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by asjw 6y ago
Why not? What's the incentive for millions of people working for free on open source projects?
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by asjw 6y ago
It's funny that in the name of political correctness things like this happens it's funny because the culture that created the computer science revolution is worth preserving, coming from the alternative side of our recent history
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by asjw 6y ago
> One easy example right off the top of my head is the law and culture that enables people to peacefully demonstrate If you compare that right to any other country in the West, it doesn't look so peaceful and free.
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by asjw 6y ago
In fact they don't tweet like a crazy man They use official channels Which is the respectful way
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by asjw 6y ago
US and UK have no official national id system... So I guess, in the same way people in US and UK do. Also remember that illegal work is not uncommon in every western country as well If you're paid cash, you pay in cash If you live and
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by asjw 6y ago
In many ways. For example being part of WTO and being a capitalistic state which mass produce goods and services for the whole World
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by asjw 6y ago
Hans Rosling explained very well why advancements in National wealth leads to smaller families (less children per family) and longer lives It's linked to becoming richer countries, which China has become https://youtu.be&#x2
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by asjw 6y ago
Because the other several DBMS not written in Rust have shown what problem exactly?
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by asjw 6y ago
How many businessmen do you know that have been summoned by very powerful people to help fix their country's problems? To Da Vinci it happened several times, he spoke and had relations with some of the most powerful people of his time:
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by asjw 6y ago
Not considering the fact that Steve Jobs never thought about and never built something durable. Da Vinci, among many other things, built some of the Milanese navigli which are still there for the people to enjoy almost 6 centuries later I l
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by asjw 6y ago
Yes, in English It also says that bus is pronounced ˈbəs, but it's a contraction of French omnibus, that comes from Latin omnibus, which is pronounced ɔmnibus (both in French and Latin), like goose, but with a much shorter oo sound.
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by asjw 6y ago
Correct, in ancient Rome C,K and Q had the same hard sound We are talking about classic Latin, born around the IV century b.c. But it changed a lot over the centuries influenced by the Greeks, to the point that the Byzantin Roman empire cho
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by asjw 6y ago
P.s. Tchaikovsky in Russian is Чайко́вский and it is pronounced Cheekousky and not Chaikowsky The correct transliteration is Čajkovskij and the correct phonetic one is tɕɪˈkofskʲɪj
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by asjw 6y ago
That's also very simple: it's the transliteration of the phonetic symbol 'tʃ which represents the soft C sound as in cheese. That's what happens when a language steals a foreign word (Latin in this case) and changes it
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by asjw 6y ago
Cingulata comes from the Latin words cingŭla or cingŭlum and it should be pronounced with the soft C (like in Tchaikovsky) > History and Etymology for Cingulata New Latin, from Latin cingulum, cingula girdle + New Latin -ata https:&#x2F
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by asjw 6y ago
> In at least half of the young families (kids aged elementary to high school) I was around in Milan, one or both parents were originally from the south. They spoke of it almost like how immigrants do That's correct. A lot of famili
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by asjw 6y ago
Thanks for the kind words! I just did what it felt right I'm inclined to say that racism in Italy is different from the general notion of it: I mean, there are certainly racists in Italy, no point in denying that, especially towards so
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by asjw 6y ago
That's my understanding as well. My wife started a co-working space January this year, it was her office and the co-working bit was to save on the rent with a prediction of some profit in a year or two. Then covid happened, so we gave
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by asjw 6y ago
I guess being good sometimes pay I own an apartment in Rome that I rent because I don't live there anymore. It's rented to a Bengali family that nobody wanted as tenants because they're immigrants and such (you can guess the
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by asjw 6y ago
To be clear I'm Italian, I don't think life in Italy is worse than in many other western countries, I would say it's generally better, especially for the medium-low income segment of the population PCI (the Italian communist
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by asjw 6y ago
What about Chile, Contras, the KKK ... ? What about the Videla's coup d'état supported by US that lead to hundreds of thousands of desaparecidos? One cannot simply point the finger and judge, without taking responsibility for thei
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by asjw 6y ago
Honestly, it's not going great for "the greatest democracy of the world" What I want to point out is that absolute systems (100% this or 100% that) don't work because masses of people are not 100% something There's
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by asjw 6y ago
In my opinion that's one view, coming from an extreme form of rulership that was established (especially in Poland) after what happened during WW2: nazi occupation, mass deportations, concentration camps etc. etc. I come from the count
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by asjw 6y ago
Communism ≠ USSR Corruption is not a specific trait of ex Soviet countries, I would argue that it is more rampant in capitalistic countries, where money can buy favourable regulations (see tobacco or oil industry as an example)
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by asjw 6y ago
It's universally non plus ultra http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_eng...
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by asjw 6y ago
Ehmmm.... Google launched AdWords in 2000 But I agree, not your fault for not looking.
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by asjw 6y ago
Yes Because of the market dominance
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by asjw 6y ago
Policemen salaries are already very, very good. Meanwhile fast food employees on minimum wage get fired for much, much, much, much less. I think the problem lays elsewhere.
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by asjw 6y ago
So US is finally showing its true face. Unless they start protesting all over the country to defend the rights of antifa to speak and fight fascists (which are criminals by definition, in my country their existence is banned by the Constitu
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by asjw 6y ago
The extension was very simple, it just displayed the content for pages protected by a paywall by changing the display attribute. To be clear, they use amp to serve pages in the protected area, but the protected content is served in the body

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