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In Poland software engineers are able to pay 5% linear income tax if they can proove they do R&D and sell copyrights to their code. The rules seem to be quite loose in this regard and thus lots of developers qualify for the discount.

So more demand for energy means more green energy? I don't quite get the logic.

Yup, my HD600 are 20 years old too :)

The author kinda lost me when he claimed the social mobility in USA is "shockingly low" pointing to the article showing it's just 13 percent points behind Norway. That is not a shocking difference.

People love convenience too much. Look at what Gmail has done to mailto.

Sorry, but I still don't understand your point. How am I priviliged if people from a foreign country colonized another part of the world? I and my ancestors didn't have anything to do with this. Our country was, in fact, "colonized" for more than a hundred years too.

All the minority groups you just mentioned are also Caucasian, so they are priviliged, but at the same time they... are not? In your original post you made a racial claim that just didn't make much sense to me at all, same as all race-related stereotypes that try to somehow classify groups of billions.

Not sure about America, but I don't understand what do you mean by saying that being white anywhere in the world comes with priviliges. I am a white male from a Eastern European country where 99.9% of people are the same race. How am I priviliged and in comparison to who?

In terms of showering, I've heard some homeless people buy gym memberships to access a clean shower every day.

A language designed for easy dictating/listening rather than writing/reading, for people with muscle/movement dysfunctions or vision problems.

Another vague idea that came to my mind recently was a language in which everything is a function (similar to Ruby were everything is an object). No idea what for or what sort of implications it would have.

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Ethical hackers hack for fame and money, but they don't blackmail or disclose any information that could harm anybody. Lots of companies already take part in bug bounty programs with explicit rewards for hackers or implement "coordinated vulnerability disclosure" (CVD).

Wait, so I am not the only one who almost never read articles, but spend 30 minutes on reading their comments?

High dividend stocks or REITs.

Some markets are currently paying more than 4% as a whole: https://www.starcapital.de/en/research/stock-market-valuatio... . Russian stocks pay above 7%. Asian REITs have high dividends as well, e.g.: https://sreit.fifthperson.com/

If you are interested in the computer science in general I highly recommend:

1. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (available for free, e.g. here http://sarabander.github.io/sicp/html/index.xhtml

2. https://computationbook.com/

Also, I haven't read it yet, but this book has been praised here a lot recently: https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Data-Intensive-Applications...

I'm wondering if enforcing this on the browser level wouldn't make more sense. I mean, if a site use cookies or wants to track you in any other ways it would have to ask for your permission the same way you are asked before accessing your camera or microphone. You could opt-in or opt-out which should be the default if you don't make any choice. Then the sites would have to clearly stop you from accessing their content if you didn't opt-in, the same way you are stopped with paywalls. I think this would be much more transparent if we really want to teach people that they can pay for the content either with their money or their data. Of course another choice would be to just avoid these sites whatsoever.

There's a PC game similar to Advance Wars called War Groove. I haven't played it yet, but I've heard it's decent.

As little kids we used to play Theme Park with a friend of mine. After we got bored with the game we used to create parks called sth like "Filthy sh*tter" and try to make them the most hideous places ever. No cleaning service, garbage lying all around, kids throwing up on the pathways and so on. For some reason this felt as rewarding as building a fully functional park...

English/Chinese combination returns the name "Park". I don't know any Chinese or Westerners with such name ...

We had a local driver and a permit we got from a travel agency in Lhasa if I remember correctly. Unfortunately, I can't recall which base camp it was. The toilets were indeed horrible, one of the worst I've seen in my life for sure. There weren't that many tourists at that time. I remember a Chinese couple that had to use oxygen due to altitude sickness and some very fit Russians.

We took a part of this route (Warsaw to Hong Kong via Mongolia and China) with some friends during summer vacations in 2006. We even "accidentally" landed in Tibet for 2 weeks and visited the Everest Base Camp near Shigatse. The entire trip that took more than 2 months cost 2-3k USD back then. I was quite amazed by how different and cheap everything gets once you cross the border near Brest. Now when I'm writing this with one hand and holding my sleeping son in the other it feels like it was in a previous life entirely. Happy times. Too bad Belarus didn't change too much since then from what we hear.

Haha, neither of those. I guess solving everything with drones = "reuse the same favorite tool for all kinds of jobs".

Some setups are dead simple and require just 1 or 2 clicks to enable a VPN that was registered before, e.g. Tunnelblick on MacOS. The potential hacker who was explicitly told he has to enable a VPN may look for such an app on the compromised computer.

The misinformation that 418 brings may be quite helpful if an unauthorized person temporarily gets in hold of your device and tries to access that admin panel.

We return 418 on our site in case an admin tries to access the admin panel without a required VPN. It actually clicked pretty fast with everybody on the team, especially those less tech-savvy. They know the "teapot issue" means they forgot to turn on the VPN. It's less confusing than 401/403 :)

For me the game got so much easier when I started to construct drones. There was almost no need to build belts any more! Not sure what it says about me as a developer though...

I guess we also need some thought police to penalize suicidal thinking too...

Oh yeah? And what if there are no other cars on the highway?

I've seen the pasta dozens of times on the web, but never heard about this movie before. The trailer starts with those exact words being read off the screen, ROTFL.

I didn't mean to be provocative, I just wondered what's the advantage of that particular setup. I guess your comment and the peer's explain it pretty well. Also, thanks for the links to the repos. I'll start from there.

Is there any dev forum on ssb or other place I could catch you guys at if I want to learn more or contribute?

Yeah, so this is the design decision that I don't really understand. Each message on the blockchain contains the author's public key representing his identity. If I already know the identity of the author, I could just go ahead and befriend him and later ask him or other peers who are his friends to share his "feed" with me. If the feed lives in a relational DB, I could then use SQL to ask for particular messages like:

"select * from posts order by created_at desc" or: "select * from posts order by created_at asc where created_at > <timestamp>" or: "select * from blobs where type = 'photo'" etc.

In other words, I could query the feeds the way I want to. Also, this allows the author to delete the content, although this would also require to send some DELETE requests to peers mirroring the author's feed and those requests would have to be respected, but that's another story.

Why does the users' data have to be stored in a form of a linked list (or "blockchain")? Couldn't every peer in the network just hold his own database full of messages and blobs and sign them with their private key when requested by an invited follower?

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