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Shouldn't it be the Congress that creates or voids the laws and not a court? If a law was standing for 150 years them whatever the law I feel it should be changed by the electable lawmakers, not by "council of elders".

well, I imagine they have to start somewhere

and they will gradually get complicated tasks

actually sounds like a trainee

My experience is totally to the contrary. That American software is overpromoted crap - see you there Salesforce.

I have an (admittedly) older BMW. It just works. At first I thought that the cruise control lever is worse than buttons on the weel. After spending a lot of time in the car - no it isn't, it's much better.

DI yes. All the crap under the name of "Clean" Architecture - no.

> Does the vast majority of people do more than one thing on their computer at a time?

Absolutely. Just looking at my wife, an office worker. Even when not working with whichever of 5 huge Excel files she has open, she is talking on Teams while working in a permanently open Outlook. Add a variety of internal sites which she constantly peruses. She just cannot have each single application taking the whole screen at a time.

that's a crazy take, consequences of a person being bumped off the plane is dramatically higher for the person than for the airline

You have to keep wondering if plan9 is so great, why nobody uses it really. Is it a conspiracy, or is it that plan9 is not that great after all?

probably same as with POST, that is not at all

There probably isn't a single example. But "quantity is a quality in itself". Classes sort of evolve when you need to manage dozens or hundreds of those associative arrays and don't want to keep in your head exactly what keys are in a given array. And when you have a dozen of arrays and a hundred of functions, which functions go with each array.

In itself every element is easy, but together they are hard.

Typescript to the rescue ;)

the second and third photos aren't too bad actually, but first one could indeed have Blade Runners around...

That Paris thing is certainly bad, but it looks rather like a backside, which often are not pretty. From the other side the buildings look nicer: https://www.google.com/maps/@48.8230784,2.3662426,3a,75y,136...

Tolouse is not pretty - one of the Corbusier's or Corbusier-inspired crimes, but at least it does not have the scale.

That said even a tall and long building doesn't have to be dramatically bad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falowiec#/media/File:GDANSK,_F...

I can only say I've been to a few cities here and there and nowhere did I feel as overwhelmed by the scale as in Moscow. Many of the cities remained not that high, London or Paris do not have such buildings in their city centers.

MDM in Warsaw is fine - at least from outside, no idea how comfortable it is inside. But it is a regular city built for humans.

BTW I find the centres of some US cities with their very dense skyscrapers and always shadowed streets as much bad and distopian.

There's a good reason to demolish much of that. It is overwhelming [1] in scale very ugly and not even painting it would help much. This building on the photo of Elista is nothing to look at.

But that photo from Makhachkala looks rather pretty and on a human scale. I imagine when the trees are green it must be a nice place (judging only from this one photo, don't know it IRL).

[1] The Ship https://www.google.com/maps/@55.7108903,37.6218164,3a,75y,21...

in the US maybe?

It might be the same space needed, but in another area. It's much easier to transport electricity than goods and definitively better for the air quality.

If you can produce electricity 50 km away and then produce produce in the city center, you are sparing the transport costs.

He wrote that: save bandwith and data caps.

He would lose performance but win more privacy.

"non-Roma Bulgarian"

are you quite sure they self-identify as Bulgarian? My experience from a different country is a different one.

I do not think they would be friendly to any local Bulgarian that wandered into the neighbourhood.

Also "many children don’t attend school." is rather a problem, isn't it. And though I do not know much about Bulgaria, I doubt it's because of the money. I'd assume Bulgaria has free schools and probably social support for financially struggling kids.

There are so many different nations in Europe, some with their nation states, many without. However, Roma or Travellers seem to have the same poor opinion almost everywhere - which is not really shared with any other people. Maybe it is not that fair to picture Bulgarians as the only source of the bad situation in this neighbourhood. Isn't there a way for the community to organise anything, even some basic cleanup?

I didn't particularly care for the quote (from comments):

> I generally try to avoid Western Europe these days – along with most of the Western world, people their are (in general) just trying to convince themselves that the little bubble they exist in is all that matters.

A bit rich coming from an American, but anyway I do not understand what it that supposed to mean. I'd believe it's rather Western Europeans that try to care for the world as the whole, rather than do the least immediately necessary.

I don't think I like it. I find it hard to quickly skim and find out what each of the elements is, since it can be anything.

The example amounts to:

  function drawTriangle(left, top, right, color) {
    drawLine(left, top, color);
    drawLine(left, right, color);
    drawLine(top, right, color);  
  }

  drawTriangle({ x: 0, y: 0 }, { x: 3, y: 3 }, { x: 6, y: 0 }, "blue" );
  drawTriangle({ x: 6, y: 6 }, { x: 10, y: 10 }, { x: 6, y: 16 }, "purple");

Maybe it's a case of getting used to it, but with my version I can very quickly ignore parts of code, which are not relevant to the thing I'm looking for.

In Switzerland you need it for bikes and they still manage

What's risky about heating hydrogen, magnesium and lithium and squeezing them hard together? Apart from any addition of oxygen blowing out the building?

While I am certainly not a communist, there's little of communisty things in the pictures. It's rather an underdeveloped world and over 30 years ago.

Just a note - while photos are true, they should not be taken as the representative or a generalization of how average life looked like. Photos from an Indian reservation or city ghettos will show how the life in the US looks like for certain people, but not as all people in the US live. Obviously, a photographer will concentrate on more exotic topics from his perspective.

BTW, is that a feature of an old film, but all those photos look very very grim to me :) Even the ones where people joke and laugh.

"normal" letter sounds rather judging, doesn't it? Altough I suspect it is probably a product of an undereducated person.

So Roadside Picnic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadside_Picnic) vel Stalker is a documentary after all?

I'd say it is Apple's problem to have a disappointed customer. Of course they can send him away. Is it worth that though?

pretty sure 'guy' in modern American English is gender- and age-less. As in two 70 old ladies could be addressed as "you guys" too. Surprised me a lot when I was there

My only issue with roads in Rome were drivers. Apart from that Italian roads are rather good if expensive.

Note I havent been to the south of Rome