The truly horrible thing is that you seem to be under the misconception that it's *either* extreme capitalism *or* extreme socialism.

Look to other countries. Look to Europe for social democracies. Look to Asia for a variety of other systems.

You'll find that the current "American model" is rather bad by a variety of parameters, these days.

Most of Europe has good models. Northern Europe (Scandinavia) has a *very* good model.

That's a weird take on the history of Google.

Pagerank was nicknames 'backrub' when it was still a research project, and that turned out to be a really neat idea. Larry, Sergey and Scott then started developing a search engine.

This really started taking off in '98, as the world and dog realized that google gave better results than altavista and other search engines. The rest is history.

You mention marketing people. They came much later. They had success with the search engine long before they started hiring marketing people.

When it comes to profitability, yes, search ads, display ads and so forth is still the biggest income source. Youtube ads is getting more and more valuable too. In addition, they have a heck of a lot of other bets.

You have a very, "interesting" take on history.

I'm sorry, but you really need to read up on the subject matter and no just adlib some soundbite.

I recommend you read this article from Legemiddelverket:
https://legemiddelverket.no/ny...

Think of Legemiddelverket as the Norwegian variant of the FDA.

Now, the thing is, we've had 4 (the article says 3, but there has been one more announced now) cases of blood clots + low platelet counts in the last 14 days. This is a *very* rare combination (so rare that the experts at Rikshospitalet in Oslo can't remember having seen it themselves before). All 4 of the patients receive the AZ vaccine within a couple of weeks before stuff going downhill for them. All of them healthy individuals, all of them nurses (the medical community in Norway has been prioritized for the AZ vaccine).

If this had been "just blood clots", we could look at statistics and go "eh, probably a fluke, it doesn't seem to be more cases than usual". However, this is "blood clots" + "low platelet count", and the medical community is going "Eh, this is .. not normal."

Now, from a bigger perspective, less people will die if we use the vaccine anyways. And it's less dangerous than getting covid-19 from a bigger perspective. It is, however, not anti-vaxers behind this.

Denmark has reported at least one case of the same combination.

https://www.reuters.com/articl...

I'm not sure if we and the Danes got vaccines from the same batch or not.

Now, it's indeed an interesting question whether there is other factors at play here, but it's worth mentioning that the patients were not at the same facility. Given that they were from the same batch (or so I believe) - they might have been mishandled before they were distributed across the country. I do, however, find that rather unlikely.

First of all, I'm eagerly awaiting vaccination, and would probably accept the AZ vaccine if offered to me.

However, comments here seem to downplay and be misinformed about what's going on. First you have the idea that this is an EU thing. Norway, who provided quite a bit of data on this is not even an EU member, but a member of the EEA.

Second, the interesting thing is that most of the cases is deep vein thrombosis in combination with low blood platelet counts. According to the experts at Rikshospitalet in Oslo, this is so rare that several of the blood clot experts there have never even seen the combination before. Now they've seen it 4+ times in short order, all in people who has received the AZ vaccine during the last 14 days.

This seems to be a common pattern among the patients. Low platelet count + sudden blood clots, right after the vaccine. From the information available, there doesn't seem to be a history of health problems neither - at least in Norway - the AZ vaccine was mostly given to healthcare professionals here.

You are quite wrong. The EU negotiated as a block.

If you look at CSDs (Central Security Depositories), you'll find scary amounts of code written in both Cobol and PL/1.

CICS is also still alive and kicking in a lot of places.

First of all, this seems to only solve for areas close by the equator. Where I live, sunrise today was 07:42. In 5 days, it'll be 07:55. That's that month of adjustment done for in 5 days ... :P In the summer, sun was up 03:53 - 22:43 at peak. During winter, it'll be up 09:19 - 15:13 at worst.

How those 10 minutes should be adjusted each month. Heh, that would be an "interesting" discussion.

Now, the other problem is, of course, implementation and consequences of implementation in critical systems ..

It is quite practical, to be honest.

I live in a winter-country (Norway). It's quite cold during the winter. I know I'll want to take a trip to the store in 15 minutes time? OK, I'll just open the app and tell my car to prep. The batteries and cabin are both pre-heated when I get into the car. Nice.

Where the fsck did I park? Can't remember. Can't find the ruddy car. Hmm.. open the app, make it make a sound. Ah! There it is! Other side of the bloody parking lot! (Or, I could just open the map and in the app and see where it is!)

