- They're very strict about sorting your own recycling, organic waste, and household waste here in Zurich. So strict that people are fined for not doing it properly. And also there are newspaper articles with the format of reporting on someone receiving a fine and how thankful they are now that they know the proper way to recycle (obviously planted - I had to write an article like this in junior high because I used the school phone to call 911 to ask the time).
What I always wonder about though is just how much work it saves in the end for us to do it instead of at a central location. I mean, even with these strict rules they still need to sort the stuff that people didn't sort properly in the first place. So why not sort it all? (Except for the biowaste because that could contaminate the recycling)
- When I was an undergrad (or maybe it was grad - it was a long time ago) we learned about the Minnesota twins study that attempted to find the strength of genetics in personality. The study developed new statistical techniques to measure this and can to the conclusion that genetics is very strong.
But now you hear nothing about this study. I'm not sure if it's because the results are tainted by eugenics, or if the techniques they developed were wrong...
- If you ever come to Switzerland download the swisstopo app. It is very detailed and useful for hiking but even in the city too, showing the locations of fountains, for example, rural and urban official and unofficial hiking trails, closed trails, slopes too steep to traverse, etc etc etc.
The Swiss topographical institute is a treasure.
- I predict a future where once again porn is the cutting edge with a cutting edge technology.
porn + vr + smell
- This is a legitimate business and you should definitely invest your money in it.
- I don't remember the timeline exactly - it was years ago. But he just disappeared for awhile as in no one knew where he was or could find him. Then a few weeks later the board was informed he was under arrest and then a few weeks after that he was still under arrest but at home arrest. Then around a year after this started he was allowed to leave china and it's like it never happened in the first place. No one acknowledged what happened and no one would ask what he had to give up in order to be freed and he still travels regularly between china and the USA.
- Something that's common for wealthy Chinese that live in the USA is to get a USA green card but not citizenship because china does not allow dual citizenship. The ceo of a company my wife worked for does this - although that didn't stop him from being arrested (basically just disappeared) by the Chinese government for about a year a bit after the same happened with Ma.
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- I supposedly have an iq of 140+ (I don't believe it though) and there's been two experiences where I've been in the presence of someone that just blew me out of the water. (Fellow graduate students in my program)
I don't think I'm that far away intelligently from my friends and other people, but these far outliers were amazing. Not alien, but almost.
- My 78-year-old step-mother was pulled over for having a frame around her license plate but it was probably really for something else because it seems like it shouldn't take 2 highway patrol cars and 4 police-people for that...
- The one time my company suffered a denial-of-service attack we were able to get support from our colo provider to stop the attack. This was years ago and our provider has been bought a couple of times and while the company has grown the staff are more remote and fewer in number so I'm not sure if we'd get the same support today.
So, every now and then I think about at least putting our assets on a cdn with the option of using it in the case of a ddos attack but then I see things like today and the recent Aws problems and I just get the feeling I should keep everything close.
- Are they just not aimed properly? I don't think replacing headlights is something you should do unless you're a professional.
I don't drive much here in Switzerland but I haven't noticed a problem when I do drive, but in the USA when I drive, especially in rural areas it's a pain.
- "The intent behind these sites might stem from a desire to encourage better questions, promote self-sufficiency, or manage repetitive queries. "
What? No. The intent is to lightly mock the user and point out that they are asking a leading/epiplexis question. Maybe the other person thinks higher of you than they should and maybe you really didn't understand the point they're making, but from my perspective that is what is usually happening.
- Stop talking dirty with Claude.
- It's The Ukraine in German and many other gendered languages. In German it's the feminine gender (die) and cannot be avoided when constructing sentences because the article used can completely change the meaning of the sentence.
- Word is the next CEO is going to be picked ala Charlie and the chocolate factory. I hope that when you bought your Miyake iPhone sock you kept the bone-white ticket naming you the next CEO.
- What do you talk about in two minutes? I've never had to speed-date. Ask about hobbies? Is asking about work pedestrian? Was always curious about this.
- I'm sad to say but I've sponsored some of these coding competitions and you always pick the team that comes closest to the vision that matches your company that you present at the beginning of the competition, even if some other team accomplished something interesting.
I started looking into converting stuff to AV1 but only confirmed that my gpu doesn't support AV1 but does support hevc so I stopped there...