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> Africa and - a bit less - the Islamic World which spirals towards overpopulation on the other hand. I don't think this is true. Every single country is on the decline. They may sill grow in …

I've been to a few michelin-starred shushi places in London and Europe. A regular shush place in Tokyo was much better. Even a cheap place with no waiters (conveyer belt). It was the greatest dif…

in a few years there will be 10x number of factories. Covid just sped things up. It's too critical for army and other industries. Food and army cannot be outsourced.

I only know my neighbours, because of a dog.

one screw up. There was multiple reports half were straight up lies the rest were extreme exaggeration. I was software engineer and never noticed any bad behaviour.

I used to work there. There was one screw up, but later on company fixed the mistakes.

Sorry, but this is fake news or black PR.

The link describes the attack vector. pipenv locks the dependencies using hash. if you company has my-company-py-lib then pip could install public library that pretends to be internal.

How do you make sure your dependencies are not tampered with? https://medium.com/@alex.birsan/dependency-confusion-4a5d60f... …

It could be, because cultures that were using human bodies, instead of burning or burying them, went extinct. > Prehistory of endocannibalism controversy Whether or not endocannibalism was commonpl…

> A mediocre musician or a mediocre sportsman can expect $0, It's actually worse than that. If you go to school and invest a lot the expected value is negative.

I wonder what is the risk of prions diseases. > A 68 kg (150 lbs) body which contains 65% water will require 100 MJ of thermal energy before any combustion will take place. 100 MJ is approximately …

I guess there was a change in law in Poland as well. Now it's illegal to let someone younger than 7 to wonder alone.

I grow up in a small town in Poland. I was walking on my own to preschool since I was 5 (it was about 400m from the house). If I had kids I'd let them free roam the city.

To play devil's advocate: Rich kids are doing cocaine in Ferraris. It's the poor kids that make stuff happen. > Starting conditions (where one was born, levels of wealth and opportunity t…

what if you just build it? What are the sanctions? Can you legalise it later?

I upgraded my 2017 macbook to Big Sur and the OS doesn't detect camera anymore. I tired 10 different things from checking permissions, reseting SMC and VRAM. No dice :/

What the score? (paywall)

> If your company cannot pay 1% of the revenue you don't have a viable business. Average corporation spends more on accounting and consulting. Accounting costs banks and oil companies around …

because it's fresh blood and there is a skill set filter which reduces nepotism and other forms of corruption. Looking at other departments, say, sociology* it's a dumpster. Full of cronies,…

Sweden has life expectancy of 82. Ukraine - 71. Most of the deaths happens are in 60+ age group. You can't compare stats like that.

Poland had a secret CIA prison which were used to keep Talibans. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/15/poland-pays-25... …

I didn't not set up 2FA, it was forced on me. The problem is that Amazon wants to send a notification, not a SMS or something else. I can't pick an alternative. If I don't have a smartp…

I just tried to login into amazon.co.uk to buy some stuff. I can't get 2FA notification on my phone and in order to see the recovery page for "I don't have access to my Two-Step verific…

pretty much. This what happened with 7 cold viruses and 2* flu viruses. I don't think it's realistic to destroy the virus reservoirs. *not sure if these are the exact number I remember from …

> "soft" on crime - Scandinavia, Whats does it mean soft? Sweden has no parole you go straight to jail.

> Audi diesel car (79g/km CO2) for now thanks If CO2 was the problem, diesels would be fine. We would recapture CO2 in the future. The bigger problem is particulates and NOx

That's the reason why so few people buy pickups in Europe. Vans are better in many ways (you can transport 9 people; get more cargo, especially when you remove seats; better weather resistance, y…

Is there a downside of getting rid of flu? E.g. my immune system doesn't have right training?

Their children or other family would do the deals.