nusq | 2 years ago | on: Norwegian ban on Meta behavioral advertising extended to entire EU
No, RGPD only applies to EU citizens even if they are abroad or if they are using services not based in the EU.
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nusq | 2 years ago | on: Peru's Great Urban Experiment
Great site! nevertheless, I believe your soilurce of news from Portugal is more of tourism promoting website. Forgive me but i need to make just two suggestions: Publish your list of sources for each country; Check Euronews.com, it has news in English for most European countries.
Great job, really! It's bookmarked.
nusq | 4 years ago | on: Tonga volcano eruption created ripples in Earth’s atmosphere
They are not gravitational waves but are gravity waves https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_wave
nusq | 4 years ago | on: Portugal proposed law tries to sneak in biometric mass surveillance
You make it sound like the National Data Protection Commission warnings of it being unconstitutional a minor thing....
If you read the commission comments on the law you will see several examples of how the video surveillance systems in Portugal are miss managed and abused.
This law opens the door to the use of AI in these systems and with all it's ethical issues.
After all, Portugal is not an unsafe country and local politicians are abusing the false sense of security that the video surveillance systems bring to win a few more votes, disregarding all the medium and long term consequences.
nusq | 4 years ago | on: Why pine nuts are expensive [video]
I have a couple a friends that own a pine cone processing plant in Portugal. Yes harvesting pine cones is labor intensive and the end product expensive but I think one of the main reasons price became so high was the introduction of plague in Europe causing a shortage of pine trees and increased cost of pine cones.
They sell under the brand PineFlavour https://pineflavour.com/en/
nusq | 7 years ago | on: EU Copyright: Block Everything, Never Make Mistakes, but Don't Use Upload Filter
GPDR is essentially some guidelines published by OCDE in 1980 turned into law. So yes we should already be operating like that from the start.
I get the feeling that to some countries GPDR is not a big deal and to others is a nightmare, depending on the business culture.
nusq | 7 years ago | on: Amazon’s HQ2 Spectacle Should Be Illegal
Cooperation between cities and cartel is no illegal. Cities were caught in a prisoner dilema and forgot to cooperate.
nusq | 7 years ago | on: Web Writable Files API: Simplifying Local File Access
Has a huge fan of the tiddlywiki project this is a welcome feature .
nusq | 7 years ago | on: The Case for Making Cities Out of Wood
Actually timber has a nice property of loosing strength gradually and slowly in case of fire, giving time for people to escape. Steel and concrete reinforced structures tend to collapse when a certain temperature is reached.
nusq | 7 years ago | on: “Social network” of brains lets people transmit thoughts to each other’s heads
This reminds me of a cool thought that I've read some place else: "imagine a technology so advanced that can transmit thoughts wirelessly between humans and even change the actual layout of the neruons in our brains".
We already do that with our voices....
nusq | 8 years ago | on: Excel team considering Python as scripting language: asking for feedback
Yes please.
nusq | 8 years ago | on: Portugal Bans Use of DRM to Limit Access to Public Domain Works
It is reasonable but it's kinda against an EU directive. The problem was that it was shown that the means to unlock drm were not being provided to authorities thus were not available for users upon request. So we took our own mesures.
nusq | 8 years ago | on: Elon Musk’s Tunnel Plan Isn’t as Crazy as SpaceX or Tesla
I can't upvote your comment enough and I would add geology to that list.
nusq | 8 years ago | on: Elon Musk's boring machine completes the first section of an LA tunnel
I'm a fan of Elon but I think geology will hit him in the face.
nusq | 9 years ago | on: Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in responsiveness
Well..AWSY started a few years ago and many things happend to firefox since then. I cannot tell you exactly what increase corresponds to a memory measurment improvement but i can point you to the blog of Nicholas Netherote https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/
nusq | 9 years ago | on: Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in responsiveness
You are misreading given that there were big improvements in memory measurment and some of the memory use increase you notice are just firefox measuring better it's own memory
nusq | 9 years ago | on: The problem with reinforced concrete
I was refering to alkali-silica reactions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkali%E2%80%93silica_reaction...
nusq | 9 years ago | on: The problem with reinforced concrete
This article is full of FUD. What is the alternative? All these reinforced concrete problems are well understood and studied. if proper construction and design codes and maintenance guidelines are followed these structures can last a very long time.
In europe we have EuroCodes that account for this problems and to my knowledge concrete cancer is not related with steel corrosion but with a long term chemical reaction between some aggregates and cement. Remember that concrete is cement with sand and stones and the hardning chemical reactions are complex and can last for decades.
nusq | 9 years ago | on: Portugal runs for four days on renewable energy alone
Just so you can improve your knowledge, Portugal as geo-thermal power plants in Azores.
nusq | 10 years ago | on: The Marshall Islands Are Disappearing
You are underestimating the complexity of water and land mass interactions.
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