If so then also all democrats. Hate to break it to you but blue team is just as evil and coupt as red team.

Charlie Chaplain - The Great Dictator

It's Charlie Chaplain from The Great Dictator.

Who gets to decide which countries are considered free, partly free and not free?, sounds like propaganda to me.

The government derives its power from the governed. The Russian government acts on behalf of the Russian citizen. All Russians are complicit.

So its like a really big trailer park. We can work with that.

Datasets: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ceperezegma/linkedin_jobs_dataset/main/ranking%20mobile%20hybrid%20platforms.txt

Tools Used: Python, flourish

Mobile hybrid platforms sources:

https://www.mobileappdaily.com/best-hybrid-app-frameworks

https://www.statista.com/statistics/869224/worldwide-software-developer-working-hours/

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I´m a middle age software engineer, since I started to work on software I’ve worked as a developer, software architect, consultant and software manager. At this point I’m looking for new opportunities/experiences in a very changing and wide industry, I like a lot of things in our industry from cognitive computing to mobile/wearable development, this is why I’ve started an in-progress work to analyze skills trends companies are looking for.

My starting point:

Companies list: NASDAQ top 100 (because they are de biggest companies, so I think they impose trends)

Source: LinkedIn job posts

Tools: Apache nutch (to crawl and scrap job posts), python and flourish (to analyze and visualize trends)

Time frame: December and November mainly, but there are job posts since August

Posts amount: 40.396

These are my first results, answering this personal question (as I mentioned, I’m interested in mobile development as well): “what mobile hybrid platforms are companies working on and demanding skills?”

Does it match your personal experiences?

What additional questions would you like to ask?

Dictators dictate, if the people taking the dictation get the transcription wrong who's fault is it then huh? Poor dictators, surrounded by incapable stenographers.

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Data source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ceperezegma/linkedin_jobs_dataset/main/ranking%20devops%20tools.txt

Tools Used: Python, flourish

This graph makes no sense

>So: more people voted for Putin in 2000 than there are eligible voters in Ukraine today?

If I understand chart correctly, yes. Also almost as many as in Spain.

>And also: Russia's last "relatively fair" election was more than twenty years ago?

Questionable. No idea about 2004 and 2008, but by 2012 it was surely rigged in a way. By 2012 constitution was changed and most of the mechanisms that were used in past years had been already in place(but not as widely used) to shut down people, to change law on a whim, to falsify votes and so on.

As long as there is a single Russian opposing the war this statement is not true, neither logically nor morally

Totalitarian states almost universally favor Heavy Industry over Light Industry, Agriculture and dense tenements over suburban sprawl, and care very little for complaints the streets aren't lit well enough when they'd rather invest in their military instead.

There are systematic differences in the types of growth found in Democratic vs. Totalitarian regimes. I am not saying Totalitarian regimes don't lie (they most certainly do), but this (levels of light pollution as seen from space) is an absolutely nonsense measure of economic growth that has been used by the West for decades now to claim that countries with more Totalitarian governments are poorer than they really are (the reality is much worse: they are better off than portrayed, but the ruling class of Totalitarian regimes often steal immense amounts for themselves such that the economic growth doesn't benefit ordinary people...)

You never considered that there are different types of economic growth that generate different amounts of light, did you?

Dictatorships and Totalitarian regimes famously favor Heavy Industry over Light Industry, for instance. A boom in the steel industry does NOT lead to as much expansion in lighting as a boom in home construction and shopping malls to sell an expanded supply of consumer appliances.

This whole argument by the Economist is just plain nonsense, designed to advantage the types of economic growth favored in Western countries.

So...how do you do that, exactly?

The results were high economic growth though. I don't think the argument works here.

wouldnt trust anything out of the racist economist

It's very uneven growth, China has a massive AIDs epidemic and many in rural China still think Mao is alive and running the show. Their economy won't be first rate unless the rest of the country develops and it sorts it's political problems out.

Are you going to give up after two days? Because in my experience most people who talk like this give up.

Pretty much every society ever lies about economics as well. From my point of view, dictators are complete and utter amateurs when it comes to lying about the economy, though they do tell some pretty ridiculous ones. Interestingly, South Korea went from being poorer than North Korea and a total third world country to a rich country in about two decades. Most of that was under a brutal dictator. I'm not sure if any other medium sized country has ever achieved such rapid growth. (I'm not counting small countries like Nauru).

I'll just give some examples of various lies I've found to be comical or egregious, just from reading what economists and politicians say in their books/talks, ect. You can choose to believe them or not to believe them, hehe. They are off the top of my head. I remember most of the sources if your curious.

The third world had very low economic growth in the 1980's due to policies recommended by economists.

300 ivy league economists wrote in the NYT in 1993 that NAFTA was a great idea because of the theory of comparative advantage. I doubt any one of them even bothered to read what was in the agreement.

William Nordhaus (Nobel prize winner in economics) said that we should raise the global temperatures to around 3.5 degrees Celsius as an economic tradeoff. He said this in his Nobel prize speech. His model claims that forestry and fishing, and outdoors industry are essentially the only industry effected by climate change.

Jagdish Bhagwati (an ivy league economist) said extreme inequality was the best kind because billionaire rich people give money away more than millionaires. Lol. (Isn't that a contradiction? There wouldn't be extreme inequality if billionaires really did that). In any case, it's not true.

My favorite is Thomas Malthus, who said we should introduce the black plague to wipe out the poor, so we can get population growth under control. He argued that the poor should be put in enclosed, crowded area's to help spread disease more early. A bit of a caricature, but he really did say that.

economists in my country said (about 40 years ago) that companies that pay their CEO's too much would fail because other companies could outcompete them by paying their companies less. So companies like Facebook and Google simply wouldn't exist, since by definition there cannot be monopoly.

the British killed over a hundred million people in India and lowered the life expectancy to less than it was in cave man times (it was in the 20's), through endemic deaths from hunger and famine. The policies of exporting food to Britain were praised by free market economists in the 19th century.

Politicians saying automation is a threat to jobs is a deflection away from their policies, which caused unemployment.

If you change the poverty line from $2 a day to $6 a day, the poverty rate goes from about 1 billion to 4-5billion. It's set to $2 a day (last I checked) for no good reason whatsoever!

Trickle down economics. Do I need to explain this one?

In much of the west, since the 1970's, economic growth has slowed to 2% (instead of 3%), financial crisis have become more common, and real wages have stagnated. Milton Friedman said a rising tide would lift all boats. Clearly he was wrong, (and on many other things too!).

The great financial crisis was in large part caused from a clearly false belief in the efficient markets hypothesis. Eugene Fama later won the nobel prize for the efficient market hypothesis.

employment is counted if you work one hour a week in most countries. More and more 'employment' is precarious in nature.

The banks speculated on food prices, driving them sky high, after the 2008 recession. It caused riots and starvation to about a hundred million people in 30 countries. There was a study blaming it on Bush's investments in biofuels. The study was suppressed from publication at the world bank.

Intellectual property rights on medicine have no justification. The lies vary on this one. The original one was that it's profits are needed fund research. However this is clearly not true, as R & D spending declined or stayed the same as patent profits skyrocketed. Millions of people have died because they couldn't afford HIV medicine, it was about fifty times more expensive than it cost to make.

Putin is wildly popular in Russia. The Russians are responsible for the war in Ukraine

Are dictators and authoritarians the same thing in this context?

He wrote this report and installed all of the lights it measured.