Nope, Ethereum was forked multiple times BEFORE that fork. So Ethereum Classic is not the "original" chain either (if by "original" you mean a chain that can be validated by running software from a time before the first fork).
The US already imposed basically all the sanctions it can without just straight up trying to fuck over the Russian people as much as possible (the Russian people still got pretty fucked by sanctions already). Because of previous sanctions the Russian economy has a high degree of independence now and impact of sanctions is pretty limited.
I believe Russia had signed a deal with China to trade in their own currencies, as Russia attempts to fully de-dollarize their economy and trade. This was done since 2015 when the initial sanctions where applied.
I don't know if you're trying to be sarcastic, but I'll assume good faith - the goal of US sanctions is to destroy the Russian economy as much as possible to weaken Russia. Russian citizens coming to the US is good for the goal of weakening the Russian economy.
Russian spooks would find a way into the US no matter what.
If I visit Iran, I can not go to USA.
I think US should apply the same rules, and cleanse themselves from all Russian influence. All Russian developers, tech, companies...
If you go to Iran, you certainly can go to the USA after. You just need to ask for a new passport, and the US will never know what happened.
These sanctions aren't about influence. It's really just about trying to weaken Russian economically. The US government seems to think that Russian and Chinese influence is not that big of a problem, and they are probably right.
It is unconstitutional because it treats people unequally. New people will not find any rentable properties, and will have to stay in hotels paying 10x more.
No, it’s unconstitutional because the Berlin government was passing a law which conflicted with federal law (BGB) which regulates rents in Germany.
Also, the Berlin government was retroactively changing (rent) contracts which normally invalidates any contract as this will always put one contract party at an unprecedented disadvantage.
Berlin with its Red-Red-Green government is hardly a city governed by xenophobia. OTOH, the German left is even more pro-immigration and pro-multiculturalism than an average European leftist party.
This law was probably meant against big housing corporations like Deutsches Wohnen, which bought a lot of the housing stock during previous privatizations, and so have some power on the housing market.
IMHO Berlin (just like Prague) needs to lower bureaucratic hurdles on new construction, but maybe the locals do not want that. There was a chance to turn the former Tempelhof airfield into a new neighbourhood, but a local ballot turned it down.
Tempelhoferfeld is the best park in Berlin. Parks provide value too. They should build up instead of sprawling like the most terrible cities in the world do.
> They should build up instead of sprawling like the most terrible cities in the world do
When I was in Berlin, it seemed to me people in Berlin wanted the impossible combination:
- Continue to afford to live in the city (ergo more housing in the city)
- No sprawl to keep the car traffic down (ergo still more pressure on housing in the city)
- Keeping the green spaces (so no denser housing)
- No higher buildings, or God forbid, high-risers (so no denser housing)
Or better said, you would find people, who are dead set against high-risers and would tolerate building on Tempelhofer Feld, or who are dead set against using spaces within the city (Tempelholfer Feld), but would probably tolerate higher buildings.
> It is unconstitutional because it treats people unequally.
Wrong, it was declared unconstitutional because only the federal government is allowed to pass such a measure. Our federal construction minister "Voll-Horst" Seehofer is free to regulate rents any time he wants, but unfortunately all he has been doing for the last four years is to deny systemic issues in police all day.
> New people will not find any rentable properties, and will have to stay in hotels paying 10x more.
So what? Without rent control poor people are forced out of the homes they grew up in, this is certainly worse than tech hipsters having to pay for hotels.
I don't follow you. Why limiting the prices for renting, will be less rentable properties, the point of this is to make rentable properties have a price where people can rent a property to live.
That is a horrible argument, because the same can be said for land ownership. Isn't it unfair that when I move somewhere, I discover that all the land in that area is already owned by someone else. Why should some old history entitle someone to exclusive ownership of any piece of land, and the ability to charge arbitrary rents for it?
The fact of the matter is, first movers have all sorts of unfair advantages over latecomers, many of them from luck, or from circumstances of birth - and I doubt you are seeking to overturn all of them.
Young people become old people, serfs don't become feudal lords.
Foreigners can naturalize (and most of them have the freedom to weigh the costs of paying into systems they don't benefit from, and consider whether or not immigrating is worth it.)
AirBnB is part of the problem btw. There are at least 4 fulltime AirBnB flats on my building floor (that I'm aware of). I'm assuming it's AirBnB because there's a very high "fluctuation" of new people in those flats (few days to 2 or 3 weeks). Imagine if all those AirBnBs would be available for longterm renting ;)
Since 2014 you need to have an official permission to use a flat for AirBnb. If you suspect these are illegally rented out, you can report them to the Berlin government here:
It is like saying refugees are part of the problem, because they are taking flats from the market. People who rent Airbnb also have a right to be in Berlin.
And this policy is pushing more flats from normal market into airbnbs.
Friend was treated for "mental disorder". She was fine, except food allergy. If she followed this "bro science", she would be dependent on God knows what, with real mental problems.
Are you sure? I've done this for the last 20 years and feel that it's only improved my listening comprehension and allowed me to focus on simple things I'd otherwise not be able to marathon
For engineers with enough time (and able to do troubleshooting), no, no advantages.
For everyone else, they do have advantage, most thing you wanted is 1 click away, including something tedious for average "power users", like "using btrfs safely with RAID-5-like disk array" (so that you can take a snapshot of your drive) mentioned here.
