I mean, I know the client for Chromium is open source, but is there an open source sync server, ala mozilla-services/syncserver for Firefox? There seemed to be a couple of abandoned efforts on GitHub but I wondered if you knew of something more specific
I agree with your view of PayPal's proper role, but as a private business, if they want to choose not to do business with neo-nazis and ilk, that's entirely within their legal rights, and many would say it's morally justifiable too.
What I take issue with more than anything else is the idea of a private business expropriating money from people based on the contents of their speech, as a change of contractual policy, buried deep in the terms of service, that many laypeople cannot be reasonably expected to read and comprehensively understand.
I'm also concerned about this policy being weaponized by bad actors. Say someone impersonates a PayPal user online and posts genuine hate speech, complete with calls to violence. Or someone sends a payment to an innocent PayPal user with a memo that implies the PayPal user was engaged in hateful or malicious conduct. What happens when someone is having a mental health crisis and says some awful things on Twitter due to genuine mental health issues? What happens if a PayPal user's online account on another platform is hacked and used to post hateful content? What safeguards are in place to ensure that only those who are actually guilty are financially penalized?
There is nothing better? Maybe it is just a bias, since you know all the quirks.
20 years ago I did my thesis in Word 2000 with some plugin for equations. It was far better than latex. I had to insert some hard page breaks, instead of learning completely new language!
In which area? It depends a lot on the equation to figure ratio. If you have many equations, LaTeX is better. If you have many graphics, Word is better.
I still use PowerPoint for slides for Math talks. Adding equations is painful, so you are encouraged to add as few as possible. In LaTeX adding graphics in the right position, with the right side, ... is painful, so people prefer to cover the slide with equations. Also, in PowerPoint is easier to add a color arrows here and there, so you can connect a random equation with a random part of the graphic. I used tikz and xypic and other packages in LaTeX but I never was able to get enough fine control of random arrows.
I was in Odessa for holiday in July. Very cheap airbnb, but there was night lockdown and pubs were closing early. Also beaches were closed (mines) but nobody cared.
Sun and sea :) And also price. Greece, Croatia, Turkey etc were bloody expensive this summer. Odessa is just 3 hours by bus from Chisinau that has regular flights.
Odessa is normally home to a great club scene too. The "Ibiza" club is easily one of the best in the world, regularly attracts top DJs like Black Coffee.
The food scene isn't incredible, but pretty good for Eastern Europe. Dacha restaurant is excellent. The city itself is beautiful with heavy French vibes, and of course from an European point of view it's filled with very conventionally attractive people.
2. Does this building have any other tenants besides Samsung?
It's not like Russian own-goals are unprecedented in this war, but I'm somewhat skeptical of the framing here, since it could very well be calculated to influence South Koreans.
I think it's a bit more complicated than that, because in most socialized medicine systems, the suppliers are not owned by the government, so there's a lot of private industry billing (pharmaceuticals, medical devices and implants. etc.)
It's comparable to the USA's freeway system - yes the roads are publicly owned, but road repairs and material procurement are contracted out to private industry, and there's always the possibility of things like a government employee getting a kickback from a construction company for signing off on unnecessary work requests, etc.
Correct..but pretty much any "medical supplier" requires a doctors note to provide services.
"blood testing labs" for example might want to blood test everyone in the country for everything imaginable..Without a doctors note they are prohibited from taking blood.
Doctors (effectively government employees) do control the gates.
Kickback schemes are possible (and have been uncovered), but this is a pretty big tangent to "over-treating those near death" isnt it?
Most "medial fraud" in canada tends to focus on "services charged but not rendered".
Hospitals perhaps not, but someone always makes money in the system and those people may have conflicts of interest.
I live in a country with a population-wide insurance system. Big Pharma dealers do their utmost to curry favors with all the doctors out there, showering them with gifts, inviting them to "conferences" in attractive locations etc.
As my friend from high school, now an accomplished ORL expert, said: "Of course it works. They wouldn't be doing it otherwise."
I don't think Phoronix has time and budget for that. It is a single man, a few scripts and heavy automation. Sometimes he founds bugs and reports it, but there is no time to follow such rabbit hole!
Been there, employee #12 in 2016 at startup that created one of top ten cryptocurrencies. Was not crypto nut, I worked in research, friend gave me a gig. Disposed all crypto assets a few months before 2017 peak, bcos wanted simple divorce. Friends were telling me to convert everything to coins and run into Thailand LOL.
On the plus side, there are a lot of crypto bros here in Thailand and you could probably still find a blockchain to do research for if that's still your thing.
They keep telling me to buy Bitcoin, I keep buying beers instead...
