missurunha

I'd say the most important after the money laundry aspect is that people treat art as an investment.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinesscouncil/2022/09/2...

Data protection sounds like a huge brainwashing that Germans have been submitted to. At my work we analyze driving data, but our internal portal cannot be made public (with public I mean accessible within the company's intranet) because there might be people and cars in the video and this would violate their data protection rights.

In the end everything need some extra layers of bureaucracy to comply with the laws or is simply not done. And the funny part is that many think this is how it works in other countries too.

Pump and dump?

It makes no sense to break down the value of installed capacity that everyone will understand into four different meaningless values.

I thought this was just a way to reduce money laundry. If the church would just receive donations, it gets hard to track where the money is coming from/going to. There's a church in Brazil that flies helicopters out of the temple carrying cash [1]. If you're a drug dealer there's no money laundry scheme better than this.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ciw8ciqPY_c

Any article highlighting a flaw in a system can be a "hating non-story" if you're enough of a fanboy.

Wind turbines usually brake after 25m/s wind speeds for safety reasons. They stopped working in Texas cause they were frozen, not because it was too windy.

> Kudos for spending four hard years to publish a negative result!

All scientific results are positive, but I have the feeling people end up skewing their research just to show what they want to see. Yesterday I read a study [1] by the most renown Brazilian university claiming that the control of Covid on Brazilian football is bad because 11% of the players got it while in Germany only 0.5% were sick. Then I looked the data up and the Bundesliga has the exact same 11% [2], but the researchers chose a very specific time frame in which they didn't have many cases, just to "prove" their point.

This was easy to verify, but I wonder how many long term researches find gibberish results and no one will ever know.

[1] https://globoesporte.globo.com/sp/futebol/campeonato-paulist...

[2] https://www.sport1.de/fussball/bundesliga/2021/02/bundesliga...

I find eSports bad for gaming. People are focusing so much on watching others and being competitive, not caring much in about enjoying the games they play. I see even kids doing it, just sitting back and watching others instead of actually playing the game.

When I go to a field to play football, most people are just having fun, no one is trying to be like a professional. Those people that are extremely competitive end up not wanted around. On video games on the other hand it feels like everyone wanna be a professional of eSports and play competitively, even on games that are not meant to be. It just ruins the experience.

I find it rather funny the author rating Starcraft with good variety. The game made every unit ranged so they wouldn't need to bother balancing melee attacks. I understand he means that each faction has different units, but imagine how boring AoE2 would be if all units were archers.

They only tested in the range from 350 to 380nm [1]. With wave lengths under 370nm the efficiencies are quite high; at 380nm it falls to 33,6%. That could either mean that the catalyst works well with light at small wavelengths or that it only works at this specific range.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2278-9