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Normandy in 44? The war was lost since many years then.

The Soviet Union may have won against Japan too :-) https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/30/the-bomb-didnt-beat-jap...

Great. Drug dealing may bring in money to but what kind of value do they deliver? Except staling content all over the internet, spamming google picture search and then offering click bait?

Endow it with a decent editor.

Sorry for the rage but, WTF is pinterest? They spam google picture search. I hate them!

My dog gets bitten a lot (has a collar now) but why are you getting bitten? I was told ticks don't fall from the trees, as I assumed, but linger in the grass and then walk up your legs. Stuffing your trousers into your socks should prevent most of them, no?

Looks interesting but mainly about history.

BTW, One lie the Americans are told in High Scholl is that the US won the 2nd World war https://youtu.be/DwKPFT-RioU?t=245

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If I may post something off-topic

1. I like Cherry mice. Good value for the money https://www.cherry-world.com/products/office-and-home-office...

2. Does somebody use the Apple Magic Pad under Linux? How to enable right mouse click?

Well, the problem is, like with proof in math, afterwards it is always obvious, if not inevitable.

? A classical "the winner takes it all" business.

Example: ebay

Counterexample: Flight booking

You can't send children anymore:

https://www.history.com/news/mailing-children-post-office

I stay with Enpass.

This is a bad drawing of Silphium

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silphium#/media/File:Silphium....

I don't understand the concept or the graphics are rendered wrong on my computer.

Better would it be do explain with a standard distribution (what wealth isn't). Lets assume that 1 SD of income corresponds to 10 cm. So 3SD or 60cm, basically your screen size, corresponds to 99.7% of the population.

Some random data from the internet: "The median household income in Franklin County Ohio is about $43,000 although the average household income is closer to $54,000. The standard deviation of household incomes is about $30,000. You pick a random sample of 50 households. What is the chance the average household income in your sample is over $60,000?" https://online.stat.psu.edu/stat100/lesson/8/8.3

Household income may be even two earners. But assuming broadly 50k, sd 50k per person to make it easier and taking into account more affluent areas, only a few people make more than 200k per year.

Now lets assume Bill Gates or the Oligarch of your choice makes 10% ROE on his wealth. If he has 100 Billion, this is 10 Billion a year. This should be 200,000 Standard Deviations. If one SD corresponds to 10 cm, this should be 20 km on our scale.

So we can see the income of 99.7% of the population on our screen, but Bill Gates income would be 20 km away.

(Hope I made no mistake, feel free to correct)

PennState used an extraordinary bad example to teach the normal distribution, they chose a case where you have a fat tail distribution.

You don't know that. Rules can change. Would be a great way to bring money in.

1. not. Sure. Hey. website.io is cool now. .ly too. But you don't know how long the rules will last. They may insist you must open a company in this jurisdiction!

2, "You can sue to have a domain name confiscated if you own the trademark with the same name"

Yes sure. What do you know about trademark law and English common law? A few hints: trademarks are granted for classes and a trademark in another class or another jurisdiction would buy you nothing. lets take sampleword.com

A trademark for sampleword for delivering consulting services would not prevent me from running a shoe shop under this domain. Or a trademark in the US would not prevent me from using in in another country. Country specific domains may offer some protection here but not for .com .net

A name does not make or break a website.

How about https://www.seat61.com/

Yes, seat, train etc were taken. But he build a business out of it.

I don't mind squatters in general. It seems like something many people would do. I have bought a domain name for a business 10 years ago for USD 500 from a former music band.

But now, people often want 30k-50k per Domain. If you have a few hundred it may make sense to wait until you find an idiot. But I doubt that it is a very profitable business for many. It may be a long tail business. Many losers, a few make a killing.

I googled a little bit. There are many videos with comments about this snack.

As mentioned it could be Maerua oblongifolia Here is a scientific paper: https://www.ijcrt.org/papers/IJCRT1892916.pdf

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Yeah. What a Bullshit. What is the next thing? They change policy and charge USD 1 per hole if you drill more then three per day? Thanks I pass.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26466515

“The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.” He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.” “I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.” In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip. “You discover I’m right,” the door said. It sounded smug. From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door. “I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out. Joe Chip said, “I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.”

Turkey is a Muslim country. The strict separation of religion and state was introduced by Ataturk and is reversed by Erdogan.

While being a Muslim country is not necessary something bad, it seems to go not well along with an industrialized open society:

http://www.martin-van-creveld.com/monsters-ii/

I just came back from a short visit to Turkey and some strange, random impressions gave me big doubts.

