Thursday, December 17, 2020
A Letter From 9 Million U.S. Expats to Janet YellenThe next Treasury secretary could make the lives of millions of Americans easier at no cost at all.
https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/opinion/articles/2020-12-11/a-letter-on-tax-from-9-million-u-s-expats-to-janet-yellen
Tuesday, August 18, 2020
UN GALLEGO Y UN COPISTA CHINO: ASÍ SE GESTÓ EL MAYOR FRAUDE ARTÍSTICO DE NUEVA YORK
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.revistavanityfair.es/la-revista/articulos/jose-carlos-bergantinos-fraude-arte-glafira-rosales-galeria-knoedler/25266/amp
UN GALLEGO Y UN COPISTA CHINO: ASÍ SE GESTÓ EL MAYOR FRAUDE ARTÍSTICO DE NUEVA YORK
Acusado por Estados Unidos de haber estafado más de 33 millones de dólares junto a su expareja y a su hermano, José Carlos Bergantiños habla por primera vez en una entrevista exclusiva.
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
vida de campo , muerte
https://elpais.com/espana/2020-08-03/la-muerte-de-un-temporero-en-murcia-jornadas-de-11-horas-a-mas-de-40-grados-y-sin-agua.html
Friday, July 10, 2020
WeChat will concentrate all powers like the Chinese Communist party. Microsoft and the likes are getting inspired
https://www.repubblica.it/dossier/tecnologia/rivoluzione-smart-working/2020/06/09/news/jared_spataro_vi_racconto_quale_sara_il_prossimo_sistema_operativo_che_dominera_le_nostre_esigenze_-258805491/
Tuesday, July 7, 2020
Quentin Tarantino e Morricone
https://www.repubblica.it/spettacoli/cinema/2020/07/06/news/ennio_morricone_quentin_tarantino_premio_oscar_the_hateful_eight-261135114/
Monday, June 29, 2020
Il cantautore di Yattaman e dell'Uomo Tigre: ''E pensare che i cartoni non mi sono mai piaciuti''
https://video.repubblica.it/spettacoli-e-cultura/il-cantautore-di-yattaman-e-dell-uomo-tigre--e-pensare-che-i-cartoni-non-mi-sono-mai-piaciuti/362997/363552?ref=RHPPTP-BS-I257387636-C12-P1-S4.3-T1
Il cantautore di Yattaman e dell'Uomo Tigre: ''E pensare che i cartoni non mi sono mai piaciuti''
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
This Is Just F--king Unbelievable!”: Bankrupt Hertz Is a Pandemic Zombie
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/06/bankrupt-hertz-is-a-pandemic-zombie/amp
Friday, May 8, 2020
Apple expected to add up to $100 billion to buyback program while many companies halt repurchases
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-expected-to-add-up-to-100-billion-to-buyback-program-while-many-companies-halt-repurchases-2020-04-22
Monday, December 9, 2019
Friday, November 15, 2019
Solar city
In a trove of court filings unsealed this fall, thousands of pages .... reveal
how truly dire the situation was ....with almost every significant promise Musk pitched publicly either misleading or false. The documents in the lawsuit offer
an unprecedented look at what happens when Musk’s
reality-distortion field comes up against the reality
of testifying under oath. Tesla didn’t respond to a
request for comment on the suit.
silicon valley europe
Angela Merkel has urged Europe to
seize control ofits data from Silicon Valley tech giants.... Her speech, at an employers’ conference in Berlin, shows the extent to
which the information economy is
emerging as a battleground in the
EU-US trading relationship.
It also highlights the concern in European capitals that the EU could be weakened by the market dominance of the
big US tech companies, particularly in
storing, processing and analysing data.
Margrethe Vestager, the powerful EU
competition chief who is now also to
oversee digital policy, told the Financial
Times last month that she was examining whether big internet groups could be
held to higher standards of proof in
competition cases, as part of a
tougher line on dominant companies.
Ms Merkel was speaking just two
weeks after Berlin unveiled plans for a
European cloud computing initiative,
dubbed Gaia-X, which it has described
as a “competitive, safe and trustworthy
data infrastructure for Europe”.
