Point to be noted is that Rudolf Hoss wasn't the leader of a random Nazi camp. He was the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, where 1.1 million people were murdered, making him one of the biggest mass-murderer of the last century.
"It has since waned as people spend less time staring at their screens: as demand for consumer electronics fell, so did that for cobalt."
Stop me if I'm wrong, but the article totally missed the fact that new car battery technologies are mostly cobalt free.
I feel it better explains the lack of demand than the article explanation.
The gas prices spike has also other causes, like gas-powered electricity plants replacing or partly replacing nuclear facilities like Fessenheim in France. Gas-powered electricity plants are flourishing everywhere in the world, including China to diversify from coal, obviously at some point the available offer is not going to be enough.
I don't have a strong opinion about what happened, it may or may not be a lab leak. It's still ongoing and I feel it will be a very long and sterile debate with few scientific facts to prove anything.
Granted, if the title of the article was "Scientists believed that Covid had natural origins...", this article wouldn't attract my attention as much, because I already believe that to be the popular opinion. But if, in this hypothetical title, "Scientists" only represented a minority of scientists, it would still be a very misleading title.
I don't know much about US, but for China it didn't last for months, 1 or 2 weeks maybe. It has been notified to the WHO at the beginning of January, on 23 January Wuhan was going full lockdown. And not lockdown like in the West, citizens were not allowed to step a foot outside even for groceries and the army was bringing rations to the people.
I remember then in March, a French newspaper highlighting how PRC hid the severity of the virus... I mean if they took these extreme measures in Wuhan, it's certainly not for a mild virus.
Then the title of the article is highly misleading.
Using "Scientists" instead of "Some scientists" implies that the great majority of the scientists believed in this hypothesis, and there is no evidence for that.
I think it is useful to let the employee know what are the accepted delays in this company, for future projects. But the boss or the manager should have said that earlier, at the beginning of the project, then the employee knows what to expect.
That's quite clumsy to say it only once the project has been released. Anyway, don't take it too personally, he/she probably just wanted to keep the pressure on you so you keep improving and never stay satisfied with your current pace. That's not very good management, but that's the way it is in most companies.
I know it will be an unpopular opinion here, but bringing back the HDMI and SD card port is making the macbook much thicker and will eat up some space than can be used by battery instead, all that for ports I will never use. I wish there was another option without these ports.
Many is 4 out 22 plants[1] and they are located on rivers because it's needed. Also, maybe it's to have less loss when selling generated power to eastern countries?
It's not a big surprise to me and I think this is linked to the fact that Serbia is one of China's biggest partner in Europe.
I can easily imagine that chinese companies now want to export their tech, including surveillance tech, to other countries and that they're lobbying for it.
Illegal, okay, but is it a crime? I mean, after WWII interpol asked countries to not fill requests on nazis criminals because they did crimes of political nature and interpol needs to stay politically neutral [0].
But now, for an anti-capitalist activist it's not political?
It's up to the local authorities as you said. If the Chinese government files 500 requests on interpol and the Swiss authority recognizes the requests, ProtonMail will just have to comply.
But usually interpol rejects many requests from the Chinese government (to track uyghurs for example).
The real scandal here is why the French authority is making such request on an activist, why Interpol processed it (as far as I understand there are no crimes in play here?), and why the Swiss authority recognizes the request?
Perhaps we don't have the full story, but, with only the information we have, it sounds like an abuse of the protocol on 3 different entities. And double standards from Interpol (not okay to track down chinese activists, but ok for french activists?)
My guess is that the limit is human resources. The machines are probably assembled by hand and they probably need highly-skilled and specialized engineers to work on it, such kind of profiles are rare.
The demand is not large enough to industrialize the production of such a complex machine so you have to rely on humans.
I think one of the major aspects of this technology is that the person you are talking with appears in its real size, with the same ratio than in real life. Something you cannot do with a smartphone, except if you are referring to a projector.
I don't think EU will be able to put any pressure on China with food.
China still has a lot of different levers in case they lack food. Remember that the US deal actually forced them to buy american agricultural products.
They also banned most of Australia food imports since they asked for an international investigation on SARS-CoV-2 origins. They could just lift this ban and Australian politics and farmers would jump on the occasion.
There are so many countries who are willing to sell no matter what and no matter who as long as the price is good, and China has a lot of money.
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