Wife can't find her key. I'm at work. Something forgotten in the car. OK, I'll open it remotely via the app.

Lots of nice little things.

I remember when I started using Google, back in '98. It was amazingly much better than the rest. It kept being amazing until around 2009, where a change was introduced that no longer required all the words you searched for. Then synonyms were added. Then attempts to figure out what you searched for. It got rather useless.

Then someone added Verbatim search to Google. It was good again for many years, until I guess some time last year. Since then, results have gotten sucky with Verbatim search too.

I tend to go more and more to duckduckgo, bing and other search engines, as Google quite simply keeps returning irrelevant results.

I've defended 80x25 for many, many years. However; it was the standard 20 years ago and was probably a bit dated back then, and honestly, we've moved on.

I've got relatively crappy hardware, but when I just expanded my xterm to the edge, echo $COLUMS returned 320.

I'd be fine with accepting I'm probably affluent, and go for half that. Going for just 100 seems a bit restrictive, and I'll argue for 160 character line length as probably entirely OK.

I think you've misunderstood, unless I've misunderstood you:

1: 1*3+1 = 4 ... 4/2 = 2 ... 2/2 = 1.
2: 2/2 = 1
3: 3*3+1 = 10 .. 10/2 = 5 .. 5*3+1 = 16 .. 16/2 = 8 ... 8/2 = 4 .. leads to 1.
4: 4/2 = 2 ... 2/2 = 1
5: 5*3+1 = 16, see 3.
6: 6/2 = 3, see 3.
7: 7*3+1 = 22 .. 22/2 = 11 ... 11*3+1 = 34 ... 34/2 = 17 .. 17*3+1 = 52 .. 52/2 = 26 .. 26/2 = 13 .. 13*3+1 = 40 .. 40/2 = 20 .. 20/2 = 10, see 3.

Number 7 there illustrates it. You get 52, then 26, then 13 .. it's not rolling all the way down to 1 before being multiplied by 3 and added 1 to again.

So, the question is whether there is a crazy number somewhere that will always follow the pattern that you multiply by 3, add 1, divide by 2 only once, to hit another odd number. And that every number above that will be continuing crazy in that way.

I think.

For those of us who remember the era well - the best Browser of the day was Opera. And it had tabs. And they worked.

That other browsers spent years to get up to speed didn't mean that tabs hadn't been invented.

Norwegian Tesla owner here ..

I was out driving in less than -20C here in Norway this winter, so that bit is patently false.

There's plenty of chargers.

Norway might be small area wise, but length wise (south to north) .. think San Diego to Vancouver.

You have forgotten the shape of Norway. To drive from Lindesnes Fyr in the absolute south, to Kirkenes in the North East, while keeping on Norwegian roads the entire time is a distance of 2788km (1732 miles).

If we go via Sweden and Finland, this is cut down to 2310km (1435 miles).

Someone else posted a nice overlay map showing how Norway overlays onto the US.

The second point is that the country is rather cold during the winter.

We're also a rather sparsely populated country. Someone claimed that all major cities were within 150 miles of Oslo (except TromsÃ). This is also incorrect.

Oslo - Kristiansand: 356km (221 miles)
Oslo - Stavanger: 556km (345 miles)
Oslo - Bergen: 466km (277 miles)
Oslo - Trondheim: 495km (307 miles)
Oslo - BodÃ: 1202km (746 miles)
Oslo - TromsÃ: 1739km (1080 miles)
Oslo - Hammerfest: 1864km (1158 miles)
Oslo - Kirkenes: 2310km (1435 miles)

It can of course be argued that BodÃ, Hammerfest and Kirkenes isn't major cities, but they're quite important.

It's quite true that we're mainly Hydropowered, but that isn't the only relevant bit. Electric cars are far more efficient than ICE cars. More of the energy goes straight into moving the car. Furthermore, fossile power plants are far more efficient than ICE engines. Even with electricity conversion losses - you get far more mileage per unit of fossil fuel from a power plant, than from a combustion engine for a car.

And finally, with regards to it being more polluting to produce the batteries for the EV cars than producing a ICE car - remember that you don't need to dig the materials out of the ground every time to get the so called "rare earth elements". You recycle, cheaply. When we've produced enough batteries once over, 95% of the materials can be recycled and used for new cars. Thus - we have a huge "one time fee" to get the materials, then we only need to keep producing about 5% of them to keep going. Which is very nice indeed.