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That's why any real criminal activity will have a front. Chinese takeaway, vending machines, flower or newspaper vendor, second hand shop, ..

In our organisation strategic communication is not an afterthought but at the core of every programming decision. From HR to Executive Management, all involved all are aligned every time you press a button in order to deliver and innovate. Choose which of the following our Engineering staff should put at the core of your solution and we will make it our one priority from Executive Management up to Marketing.

> customer experience > revenue streams > core competencies > best practices > stakeholder engagement > key performance indicators > return on investment > assets

Don't judge a loose movement as a whole against the standards of some members. And it is perfectly fine to advocate for an ambitious position even if it is not yet achieved.

You can be the owner of a publishing house and advocate free speech and still you might not have the resources to publish every worthy book.

If there are more contributors then the accessibility will improve, but unlike a commercial project you can't just oblige/order someone to do it. You have to motivate people - with the right skill set - to donate their private time to this cause over all the other causes (or non-programming activities they could support).

So great to be idealistic but you have to accept your own limitations. Maybe getting something to work for most people is simply a more achievable mid-term goal than addressing each special case, no matter how important.

But they also have to live from those funds while in the country where they work, so even if food & accomodation are covered it's not as if you can just apply these home country cost of living and claim it's a good deal. These migrant workers live incredibly frugal to be able to send money back home and are basically excluded from life in their host country.

It's exploitation, even if all sides have some benefits.

He's talking about a different kind of meeting. A human encounter where you discuss and engage freely with another person.

Many commenters here miss that the author seems to refer to occasional (2/week) 1:1 meetings. These are meetings with people he presumably chose to meet.

The post is interesting in how he describes he trialed and found a few strategies that work well for him to remember what he cared about from a meeting. E.g. he rediscovered that association and context are very important and describes how he draws them out. He draws his counterpart to recall the conversation, this is a great application of psychological theory around neural associations.

This is clearly not guidance for business meetings, but a really valuable skill for when you meet interesting people once in a while and would like to remember more of your discussions.

Wonderful post and many lessons to take away. Next time I'm asked at the end of the meeting to try to draft notes from my scrambled scribbles I'll try to recall a bit more context.

On our corporate network it always worked better than the official solutions Skype for Business (Lync) and WebEx. Sadly policy does not encourage/officially allow using it.

This is the wrong perspective. The perspective should be on governments taking that role and use educational funds to generate commons. There are several issues around making all this work, but the key issue is scale: an individual school has no capacity to decide or handle that, they can only choose what works. It's at regional or national level that there's sufficient scale.

At the same time can an education system set up software etc that rivals the effectiveness of professional and smooth software? Sometimes easier than contract than to try and create/adapt aomehtknf yourself

PayPal used to be great in its time. Leadership and ownership changed and now its just there and because everyone knows and trusts it it still lives on.

Scale/brand effects.

It's not so straightforward. Those with financial interests in the matter manipulate opinion and pay for lopsided science. That's why many globally and especially in the US still 'doubt' climate change. The evidence today is overwhelming but 20 years ago was still more muddled as Shell & co were funding biased studies, while experts and environmentalists were screaming for action and simply ignored. And still today there are media (in the US) telling their audience that it's not real, pointing to some pseudoscience to make this claim. Science is messy, can be biased and we have to rely on third parties to communicate it.

The same problem for nuclear: it's not self-contradictory to be eager for low-co2 energy and oppose nuclear due to its large-scale damage in case of an incident (and with Fukushima, 3Mile, Tchernobyl and various smaller incidents it's not like this is just theory).

It's similar with GMO: there are some studies showing risks and various GMO plants have been stopped due to concerns they could be harmful. Roundup is not exaxtly harmless but rather leaves ecological deserts behind - even if you are in favour of GMOs (like golden rice) you might still oppose some of them (like roundup ready plants), specifically because of doubts about the corporate-funded science by the agri-businesses behind them. Or you might oppose them on economic/social grounds, e.g. the practice of sterilising seeds which already has driven many farmers in level 1 and 2 (aka developing) countries into economic disaster.

Trust the science? Most environmentalists will agree. Trust the science funded by and the actual implementation by Monsanto? A much harder sell, akin to trusting BP's studies on climate and emissions.

It's an EU law but enforcement is up to the individual countries. Which is why Ireland keeps its own regulator on a tight leash - to keep the big US players there.

You could also pee straight on the paper.

There might be some that can do this, but how would this version possibly be able to do that if it only has one paper inside?

I would love for tiktok (and all similar social media) to disappear and I agree that China is a threat to the rest of the world (although the US is too :-) ) but tiktok do have a point that this has been done by the trump admin like they do things in a banana republic: I don't like things therefore I, the king.. uh president, decide that this has to go.

You might like it here as its a company you don't like but what if the same is done next for Twitter, Telegram, or maybe just foreign companies like e.g. Siemens, Tata, ...

Trump is hollowing out the rule of law and pretends he can do whatever he feels like. It's a mistake to cheer for that even if you agree with some of those decisions.

All I'm reminded of is this famous quote of a German priest ultimately executed by the Nazis:

> First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out-Because I was not a socialist.

> Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out-Because I was not a trade unionist.

> Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-Because I was not a Jew.

> Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

Very interesting but one caveat: I doubt you would ever get the most relevant producers on board. There are dedicated spycam manufacturers and all the cheap China stuff to build into other things is probably what ends up being used to spy on customers. So little benefit to try and get legal or voluntary commitments if in the end many won't play along.