At the conference yesterday, Peter
Altmaier, the economy minister, said
the data of companies such as Volkswagen, and that of the German interior
ministry and social security system,
were stored on the servers of Microsoft
andAmazon.
He said 40 companies had signed up
to Gaia-X, including Deutsche Telekom
andSAP.
But some business groups are sceptical. “While the intention to strengthen
digital sovereignty is absolutely right,
there are still bigquestions: such as, how
do you combine so many different players in an effective way?” said Susanne
Dehmelof digitallobby groupBitkom.
In the past couple of years Ms Merkel
has underscored the power of the US
and China over data, contrasting the
American approach — where big companies dominate the business of storing
and processing data — with China,
where the state exercises its vast powers
to access the data of its citizens.
Thursday, November 14, 2019
FELICIDAD CANICHE Subrayar la necesidad de que nuestra política instagramática respete una mínima gramática moral en la que cuenten el sacrificio, la lealtad o el honor, virtudes viriles en el tiempo previo a que las chicas acapararan todas las virtudes.
Subrayar la necesidad de que nuestra política instagramática respete
una mínima gramática moral en la
que cuenten el sacrificio, la lealtad o
el honor, virtudes viriles en el tiempo
previo a que las chicas acapararan
todas las virtudes.
https://www.elmundo.es/espana/elecciones-generales/2019/11/11/5dc9b677fc6c832f7c8b4632.html
https://www.elmundo.es/espana/elecciones-generales/2019/11/11/5dc9b677fc6c832f7c8b4632.html
Tuesday, December 4, 2018
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
big tech regulation
As well as cyber risk, regulators are
worried about concentrating too much
information in the hands of Amazon,
GoogleandMicrosoft—whichdominate
cloud provision — without the same
levelofsupervisoryoversightasbanks.
The Bank of England is considering
whether to test banks’ resilience by analysing
what would happen if access to
the cloud were disrupted. The BoE is
also expected to publish more detailed
thinking on the subject as a prelude to
possibleregulation.
In the US, the Office of the Comptroller
of the Currency is reviewing banks’
relationships with third-party vendors,
includingcloudproviders.
Sunday, November 11, 2018
benign neglect
Consider the office cubicle. Some people pile their desks with everything
from old newspapers to unwashed
mugs; others are fastidiously tidy. (I
fluctuate.) I’m not saying that people
with messy desks are more productive,
although there’s some evidence that
they are; I’m just saying that if your colleague is a messy-desker then he or she
shouldbeallowedtogetonwithit.
Support for this position comes from
a study conducted by two psychologists,
Alex Haslam and Craig Knight. A few
years ago they set up simple office
spaces in which they asked experimental subjects to spend an hour doing
administrativetasks.
Messrs Haslam and Knight wanted to
understand what made people productive and happy, and they tested four
arrangements in a randomised trial.
One was minimalist: chair, desk, bare
walls. A second was softened with tasteful prints and some greenery. Workers
werehappierthere,andgotmoredone.
The kicker comes with the third and
fourth arrangements. In each case,
workers were invited to rearrange the
pictures and pot-plants as they wished
before settling down to work. But while
some were then left to their labours,
others were second-guessed by an
experimenterwhosteppedinandfound
apretexttorearrangeeverything.
This, unsurprisingly, drove people
mad. “I wanted to hit you,” one participant later admitted. Empowering people to lay out their own space led to happier,moreproductiveworkers.Stripped
of that freedom, everyone’s productivityfellandsomefeltquiteill
from old newspapers to unwashed
mugs; others are fastidiously tidy. (I
fluctuate.) I’m not saying that people
with messy desks are more productive,
although there’s some evidence that
they are; I’m just saying that if your colleague is a messy-desker then he or she
shouldbeallowedtogetonwithit.
Support for this position comes from
a study conducted by two psychologists,
Alex Haslam and Craig Knight. A few
years ago they set up simple office
spaces in which they asked experimental subjects to spend an hour doing
administrativetasks.
Messrs Haslam and Knight wanted to
understand what made people productive and happy, and they tested four
arrangements in a randomised trial.
One was minimalist: chair, desk, bare
walls. A second was softened with tasteful prints and some greenery. Workers
werehappierthere,andgotmoredone.
