restalis

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by restalis 11y ago
PLA is People's Liberation Army, I don't think you were referring to them because socio-economics is not really their thing.
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by restalis 11y ago
I'm afraid this will suit Chinese authorities just fine. This is not how you want to play this game.
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by restalis 11y ago
Oh, I see what you mean, WSJ now opens pay-walled for me too, so it become a worthless help from my part.
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by restalis 11y ago
"acquisition of an online publishing license"!? "How do you license media in an age when everyone could become a writer and publisher?" As far as I can imagine - you don't, that's the thing! Maybe they won&#x27
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by restalis 11y ago
To down-voters: for me the article posted did appeared pay-walled and I might not have been the only one to encounter it that way! Why the down-vote?
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by restalis 11y ago
Non-paywalled version: http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-political-war-on-cash-145575...
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by restalis 11y ago
"Renting a crappy 2BR apartment was $1700/month thanks to the tight rental market. Mortgage and taxes on a townhouse in a nicer part of town? $1200/month." So you take a mortgage and you're happy and there is a chan
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by restalis 11y ago
"paying in rent - with the interest on my mortgage the amount of «lost» money comes out to roughly the same amount for now" But there is also the opportunity cost. Having a mortgage may be equivalent financially, but it's a l
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by restalis 11y ago
"they earned the financial stability to raise you and your brother and put you through school" That is something separate from the cost of paying a mortgage or renting, and his anecdote highlighted an involved cost of opportunity.
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by restalis 11y ago
Usually the high density is actually a problem for future growth. For one, there are concerns about the mass of people being exposed to various risks, primarily related to sanitation. Then the high density becomes a problem for further deve
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by restalis 11y ago
Yes, it was a part of the social leveling plan. It was a hard challenge from the architects' part in finding ways to infiltrate at least some sorts of aesthetics into the politically highly sought plainness and dullness.
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by restalis 11y ago
I am reluctant to things whose beauty can be appreciated only by a few knowing that we might had instead things of beauty appreciated by many. So, let's appreciate (or tolerate) existing brutalism for the sake of diversity, but let&#x2
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by restalis 11y ago
Only microphone (and the normal network) access makes sense. The ID management can reside in the app itself, separate from the unsecured phone agenda. Every other mentioned permissions are liabilities from a security point of view. These ar
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by restalis 11y ago
After a decade of doing it, I'm trying to get away from it. To detail a little bit, I got into programming computers out of passion. The pay and the life was an after-thought. I'm still passionate and that is both a gift and a cur
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by restalis 11y ago
Satellite communication won't "drastically cut down delays". On the contrary - it will increase it, as the signal will have to physically go through a much longer geostationary orbit detour between two points on the earth. Sa
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Designing and building Bitdefender BOX(medium.com)
24 points by restalis 11y ago|6 comments
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by restalis 11y ago
"I think what is much more likely is that the government will simply [...] let the public transit die." That kind of happened in other parts of the world (in the former socialist block). You know what happened afterwards? The sign
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by restalis 11y ago
"What about the people who have already lived there, who aren't on engineering salaries and work service positions?" I'm trying to look at it in more brighter light, so I'll say that they can sell high their place (
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by restalis 11y ago
"But there is nothing free market about the housing market in San Francisco." How so? There is a supply (although limited), and there is a demand. The landlords are interested to maximize their profits, but can not ask more than t
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by restalis 11y ago
I think he was putting it more as a natural state of things. It's not "really bad", it's how things are ought to be. Yes, think about things, consider things for your life, plan out, et cetera. He does that and he is con
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by restalis 11y ago
"the people who haven't been included in the tech boom" ...are living on salaries that are supported by the people who have been included in the tech boom. It's exactly their expensive offerings to the tech people that
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by restalis 11y ago
It's a challenge for me to imagine "exceptional quality code" with "albeit a bit on the spaghetti side". Can you elaborate?
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by restalis 11y ago
In your reasoning you do take into account the houses being immobile and automobiles - well... mobile?
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by restalis 11y ago
"Tolerating bullshit is absolutely not (valuable)." I agree with this bottom line, but I sense a lot of politics in there around what is/isn't called bullshit. Getting opinions when you ask for them is valuable, having t
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by restalis 11y ago
The first group are mercenaries. They usually end up in finance, management, law, sales or some other (mostly) boring job, then politics. The second group are crusaders. They begin a quest for fulfillment of their working potential, usually
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by restalis 11y ago
The supply has something to do with the price and the USSR had no shortage of titanium, so the accounting in your example would have been valid only for one side of the iron curtain.
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Animal extreme natural resilience studied(bbc.com)
1 points by restalis 11y ago|0 comments
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by restalis 11y ago
Nitpicks: First, I would call it the Solar System. (Not any solar system, mind you.) That would be in line with existing nomenclature in which the Solar System¹ is the name of our planetary system². Second, "moon" is not the b
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by restalis 11y ago
There is a lot to be said about spicy. In a few words, "spicy" is not really a taste like sweat, bitter, salty, and acid are. Spicy is actually the sensation of the inflamed taste buds. (But there are condiments that are inducing
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by restalis 11y ago
"The city’s Renaissance blossomed only a few decades after the Black Death decimated the city, and in part because of it. Horrible as it was, the plague shook up the rigid social order, and that new fluidity led directly to artistic an

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