"are the children of Turkish workers who made Germany their home."

Since Erdogan never claimed this as a "Turkish invention" nor talked in the news about it, I suspect the guy not to be Turkish but to be Kurdish. :-)

" ask yourself what makes iPhone an American product. "

That it was designed in the US and the product parts are build based on specifications developed by apple.

If an Italian buys a Mercedes and puts a Porsche engine in it, you may call it an "Italian car" but there is much less know how in it than is required to develop a car.

"Suppliers can change." For complex items there are often few suppliers in the world. For some items there may be even only one.

International Innovation Index - Large and small country ranking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Innovation_Index Turkey ranks position 58

Please enlighten us, what parts of the drone are Turkish https://tekdeeps.com/armenia-fixes-the-turkish-uavs-bayrakta...

"Thanks to the rise of anti-immigration sentiment and xenophobia in the west"

How about Turkish Xeonophobia? https://www.arabnews.com/node/1623171/middle-east

"Because of the lira going down to the drain"

Poverty in Turkey https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/06/official-data-l....

Erdo had a run during his first two terms. Economic growth was tremendous. But he should have retired then. Trying to build a new ottoman empire, rejecting democracy and changing what made Turkey more successful than most Arabic countries - the strict separation of religion and state -, will end badly.

Turkey does not have the expertise nor money to build this.

Drones, they were merely assembling them from suppliers, e.g. https://www.trtworld.com/turkey/suspending-drone-supply-to-t... or https://hetq.am/en/article/126227

I doubt that Turkey won three wars with drones, as mentioned in the thread here. But they helped at least win one battle (Azerbaijan).

Turkey is of tremendous geo-strategical importance but lacks technology, oil/gas and money.

- Big importer of Energy

- Huge trade balance deficit

- Currency in free-fall

Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s image and Turkey’s economy are both taking a battering

https://www.economist.com/europe/2021/07/08/recep-tayyip-erd...

I think Erdo should focus on other things than trying to rebuild the Ottoman Empire.

Soso. I thinks Dennis Ritchie put it better. Also, if I see non IX OS like Haiku OS, as impressive as they are, in the end I am missing the underlying IX Philosophy and power.

Anti-Foreword By Dennis Ritchie for the Linux Hater Handbook https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf

To the contributers to this book: I have succumbed to the temptation you offered in your preface: I do write you off as envious malcontents and romantic keepers of memories. The systems you remember so fondly (TOPS-20, ITS, Multics, Lisp Machine, Cedar/Mesa, the Dorado) are not just out to pasture, they are fertilizing it from below.

Your judgments are not keen, they are intoxicated by metaphor. In the Preface you suffer first from heat, lice, and malnourishment, then become prisoners in a Gulag. In Chapter 1 you are in turn infected by a virus, racked by drug addiction, and addled by puffiness of the genome. Yet your prison without coherent design continues to imprison you.

How can this be, if it has no strong places? The rational prisoner exploits the weak places, creates order from chaos: instead, collectives like the FSF vindicate their jailers by building cells almost compatible with the existing ones, albeit with more features. The journalist with three undergraduate degrees from MIT, the researcher at Microsoft, and the senior scientist at Apple might volunteer a few words about the regulations of the prisons to which they have been transferred.

Your sense of the possible is in no sense pure: sometimes you want the same thing you have, but wish you had done it yourselves; other times you want something different, but can't seem to get people to use it; sometimes one wonders why you just don't shut up and tell people to buy a PC with Windows or a Mac. No Gulag or lice, just a future whose intellectual tone and interaction style is set by Sonic the Hedgehog. You claim to seek progress, but you succeed mainly in whining.

Here is my metaphor: your book is a pudding stuffed with apposite observations, many well-conceived. Like excrement, it contains enough undigested nuggets of nutrition to sustain life for some. But it is not a tasty pie: it reeks too much of contempt and of envy.

Bon appetit!

Germany also decided between China and Japan and chose Japan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-German_cooperation_(1926%...

Quite strange to see Chinese in German uniforms:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-German_cooperation_(1926%...

I don't find the article anymore, but I read that this is the reason why US farmers were buying Belorussian tractors

http://belarus-tractor.com/en/company/news/2016/rare-soviet-...

Lawyers do not like to lose cases, so will not push a losing agenda.

Most lawyers don't care since they are getting paid anyway. And something like a website that could be easily transferred into another jurisdiction or throw-away company? Good luck. This is not real estate where you are a sitting duck.

Thank you. But it was very on topic since it is about medical devices. Just a shot in the dark.