The kicker comes with the third and
fourth arrangements. In each case,
workers were invited to rearrange the
pictures and pot-plants as they wished
before settling down to work. But while
some were then left to their labours,
others were second-guessed by an
experimenterwhosteppedinandfound
apretexttorearrangeeverything.
This, unsurprisingly, drove people
mad. “I wanted to hit you,” one participant later admitted. Empowering people to lay out their own space led to happier,moreproductiveworkers.Stripped
of that freedom, everyone’s productivityfellandsomefeltquiteill
bruegel icarus science copy
Some scientific discoveries
are better not being madeJackie Wullschlager begins her review
of Heaven on Earth by TJ Clark with a
familiar quotation from WH Auden
and reference to Bruegel’s glorious
picture of the fall of Icarus (“Paradise
lost”, Life & Arts, October 27). She
clearly hasn’t yet made her way to the
stupendous, once-in-a-lifetime
exhibition of Pieter Bruegel the Elder
in Vienna, at the Kunsthistorisches
Museum, because, if she had, like me
she would surely have been astonished
by the absence from the exhibition of
the said painting — and then dismayed
to discover that it is no longer
considered to be a Bruegel work.
Forensic art scholarship has
determined that the picture may be
based on an original by Bruegel, but
“Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” is
by a copyist and not his work. Some
scientific discoveries are better not
made: the absence of this picture —
indelibly seared in my mind, thanks to
Auden, and in the minds of many of my
generation, I’m sure, as a quintessential
product of the fevered genius of the
great Flemish master — is about the
only blemish in this otherwise faultless
and extraordinary show.Christopher EnglishHarare, Zimbabwe
are better not being madeJackie Wullschlager begins her review
of Heaven on Earth by TJ Clark with a
familiar quotation from WH Auden
and reference to Bruegel’s glorious
picture of the fall of Icarus (“Paradise
lost”, Life & Arts, October 27). She
clearly hasn’t yet made her way to the
stupendous, once-in-a-lifetime
exhibition of Pieter Bruegel the Elder
in Vienna, at the Kunsthistorisches
Museum, because, if she had, like me
she would surely have been astonished
by the absence from the exhibition of
the said painting — and then dismayed
to discover that it is no longer
considered to be a Bruegel work.
Forensic art scholarship has
determined that the picture may be
based on an original by Bruegel, but
“Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” is
by a copyist and not his work. Some
scientific discoveries are better not
made: the absence of this picture —
indelibly seared in my mind, thanks to
Auden, and in the minds of many of my
generation, I’m sure, as a quintessential
product of the fevered genius of the
great Flemish master — is about the
only blemish in this otherwise faultless
and extraordinary show.Christopher EnglishHarare, Zimbabwe
1914-18, german dominance in europe , end of status quo
tally,aboutwesternEuropebutabouta
struggleformasterybetweenGermany
and Russia. Each time German aggression sucked France and Britain into
war. Long before anyone had heard of
Adolf Hitler, the German chancellor
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg
wrote in 1914 that his regime’s aim was
“toeliminateforalltimethatwhichhas
been termed the European balance of
power and to lay the foundations for
GermanpredominanceinEurope”.
The German problem received no
solution in the 1919 Versailles treaty.
The new order, inspired by Woodrow
Wilson, was crippled by the US president’sfailuretosecureSenateapproval
for the treaty and US membership of
the League of Nations. The US disengagedfromEuropeanaffairs,withbalefulconsequences.Thankfully,Franklin
DRooseveltandHarryTrumandidnot
make the same mistake in the 1940s.
Unlike Wilson, they knew the val
struggleformasterybetweenGermany
and Russia. Each time German aggression sucked France and Britain into
war. Long before anyone had heard of
Adolf Hitler, the German chancellor
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg
wrote in 1914 that his regime’s aim was
“toeliminateforalltimethatwhichhas
been termed the European balance of
power and to lay the foundations for
GermanpredominanceinEurope”.
The German problem received no
solution in the 1919 Versailles treaty.
The new order, inspired by Woodrow
Wilson, was crippled by the US president’sfailuretosecureSenateapproval
for the treaty and US membership of
the League of Nations. The US disengagedfromEuropeanaffairs,withbalefulconsequences.Thankfully,Franklin
DRooseveltandHarryTrumandidnot
make the same mistake in the 1940s.
