In January 1968, a progressive faction was able to gain control of the government in communist Czechoslovakia. They proceeded to liberalize the country. Czech media was allowed to be critical of Soviet-style communism for the first time, and many restrictions on individuals were eased. This was called the "Prague Spring"
Fearing a weakened position in the cold war and a spreading desire for liberal reforms in other countries, the Soviet Union, with the aid of other Warsaw Pact countries, invaded Czechoslovakia in order to install a more friendly regime and bring the country back in line with Soviet policy.
For many western communists and socialists, this was the final nail in the coffin for support of Soviet-style communism. A small minority, however, supported the action. They were labeled as "tankies" because of the imagery of tanks rolling in to Czech cities.
Today, "tanky" is used to label a spectrum of people. At one end are those who have large support for marxist-lenninist/marxist-lenninist-stalinist/marxist-lenninist-maoist Communism (different philosophies of how to accomplish a communist revolution) at one extreme. At another end are people who support the current Russian or Chinese governments because they oppose American imperialism. Most of those people do not really identify as "tankies". The current usage also doesn't really relate to the original, as most people don't have a stance on the Soviet response to the Prague Spring today.
Lemmy.ml is understood to be friendly to marxist-lenninist thought, since the founders subscribe to that philosophy. Thus, users of the instance are often labeled as "tankies".
From what I read, in the 60s there was this idea that intestinal flaura would break it down into sulpher compounds that could cause cancer. A bunch of countries banned it, but later research suggested that it's not that big a deal, so a lot of countries unbanned it.
Agreed. The function of the down vote is to deprioritize that post/comment. People should use the down vote when they want to deprioritize that post/comment.
Great, now they can try zoning for anything other than single family with yard. Scottsdale's growth patterns are stupid and unsustainable,and cutting out grass lawns is a tiny but significant step
Shipping can certainly be made much less impactful, if that's what you are thinking. A lot of shipping is overland trucking, and a lot of overland trucking can be replaced with trains, and a lot of trains can be replaced with electrified trains. That would make quite a bit of difference
What this number suggests to me is that Tumblr has revenue less than 20 million dollars. I figure:
about 100 employees
based in new York
average $100,000 salary
10m annually in humans
2-3m annually for office expenses
20-30m annually for hosting
Some of these numbers can be up or down, but when I worked at a similar company in New York, we had operating expenses in the same range. (Coincidentally, we had revenue on the same range, and got sold off in a fire sale)
BSD boosterism is a meme, I know, but honestly this is the incorrect take.
Anything as large and complicated as a kernel has bugs. Some of those bugs may be security related. If security is your concern, you want to use the kernel which has people actively publishing those bugs so they can be patched.
The fact you haven't seen privilege escalation vulnerabilities in BSD isn't necessarily because they aren't there. We don't know that. What we do know is that not as many people are looking.
I keep it for r/watchexchange. Nobody has written a sales moderator bot for Lenny/kbin, and I don't even know if the apis are mature enough for someone to do that. So communities like that will probably stay with reddit until they can't or the alternative is mature enough
Yeah, there is a legitimate complaint about "contact us" pricing, but not in this case. How do you price bespoke work without knowing what the work is?
Is it ten hours by a schmoe front end, or 2 years by the guy who invented Ethernet?
In January 1968, a progressive faction was able to gain control of the government in communist Czechoslovakia. They proceeded to liberalize the country. Czech media was allowed to be critical of Soviet-style communism for the first time, and many restrictions on individuals were eased. This was called the "Prague Spring"
Fearing a weakened position in the cold war and a spreading desire for liberal reforms in other countries, the Soviet Union, with the aid of other Warsaw Pact countries, invaded Czechoslovakia in order to install a more friendly regime and bring the country back in line with Soviet policy.
For many western communists and socialists, this was the final nail in the coffin for support of Soviet-style communism. A small minority, however, supported the action. They were labeled as "tankies" because of the imagery of tanks rolling in to Czech cities.
Today, "tanky" is used to label a spectrum of people. At one end are those who have large support for marxist-lenninist/marxist-lenninist-stalinist/marxist-lenninist-maoist Communism (different philosophies of how to accomplish a communist revolution) at one extreme. At another end are people who support the current Russian or Chinese governments because they oppose American imperialism. Most of those people do not really identify as "tankies". The current usage also doesn't really relate to the original, as most people don't have a stance on the Soviet response to the Prague Spring today.
Lemmy.ml is understood to be friendly to marxist-lenninist thought, since the founders subscribe to that philosophy. Thus, users of the instance are often labeled as "tankies".