They count it as Linux, yes!

Once the results come out, so let’s hope for the best!

No, tbh I don’t. I did okay in the written test, but I’m sure I can’t manage a conversation.

I did the reading comprehension and listening parts quite nicely, and predictably struggled with the essay. Quite likely passed though.

Surprisingly, it did go pretty well! As expected, not very great on the writing skills side, but overall OK aside from that.

Most Chinese capital is still socialized. Some privatization did indeed happen (which helped China attract foreign capital and maintain diplomatic relations), but that trend has since reversed.

I wanted to delete all the subfolders in the current directory:

 rm -rf ./*

After a few seconds, I realize in horror that I had mistyped the path. Whole system nuked. Had backups though.

“Escanciar” in Spanish means pouring from a height for the purpose of mixing a beverage (usually cider) with air. I suppose it would still be valid if you’re pouring a mix from some height.

Disabling the USB port is neat, BUT… What if it got instead reconfigured to pretend to be a USB keyboard when connected and then… you know… For research purposes, of course.

Indeed! If one person ends up spending most of their income on basic needs, they’ll not be able to spend much of it on long-lasting properties, which is what this map measures. It’s a pity though that Cuba and the DPRK did not appear in the sources, but at least we do get some interesting perspectives on the countries that do (look at Venezuela!).

“Socialism turns out to work pretty well and is beating our ass” --> “Now, no one — certainly not me — is discounting the power of markets,” Sullivan noted at the time. “But in the name of oversimplified market efficiency, a large non-market economy had been integrated into the international economic order in a way that posed considerable challenges.”

Makes sense, thanks!

There are some really cool electoral methods that are used in some niche situations (e.g. the Schulze method). Obviously wouldn’t work to elect a government, since that would not massively benefit the ruling class as the current methods do.

Well, it’s doing it right now, so your point stands ;)

I think the methodology is not consistent before 1990, so it’s difficult to say how much of that drop is real (should probably not have included anything pre-1990).

Well, the threshold for significance might not be that strict here since the risk of seeing a difference where there is none is not really a problem. But there are very few socialist countries anyway, so our ability to tell apart real differences from coincidences is very low as you point out…

Indeed! The two averages are virtually the same, so it makes sense that the statistical test can’t find any meaningful difference between the two.

Yes, you are right, but during most of that time, interest rates neared zero. I like to plot the sum of YoY inflation and interest rates since it is more stable and gives a feeling of how much headroom there actually is.

Curious how long they’ll be able to go on with the narrative that inflation will go down and interest rates will be reduced soon…

I agree, all about it looks like feel-good environmental stuff with a touch of realizing the economy is the problem.