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It might be the first time fascism is tried while making an enemy out of the state itself. That might be the only thing that saves America from fascism :-D

Barcelona resident here. I think it is a combination of not enough new supply and a stupid legal situation.

As mentioned in the article, it is most attractive to rent out your apartment temporary from 1 to 11 months. Longer renting contracts are quite risky from a landlord's perspective. E.g. in Spain if your tenant goes bankrupt and does not pay the rent anymore, you cannot kick them out until they have found something else. Good luck on that. The law sounds nice because no one wants people to end up on the street, but it effectively makes small landlords exit the rental market. Protection from squatters is also nonexistent. Local newspapers are full of stories of places being occupied by squatters while empty for renovations.

Also there are these stupid local regulations around having to create social housing in every building / renovation project. That also significantly reduces new supply.

Kuwait is quite similar in its structure to the Greek city state, usually consisting of an urban core and its surroundings.

Also Monaco and San Marino where occupied for some time during WW2. Not sure if they count as modern city states in your view ;-)

City states just do not have enough strategic depth to be defensible in modern warfare.

That being said, Singapore is a good example for a modern city state that maintains quite a strong deterrence against being conquered.

That's really a good point. If you're building a native app or similar, why constrain yourself to HTML?

While I do agree that more Rust probably makes any C or C++ code base more secure, I can feel Hellwig's (the maintainer) pain. Even compared to C, Rust is often a PITA, and in fact tends to make things less readable in my experience. I think the readability part of Rust in the kernel is often underestimated.

Nevertheless, it is good to see that Linus is committed to try out Rust in the long run, which is very good for Linux I think.

Merkel is such a hypocrite.

With her not being without responsibility for the current bad shape of the German economy. And with her having empowered the extremist parties by her years and years of inaction on things like immigration. And then having the audacity to chide the current party leader.

But the CDU stays with its tradition of inaction. The voted motion in parliament was just theatrics anyway, with no real results.

They tend to be loaded with oil, you don't want them to "accident".

I think people working for DOGE are unpaid so far, don't they?

It is fun, nice one :-)

Ages ago I worked for a while on OpenBSD on an old Dell laptop. It was a very stable system, and I could not complain. As previous posts point out, it tends to have good support for old hardware. I used Firefox for browsing, and it was noticeably slower than on Linux. It really depends on what software you need for work. If you prefer a BSD, FreeBSD tends to be more desktop-ready in my experience (but probably less secure in depth).

It's posts like this explaining architecture decisions in detail I am reading HN for. Thank you!

+1 to that

Both my kids did try out Scratch, and would create a lot of funny things with it on rainy days. It is well thought through and easy to learn.

Any Norwegians here to relate how this all feels in practice?

"Fun" fact: the mentioned combination of solar and battery is something many South Africans already have - but more out of necessity to mitigate the frequent brownouts. The more radical ones even use this to go off the grid, and avoid paying anything to their failing power utility.

(see e.g. https://theconversation.com/south-africans-are-opting-to-go-...)

How does that relate to the article?

Impressive how actionable that report back in 1983 was. But unfortunately the political climate is probably harder to change than the real climate, otherwise there would have been more progress in the past 40 years.

It looks clear to me that given the hardware they need, and the scale they operate at, buying their own metal makes sense. Also them sticking to similar servers is a good idea imho.

What I am missing though in the monthly cost is the personnel cost. I would assume that a decently qualified system and network administrator in Singapore, capable of operating and servicing this setup, will cost upward of $10,000 per month. And only having one is probably not enough, due to SPOF and other considerations. To be honest, even for the cloud you probably need someone to administer the setup, but chances are high that there is much less to do.

Paying for, and finding qualified staff is from my experience the main driver for small and mid-size companies to go to the cloud. And for many this actually makes sense financially. Even though many create unnecessary complex setups or get trapped in vendor lock-ins.