In fact, Unity is the main reason I use Ubuntu on the desktop. And using it on the desktop is the main reason all my servers run Ubuntu. Get rid of Unity and I'll be a whole lot more motivated to try different distros.
Canonical seems to have stunningly bad leadership in recent years. You get the feeling they spend all day thinking of ways they could fuck over their users and squander their good reputation.
Most of those deaths are on the (underdeveloped) highways outside the major cities. There are quite a few minor injuries, but comparatively few deaths, in the 30kph urban traffic.
Already working, no computers needed. Check out Ho Chi Minh City, old Saigon, a city of 8+ million people, 10 million motorcyclesâ, and about two dozen traffic lights.
If you've never driven a motorbike through a high traffic unsignalized intersection, you should try it. It's said that one achieves a certain sort of enlightenment the first time one drives through Ben Thanh Circle.
Back when I used to do Airbnb, one of my nicer guests was a Harvard neurosurgeon. His skin was dark brown like good topsoil, and he wore his hair in an afro. Did that matter? Not one little bit.
However, it freaked out my Chinese-born girlfriend. If it would have been up to her, she would have discriminated against this man. We did not discriminate - our guest had a pleasant stay, we made good money, and everyone was happy.
Just something to think about: In my experience - I've met a lot of people from a lot of different countries and cultures - American-born Americans are (collectively) the least racist people in the world. Scandanavians are (collectively) the most racist. Sorry if that goes against the narrative pushed so hard by the semi-official media about how we Americans out emulate those enlightened northern Europeans.
Have you been to Los Angeles in the past few years? The city has made great strides in improving public transport. Last year's completion of the Expo Line "subway to the sea" was the last component needed to make a truly useful system.
The subway system - already the second largest in America by mileage - is finally getting big enough to be genuinely useful. Downtown LA has seen an incredible urban renaissance. All neighborhoods with subway service are rapidly urbanizing.
Imho there are two factors making this work so well for LA. First, the traffic is line some sort of biblical plague. Surface transport is ridiculously broken. At rush hour cars often move little faster than pedestrians.
Second is Uber/Lyft. They handle that critical last mile of many journeys. Remember, during busy hours, a subway trip can take less than 1/3 the time of a car trip. So the small inconvenience of hailing an Uber to go the last mile is a great trade off.
If I eventually repatriate, I'll most likely live in LA.:)
Everyone knows it's way way more pleasant to stay in the average Airbnb than in the average hotel. That's why the hotel capitalists are trying so hard to make legal apparatus suffocate Airbnb. Obviously if it were put up to a popular vote Airbnb would win by a landslide.
Twatter is, and always has been, entirely untrustworthy. Years ago they censored one of the first tweets I ever made - a link to leaked police state documents. That was when I stopped using their duplicitous service.
In Vietnam, where I'm currently living, there is no public concern over immigration from the West. That's because the LOWEST paid foreigner here earns about 5 times as much as the average local. At that price, we foreignersâare definitely not taking jobs that could be done by natives. (Most foreigners are either language teachers or working in international trade.)
Let's extend that logic to America. Suppose your average codeserf in Silly Valley earns $150k. (Almost enough to afford your very own studio apartment in a bad neighborhood!) Then we should require foreign workers to be paid at least $750k. Make that change and the rest will quickly sort itself out.
Once again a member of the judicial oligarchy has demonstrated that they cannot be trusted to protect the rights of the people, and that their power must be severely curtailed.
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Cloudflare monitors and tracks all traffic, and provides fedgov with easy access to that data. Just like all large scale internet service companies.
It's not a honeypot per se - just another cog in the ubiquitous panoptic surveillance machine. Collect it all. Big brother is always watching.
Corda is way more interesting tech than any of these "me too" crypto coins.
Unity is great. I love it, and I will miss it.
In fact, Unity is the main reason I use Ubuntu on the desktop. And using it on the desktop is the main reason all my servers run Ubuntu. Get rid of Unity and I'll be a whole lot more motivated to try different distros.
Canonical seems to have stunningly bad leadership in recent years. You get the feeling they spend all day thinking of ways they could fuck over their users and squander their good reputation.
Stock Android is way better than any of the carrier mods I've seen.
