TadaScientist
Joined 8 years ago
Joined 8 years ago
1) Competition, even among smart money investors, works 2) The implicit value of, as user sethbannon stated, "getting a known and trusted person on the board"
Unsurprisingly I agree with your first sentence. But, I do disagree on your second: I, and others, can see the costs, and I am not referring solely to the financial costs:
It absolutely means risk of war in the Balkans, Greece/Turkey, N Africa.
Elimination of most of the tourist income on the Med coasts
Endangerment of the biodiversity and ecological balance of the sea
Cause for droughts/flooding seen with other dams https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aswan_Dam
Massive population dislocation in the region of tens of millions
I can go on but the point is what would the benefit need to be to consider this project as net positive?
However, as any adult can see the financial impact vastly supersedes the potential benefits.
Besides the obvious impact to the local seaside communities in Southern Europe, you would have to deal with unstable regimes in northern Africa and Turkey and the geopolitical side of things. Wars have been fought for much less important things than land and resources.
Moreover the ecological effects would be impossible to calculate. There are other seemingly less important issues such as immigration.
So, in all, ok - the central planning from a German scientist does get some creativity points, but we are not in Mars, trying to terraform it; we are in a heavily populated part of Earth which has civilisations at its shores for the last 4000 years.
Are there any actual guides on protecting your privacy online and eliminating filters? Preventing tracking and fingerprinting is already feasible with a combination of ublock origin and noscript for mozilla.
Also, what about linux?
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My spotify account was hijacked in 2017 and managed to get it back - someone from Tunisia - he had the audacity to start creating playlists full of autotune rappers. I wouldn't mind sharing but man his taste in music was awful.
Only one question if I may. How can I know for sure you delete the photos? Is the business GDPR compliant? If I am based in the EU, do my photos need to go to server in the US? I'd prefer if they didn't have my young daughter's pics...
They could have avoided the expensive actors, changing engine half-way, and they still should come out and say - we promised 1000 things. We can do 50 to get the ball rolling and we will do the following 950 in due time.
I really do hope that they put together at least the single player. We've spent money on the same sport simulators since '97. What's $50-$60?
I am rooting for them.
There was a website which I cannot remember now that monitored how much of the donated money converted into actual help and was not used for salaries and events.