Unlike Wilson, they knew the val
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
pension plan reform Aymo Brunetti fuw
https://www.fuw.ch/article/die-jungen-sind-die-verlierer/
when science and politics clash ...Dieser Gedanke muss unbedingt in die nächste Reform eingebracht werden. Man muss in die Richtung der versicherungsmathematischen Wahrheit gehen. Das müssen wir vorab den Jungen erklären. Sie sind, ohne dass es allen bewusst wäre, die grossenVerlierer dieser Reform....Gemäss einer Studie zur Schweizer Generationenbilanz öffnet sich heute eine langfristige Finanzierungslücke von über 170% des Bruttoinlandprodukts. Sie reduziert sich mit derVorlage ein wenig, vor allem aufgrund der Mehrwertsteuererhö hung. Aber es bleibt eine enorme Lücke
von 135% des Bruttoinlandprodukts.....In den kommenden zehn Jahren werden in der
Schweizrundeine MillionMenschenpensioniert, das ist ein Fünftel aller Arbeitskräfte. Zusätzlich verknappend wirkt die Umsetzung der Masseneinwanderungsinitiative. Die Unternehmen werden sich schon bald um die älteren Arbeitskräfte streiten.....Jemand, der zwischen 25 und 45 Jahre alt
ist und für die Altersvorsorge 2020 stimmt, ist entweder ein ungewöhnlicher Altruist oder hat die Auswirkungen der Vorlage nicht verstanden. Das sind die Jahrgänge, die die Reform bezahlen
when science and politics clash ...Dieser Gedanke muss unbedingt in die nächste Reform eingebracht werden. Man muss in die Richtung der versicherungsmathematischen Wahrheit gehen. Das müssen wir vorab den Jungen erklären. Sie sind, ohne dass es allen bewusst wäre, die grossenVerlierer dieser Reform....Gemäss einer Studie zur Schweizer Generationenbilanz öffnet sich heute eine langfristige Finanzierungslücke von über 170% des Bruttoinlandprodukts. Sie reduziert sich mit derVorlage ein wenig, vor allem aufgrund der Mehrwertsteuererhö hung. Aber es bleibt eine enorme Lücke
von 135% des Bruttoinlandprodukts.....In den kommenden zehn Jahren werden in der
Schweizrundeine MillionMenschenpensioniert, das ist ein Fünftel aller Arbeitskräfte. Zusätzlich verknappend wirkt die Umsetzung der Masseneinwanderungsinitiative. Die Unternehmen werden sich schon bald um die älteren Arbeitskräfte streiten.....Jemand, der zwischen 25 und 45 Jahre alt
ist und für die Altersvorsorge 2020 stimmt, ist entweder ein ungewöhnlicher Altruist oder hat die Auswirkungen der Vorlage nicht verstanden. Das sind die Jahrgänge, die die Reform bezahlen
Monday, April 3, 2017
That is by design. The school is modelled on the Kolmogorov Physics and Mathematics School in Moscow, which from the mid-1960s took Russia’s smartest 15-year-olds and exposed them to the best maths teaching in the country. Michael
Gove, Britain’s education secretary from
2010 to 2014, imported the idea, pushing
universities to start specialist maths colleges. The aim was to make it possible for
any child to have an “Eton-level education” in maths or physics, recalls Dominic
Cummings, a former adviser to Mr Gove
By lifting obstacles to job
changes and giving workers a social safety net that enables them
to refuse the crummiest jobs, societies can foster employment
that is not just full, but fulfilling.
Physics
Andrew Geraci’s equipment, on the other
hand, comprises a glass bead 300 billionths ofa metre across, held in a lattice of
laser light inside an airless chamber. The
power it consumes would run a few oldfashioned light bulbs. Like researchers at
the LHC, Dr Geraci and his team at the University of Nevada, in Reno, hope to find
things unexplained by established theories such as the Standard Model of particle
physics and Newton’s law of gravity.
Whereas the LHC cost around SFr4.6bn
($5bn) to build, however, DrGeraci’sset-up
In Dr Geraci’s experiment the suspended bead scatters laser light onto a detector.
