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Why Working from Home Will Stick(nber.org)
2 points by rumcajz 5y ago|0 comments
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by rumcajz 6y ago
In other news: > The websites of the Kremlin, the government, the State Duma and the Federation Council, the Ministry of Economic Development, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Investigative Committee, and also Roskomnadzor itself
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Simplest Possible Graph Database(250bpm.com)
3 points by rumcajz 6y ago|0 comments
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Grison – Graph JSON(github.com)
2 points by rumcajz 6y ago|0 comments
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Steampunk in XIX. Century(250bpm.com)
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by rumcajz 6y ago
That was helpful. Thanks!
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by rumcajz 6y ago
I am from Slovakia and the country is pretty corrupt. But I feel that the moral boundary is somewhat different. In Eastern Europe, preferring your friends and family is more acceptable, whereas in the US it seems to be stuff that could be c
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by rumcajz 6y ago
I've meant what is considered morally acceptable by an average American. I guess that you are describing who manages to get away with the corruption, rather than asserting that bribery by the rich is considered more acceptable that the
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by rumcajz 6y ago
I have hard time understanding what goes for the bribery in US. Apparently, a lot of stuff that would be considered corruption in Europe is just business as normal in the US. In this particular case I would guess that what they did would be
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Swiss Political System: More Than You Ever Wanted to Know (III.)(250bpm.com)
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by rumcajz 6y ago
Not being able to scale is one of the arguments that are often being use to dismiss Swiss political system, without much further explanation. However, where is the bar? I mean, I would understand if there was a limit somewhere around the Du
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by rumcajz 6y ago
Because likely to elicit reworking of the proposal you would need less than 50% of the vote. To defeat the proposal you need at least 50%.
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by rumcajz 6y ago
That sounds exploitable. People would strategically vote "I don't understand" to delay the initiative.
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by rumcajz 6y ago
There's going to be a long section about the Blocher case in part III. However, honest question: Do you see SVP succeeding in polarizing the society? How exactly? Have the friends voting for SVP started treating you as an enemy? Do you
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by rumcajz 6y ago
"More than you ever wanted to know" is a great name for an article format, where a single topic is explored in depth. I don't think there's any other term with that meaning in English, except, maybe, "monograph&quot
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by rumcajz 6y ago
Author here: At multiple places people pointed out that there are elements of the system missing from the article. Please note that there's going to be part II. (on decentralizaton, subsibiarity principle etc.) and part III. (on concor
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by rumcajz 6y ago
I agree that the analogy is fruitful, but you have to look at a big ancient codebase full of spaghetti code, dead code, code that nobody knows about and so on. Parts are in COBOL and assembly, parts are in JavaScript. There are shims on top
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Lessons from Brazil’s Poor to Fight the Coronavirus(carnegieendowment.org)
1 points by rumcajz 6y ago|0 comments
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by rumcajz 6y ago
Interesting problem. It would be partly solved by the look-and-look-back protocol, because then it's obvious that you are speaking to a single person. But then, it could still happen that you accidentally avert your gaze and drop back
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by rumcajz 6y ago
OTOH, I, as an introvert, appreciate presence of extroverts at parties because they divert attention to themselves and thus create kind of sheltered zones around themselves, quite comfortable for introverts to be in.
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Partying over Internet: Technological Aspects(250bpm.com)
105 points by rumcajz 6y ago|44 comments
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'Protecting rioters': China warns Apple over app that tracks Hong Kong police(theguardian.com)
4 points by rumcajz 7y ago|0 comments
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by rumcajz 7y ago
The mention of goverment having control of the currency in the discussion about Austria reminded me of the Worgl experiment: view-source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%B6rgl#The_W%C3%B6rgl_Expe...
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Debate in Austria over enshrining use of cash in the constitution(euractiv.com)
109 points by rumcajz 7y ago|149 comments
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by rumcajz 7y ago
One Eco's book relevant, IMO, for programmers: "The search for the Perfect Language". In a way, it can be thought of as a prequel to the history of programming languages. https://www.amazon.com/Search-Perfect-
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Maths and tech specialists need Hippocratic oath, says academic(theguardian.com)
20 points by rumcajz 7y ago|4 comments
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Russia, after protests, tells Google not to advertise “illegal” events(reuters.com)
108 points by rumcajz 7y ago|84 comments
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by rumcajz 7y ago
One thing I heard (not sure whether it's true) is that in Ottoman empire, when I child died, parents often used the his or her birth certificate for the next child. That way they could avoid all the associated paperwork.
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Ethiopia’s PM warns of a longer internet cutoff amid unrest(apnews.com)
2 points by rumcajz 7y ago|3 comments
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by rumcajz 7y ago
> A robot cashier, though, changes the equation: It “gives the false impression of anonymity,” OTOH, a human cashier gives the false impression of personhood to a corporation.

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