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That begs the question if the invasion of Ukraine was also partially motivated by adding more Russian speaking people to Russia population.

Somehow I find the fact this is coming from an Intelligence officer, that has testified before Congress under oath, and is now calling for whistleblower protection, more convincing than a random hack that is trying to sell a book.

But obviously, the fact that he might be acting in good faith does not mean that he is right, there are plenty of possible reasons why he could be wrong or have been lied to, since he doesn't seem to have first hand knowledge but only hearsay or indirect knowledge from other people or documents.

Hopefully, they're will be some sort of investigations based on what he is claiming. From what I understand he would have been allowed to provide specific names or document to Congress, so that should be pretty straightforward to check if everything is made up or not.

Otherwise, we will see soon enough when his book is coming out.

I don't think we are, there are budget rules at Europe level to keep the annual deficit under a certain threshold (which is not enough in itself if you want to reduce the debt level), and after 2008 Greece and Portugal were under heavy constraint to reduce their debt level.

I think there was a kind of pause during COVID where it was pretty must admitted that no one was going to keep a tight budget, but I would say it is back in the news now that COVID seems to be behind us.

What is different maybe it is generally not used as blackmail to gain points against the other team.

RCP 4.5 is still quite horrible in terms of consequences anyway

I quite like the way it uses visual mode as an input or candidate for replacement

Just a precision, (private) e-scooters are still allowed.

The vote was on renewing or not the contracts of free floating solutions like Tier, Lime, etc

Just a random bit of information but I am clearly astonished by the amount of the American gift exemption !

In France, as far as I know, it is $150k€ every 10 years to your children only.

Edit : above it has to be integrated to your income tax IIRC, paid by the receiver only.

Interesting for the part describing how text watermarking works

I am interested by your sources, the most generic world population projection I see online for 2040 are some kind of peak between 8-10 billions and then it is slowly decreasing until 2100.

But I am really interested if there are other projections with lower numbers!

Not sure if this is a joke, but this is already planned.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/03/09/tech/elon-musk-texas-town...

This is harder to catch a cancer or heart disease from someone else, vaccinated or not.

Even with protective laws, there are trial periods when you get a new job, even in Europe.

During the trial period, the employer can rescind the offer, or the employee walk away pretty instantly, without compensation or damage paid.

I agree that commercial incentives are not there, you must always ship earlier than competition rather than waiting for a few months or years to have a more stable product.

However it probably can hurt a brand reputation in the long run if you have a quality level below customer expectation.

Firefox on Mobile supports uBlock origin, and is very nice as well.

edit: on Android

But was it a failure financially ?

I can see effects on the long term, but if on the short term, more (incorrect) articles produced cheaply means more ad revenue, we are going to see more and more ChatGPT written articles.

Mean Time Between Failure

There is at least one moderator [1]

It is not obvious it is going on I would say that the moderation is light but firm.

There are probably some discussion on HN about its moderation.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dang

Any industrial food has a formula changing very often, if only because of cost or supply chain issue.

For example, with war in Ukraine, sunflower oil prices have tripled and now are double the price compared to before the war [1].

So a lots of brands have replaced it by another oil, and this certainly impacts the taste, but this can be a secondary consideration at times.

I don't really buy "customers asked us to change the formula", it is probably primarily driven by costs, regulations and in some case, marketing.

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/sunflower-oil

You could use Scratch https://scratch.mit.edu/

There is a localization in French, with every blocks being translated "If" become "Si", "When" becomes "Quand" and so on.

It provides a playground when you can move a sprite, play some sound, basic animation and management of inputs. It manages the event loop, rendering loop, etc. It is doable to some very basic games with a sprite moving/chasing others.

I think it is at the right level because it is very visual and you get the feedback immediately. This is actually used in some collège course as an introduction to programming.

GE appliances is not owned by GE anymore (since 2016), it is now a subsidiary of Haier, a Chinese company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GE_Appliances

Justice is a rather slow process, and based on precise procedure.

Jailing to prevent him to disappear would make sense, but there is no urgency in the sense he likely can't lose another few billions next week.

It has been replaced by a Publish button in the latest release

This might be a case of low context vs high context culture :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-context_and_low-context_c...

The rambling could be a way to communicate some context, emotions, while you are expecting a yes/no answer, typically from a low context culture.

Discord is implementing a forum mode, that would be great if somehow the discord forum post were publicly exposed and crawlable at least

we are maybe 10/15 scrum teams on a project and I quite like PI plannings, it gives much better dependencies between teams, and realistic goals every 3 months. Everything else is not that great or badly implemented where I work.

But overall I think it is a net gain from the pre SAFE time, where dependencies were systematically badly or over optimistic leading to long delays

Someone just posted a story on "being impersonated" :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32996953

If it is fixable, I am not sure how you can make sure it does not happen again. I am not sure how you are supposed to survey hundreds of kilometers of underwater pipeline.

It makes me want to try writing a basic Discord bot, just to play with the solution, so thanks for providing it for free !

Nord stream 2 was never operational, Nord stream 1 was in maintenance if I remember correctly. But it raises the question if there are ever going to be operational again..

If this is really a sabotage, I have a hard time to see who could benefit from it. Even if they don't want to deliver gas right now, I don't understand why Russia would sabotage its infrastructure.