Disclaimer: I'm a developer of WorkAdventure
Thanks for that. I recently had a look at gather.town and kumospace, and believe this sort of enhanced virtual presence could be really useful. I'll give your WorkAdventure a try.
Exactly that. 10cm of average might have peaks that ruin their food supply, their sewage systems, etc.
If the trend is for sea level rising, it's a good thing if they have an alternative lined up. When the same becomes a necessity in Bangladesh and other larger populations that's when it will be chaos.
right-wing cunts (Tories mostly, new labour include) made the UK hostile to our best-paying students.
2nd best paying students. Those from outside the EU pay more as they were not entitled to treatment equal to that of UK citizens.
I wholeheartedly agree with the name-calling though.
The AI can go on and on and on and waste their time and money and then after having hung up, call again with a different voice for the same thing, rinse and repeat.
Google and many others are selling the AI to answer phone calls and email, so it's all good.
There's a visceral quality to the sound of a high-displacement engine. Granted.
The industry spent quite a lot of money to educate us like that and with important facts like V8 noise being the best. Or V2 if you listen to motorcycle marketers.
When it gets to this point, the choice of the population is to starve to death or create a new, parallel system that serves em.
The population will need to find a way to do all that while paying rent/mortgages, which might prove difficult.
Years ago I worked at a gift vards/loyalty cards SaaS provider. Two unusual clients were a school that had gone cashless and a domestic cleaning franchise.
Someone transfers some money to the platform and then unbanked people make redemptions at different points of sale.
For most users, that means they'll need to subscribe to Microsoft 365. This, in turn, means their data and meta-information will be kept in a US-based datacenter
Is that really how it works? Don't they have multiple regions and special arrangements for US Gov+military and for China? I certainly have noticed in product docs that some services are not available or arrive late if your tenant is in one of these "special clouds".
the typical UK household uses substantially less electricity than a typical North American one. At around 2000kWh/mo, which is not unusual consumption at all, that would be a day and a half for me.
Wow! I didn't know indoors weed farms were so mainstream in the US. That explains why everyone is so chilled.
Salazarism" is distinguished over fascism in that it lacks nationalistic and religious elements. Trumpism contains those elements.
One of the least creative slogans of the "Estado Novo" regime of Salazar was "Deus, PÃtria e FamÃlia".
Salazar was devout and so was everyone in Portugal - or else.
Another slogan they used would translate to "Proudly alone", in the sense that the Portuguese Empire was self-sufficient, international trade and travel severely limited. Look up the image/map showing that Portugal is not a small country.
Those were dark times.
Among developed nations, and especially those with large militaries, the challenge is not too many people but too few people.
My opinion is that the challenge is too many people of the wrong age and too few people within the right age range.
Not everyone has, or wants, a cellphone. Even among those who do, many have just a candy bar or a flip phone. A bill like this can never become law - it's tantamount to forcing an entire populace to purchase a smartphone. It has serious civil liberties and logistical hurdles.
What I would do is make the acceptance of these cards mandatory to banks, employers, public services, etc. when they request proof of identity. I wouldn't make it mandatory to own the card/app/QR tattoo.
Their very long Hardware lineage was always adjacent for them, perhaps less so in the Surface and XBox business units
I think it's more like: Oh, it's a Dyson, they're the best hoovers.
An entire country's grid goes down and you figure they instantly understand the root cause?
3 countries. Spain, France and Portugal.
However, not entirely. The islands in the Atlantic and Mediterranean were not affected, and most of France was fine.
So as you said, we cannot know what happened but we can begin to understand and eliminate some potential causes.
The Chinese anchor theory is not looking great right now.
An IT problem that starts in Spain and interferes with Portugal mainland grid leaving out the islands is very odd.
The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is the most likely to be correct. -- William of Occam
