Thanks for sharing. I can definitely see how life can be better in a richer and more progressive place. I guess a major factor for choosing where to live should be whether people there are hopeful for the future.
Thanks for sharing. I can definitely see how life can be better in a richer and more progressive place. I guess a major factor for choosing where to live should be whether people there are hopeful for the future.
Just curious, why do you prefer those countries over Japan? Anything lacking there?
If I try to do the threat modeling, I guess I’m seeing three levels:
My point is that we should be clear about why we are concerned about the future. Who is the threat and how could they use your data against you? Breaking it down and pointing to a clear harm will help people around you understand why you are concerned.
Firefox for Android has always worked great for me. I prefer it because I can install the same privacy plugins as for desktop. And they also have Firefox Focus is also great.
If they want to build apps specifically, isn’t it better to go straight for the widely used language for that, which is Java and Kotlin for native apps?
And I think Kotlin is preferred over Java by everyone since it’s more modern and easy to use?
I’d say, find any “hello world” tutorial for Kotlin Android apps, and make sure you can get it to run on your phone. After that you can consider how you want to proceed. AI chatbots are useful if you get stuck.
Great, you have both back and leg exercises there then, with leg raise and chest flies. I’m wondering if it also allows leg curl, so you can train the other side of the thigh also.
You might want to add in bodyweight exercises in your routine to get a full body exercise. Like plank or situps for core, which I don’t see any way to train with the machine.
Looks like it doesn’t have any way to train legs so you should probably get something extra for that. Legs are hard to train with just bodyweight because the muscles are too strong and don’t get exhausted from just the weight of your body.
Can you pull the handles in the middle towards you in a rowing motion, or is it just for pushing? If not, you need some way to train your back also. Maybe back extension would work as a bodyweight exercise.
I only use wooden spoons, spatulas and cutting boards myself. And fire retardants are obviously damaging to health, so throwing out black plastic is a good idea. But I don’t think the article gives any good reason to avoid plastic in general. “Potentially harmful plastic compounds” sounds a lot like “compounds with zero evidence of being dangerous but they sound scary”. Happy to be proven wrong though.
The risk of the payment system getting shut down and people being unable to make payments for a while is real. And it is one good reason to be less reliant on digital payments.
But there is also the risk of bad actors, which could also be e.g. Russia, getting access to decades of payment history through a hack, if everything is digital. Having that data for every citizen of a country could enable efficient profiling of people in the country using big data analysis technologies.
The kind of thing you could find out with the transaction data is who are working in the military or security police, who is sympathetic to Russia and at the same time vulnerable to work with foreign governments, and potential blackmailing material relating to people in these or other groups. I’m sure the analysts working for the bad actor can come up with even more useful things to look for in the data.
There are of course a lot of other data sources that bad actors are interested in and that are easier to hack, but the financial history seems more comprehensive source of information than most other ones.
If you are using Mastercard in the US, Google will be getting transaction data all the same: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45368040
Is it because the training/use needs to happen within a single datacenter? Or are they saying that there are not enough data center capacity in total in the world to meet the demand?