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Parkings make sense, I was merely pointing out that something as optional as places of worship are as prevalent as parkings.

You don't "need" to attend places of worship 80% of your life. A place of worship is usually a place where you are told to consider respectable several of the tools for indoctrination:

- Trust in a authority

- Faith over knowledge

- Revelation as a valid source of information

I can't find a single picture of the exterior or the interior of the space station. Not a single, actual, picture.

Well, the world is out of nazi scientists to steal knowledge from...

Oh right now there is no shortage of needs, thanks to AI applications mostly, but I could see homomorphic encryption as the next moat that datacenters propose.

I may have another reason to add.

I am toying with GIS tools these days and it kind of shocked me that when I queried for "most common amenities" in a medium sized US city, I got:

1: parkings

2: places of worship

Well above any educational facility.

Cynical remark: all processes requiring a million times more cycles is the dream of many chip-making companies.

Why not? You reach far more people through the stores.

Just check the PC gamedev scene. There is basically zero constraints on getting an app installed and users are used to it, yet devs jump through hoops to be published on Steam because it gives visibility and access to many desirable features.

If only the abilities to use Apple Pay in-app or to use Apple's advertisement distribution system are probably a good enough reason for 80% of the existing apps to continue being on the store.

It is about the reputation of the store and why you need competition between the stores. Give me a store scrutinized by the Firefox team, I'll go there in a heartbeat.

I don't think both are incompatible. The EU competition chief talks about preserving competition, digital rights are also defended by EU and may reach that point as well.

Some old reddit discussions are plagued with deleted comments (deleting all your comments is an option when deletinc an account)

Threads of [deleted content] answering to [deleted content] are hard to follow.

Reddit has been allowing easy account deletion and content deletion for years (since the beginning I believe?) and while I enjoy that freedom, it also makes some old conversations almost impossible to read where [deleted] answers to [deleted] and only one message in the middle of the conversations still there saying "Wow that's really interesting information! Everyone should read that!"

This has even become a way of trolling in some subreddits where you try to make people waste time answering you in detail then deleting all your messages.

This has prompted some people to quote bigger parts of the original message.

Deleting accounts is a right, no problem about it, but deleting public information is really problematic. The right to be forgotten should be a moral right, not a legal one. I don't want it to be illegal to point out politicians responsibilities in Iran-Contra or the Iraq war even 20 years after.

I remember this panic. I, and many others, actually learned at that time that anchors damaging undersea cables are actually a common occurrence.

Google declared 440m revenues in France in 2018. So that's 50% of its official yearly income.

Of course, this was a fiction, that was attacked in court, Google settled this one for 1 billion in 2019.

The principle of the fines in France is that the first one is a warning, that serves to clarify rules that may not have seem obvious at first, but non compliance a second time can cost a lot.

Why imagine?

The 2007 attacks on Estonia [1] and the cyberattacks before the actual attacks on South Ossetia [2] are generally believed to be a Russian test of its capabilities.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_cyberattacks_on_Estonia

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberattacks_during_the_2008_S...

My understanding is that you start by doing an actual BTC transaction of, say X USD, for which you pay the fee, and then you can "spend" up to X-fee USD in the lightning network. People who receive payment from you can opt for getting a BTC transaction from your stash or use it to do other payments.

The base idea is that it uses the BTC network as a dispute settlement fallback. "It works but is expensive, let's just exchange through the lightning network".

You can see Lightning as being a network that exchanges "BTC IOU". If the network decides for some reasons to be hostile to you and refuses to broadcast the transactions where you receive money, you still have a signed token that proves you have the BTC IOU and that are acceptable by the BTC network (for the cost of a fee)

- Lower half-life wastes

- Much more common fuels

- Lower risks of catastrophic explosions

That was all fun to read until, at the middle of it, I realize that I remembered reading it a few years ago.

Oh no.

> So what's the point of this website?

> Poking fun at how ridiculous infosec clickbait vulnerability reporting has become lately. Just because it has a flashy website or it makes the news doesn't mean you need to care.

> If you've read all the way to here, congratulations! You're one of the rare people who doesn't just retweet based on the page title :-)

Well, read the link again: the sanctions include a list of names, whose assets are frozen, who can't travel in EU and companies that have the same fate.

