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One problem here is that you know about the outcome. If the outcome is going to be public, this creates a different type of competing pressure, where classmates are invited to compete with each other, while the one they should be competing with, is themselves.

It is like you have a teacher saying: 'my previous year's group, they were like so amazing [exhibit 1, 2, 3, ...]' and you know your group is never going to reach those limits -> #very_demotivational since in many ways, the way people are isn't going to be malleable. So a teacher is going to have to work with the material they got, and take that as a starting point. So instead, the teacher needs to have the intelligence acting like an adult, and refraining from expressing said enthusiasm.

I believe, if the results are discussed 1[-3] on 1 ie. in private chat, there is more room for openness, honesty, humbleness, and -yes- humility. On a macro level, this also exists on schools. Like, when the parents come to school to discuss their child's performance, it is a private setting without the other children and other parents, but with teacher, child, and parents. 1[-3] is still a private setting, but there are still things the child would only discuss with their parents, or only with their teacher. You could also achieve this in small groups on school, but as soon as you got a too big group there's this huge competing factor going out. Which is going to trample individuals. The shy kid isn't going to have their say, the ADHD kid gets annoying, ... and it can be tackled, with smaller classes.

Guides like these are better found via iFixit [1]. This specific device isn't there though.

[1] https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Kobo

I have no idea what Whispersync is but Kobo works very well with Calibre or Grimmory. You can change the store URL to your own Calibre(-web) [1] or Grimmory.

Some of the Kobo also support audio books. All of them have microUSB or USB-C to sync, some got Wi-Fi or Bluetooth as well. Mine even has a mic for some reason.

There's a plethora of hacks for devices like the Kobo (reMarkable is another one). For example, see [4]

[1] https://calibre-ebook.com

[2] https://grimmory.org

[3] https://koreader.rocks

[4] https://github.com/RiccardoSilva42/Kobo-Hacks-Comp

router7 [1], written in Go, might interest you.

[1] https://router7.org

UEFA: Union of European Football Associations [1]. FIFA: Fédération Internationale de Football Association [2].

CONCACAF, OFC, etc. all of thesr got something in common: the F stands for Football in their names.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA

It is used in hockey and tennis, with great success.

Messi should've gotten red in the Algeria match (same ref who didn't have the balls to give star player a card, was doing the finals). Against England, Argentina were playing rugby again, and the ref just let it pass. Against Egypt, Egypt got a goal disqualified which.. was a goal. Against Switzerland, a rule of identity mismatch was used wrongly (it can only be applied on same team). Argentina was lucky to end the final with 10 players and only 1 goal against. It should've been 9 players, with a 3-0 score, but the corrupt FIFA couldn't match-fix that part. It'd have been too obvious.

Did you enjoy the finals resembling rugby, with one team not playing football at all?

Maybe look up the name FIFA and UEFA. Given the context, it is very clear what football refers to. Ie. soccer, not rugby or American football.

Must hurt, seeing someone do similar shit as you did, yet getting away with it.

Like, mmm, Lance Armstrong, after he got caught.

You know which country the Nazi's fled to, right..?

Hint: the same one who act like strongmen on the field.

Look, it is pretty bullshit if you ask me.

So it used to be that there were pre-tournament games, to qualify.

A lot of countries... they wouldn't qualify. They'd play an ample amount of pre-tournament games though.

Now, you seen more countries qualify, and you see countries who used to not qualify, dropping ASAP (in the deathmatch 16th matches, right after poule).

So what did we get out of that? A few matches during the tournament, and they were quite frankly meaningless.

These countries which made it to deathmatch 1/16th gained nothing. It is a scam, a trick. They think they gained fame, but they really have not, since the barrier to get to the deathmatch has been lowered.

Furthermore, if you follow a corrupt scheme, you can ensure a country like Argentina is going to have the least chance to end up with strong opponents.

No, mr. Infantino. We need less corruption in FIFA, not more.

* We don't want a drink break to watch commercials..

* ..or a 30 min break with a bunch of actors (who sing with autotune) when your own rules say it may only be a 15 min break.

* We don't want red cards commutated or revoked.

* We don't want star players not getting yellow or red card, when other players are getting one for the same foul.

* We don't want a yellow card being reversed, then given to an opponent, based on 'identity mismatch'.

* We don't want to see racism or political statements.

* We don't want to see rugby, we want to see football.

* We want to see fair-play, with a meaningful VAR which can be called by the captain or coach of each team twice (getting back their call if agreed on).

You don't need a for-profit in your chain to fix the above. You need a non-profit with a non-corrupt chair, and you've proven you're not fit. Red card for you, mr. Infantino. You're out, arrivederci.

The context was France: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48998632

Since Fifa is Swiss, it has nothing to do with this court ruling. So indeed, why bring it up?

Fifa is Swiss, not French.

Connect a random TV to your home LAN over a VPN? No thank you! I would rather use HDMI in. You can also cache data locally. Or just watch on a smaller screen or tablet. There are a lot of jurisdictions where I would not want to take private keys or passwords with me.

I still have artifacts in my dirs of TOSORT, TODO, and DONE.

