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You are right in a laboratory way of let's-assume-perfect-adversary, and you're not in a how-it-really-works way. I simply have my own RL exp in a bad repressive country on this topic, and my claim that e.g. hidden volume works most of the time. Like any tech it will stop being useful eventually, but it has been saving people for quite some time.

Why is that is a long story. And it includes both general inefficiency of state apparatus, but also the fact that repressive systems aren't optimized for getting evidence (or just correct information) in most cases.

What's the theory behind this idea? Why would I want to read it like this?

You are describing monetization quality, not content quality.

Printing has its moat, yes, which better protects it from copying, and process of consuming from interruptions, and creates payment in advance situation. Printing houses produce enormous amounts of cliche-by-cliche semi-porn "romantic novels", and various sensationalist garbage, and earn money without suffocating dependency on Google, FB and such. Good for them.

Nobody's "reading the internet" anymore

Even as hyperbole it's too extreme.

Let's not overdramatize, though. I'm not in need, or even in mood to talk to fellow humans every minute, so time spent with a clanker is not necessary taken from my human relations budget

The phenomenon of mostly democratic elections installing the next authoritarianism is not unknown. And Morsi was clearly not a democrat.

You are comparing multi-year overall aid with one-year specifically military assistance which is not how it works.

The parent correctly noted that the elected president represented ideology with ideals of is violent theocracy, and he almost immediately started powergrabbing, trying to gain non-supervised judicial and legislative powers in addition to executive. How vague is that? I don't know, to me it looks rather clear that this was a path from one authoritarianism to another.

Which exact part of the state of affairs? Because if your point is that the current regime is propped by US assistance, it sounds fair, but would Egypt be a democracy if this military dictatorship disappears? If anything, revolution of 2011 suggests it's unlikely.

Besides, your sources need to be updated as you seem to believe that Ukraine is within top 3 receivers of the US military aid, and it's definitely not true.

The idea looks elegant!

The only thing so far which feels not fully fitting is that dot and pipe are often semantically equivalent - applying function to the output of the previous one. And yet you still need to pick the right one.

E.g. Clojure (which is too hosted over OOP language) treats dot as an indicator that it's a method, but invocation/application follows the same syntax as any fn:

(.method (function arg))

Meanwhile in Rye:

"12 8 12 16 8 6" .load .unique .sum

when unique and sum are from underlying Golang, but if I made them myself it suddenly has to be:

12 8 12 16 8 6" .load | unique | sum

edible soap

Sodium bicarbonate residue won't kill our customers, so consider it technically edible. The issue of taste and efficiency will be approached after MVP

I'm not sure what "travel" even does here. Possessing citizen's info opens possibilities for influence ops, blackmailing, unfair advantage in business and much more. And non-democratic countries are always better at these games, cause they need not be afraid of the next government leaking, investigating, selling whatever they did.

Meanwhile gov't losing info on one citizen screws said citizen, but losing all of it screws the gov't itself, and generally rebalances power in favor of citizens. Which one may say isn't bad.

And then you'll have to choose another country after the next elections. Or even before, cause liking politicians from afar somehow much easier than when living in the same country.

Dunno, losing it maybe safer from a citizen's POV.

As proven by history, it's convenient to have a big well-known external entity to blame as a source of any trouble, but in reality it's orders of magnitude easier to be a digital dissident in the US compared to the EU. And European Commission + European national governments are exactly the ones you should blame first. They are openly proud of how it works, they call it successful digitalization for a positive spin.

One can read it aloud in sarcastic tone, and it will become clear then.

But in what way do you believe these standards are inadequate? Video from phones is used in courts when available and admissible.

Yes. It's exactly like how it works everywhere, though? You can't pollard any tree, it needs to have genetically predetermined ability to sprout from the stump.

Unless you believe that Japanese version makes trees mutate, it's still pollarding.

Source?

Yes, it's exactly it. But call it 'giant bonsai', and it sounds like a new discovery.

These American peculiarities are funny too, but they are mostly historical, and from that perspective have reasonable explanation. In turn "we are not Eastern, but Central" is relatively recent PR-born madness. Somebody decided that EE often associates with questionable things like alcohol consumption somehow, so the solution is to separate yourself from other drinkers by claiming being completely different "Central" kind. Nobody stops drinking meanwhile, because why would you? I simplify the story, of course, but the logic is exactly like that.

It's also true for Belarus, Baltics, and some parts of Ukraine. Generally, we can speak about North-Eastern European cuisine with potatoes, secale flour breads, and various pickled things. And that name will make a lot of everybody upset, cause everybody in those lands pretend they are "Central". Americans would not believe how many "geographical centers of Europe" are claimed there.

The housemate did poor job introducing to computer work. "Thou shall save your work often" was the first rule in those glorious times.

You cant sell me on the idea this benefits the economy.

But I don't say anything like that. Surely, the UK (and many other countries) both overtaxing, and overregulating restaurants to the point they have either to cut every corner to detriment of visitors experience or find a place in some expensive niche.

But what is the goal of Fusion then in pragmatic words? E.g. Haxe helps to save on development costs when targeting multiple platforms with emphasis on graphical interactive apps (games mostly).

Manual labor may as easy be more expensive at scale, not cheaper. Then if you really read the article there are tax/regulatory expenses which you are spared of as an individual.

In the same fashion we can declare pretty much all words messy, simply because their meanings are context-dependent. It's true even for majority of hard science terms. However, it doesn't make that postmodernist way of cancelling words any less absurd as it makes all discussions impossible.

As a good example you yourself use "native" which is as messy, and complex as "ethnicity". You arbitrarily chosen Columbus arrival as definition point, which can make you feel comfortable in the moment, but it's neither universally accepted, nor universally applicable. Using the same logic it must be banished from serious discussion.

Then you really can't say you has nothing to do with Russia. Citizenship is a very big thing in banking, and legal services. And it's certainly not about race. You could be ethnically Japanese for that matter, it's Russian passport which is the dealbreaker here.

The comparison doesn't add up, frankly. There are number of free fonts which work awesome for coding. In your terms, it's like I have an excellent chair already, not just "something to sit on".

You can guarantee it to yourself, sure, but the talk is about different guarantees, those which are implied by people who has no idea about your plans and opinions but whose software may interact with yours.