Economic sanctions are the most effective non-military actions states can take against each others.

Short of military invasion what do you suggest EU does?

> they have already proved time and time again they are a dog which is all bark and no bite.

People keep saying that as if that was a kind of universally acknowledged wisdom.

Here is a map of the 39 countries targeted by European sanctions (not counting the ones specifically targeting ISIS territories or various regions of Ukraine): https://sanctionsmap.eu/#/main

There has been sanctions against Belarus for a while, suspended when they freed political prisoners, reinstated in light of the recent crackdown on elections. Here is the list of the 88 persons and 7 legal entities under EU sanctions (well technically, Council of Europe): https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

Turkey doesn't have to "watch", they also received sanctions after the drilling standoff two years ago.

If you want to open source something, use a copy left license. GPL or AGPL. Licenses like BSD or MIT are basically putting something in the public domain, to be absorbed into propietary packages

Took us years to adjust with my wife. I complain far less, I make sure to tell "I am not angry at you" even when I find it obvious. She starts complaining like a French as well <3

Yes, it is not about politeness, it is about conflict. In France, being frank is a quality, in Japan it is a mark of immaturity. Grown-ups are supposed to communicate their opinions implicitly.

I stopped finding it "interesting and different" when I realized that it led to a LOT of miscommunications even among Japaneses and could end up ruin lives because of the unwillingness to point out even minor things.

Happy to hear this is mostly a Tokyo thing (though it does extend to my coutryside in the Chiba peninsula)

No it was about other persons. I remember one specific instance where a friend explained to me what a neighbor asked of us for a property we manage together and I complain that these demands are really annoying especially after we had spent some money and time satisfying other demands that I personally did not find grounded. My friend then asked "why are you so angry at me?". "I am not! I am complaining!"

As a French living in Japan one of the things I quickly learned is that if I complain about something while showing even a hint of anger or annoyingness, my interlocutor will take it personally, even if he/she is not involved about the thing as well.

Laugh, but talking with Japanese, something that often happens is:

A: "Shouldn't I launch the nukes?"

B: "No."

Can be understood as "yes, do it" because they are used to an opposite logic when answering negation. "Yes" means "I agree with the negation" and no the opposite.

And they seem to have a hard time accepting that the logic is different in English.

Ya ain sayin mat'!

We English non-native speaker typically do not know colloquial English well. Another thing that was not taught to me is how important intonations, which are unwritten, are and how much natives rely on it.

Who is "we"? The IPCC was created in 1988, at the alarmed demand of the Weather and Environment offices of the UN. In 1997 the Kyoto protocol was signed by 184 countries, recognizing the urgency and the need for CO2 reduction.

Only in the US is there a political debate about climate change denialism. Thanks to you it is coming to other countries, but before GWB it was a fringe position everywhere.

No, that does not require some incredible earth-shattering event. It requires political consensus of a majority of nations. Like was done to forbid emissions of ozon-layer damaging chemicals.

People thought that obviously, all countries would see the common interest in protecting Earth's climate. There was ONE major rogue nation in this big plan: USA. G.W Bush was the one who presented climate change denial as a respectable policy. I am not sure people measure the impact of this position.

Most other advanced countries cut down their emissions, much more than the US did (no, it is not a matter of density, distance between cities or so on: even if you remove all emissions due to vehicles, USA is still way above EU).

> The developing world wants modern life, and if they have to burn fossil fuels to catch up, they will.

China will peak at a much lower level of CO2/capita than the US currently has. Given the current trajectory, it is quite possible that China will never in its history emit more CO2/capita than the US.

> Extraordinary visionary leadership in the right place at the right time

Give me a break. Listening to the consensus of experts, both international and domestic experts, on issues that threaten the whole ecosystem, is not "visionary leadership". It is called "not electing a cartoon villain in office".

> even if we magically had a green revolution and became the worlds first zero-emission nation

You would also need to nuke Bhutan and Suriname, two carbon-negative countries.

Jules Verne was talking about coal depletion in the 19h century (albeit with a more positive note)

In the 60s France started switching to nuclear power because it worried about the depletion of oil wells in the areas it controlled. It is wrong to say nuclear power can't power more than 10% of a country.