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The president of the Italian privacy watchdog graduated in 1968, and became full professor in 1980. [1] This may partly explain tjeir approach to novel issues…

[1] https://www.garanteprivacy.it/home/trasparenza/organizzazion...

Something curious: among the top signatures there are a few people affiliated to DeepMind (an Alphabet subsidiary) but no Googlers.

German also has almost deterministic pronounciation rules. Italian too, except for the position of the stress.

I have met manu Japanese, and a few Chinese, working for Japanese (resp. Chinese) financial companies. All of them were proud of the position they reached, even those that were not too happy about the working conditions (very long hours, slow career progression)

For Korea I only have indirect information.

While I agree that culture and education are not just means to the end of getting a lucrative job, I think that GP’s point is that it is easier for a white American, _even if they only care about money_, to appear as if they cared about other values.

For many people grown and socialized in some Asian cultures (including Japanese, Korean and Chinese), a good job in a prestigious company is considered a worthwhile objective, not something that needs to be disguised.

They are already taking their water from rivers and lakes, where else would they get it?

The green on pizza Margherita is basil.

DO NOT LIE FLAT! You want to touch the ground in one point only, crouch/squat wit the feet close, if possible far from trees and on lower ground.

That right now they don’t have enough cash to buy them, because the cash is locked in an SVB account.

They have both 1m of assets more than before, _and_ 1m of liabilities.

Last time I checked, a few years ago, the rules where:

- A single pet unrestrained in the back seat, or in a harness in the passenger seat.

- Two or more pets: in individual cages, physically separated from the driver.

There used to be a Milan-Barcelona night train, with Talgo stock, but it has been discontinued a few years ago.

The problem with Spain is that the majority of the network has non-standard gauge (approximately everything except the AVE high speed trains).

I don’t think I understand what you mean. There are certainly fringe leftist groups in the world and in Switzerland, but this [1] is not one of them.

[1] fbschweiz.ch

To add some context: the group that promoted this initiative is a fringe ultraconservative one. Among other things, in 2020 they were denying the existence of Covid and in 2021 they did an anti 5G campaign.

Most likely yes, because it imposes additional conditions about the use of the code.

BTW, to strengthen your point: all space missions use Newtonian dynamics, not relativistic.

That’s why I suggested public companies only. Their stocks can be easily sold at any time.

Yes, tax would be paid on the net capital gain for the year. If negative, it can be carried forward to the next year, without limitations.

I don’t know if offsetting non-capital income with capital losses should be allowed. My intuition says no, but who knows.

Why not tax, at least for publicly traded stocks, the unrealized capital gains? (taking e.g. the last price of the year as basis)

In addition to the problem mentioned in the OP, this would also solve taxation for buybacks.

I remember reading (can’t find the source anymore) that ether would work as knock-out drug, and that indeed it was used as a plot device in crime books as chloroform is used in movies today. The problem is that ether can be highly toxic at relatively low dosage, and then it was replaced by chloroform in fiction to avoid giving dangerous ideas to people.

Is there any truth behind this theory?

It’s not that simple, because of adverse selection. I wrote another comment about it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33924689

There is an adverse selection problem: the users who would pay are probably the richer -and most profitable- ones. The only equilibrium is a very high price to opt out, far above the average revenue per user, and essentially nobody would pay for it.

Insurance has similar problems since a long time: search for Stiglitz and “unraveling“ for literature on the topic.

CDS are credit derivatives, not insurance contracts. There is credit insurance, but it only covers a company’s own receivables (or payables).

Trustcor is apparently connected with a spyware/malware company. Trustcor denied that,but didn’t convince Mozilla and Microsoft.

Geoengineering is our plan B, or even plan C.

It’s a bad solution, but I guess it’s good to have it ready in a drawer if things start going really wrong.

Numpy has replicate (numpy.repeat).

Excel has SCAN.

I think Teams shows a pop-up the first time its window is closed.

The regulation looks reasonable: if someone is selling software, or products containing software components, they have to certify the security of their products.

OSS developers who don’t charge for the software have no obligations. If their software is used in a commercial product, the seller of that product is responsible.

Article 5 C.p.p. is about jurisdiction ov criminal and civil courts. Did you mean a different article?

Ad sales and content moderation don’t scale as well as engineering, I suppose.