cocojumbo123

No offence but you are mixing socialist policies, socialism and communism - very different things; I'm unaware of any communist country which goes soft on crime.

I also fail to see how premise leads to conclusion.

If you want another wacky theory here's mine: imho capitalism unleashed (extract every single penny) leads to less time to be active in a community because people have to work more.

On another hand loss of religion leads to hedonism - satisfy the immediate needs.

Combine the two and you get what we have today.

If you're a mod, and get threatened, ban the user.

threats always come after the ban and is trivial to create a new account and continue the threats. the complaints about mod harrassment are as old as reddit but spez always promissed solutions and never delivered. heck, my sub had its mod discussion archive leaked - on reddit!, we reported it to admins repatedly and they did a big nothing.

one of my mod colleagues got doxxed and had a banned user ringing at his very physical door demanding "to discuss the issue", how would you feel about it ?

edit: and this is a boring country sub, I can't even imagine what modding a political sub is like.

Then they will find new ones.

Looks easier than it actually is. Here's how a mod routine looks like:

check modqueue (that's the place where all reports come). Some are fake because one user has some beef with another, some trolls, some spam, some user insulting each-other.

you work through the queue, by the time you are done users who were banned are already complaining on modmail, you take your time to read all complaints and try to shrug the threats and the attempted doxing. you get a thank you for each 100 threats.

rinse and repeat. whereas it might look glamorous from the outside in practice is boring, repetitive and tedious. in large subs you also have to coordinate with other mods to make sure there is some consistency in modding actions.

finding new mods is easy, having them stick around, I'd say not so much.

thanks for sharing!

Yes, although I couldn't tell how are they called. The official Nokia site lists Networks, Here (maps) and Advanced Technologies (mostly patents) as 3 main divisions.

Our existing established currencies (USD, EUR, etc) were born out as an easier way of bartering (i.e. don't have to carry the the weight) or in form of exchangeable IOUs (I'll pay you back when I'll harvest).

I was just wandering if BTC could take the role that the shells used as money by our ancestors.

To add on top of that, for bartering there is no sales tax, etc.

Good point. Assuming ad absurdum that all exchanges (fiat/BTC) will be forbidden, does bartering via a 3'rd party - in this case BTC subjects to the same regulations ?

For example: instead of "I exchange 3 bananas for 3 apples" to "I exchange 3 bananas for 3 btc which I can exchange for 3 apples".

Actually network operators are extremely worried of becoming just a dumb bit pipe. They have seen what happened to fixed telephony and don't want to get the same route.

I mean how else would they make users pay 20c for 140 bytes :)

For example, many global operators tried some variant of a walled garden (apps, music, ringtones, etc). Another example: afaik there are no technological limitations of having something called "homezone" - i.e. when at home all your mobile traffic goes via WiFi and not through operator's network.

Luckily for us, users, innovative competition (like free.fr - it's in French) will help break the giants and lower the rates.

Disclaimer: I work in Telecom sector, not for an operator though

Actually what the author describes is a natural path of evolution for that team. Scrum (as a process) contains the possibility of changing the scrum rules themselves - although it is strongly recommended one does that only after they get experienced (e.g. they actually manage to get shippable product each iteration).

When the focus is on the process itself and not on delivery there is something rotten in Amsterdam.

Scrum can be a micro-manager's dream (think of the visibility on who is doing what at almost hourly level) - case in which one can end up with focus on the process not on result.

Same here. I travel a lot and use VPN to access the corporate network. So if I am in the Chinese office google goes Chinese (and it takes some random guessing to switch the language back to English) then in the hotel (via VPN) it promptly goes German.

One small improvement would be to write the name of the language in the original and not in whatever country's version. (e.g. English instead of Angol, etc).

Pretty much every country on the planet mandates the possibility of Legal Intercaption capability for telecom equipment - the required intercepting capacity might vary though from country to country so no sale can happen unless it's provided.

herp-derp. Title should had rather been: Apple's profit is higher than Microsoft's for the first time in 20 years.

Great story! And I remember another one as told by the Great Master Craig Larman - quote from memory.

When you start working as a programmer, mountains are mountains and rivers are rivers.

Then you start learning new things, tips and tricks, so mountains are no longer mountains and rivers are no longer rivers.

And a few will reach such a level when mountains are again mountains and rivers are again rivers.