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Step 0: be included in Eurovision

Australia 2015 √

Canada 2027 √

The UAE has a CT (corporate tax) of 9% since 2023 [0, page 8]

This provides an overview [1]

For 2026 "The UAE's tax system is getting stricter. Not in rates. In enforcement." [2]

[0] https://mof.gov.ae/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Federal-Decree...

[1] https://mof.gov.ae/en/public-finance/tax/corporate-tax/

[2] https://www.kayrouzandassociates.com/insights/uae-tax-change...

See Bullerby syndrome [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullerby_syndrome

In South Korea pet strollers outsold child ones [0].

DINKWAD (Dual income, no kids, with a dog) is rising [1]. Hospitality is changing to accommodate this [2].

[0] https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/lifestyle/trends/20231226/sales...

[1] https://www.thehistoryofenglish.com/dinkwad-meaning-origin-u...

[2] https://rochsociety.com/rise-of-the-dinkwads/

Here is ESA information regarding the asteroid [0]

[0] https://blogs.esa.int/rocketscience/2025/02/04/asteroid-2024...

Jeanne Calment gave up smoking at 117 [0].

Number of people who also lived past 117 is three [1].

Sarah Knauss had a fondness for sweets and hated vegetables [2] lived to 119.

Edit: Merely a curio of the people who held number 1 and 2 position of verified oldest people for over two decades.

Apologies, if the post suggested otherwise.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment#Health_and_life...

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Knauss#Health_and_lifest...

Related: Dr. Martin used PINN for creating a gravity model [0] and video [1].

[0] https://github.com/MartinAstro/GravNN

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UNtZ4sOVEI

For a sense of the workload, here is an open source curriculum [0]

[0] https://github.com/Artoriuz/OSEE

Spain fined Booking (Dutch company) 413M€ last month.

For abusing its dominant position, the post has only 2 points [0].

Yet, this one has significantly more comments.

The only political aspect is where the company comes from.

Forum members then want to speak up.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41115644

Related post [0] (not having enough).

Do US doctors relay this risk to their patients?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41037116

Thomas Garrity discussing mathematical maturity [0]

Author of All the Math You Missed: But Need to Know for Graduate School

[0] https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=zHU1xH6Ogs4

Bill Hicks on advertising and marketing [0]

[0] https://yewtu.be/watch?v=tHEOGrkhDp0

Could someone explain what happened via telephony?

Telegraph->Operator->Rotary->Touch-tone->Cellphone.

It would seem everyone of these would be a next step in technology and protocols.

Sending a text message via rotary phone is probably not possible. However, calling a rotary phone via smartphone should work.

Is there a reason why newer protocols could not be implemented/enforced?

Whereby email from proton to tuta (and similar new email services) it acts differently than when sent to the older version of email (current method).

Read Kafka's The Trial [0]

The protagonist just turned 30.

[0] https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7849

See also Nyctography [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyctography

Cursory search yields two things: Flour mills [0] and railway system [1]

[0] https://www.mnhs.org/millcity/learn/history/flour-milling

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Northern_Railway_(U.S.)

Susan Rigetti has a nice overview [0]

In this Susan recommends https://www.khanacademy.org/, which is good for most things learned in primary or secondary school.

There is an open source curriculum equivalent for an undergrad compromised of MOOC and similar resources [1]

Similar to the above is a markdown [2], with a scope directed towards people coming from a CS background.

After this perhaps focus more on statistics & data science for metric interpretation. R for Data Science [3] is an option.

[0] https://www.susanrigetti.com/math

[1] https://github.com/ossu/math

[2] https://github.com/NavigoLearn/RoadmapsMarkdown/blob/master/... for computer science/full-roadmap.md

[3] https://r4ds.hadley.nz/

"In business news, 3M and M&M have merged to form, get this, Ultradyne Systems." Simpsons S14E12 [0]

[0] https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_script...

From details elsewhere [0], Dutch company booking.com could be added.

There are probably more that did not make the first round:

Telegram

Spotify - Sweden

OLX - Netherlands

Ryanair - Ireland

Are some possibilities for the next round.

[0] https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/the-digital-markets-act-i...

Sorry, have not seen "very receptive".

Received a masters degree in STEM from a Nordic country. This somehow rendered me less desirable in being hired?

Living on the streets is not what I envisioned while signing up for an university program.

Find a place where your back is against a wall.

Libraries tend to have a place for seclusion; where you can have an interview or small group meeting.

These may need to be reserved. Speak with the librarian, services provided are higher than one perceives.

Using polarised glasses and modification to a monitor [0]

[0] https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=zL_HAmWQTgA

There is leetscrape [0]

For project Euler [1]

[0] https://pypi.org/project/leetscrape/

[1] https://github.com/csu/project-euler-offline

There is the option of incorporating vim with LaTeX.

Gilles Castel goes over this in [0]

Results of lecture notes can be seen here [1]

[0] https://castel.dev/post/lecture-notes-1/#vim-and-latex

[1] https://castel.dev/notes

In 2025 bans of diesel will begin for some large populations Athens, Madrid, Mexico City, Paris, etc. Electric buses for Cape Town, Milan, Quito, etc. [0]

If these occur with no difficulties, it will be easier for governments to uphold their 2030 and 2035 agreements.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_fossil_fuel_vehic...

Reminds me of a quote in Pi [0]:

“You want to find the number 216 in the world, you will be able to find it everywhere. 216 steps from a mere street corner to your front door. 216 seconds you spend riding on the elevator. When your mind becomes obsessed with anything, you will filter everything else out and find that thing everywhere.”

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_(film)

There is an ethical website [0].

The EU has created an alternatives website [1], which is tech from EU.

Note there is some overlap.

[0] https://ethical.net/resources/?resource-category=analytics

[1] https://european-alternatives.eu/category/web-analytics-serv...

Thank you for this info.

The Antarctic sea ice for 2023 has a noticeable delta.

Comparing between Aug 23, 2022 and Aug 23, 2023 the difference is 1,452 million km^2 which is hard to visualise.

If it were a country it would be the 19th largest country [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...

Some interesting countries with better freedom of the press than United States (2023): Namibia, Moldova, North Macedonia, Argentina[0]

[0] https://rsf.org/en/index

From the website it states the following.

"It is a snapshot of the media freedom situation based on an evaluation of pluralism, independence of the media, quality of legislative framework and safety of journalists in each country and region."

Is there an different list to compare against?

@Kapura since your country is big: would it be better to compare each state individually?

I had three rounds of interviews.

1 hour pre-screen 20 min stating this was not WFH

2 hours tech maybe 30 min stating how they work at the office.

1 hour with the CEO again 20 min stating this was not WFH

I spent more than 25% of the interview time reassuring the staff I would be willing to come in the office. Just to have them say I am overqualified, and were going to leave the position open.

Is this type of game normal?

When you are jobless employers want to see how desperate you are.

I went through a 4 hour "technical interview" where it was line by line questioning of my CV.

Then to be told I do not have the technical skills.

They may even ask borderline illegal questions to see if you push back.

I had one interviewer ask me how many kids I would be bringing into the country. Is against EU law?