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Or alternatively, Trump is playing 5d chess, and this is how he gets European nations to increase their defense spending :) /s

That's exactly what Trump doesn't want, it would seem.

Many of the stickers display political affiliation.

I thought 1.9.0 already had at least some of the v3 features, like the variant type and column lineages? https://iceberg.apache.org/releases/#190-release

Of course I haven't seen any implementations supporting these yet.

What about backups? My greatest fear is self-hosting valuable stuff (like family photos) only for my NAS to fail one day and lose potentially everything.

I guess if it's only specific individuals/groups that can't print books, it's restricting free speech, if nobody can, it's not.

I remember one (might have been a hn-er's comment, dunno) about the computer restarting when the toilet was flushed. Turns out it was due to voltage drop when a compressor turned on to refill the reservoir of the toilet.

Because the results also depend on the economy. Different times might provide more wealth to people in different strata.

My thoughts exactly. Goodhart's law and "cargo cult fitness" come to my mind.

FWIW, it's digital electronics

Easy for Bill Gates to advocate for this, as he already got rich partly by people automating away lots of jobs using his operating systems and softwares.

This story is in the beginning of the Taylor-Wheeler book the article mentions

Or ++ to include programmers /s

Wow, this story is straight out of Black Mirror.

Likewise in Hungary. When an opposition party leader (after a big election flop) suggested that instead of importing cultural issues from the US, opposition parties should concentrate on the problems of the people living here, it was almost treated as a heresy.

Can you explain why do you find the above explanation amusing? I honestly don't see the absurdity of it, although, my livelihood may depend on me not seeing it :)

I think the best fix I've heard is that their trades need to be digitally announced immediately (within a few minutes of execution).

Apart from the announcement, I'd add a delay of one day to the execution of said trades.

In uni I remember one of my professors telling us that the time gap between the awarding of the Nobel prize and the discovery for which it is awarded keeps getting longer (he was talking specifically about physics). I remember he also lamented George Gamow never getting a Nobel prize. (edit: grammar)

My train of thought is similar, but a bit more naïve: As the generation who grew up on these classics gets into influential positions, they want to produce things similar to what they liked. But a demand-side explanation like yours is more realistic than a supply-side one.

When you want to know how your friend spent the previous Saturday and Sunday, do you ask:

"How was your weekend?"

Or do you ask:

"How were your weekends?"

Exactly what I was thinking! It'd be interesting to see this as a git log (maybe with different branches for different cultures)

Seems like it's still worth it for the tech companies, so I'd say it's a smart move.

And still, a considerable amount of people in Hungary (in my opinion 40%+, mostly from the poorer demographics) are strongly opposed to sanctions against Russia if that means the utility costs increase. I bet the memory of the countries on Russia's border function better, but don't underestimate the power of falling living standards paired with wishful thinking (that is, Russia will stop definitely at Ukraine's borders).

The same exists in Spain (albeit with limits per month), it's called Bizum: https://bizum.es/en/about-us/

Thanks for the answer, but I'm wondering more about the mechanism of how the individuals in the EU Commission would benefit from any kind of misuse of this legislation. I get how surveillance can benefit people (edit: I mean benefit those who surveil), but the people who propose this are not who can exercise this power, am I wrong? I just struggle to understand how would this many people conspire to get more power, especially if the people who have the opportunity to misuse this need to be involved too.

I never understand this apparent motive of "elected officials getting power hungry". How would this legislation make the people in the EU Commission more powerful? Am I just lacking imagination?

This is the usual way of hiding the weakest aspect of renewable electricity generation.

Can someone explain why scaling a 4K screen by 200% is better than a monitor with 1080p native resolution? Or in general why is it better to use a scaled-up high res screen instead of a natively lower res screen? Doesn't the scaling get rid of any gains of being higher res? I just can't find an answer to this simple question online.

Is the concept of a probation period not universal? I mean if a new hire is terrible, it will show in the first 2-3 months, and during this period they can be fired without any repercussion whatsoever.