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781.
by thriftwy 3y ago
This starts to sound like a for-profit scheme of the USA. Having problems with debt? Loan a LatAm country $100B to fuel their economy. Does wonders to balance sheets.
782.
by thriftwy 3y ago
Their employers will have to pay them more to commute in? Noy many things more stupid than subsidying somebody else's private for-profit business costs.
783.
by thriftwy 3y ago
Isn't that Sid Meyer's Alpha Centauri?
784.
by thriftwy 3y ago
They usually use libSDL instead of GTK, though.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
New value is being created all the time. The actual value is not the house; it is your desire to have that house, for which you are going to be ready to trade some money (either to buy or to rent). The total value of a country usually grows
786.
by thriftwy 3y ago
What is the utility of a piece of a forest somewhere in Brazil? Assuming you do not deforest it.
787.
by thriftwy 3y ago
I can't imagine anybody passing video frames one by one by a system call as a n array of pixels. I believe neither Xv nor GL-based renderers do that, even before we discuss hw accel.
788.
by thriftwy 3y ago
Do you have a calendar_year and a calendar_leap_year?
789.
by thriftwy 3y ago
Except there is also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidereal_year So I would say they need explicit different years.
790.
by thriftwy 3y ago
I wonder if you could create an AI assist to help you hold on to an existing relationship, though?
791.
by thriftwy 3y ago
I'm not sure I will be able to install all of the stuff listed, plus a decent web browser. In the end, I still need to run several Android apps.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Screen split is cool. KDE Connect is cool. Maps.ME is cool. Installing your own apps is cool.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Yandex claims to be using AI-based weather forecasting for a good part of a decade and claims it as a success. It is quite good. https://meteum.ai/
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by thriftwy 3y ago
A good lesson to never do that - just use VPN to login to IRC to some hacking channel and report the issue there. Of course you should also do the white hat part in anonymized fashion.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
I remember they were supposed to go that route with their Kindle Fire(?) a decade ago, but I'm not sure what was the result. I'm pretty sure I've not seen "get from Amazon store" buttons anywhere, so I'd assume
796.
by thriftwy 3y ago
Coming from Russia, I cannot remember so that Ice Cream machine in McDonalds would be broken. Maybe it was once, out of 25 years worth of visits. Is this actually a thing?
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by thriftwy 3y ago
X11 is a network protocol. The process which created this X11 windows could be on a different box, running in the kernel or have the whole X11 exchange replayed from the magnetic tape.
798.
by thriftwy 3y ago
A huge number of Poles and Latvians moved to UK for better opportunities. It is less distance as crow flies but way more cultural difference distance.
799.
by thriftwy 3y ago
How do we know they are doing something, and that something is different from localised buckyball behavior? I don't believe we can measure that.
800.
by thriftwy 3y ago
The funnier thing that Quantum Gravity does seem to be a social construct. Some people are confident it exists even though it is impossible to observe (as of yet)
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Socialist housing has schools and kindergardens on large plots of land, lots of kids playgrounds between houses, a small park here and there. "Microraion" planning deprioritizes public road so every apartment house is a part of a
802.
by thriftwy 3y ago
Ultra-high technological society will be all over the solar system.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
What happened to the first one? Where did they go and how old were they?
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by thriftwy 3y ago
It is quite possible that we are one of the first ones. The universe as we know it is rather new. Our planet exists for a significant chunk of its total lifetime, and it needed heavier elements to be produced before it could coalesce. The u
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Stand-alone garages are popular place for older men to hang out in ex-USSR towns. These garages are often refitted until they turn into man-castles. They were built alongside commit blocks but some distance away so they represent a place of
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by thriftwy 3y ago
They should give a Russian developer like PIK or LSR a blanket licence to build scores after scores of 25 floor buildings with 20-30 sq.m. units until they plead for mercy. These will also fly the workforce in from Central Asia.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Lines of 50 people to see an apartment sounds like a huge waste of man hours, which cost money to economy. This waste also grows quadratically: more people searching for longer.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
I doubt that the state will be more efficient in building houses than private enterprises can if allowed to do so. If they are not being built and added on marked, the effective price will only crawl up. In case if Zurich, I imagine that su
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by thriftwy 3y ago
There are international migrants as well. How do you make a town in rural Romania or Latvia as desirable and opportunity rich as Zurich? The weather is probably crappier there, for starters.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
How does that fix the supply issue if more people want to live in that place than available units number? I'm not sure why such economic pseudoscience claims are accepted.

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