I learned that "garbage collection" is not just a memory management technique but also refers to big trucks removing the content of trash cans when I took a "nerd test".
Why can't the server inherit the clipboard from the program being shut down?
(unless the program crashes, it should go through the "official motions" and one of them should be notifying the server which then can request the clipboard. this should be done early in the shutdown process, of course)
They are not hoarding anything people need (like food or clothing).
They are not even hoarding anything people don't need (like gold or diamonds).
The "money" (they don't hoard cash either) they accumulate is _investment_ which translates into _power_ to change the world.
It was fashionable in the USSR to blame all problems on the legacy of WW2 ("we suffered so much destruction and made so many sacrifices, this is why we are so poor compared to the West").
I think blaming Apartheid for the current ills 30 years after its end is not right.
It is hard to summarize the situations briefly, but, essentially, the government can do whatever they want and the courts hardly ever slap them on the hands.
(IJ also _fights_ these issues in court pro bono - they are a law firm! - so supporting them looks like a good idea. disclosure: I am not affiliated with them in any form, just a podcast listener and a very minor donor)
Cultural imperialism is part and parcel of Russian literature.
Brodsky derided the Ukrainian quest for independence 30 years ago just like Pushkin did the same for the Polish one 150 years before that.
This is perfectly rational for a writer concerned about his audience size: why should Poles or Ukrainians read inferior poetry in Polish or Ukrainian when a vastly superior poetry is available in Russian?!
1. Lotteries are not taxes because the participation is voluntary (unlike the soviet lottery/got's bond combo).
2. People buy lottery tickets just like they buy movie tickets - it is a form of _entertainment_. They heard many times that they should not expect to win - just like they heard many times that what they see on the silver screen is not real. Nevertheless they keep dreaming.
I am surprised no one mentions the elephant in the room - rent control.
It makes it harder to discover the true rent (one has to pay a large lump sum to the previous tenant to get a rent-controlled apartment) and it discourages rental housing construction.
Do you really think that these effects are best observable indirectly, as rent and construction?!
You (almost) never have to do pushups in RL, but you do them in a gym.
Examples and exercises in textbooks are for _conceptual learning_.
They have to be simple - and thus unrealistic.
Then he appears to be running around without the sword.
Why?!
PS. I understand that he is somewhat of a moron, but leaving an excellent weapon behind and running around unarmed goes far beyond common stupidity.
(https://movies.stackexchange.com/q/116489/7154)