Most of those deaths are on the (underdeveloped) highways outside the major cities. There are quite a few minor injuries, but comparatively few deaths, in the 30kph urban traffic.
Intentional! It's surprisingly efficient.
Already working, no computers needed. Check out Ho Chi Minh City, old Saigon, a city of 8+ million people, 10 million motorcyclesâ, and about two dozen traffic lights.
If you've never driven a motorbike through a high traffic unsignalized intersection, you should try it. It's said that one achieves a certain sort of enlightenment the first time one drives through Ben Thanh Circle.
Back when I used to do Airbnb, one of my nicer guests was a Harvard neurosurgeon. His skin was dark brown like good topsoil, and he wore his hair in an afro. Did that matter? Not one little bit.
However, it freaked out my Chinese-born girlfriend. If it would have been up to her, she would have discriminated against this man. We did not discriminate - our guest had a pleasant stay, we made good money, and everyone was happy.
Just something to think about: In my experience - I've met a lot of people from a lot of different countries and cultures - American-born Americans are (collectively) the least racist people in the world. Scandanavians are (collectively) the most racist. Sorry if that goes against the narrative pushed so hard by the semi-official media about how we Americans out emulate those enlightened northern Europeans.
Have you been to Los Angeles in the past few years? The city has made great strides in improving public transport. Last year's completion of the Expo Line "subway to the sea" was the last component needed to make a truly useful system.
The subway system - already the second largest in America by mileage - is finally getting big enough to be genuinely useful. Downtown LA has seen an incredible urban renaissance. All neighborhoods with subway service are rapidly urbanizing.
Imho there are two factors making this work so well for LA. First, the traffic is line some sort of biblical plague. Surface transport is ridiculously broken. At rush hour cars often move little faster than pedestrians.
Second is Uber/Lyft. They handle that critical last mile of many journeys. Remember, during busy hours, a subway trip can take less than 1/3 the time of a car trip. So the small inconvenience of hailing an Uber to go the last mile is a great trade off.
If I eventually repatriate, I'll most likely live in LA. :)
Leftism = rightism = centrism = authoritarian financialism
America still has a middle class??
Everyone knows it's way way more pleasant to stay in the average Airbnb than in the average hotel. That's why the hotel capitalists are trying so hard to make legal apparatus suffocate Airbnb. Obviously if it were put up to a popular vote Airbnb would win by a landslide.
It's fair when my side disproportionately benefits, of course.
How can we even speak of reform, when the hands of every judge in the Empire are soaked and dripping with blood?
Thank you, Dr Pedant, for that enlighteningâ commentary.
It's always just a bad apple ruining it for the rest of us. The system is never to blame.
Twatter is, and always has been, entirely untrustworthy. Years ago they censored one of the first tweets I ever made - a link to leaked police state documents. That was when I stopped using their duplicitous service.
I really enjoy Unity. Hopefully it will continue to be available as an alternative window manager.
We must at all costs prevent the plebs from learning history!
-- V. C. Silverspoon
In Vietnam, where I'm currently living, there is no public concern over immigration from the West. That's because the LOWEST paid foreigner here earns about 5 times as much as the average local. At that price, we foreignersâare definitely not taking jobs that could be done by natives. (Most foreigners are either language teachers or working in international trade.)
Let's extend that logic to America. Suppose your average codeserf in Silly Valley earns $150k. (Almost enough to afford your very own studio apartment in a bad neighborhood!) Then we should require foreign workers to be paid at least $750k. Make that change and the rest will quickly sort itself out.
Once again a member of the judicial oligarchy has demonstrated that they cannot be trusted to protect the rights of the people, and that their power must be severely curtailed.
Your phone is ALWAYS spying on you.
Welcome to 1984. War is peace. Lies are facts. Hate is love. Freedom is slavery. Surveillance is privacy. Ignorance is strength.
Thank you, please drive thru.
If you're smart enough to code you can do something else much more profitable
Any suggestions on what would be a more profitable line of work? Preferably something that does not require a big pile of capital to get started.
What does all this achieve?
It helps keep the Gulag full, and makes it easy to frame anyone at any time.
Fuck you, commoner, that's why.