Aye, though supposedly without the ads. But with filler episodes. You wanted to waste less time, instead you get tricked. Then there's the cancelled after S1 thing which is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

> Are you saying I am mixing it up now?

That much was clear. I was saying this:

> Makes you wonder if he explained it correctly to his wife (American lawyer), or if she verified.

Still wondering.

> Most European countries avoid that by not directly electing their chief executive at all, and instead providing various ways for the party that controls the legislature to also control the executive.

Moot comparison. Most European countries don't have a two party system. As such, there is more cooperation and consensus between involved parties. They can also easily get rid of the leader of the country, should they opt for it. Now, compare that to GOP and Trump.

> But in practice he’s very powerful if his party also controls the National Assembly

Yes, I am aware. Don't like it. Don't like IRV either. France doesn't do very well in Democracy Index (not terrible either, slightly better than USA pre-Trump IIRC).

I prefer the way the Scandinavian countries, and in lesser extend The Netherlands and Switzerland deal with politics. You can also notice these countries do very well in indices such as Democracy Indez or freedom of press ones.

I only know one Elon. Never heard the name before, don't even know the origins.

Yup, classic, mixed EP with EC. Makes you wonder if he explained it correctly to his wife (American lawyer), or if she verified.

I don't like the way US presidents are elected either, ignoring popular vote, and including gerrymandering. I also don't like how the US president is allowed to bypass Congress.

Because in the name Elon Musk, Elon stands out.

I skimmed through the article. Several pictures are also repeated. Would this kind of thing happen before 2020? I don't think so.

Either way, I got taught in high school geography that parts of rivers get rebuild all the time. The Maas (Meuse, as Dutch is my native language I say Maas) gets longer due to the corners getting more sharp (due to water and wind erosion). Then at some point, the water might actually go straight between two corners, leading to the part between the two corners (an extra 180 degrees of two corners, though might look like one) getting cut. Sometimes, that doesn't happen (quick enough) and humans need to help nature a bit. Because sometimes, the new part of river tends to reach villages or other parts of society humans want to preserve. So, we interfere. Near Maastricht, there's also a canal next to the Maas, and this can help with deficit or excess water in the Maas. But sometimes, even an extra part of river next to the old river is build. IIRC they do that because the erosion destroyed such parts, that the outcome of the erosion keeps coming back and back in too short amounts of time. So then, it makes more sense to look for a more long term solution.

The water and wind erosion were interesting to me back in the days. So, from memory (and I surely am forgetting something here, possibly related to the chemistry of the water/earth), the way it works on low water level the wind on the corners erodes the corners, while on high water level the water pressurizes against the corner, leading to basins in the (wind eroded) corner which itself is part of the domino effect. In other words, it is bound to happen, given time. The river snaking around is bound to happen, and the breach is bound to happen as well. But the breach usually means the river goes to its original pathway (although temporarily).

So for a large river as the Nile, it also comes as no surprise Egyptian government (Egypt being the country who benefit from the Nile delta) invests in the Nile. But the main problem the Nile faces is AFAIK related to drought which is related to climate. I'm not sure how they want to fix that.

Hanging it on a wall like that would be great in say a tiny house / limited space. But what about dust entry? I got cats.

> The code is also copyrighted and owning a license for a game does not make you safe from being sued for pirating that game or its code. It's fine in this case only because the engine was open sourced.

Nothing makes you safe from getting sued.

See also: [1]. You could also reverse engineer in a solid jurisdiction.

I ran C&C Generals in Wine on Linux back in the days. More stable than Windows XP.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean-room_design

In the end it is legal tender, owned by the government of said legal tender. But Google owes another legal entity money. They're in debt to that other legal entity, and they should pay said debt (pay the fine). It is actually 4.7 billion EUR.

And on top of all of the above, there's another reason Google owes us money. Google does not even pay fair taxes.

Funny you mention that. For me (Dutch), growing up in same time, Wimbledon and Roland Garros are the two main tennis tournaments. When these were on TV, Olivetti brand was prominently mentioned at the scoreboards. I always imagined they were a brand who made the computers used for the scoreboards, but otherwise had no idea what that brand meant. You wouldn't 'Google' or 'Wikipedia' it. You saw it, you asked your parents (or other peers), and they'd either know or not.

It isn't Google's money if they wrongfully profited it, and are fined. It belongs to the victims. The government of the victims will invest it in making the victims less dependent on the perpetrator? Well played.

1) Anyone can fall for a scam. Especially those who believe they wouldn't fall for a scam. This is why ridiculing those who fall for [a] scam is harmful, and serves scammers. 2) You can root a smartphone for someone else's usage. For example, I can install pmOS on a smartphone and hand it over to my kid.

Then I'd switch bank. A lot of banks work with SFOS [1]. Given the way the US is acting, we are trying to lower our dependence on American services, and I very much doubt all banks will walk the US bandwagon. There's a serious market for something else.

[1] https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/banking-apps-on-sailfish-os/1...

Because almost all people cannot hear the difference between a high quality lossy codec versus lossless in a double blind test. They think they do, but they don't.