Comment Re:Maybe (Score 1) 154
What makes you think that other civilisations are any smarter than our own?
Right, but you have to admit we set the bar quite low...
What makes you think that other civilisations are any smarter than our own?
Right, but you have to admit we set the bar quite low...
Actual quote: she presented herself to him as entirely willing. Assuming she was being coerced by Epstein, he would have had every reason to tell her to conceal that from most of his associates.
This kind of defense is grotesque: in 2001 (when this is supposed to be happened) Minsky was 74. It doesn't strike me as very likely that a 17-19 old girl (we don't know the exact date, but legal age is not really the point) would be "entirely willing" to have sex with a 74 y.o. guy she just met, in a mansion on an island owned my a multi-billionaire with a lavish lifestyle. Anyone with half a working neuron would get that the whole situation smelled funny. And Minsky (and Stallman, who assumedly believed him) are for sure a lot smarter than I am.
It might be true, or maybe KPMG has just invested a lot (and has many clients) in real estate.
You will find this link informative: I Was the Mob Until the Mob Came for Me.
Yes, an anonymous article that doesn't quote a single name, date or fact, published in a libertarian-oriented magazine is obviously unimpeachable evidence.
The same happened to me. About ten years ago I had a MythTV install, with PCI boards both for DTB and satellite, and I used to spend hours recompiling MythTV and applying patches. I also had to write a Linux kernel driver to support an homemade keyboard-equipped remote control. Then, when streaming became a reality, I started using Kodi on Raspberry Pi. After more years of updating plugins, recovering from botched updates, dealing with obscure configuration options, I realized that probably had spent more time fixing the software instead of using it. So I bought an Apple TV. Now if I want to watch a movie, I just needs to press "Play". I still use Kodi/OSMC occasionally, for some stuff, and I absolutely do not intend to disparage MythTV, Kodi or similar software. They are great, and I owe a lot to their authors, but there's a level of integration, simplicity and reliability that simply cannot be currently reached.
Not really: even comparing it with UK, Brazil never underwent a European-style lockdown, and even where the rules were stricter (Sao Paulo) they were not really comparable to what we had in Europe. In Manaus the rules were quite loose, and became looser when the local state governor (Brazil is a federal republic, whose president and governors have more or less the same powers as in the US) backed down after the usual backlash from local economic entities.
Add to that: sanitary conditions in Brazil, especially in that part of the country, are not really what we're used to (90% of the population of Amazonas is not served by a sewer system); a free and high-level but chronically underfunded healthcare system; the particular geographic condition of Manaus that makes access and rapid response more difficult (the city of Manaus is basically an "island" in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, reachable only by air, water, and a single access road that goes towards Venezuela); an incompetent and negationist governor; a sprinkle of corruption (the very same state governor is under investigation for an over-budgeted purchase of pulmonary ventilators).
I don't know about Germany, but in Italy remotely surveillance/monitoring of employees is always forbidden, it doesn't matter whether you tell them or not. There are obviously exceptions for particular jobs (handling of hazardous materials, cash oe valuables, etc.)
You don't show up, you don't follow the rules, you often no longer have a job at all...
I fail to see how this is discrimination, unless in Italy they have put "lazy" or "Irresponsible" as a protected class?
Shit happens: have you ever woken up with a severe headache or flu, had an incident while going to work or a relative/partner need immediate assistance? In Europe we usually try to protect people'sjob from employers who simply don't care while imposing some rules to prevent other people from abusing the system.
The problem is in those "24 hours in advance" and in the fact that you cannot justify your absence after the fact. The law in Italy (and I guess in similar ways in the rest of Europe) clearly mandates how much time you have to warn your employer you're sick: this ranges from a few hours before your shift starts (usually 2 to 4,) or even after it has started, depending on the national contract applied to the sector you work in. Then you have 2-3 more days (again, depending on the contract) to transmit the official certification written and authenticated by your physician.
This is crap design to even allow it, and probably derives from it running off the same deisel engine and generator used for the locomotive itself,
The only problem with this statement is that most (about 80% of the traffic) European trains are not usually diesel-powered, but use electric locomotives. That 80% goes probably way up if you exclude Eastern Europe and UK along with the most remote regions of the other countries.
You have to customize a few things here or there, mostly for aesthetic reasons (fonts, etc.), but otherwise Notepad++ works very well under Wine, including many of its plugins.
The Italian official apps, created by a private company on government input, are also open source, actually free software under AGPL 3.0: here is the main repository
Good part of the documentation comes also in English
There's only one way to know: get TEPCO executives and their families to drink and use this water for their daily needs for the next 12-18 months, then ask them again.
If an error is made in the payment of your Direct Debit, by the organization or your bank or building society, you are entitled to a full and immediate refund of the amount paid from your bank or building society
As a fellow European: you're right, of course, the problem is the definition of error. Let's say you pay about EUR 50 per month for your electric bill. You should actually pay 60, but something went wrong (e.g. a software somewhere miscalculated something; your meter is not functioning properly; the same meter has not been actually read in a long time and the invoicing is only based on estimates, etc.) and you are unsuspectingly paying less.
Fast forward to five years later, when someone or something corrects the error: EUR 10 x 12 bills a year x 5 years = EUR 600 that are instantaneously subtracted from your account with the next bill. Nobody disputes that, at least in the examples I made that money is actually and rightly owed, but if you're used to go from paycheck to paycheck, you're now in trouble (or with an outstanding debt, should you not have funds). Technically there's no error so you're left at the mercy of electric company that could allow you an extension (or not) and consumer rights laws in this case only go so far.
And this is why many people simply do not trust auto-pay (full disclosure: I have auto-pay activated on all utilities because the risk of me forgetting to pay something and having my electricity or Internet connection cut is in my case much greater than that of receiving an undue bill).
It doesn't really stack up against the maixduino, which gives you a dual core 64 bit RISC-V CPU
The Maixduino is a great board for its price, but has no HDMI, Ethernet or CUDA (the CPU is a dual core @600 Mhz against ARM A57 @1.4 GHz, I don't know how they stack against each other). You may well not need those features but it doesn't mean they're not worth the increased price.
Force needed to accelerate 2.2lbs of cookies = 1 Fig-newton to 1 meter per second
