversation would end immediately.
Currently "Image Resizing" requires the Business plan or higher, so this strategy will not work for most hobbyist. Seems like enrolling into "Cloudflare Images" does not give a way to use this feature from Workers.
When I was in Berlin I got the exact opposite experience. Same in Hamburg. Are you actually talking about Germany?
Well a simple solution is to generate unique feed links for each subscriber, make it infeasible to guess links, and monitor if a link is being shared too widely.

Since it's just http there are plenty of authentication options, but no standard. Various readers support some kind of auth though.
And commercial loans are VERY dependent on "building income" which is calculated based on lease rates, even if not "leased" in some cases.

Lowering rates can cause loan problems.
I believe a zip file could be streamed - most of the file metadata is duplicated between both the 'central directory record' trailer and a header in front of each file. In other words, the first thing in the zip file is a header that you can use to extract the first file, followed by that file, followed by the next file's header...
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I don't know. I want to run an X-11 server at home and use applications across town.
I totally don't get it. Why not use that money to build more apartments instead. Why take on the liability with these apartments beiing asbestos contaminated and needing more money to get rid of this. Too me there is the stench of corruption but I don't have evidence. My Hanlons razor is not sharp enough to cut this here though.
More likely it's because your body is semi paralyzed in sleep, so your dreaming brain notices that your legs aren't moving.
Two things I did and always do: Code things that solve real problems you want to solve. The harder the problem, the better you'll get in the language and as a programmer in general.

Second, look at existing open source, well written code that, again, solves a problem you're interested in. I always emphasize this: Things you're passionate about. That way you can master any language/framework. By master here, I mean you can code anything you want in the technology efficiently. Your final app will be: Easy to modify/enhance, easy to understand in terms of code. Memory and CPU efficient in terms of runtime.