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> I am also curious about the mentioning of Indian males in the text alongside native American women, with the chart excluding Indian males, this is also somewhat confusing.

I also found this confusing at first, but I realized that the author uses "American Indian" and "Native American" interchangeably. In the chart, this group is labeled "Native American Men".

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4 lata temudiscuss

I too found it confusing when people started using "crypto" to be short for "cryptocurrency" (and later, all blockchain-related things) rather than "cryptography". However, that ship has sailed and as Moxie Marlinspike points out in his NFTs post [0], that's now a Pepperidge Farm Remembers meme. I've come to accept it as a shift in usage and using the older meaning of crypto will just result in miscommunication, like in this thread.

So, to answer your question: no, those things don't depend on blockchain, but they're also not "crypto", according to the current usage of the word.

[0] https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html

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8 lat temudiscuss

It is indeed hard to see in the Nature video, but this one has the full flight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9yYu-ZM1S0

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8 lat temudiscuss

In Germany, you can also collect unemployment benefits after you've quit or been fired with cause. However, in those cases there is a waiting period of 12 weeks before you can start collecting benefits. If you have been laid off for reasons not related to your performance, including for long-term illness, you can start collecting benefits immediately.

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8 lat temudiscuss

While I agree with you in general, a surprising number of grammatical features that make many other languages difficult to learn are missing in Indonesian. Some examples:

No grammatical gender

No plural forms of nouns

No grammatical case

No verb conjugations

No verb tenses

In addition, written Indonesian uses the Latin alphabet and has a very consistent phonemic orthography.

Of course, it also has some more complicated features, like formal and informal pronouns. But it still seems fair to me to say that it is grammatically simpler than many (most?) other spoken languages.

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8 lat temudiscuss

I'm pretty sure that when he says "the rest of the employees" he means what Scrum calls stakeholders, not members of the development team.

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9 lat temudiscuss

> I think what he was referring to was the fact that the graphs appear to be hand drawn.

Yes, and so was your parent comment. Some people have suggested that the hand-drawn appearance communicates imprecision. For example:

> The rough, seemingly hand drawn nature of the graph provides a visual hint as to the imprecision of the results.

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2014/why_xkcd_style_graph...

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10 lat temudiscuss

> US Copyright defaults to the author, it is only with employee contracts/agreements that one can forego the default and assign to the company.

I'm pretty sure this is not true. In fact, it's the opposite of how it actually works. There's an explicit exception in the Copyright Act for a "work made for hire". If you're creating a opyrighted work for an employer, the employer is always the author of the work at the moment of inception.

http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ09.pdf

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10 lat temudiscuss

A somewhat similar question: what do you do with frontend assets? If you have JS/CSS/image files with a cache-busting URL, and you have different versions on different servers, you can run into problems.

For example, if most of your web servers are running version 1 and you're in the middle of rolling out version 2. A page request goes to one of the web servers with version 2, which returns HTML containing links to assets with the version 2 cache-busting URLs. The browser requests those assets, perhaps through the CDN, but the load balancer sends the requests to a web server still running version 1, where the assets don't exist yet. This means the browser will get a 404 error.

What are the best options for dealing with this problem?

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14 lat temudiscuss

This reminds me of a similar story told by E.F. Schumacher in his 1979 book "Good Work." Quoting from the chapter "A viable future visible in the present":

  The second link of my little chain is this company called Scott Bader,
  a plastics company founded by Ernest Bader, a Swiss Quaker immigrant to
  England before the First World War.  He's now about eighty-five.  Ernest
  Bader was penniless when he started in England.  He said, All my life I
  will have to work for others.  What a dreadful system.  Well, it didn't
  work out like that.  He was an entrepreneur and he had a business and in
  1951 he suddenly woke up and said, I am now doing to all these people what
  I suffered from when it was done to me.  I am not going to go out of this
  life with this feeling.  No, I must do something.  So he got in touch with
  various people, including myself, and said, I want to put this on a basis
  that I as a Quaker and a pacifist believe in.  I don't believe in what I
  am doing.  And so we worked very hard and hammered out a constitution for
  this firm.  Ernest Bader said, No, I don't want to have ownership of this
  company, and so all the capital, except 10 percent, was vested in the
  commonwealth, which was set up for this purpose as a limited company.  The
  equity doesn't lie anymore with Ernest Bader, it lies with that
  commonwealth, and everybody who works for a certain length of time becomes
  a member of the commonwealth.  Legally speaking, the commonwealth is the
  owner of the operating company.  At first the family retained 10 percent
  founder's share, so arranged that they had a majority, not with the
  intention of using it but as a last resort.  Because it is jolly difficult
  to build something up but it is very easy to ruin it.

  [...]

  It was not until 1963, that is, twelve years later, that we felt it worked.
  The founder's shares were also put into the general pocket of the
  commonwealth, so it is the administration of the commonwealth that owns
  the thing.

Schumacher goes on to describe how this created a radical realignment of incentives for the company and to list some of the effects created by this realignment. For example, they put a cap on the maximum spread between the highest paid and lowest paid employees, committed to staying small (spinning off new companies when they needed to grow), and required that a significant portion of all profits be invested in the local community.

Scott Bader still exists and is still owned and run by the employees:

http://www.scottbader.com/governance.html

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