It would be more complex if the US didn’t believe in 13th floor story and UK did. Even though both would have 14th floor on the same level from the ground, there is a lot that would be missed if you only elevated straight from the parking basement to your 14th floor.

Findroid/Finamp? Quite robust.

Link: https://github.com/jmshrv/finamp

The unsang heroes who brought in wisdom and competency! 🤟

Dess should tell us why Valentines. Probably a missed date and vented out on AGPL-3 legendary code. If true, long live heartbreaks!

I once read that the failure of British industrial policy to engage labour as a long term competitive edge instead of a dispensable short term concern saw Germany overtake British car makers. Germany dealt with labour strikes more comprehensively by engaging labour in policy structures. Like including Labour representatives in boardrooms.

I wonder how this may reflect on Chinese / Western competitiveness.

Found the piece: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23406467

Sadly, yes. One would hope the more core sectors use it, the more the general population would use such tools. But alas!

Cold plain metrics can easily hide social complexity.

Assume 10 investigative journalists use modded privacy-friendly Firefox for year long investigation. Then their report is read by 10 million average news reader on stock browsers like Chrome. Network logics tell us that Firefox browser has asymmetrical value in the ecosystem than plain usage metrics can ever reveal.

The obsession with numbers (the more the better) is a major blinding effect in societies driven by hierarchical cultures.

The article itself focuses on a Palestinian who has gon ethrough the whole wringer for decades. It is not a distraction, at least that is not the intention. It is a deeper look into history to locate what today feels like new stuff for the world yet this is how “Gaza breathes”, away from Hamas and ISIS and Israel.

Me, deep in the night, reading about modem signals and off the hook. I love forum threads. They have taught me more than I can imagine.

I find the diaspora conflicts irritating. Most of them fan killings back in Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Sudan then create such a bitter environment in the communities hosting them (like Calgary or Sweden or Germany). Tell these people to go and fight in the Ethiopian fronts and they coil back. But they want the kids of poor farmers to go and die for their abstract ideas (sometimes genuine, but mostly misdirected at the wrong people).

Interesting seen this way.

Word of note though. Salaries are quiet spread out. The people likely to buy new iPhones are likely people earning top 1% of salaries in most countries in Africa.

If this viz is focusing on average salary, then it is a general description and should not be compared to other countries with different income spreads (min-max). It can be quite deceptive. Upper middle class in a place like Kenya or Myanmar live a far more better life overall than say lower middle class folk in the US.

There is that too. Same with Obama. Let’s just say most politicians are not worthy candidates for the shared meaning of peace and global admiration of those who work towards peace.

Regarding revocation, no, the Committee does not revoke awards as they claim these awards reflect the moment they are given.

I know millions of Ethiopians who would question the Nobel high grounds. They awarded a Nobel Peace Prize to a politician (former intelligence officer) who has gone ahead to oversee military assault on civilians in many parts of the country especially Amhara, Oromo, and Tigray regions.

This is not to discount your point but to bring more data on the conversation on why the idea of “Nobel Prize” doesn’t necessarily ring positive things in different parts of the world.

Check this: https://www.npr.org/2023/08/29/1196282658/how-did-ethiopia-go-from-its-leader-winning-the-nobel-peace-prize-to-war-in-a-ye

And Nobel committee issuing a statement on the controversy: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2019/statement/

What became of the tradition? We always start stocking tissue-paper …

Seems there might be more strains if farm produce is lower than expected. Onions too are under 40% export tax in an attempt to increase domestic supplies.

The present price rise has two aspects to it: first is the shortage in stored produce; the second has to do with lower-than-expected acreage of the bulb itself. Unlike other vegetables such as okra or beans, onions are not grown around the year.

Yes, same with last year’s festive season. So it is part of a wider plan around domestic supplies, price controls, and limiting basmati fakes.

Last month, the government banned exports of non-basmati white rice to boost domestic supply and keep retail prices under check during the upcoming festive season.

As a non-American, the first time I heard Born in the USA, I thought it was a celebration of being the “lucky” one to have been born in the “greatest country in the world”.

Then I attained the age of reason.

This was bound to happen one way or the other (especially on moral grounds) seeing the public-face most of these officials wear in the name of “religion and traditions”.

But this won’t stop hateful content on Somali internet.

Approximately 750,000 Ethiopians live and work in Saudi Arabia. While many migrate for economic reasons, a number have fled because of serious human rights abuses in Ethiopia, including during the recent, brutal armed conflict in the north.

I wonder how many more operate below the legal registration.

Documentation is well done. Good stuff. I use podgrab for some tests and while I like it for the simplicity, I had to move to Audiobookshelf as it combines audiobooks and podcasts neatly. I’ll check this out as it looks quite thought out (and sleek too).