Amazon Delivery Drivers Forced To Sign 'Biometric Consent' Form or Lose Job (vice)
The new cameras, which are being implemented nationwide, use artificial intelligence to access drivers' location, movement, and biometric data.
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A graph database combining
- trusted sources
- existing ontologies for anatomy and injuries
- videos and social media posts
to provide a comprehensive resource for fitness, health, injury prevention, strength, aesthetics, and conditioning
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Insect species richness affects plant responses to multiâherbivore attack - How plants respond to the diverse community of insects that interacts with them.
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China & Russia say bye bye to USA & EU
- Moscow now has âno relationsâ with EU because Brussels has âdestroyedâ once friendly ties, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov claims (RT)
- Russia, China can reduce sanctions risks by moving away from US dollar, Sergey Lavrov says (SCMP)
- Beijing blasts Western sanctions over alleged human rights abuses, says âdoor to Chinaâ can no longer be opened with cannons (RT)
- Chinaâs retaliatory sanctions on the EU set the stage for how Beijing will respond to other global powers (CNBC)
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Douglas Adams' note to self reveals author found writing torture (Guardian)
Note in which Hitchhikerâs writer reminds himself he will finally get pleasure from process to be part of book based on his archive: âWriting isnât so bad really when you get through the worry. Forget about the worry, just press on. Donât be embarrassed about the bad bits. Donât strain at them,â The Hitchhikerâs Guide to the Galaxy author wrote to himself. âWriting can be good. You attack it, donât let it attack you. You can get pleasure out of it. You can certainly do very well for yourself with it!â
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Reflections on Trusting Trust - Paper by Ken Thompson (1984)
"To what extent should one trust a statement that a program is free of Trojan horses? Perhaps it is more important to trust the people who wrote the software."
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"Peer-to-Peer Networks Applied to X" - What is your X?
#P2P #CrowdIntelligence #Networks #OpenSource #Infrastructure #Regenerative
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"Interest rates and the rise of Neofeudalism"
Historian Paul Schmelzing recently published an exceptional working paper on eight centuries of global real and nominal interest rates, from 1311 to 2018.
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Fine dust deaths: significantly more than previously thought (Heise)
Through the successful reduction in fine dust emissions, one of the results of the investigation, 2.4 million deaths were avoided, 1.5 million in China and the rest abroad.
Deaths from fossil fuel emissions higher than previously thought (Harvard)
Fossil fuel air pollution responsible for more than 8 million people worldwide in 2018
Delhi pollution: Fine dust killed 15,000 prematurely in 2016, says study (Hindutimes)
Apart from the deaths in Delhi, the study also showed that Mumbai, which was one of five megacities considered from India, reported the fourth highest number of deaths among 12 megacities.
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"An example of compartmentalization was the Manhattan Project. Personnel at Oak Ridge constructed and operated centrifuges to isolate uranium-235 from naturally occurring uranium, but most did not know exactly what they were doing. Those that knew did not know why they were doing it. Parts of the weapon were separately designed by teams who did not know how the parts interacted." Read more..
"Information sensitivity is the control of access to information or knowledge that might result in loss of an advantage or level of security if disclosed to others. Loss, misuse, modification, or unauthorized access to sensitive information can adversely affect the privacy or welfare of an individual, trade secrets of a business or even the security and international relations of a nation depending on the level of sensitivity and nature of the information."
1. National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity.
2. Accurate communication is possible only in a non-punishing situation.
3. An honest politician is a national calamity. -
If tech giants perfected one thing, it is the fine art of hypocrisy
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Save Time? But for whom? Don't have time? Why? Your children are warning you: Your time is being stolen - From Michael Ende's "Momo"
