It seems like a bit of a Ship of Theseus. Even at this point I wonder how much of what you see of his face can be said to be 'original'. But still people visit, as if Lenin is still there.
I wouldn't be surprised if nothing you can see on the exhibit is "original". First, they clearly admit in the article that they focus "on preserving the body's physical form—its look, shape, weight, color, limb flexibility and suppleness—but not necessarily its original biological matter. After 145 years, it's quite possible that everything was substituted. Second, Russia has a long tradition of creating a PR-pumped image of healthy, almost immortal leaders. That could be a natural part of such cult practices.
Perhaps the immortality part was an exaggeration, but I was thinking about the way the Kremlin avoids admitting any health problems of the leaders. That happened in case of Yeltsin and allegedly in case of Putin's absence in March this year. Recently there was an interesting article about this "health PR" dating the tradition back to the USSR era, but I can't find it right now.
This is hardly unique to Russia - after all, FDR avoided being photographed from the waist down and wore special braces when standing and Kennedy had many secret health problems. I think this is more a fact of projecting an image of power in any society.
In business terms, you could consider giving a cut to the modders a marketing expense (you might sell more because the mods increase the value of your game, perhaps?). But you can also consider it as providing a platform that modders exploit commercially, and you can squeeze them as much as is sensible in any commercial relationship.
I think the number of people buying a game because of a mod is rather small, so business people will see things more from the second viewpoint.
Really? I'd never buy Half Life 1, since late 90s graphics looks pretty poor these days, but I'd happily pay for it to use Black Mesa.
Better yet - from another post here:
> "How many copies of Arma 2 were sold explicitly because of DayZ? How many copies of Half-life were sold because of Counter Strike? Warcraft 3 and Dota? etc."
Mercury actually concentrates into little beads on cinnabar ore, and is not very reactive. I can imagine drops of it surviving for a few thousands years.
Can you describe an actual problem with his outline? I think it is very good to get this sort of first hand advice. In my experience it is very hard to find an accountant that understands this stuff well.
I'm not a tax lawyer, but since I don't make any money from French-EU companies probably isn't relevant to French income tax rules.
If you live and work in a place, the rule of thumb is that your earned income will be taxable there, regardless of who is paying you.
(my brief understanding is that France does have an exception for income that is sourced from the US. But this means things like investment income. Work for hire performed in France for US companies would not be attributable to the US under such a rule)
I'm more interested in the FEIE myself. I'm traveling Europe, UK, and Morocco in a motorhome, earning income from an app along the way.
I think this means that as I'm < 3 months in any one country I do not need to pay taxes in any of them. And for the US I can claim the foreign earned income exclusion as I'm out of the country > 330 days of the year.
I read Hamming's "You and Your Research" some years back, and recall that it was quite appropriate. See http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~dahlin/bookshelf/hamming.html for the text. It's the penultimate lecture in the video series.
It's a pretty good course on how to be not merely technically skilled, but effective. For example, how technological progress usually works and the importance of back of the envelope calculations. He teaches with a lot of personal narratives which are easier to relate to and remember.
The book is easier to read than watching the videos, though you could rip the audio and it would be an okay audio book.
I like it! I scroll through until I find an interesting picture, then read the part of the text that goes with it. In the end I read most-but-not-all of the article, in a haphazard sequence.
I liked it as well, I think these kind of "immersive" stories are highly execution dependent and in this particular case quite well done.
In particular the series of 3 slides (pages) - that showed the lake shrinking over time were quite effective at conveying just how much of a calamity the situation is.
Four to five years after the hacks happened, Gemalto says it was all not so bad, they really really checked this time and they have super duper server logs they grepped twice to be sure.
Four to five years after the hacks happened, Gemalto says it was all not so bad, they really really checked this time and they have super duper server logs they grepped twice to be sure.
That's a bit unfair. Gemalto say:
- "The risk of the data being intercepted as it was shared with our customers was greatly reduced with the generalization of highly secure exchange processes that we had put in place well before 2010."
- "The report... also states that when operators used secure data exchange methods the interception technique did not work."
- "Gemalto has never sold SIM cards to four of the twelve operators listed in the documents, in particular to the Somali carrier where a reported 300,000 keys were stolen."
- "A list claiming to represent the locations of our personalization centers shows SIM card personalization centers in Japan, Colombia and Italy. However, we did not operate personalization centers in these countries at the time."
There's a lot of valid points in Gemalto's report, and it seems dishonest to write it off so pettily.
> There's a lot of valid points in Gemalto's report, and it seems dishonest to write it off so pettily.
I agree they have valid points that are worth setting the record straight on. But conveniently for Gemalto they distract from the core issue, which in my opinion is that they have been owned and are in denial of it.
Hopefully it's just PR and they are scrambling internally to keep spies out.
Yeah, exactly. This is just a back door to phone tower triangulation, something every nation state has access to and uses regularly and publicly as part of normal criminal investigations.
But phone tower triangulation is only readily available to nation states on their own soil. For tracking foreigners tracking signal strength might be a useful alternative.
Tried it with my own prescription (-3.75 and -3.25 dioptre) and I'd say the result is very exaggerated. Especially considering my actual eyesight is worse than my prescription.
How does it create a single image from two different eyes, anyway?
It all seems rather desperate to me and unimaginative (children will love climbing over it!). This is not a structural way of disposing of these blades, it's a public relations effort.
The solution of using old rotor blades as structural material seems not badly suited to the scale of the problem. The global market for cheap lightweight and strong structural elements is far larger than the amount of rotor blades needing recycled. Just working out a nice design for an agricultural barn would probably cover it.
Also, modification for re-use is generally far less energy intensive than full recycling, even if it were currently available.