The big story for me is in the last paragraphs: this wasn't the full shipment exploding:

> According to three European intelligence sources investigating the blast, who spoke to reporters on the condition of anonymity, the amount still stored in the warehouse by August may have been smaller than the initial 2,750 tons. They said the size of the explosion was equivalent to as little as 700 to 1,000 tons of ammonium nitrate.

That means to me someone, somewhere is building bombs.

Or the mandatory 3h of lessons are better than no lessons even if it means kids are staring a screens? It's not all black and white.

That said, obviously the recommendations are not fully science based because the science is not clear-cut. One study will tell you about the spatial skills and reaction ability of ego shooters, another of the negative sides such as normalisation of violence, reduced quality of sleep, etc.

In addition there is a key qualitative element: are all uses equal? Is watching Teletubbies or Paw Patrol equal to nature documentaries? Is playing addictive repetitive games different than those solving puzzles or following a story? Is videoconferencing with grandma the same or better or worse as doing a math training game?

The key issue often is the parents' role and guidance. Let your kid aimlessly click through YouTube? Or are you fostering their skills and challenge and motivate them to learn something new?

You test as much as possible and for any positive you ask the candidate and all associates to self-isolate. Maybe X who is infected gives you a false negative, but if you also test X's mother, husband and son you are likely to get a positive and just isolate the whole household. Similarly a false positive just means you isolate one for no reason - no harm to the community.

It might well be true that Wuhan currently has no known community transmissions but this is also pretty obviously a propaganda/public relations move. Weird that the BBC covers it so uncritically.

You are under the mistaken assumption that somehow exams are more fair or get a better view of what students can do. It's well established that exams measure a few limited congnitive constructs and its not the smartest or most hard working students that perform best, but rather those who are prepared by teachers for those exact constructs and the precise way of answering them. A brilliant student at a public school might study hard and still not get as good results as a mediocre and lazy student at a private school which tells them and drills them on the exam topics (often having their teachers in the exam boards and anyway paying more so that those teachers that care and know how yo play the game ate likely to be recruited there).

It's absurd to think a central exam gives a more accurate picture of... What? Aptitude? Effort? ...? Than the teachers can have from working with students often for several years, seeing their work ethics, involvement in class, personal situations, etc.

In short: the system was broken and biased to begin with (at least in England, Scotland is doing much better). Now this bias and favour of 'better' schools is explicitly enforced through this weighting algorithm.

An obvious point not discussed is that the exams system was already biased to begin with. Previous years were already unfair as great kids at bad schools have much fewer chances than less great kids for which the parents can pay a great school. England especially is awful at achieving a fair system (that gives everyone a fair chance at good grades) because schools are so stratified - by design of funding rules, etc.

An ID scan seems like a rather simple thing to fake...

There already was this story of a $bn research satellite having to dodge a throwaway SoaceX satellite. Real issue is accountability and the difference in risk and cost - SpaceX should pay for the reduced lifetime of this satellite (as it costs fuel to change height).

https://www.esa.int/Safety_Security/ESA_spacecraft_dodges_la...

With many more satellites on the way there will be more such stories.

You wouldn't known how many cases came from a protest unless you test everyone or a truly representative sample a while after. In any case you wouldn't know until at least two weeks later, and then only with significant effort asking everyone whether they attended a specific protest (assuming they answer truthfully) and/or tracking people.

No, herd immunity requires >90, if not >95℅. and that assumes that herd immunity is even possible - there are plenty of indications that the covid-19 cured don't have long-term immunity. That leaves only either eradication, which the US, Brazil and Russia ruined for all of us, or that it ends as part of the annual flu family.

You are missing the subtle point that all those deaths occured despite all the measures. Most of Europe and Asia and the reasonable countries of the Americas shut down and took 6-10% off their GDP and still so many people died. And this doesn't even count all the undiagnosed ones from USofBadStatistics to the usual dictators which falsify data to the developing world which doesn't have any decent one.

Not to say the other things aren't major issues and in many cades have rather straightforward soputiopns (soda and fast food tax, massively inconvenience/tax smoking and drinking, actual driving lessons, rule enforcement and road improvements in developing countries, clean water and basic medicine for more places, ... But all this doesn't take away the seriousness of the pandemic. The world continued after black death, but with up to 1/3 and in some places 1/2 the population dead. So life will go on no matter how many die, but this doesn't excuse inaction.

The long term data will be fascinating. Less travel means fewer car accidents and better air for example. As air quality is a key proxy for longevity/many diseases this alone might add a long term positive. Not to mention all the other infections prevented through social distancing, think flu, measles, ...

On the other hand especially the early days (or current reality for the US) meant much stress, especially for parents. Busy hospitals are also a challenge and can cause mistakes - and yet at the same time avoidance of less necessary procedures might in some ways again add a positive angle.

My point being it's all about the kind of data and timeframe you look at. In more practical terms the real consideration of the lockdowns needs to be counterfactual: how many people would have died without the lockdown. This by definition is really difficult to do as it's to a large degree guesswork.

I am using a safety razor for my head. Once every 2-3 shaves I cut myself (usually on my non-handed side) but otherwise no issues. The cut usually heals by the time I'm done and I have rather thin/sensitive skin.

Derby or Feather blades and a cheap €15 handle. I try to shave once with the grain, once sideways. The blade is held at quite am angle but with very little pressure.

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