If a force displaces the bead, the pattern of
light changes, permitting the bead’s new
position to be calculated. In work published last year in Physical Review A, his
team showed that the apparatus can detect
forces of a few billionths of a trillionth of a
newton. (Anewton isaboutthe force exerted by Earth’s gravity on an apple.) Their
next step will be to move a weight past the
bead at a distance of five microns (five
thousandths of a millimetre), to measure
the gravitational attraction between them.
That experiment is now under way
cost a mere $300,000 and fits on a table
about a metre wide and three long
Any
departure from this law would provide
support for theories which hope to solve
what is known as the hierarchy problem of
physics. This is the question ofwhy gravity
isso much weakerthan the otherthree fundamental interactions between particles,
namely electromagnetism and the weak
and strongnuclearforces and strongnuclearforces. The disparity be
tween gravity and these forces explains,
for example, why a small magnet can pick
up a paper clip against the gravitational
force ofan entire planet.
One putative explan
Distinguishing between cause and effect is
always hard in the social sciences.
on trump
Mr Trump is hardly the first tycoon to discover that business
and politics work by different rules. If you fall out over a property deal, you can always find another sucker. In politics you
cannot walk away so easily. Even if Mr Trump now despises
the Republican factions that dared defy him over health care,
Congress is the only place he can go to pass legislation.
Mr Stone has admitted
Trump and Russia
Never-ending story
being in indirect contact with Julian Assange, WikiLeaks’ founder, and exchanging messages with Guccifer 2.0, an online
persona considered a front for Russian
spooks. Carter Page, onc
Gove, Britain’s education secretary from
2010 to 2014, imported the idea, pushing
universities to start specialist maths colleges. The aim was to make it possible for
any child to have an “Eton-level education” in maths or physics, recalls Dominic
Cummings, a former adviser to Mr Gove
By lifting obstacles to job
changes and giving workers a social safety net that enables them
to refuse the crummiest jobs, societies can foster employment
that is not just full, but fulfilling.
Physics
Andrew Geraci’s equipment, on the other
hand, comprises a glass bead 300 billionths ofa metre across, held in a lattice of
laser light inside an airless chamber. The
power it consumes would run a few oldfashioned light bulbs. Like researchers at
the LHC, Dr Geraci and his team at the University of Nevada, in Reno, hope to find
things unexplained by established theories such as the Standard Model of particle
physics and Newton’s law of gravity.
Whereas the LHC cost around SFr4.6bn
($5bn) to build, however, DrGeraci’sset-up
In Dr Geraci’s experiment the suspended bead scatters laser light onto a detector.
If a force displaces the bead, the pattern of
light changes, permitting the bead’s new
position to be calculated. In work published last year in Physical Review A, his
team showed that the apparatus can detect
forces of a few billionths of a trillionth of a
newton. (Anewton isaboutthe force exerted by Earth’s gravity on an apple.) Their
next step will be to move a weight past the
bead at a distance of five microns (five
thousandths of a millimetre), to measure
the gravitational attraction between them.
That experiment is now under way
cost a mere $300,000 and fits on a table
about a metre wide and three long
Any
departure from this law would provide
support for theories which hope to solve
what is known as the hierarchy problem of
physics. This is the question ofwhy gravity
isso much weakerthan the otherthree fundamental interactions between particles,
namely electromagnetism and the weak
and strongnuclearforces and strongnuclearforces. The disparity be
tween gravity and these forces explains,
for example, why a small magnet can pick
up a paper clip against the gravitational
force ofan entire planet.
One putative explan
Distinguishing between cause and effect is
always hard in the social sciences.
on trump
Mr Trump is hardly the first tycoon to discover that business
and politics work by different rules. If you fall out over a property deal, you can always find another sucker. In politics you
cannot walk away so easily. Even if Mr Trump now despises
the Republican factions that dared defy him over health care,
Congress is the only place he can go to pass legislation.
Mr Stone has admitted
Trump and Russia
Never-ending story
being in indirect contact with Julian Assange, WikiLeaks’ founder, and exchanging messages with Guccifer 2.0, an online
persona considered a front for Russian
spooks. Carter Page, onc
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