in that case you might consider working part-time - i'm not sure what to suggest, a job where you'll meet people your own age, somewhere corporate, or a small business, with a small business you might get a chance to flex your computer chops and perhaps progress that way - into tech support for instance and perhaps further from there
someone i know worked in a general store in his teens, he's been running his own cafe business for 20 years now - working in the store taught him almost everything he needed to know to run a cafe.
That's not really a good idea. It almost certainly will not produce more electricity than the extra cost of fuel required to actuate any piezo materials. It'd be a net loss, in the form of heat.
Better off looking for ways to reduce rolling resistance on road surfaces.
praxis makes me think of the dutch diy store chain - if you go to one in amsterdam they play reggae and you can buy a bhudda for your garden (or balcony more likely)
Very true. I can confirm that Udemy is discounting courses all the time. There are time-limited offers for selected courses (that are regularly priced for 149$ to 499$) for 10$ oder 15$ at least once or twice a month. At least one teacher I know of has left Udemy for that practice, stating she feels kind of robbed because she can't deliver quality for a few bucks, but can't complete against all this bargaining offers effectively as well. Many teachers will offer participants of their other courses steep discounts as well, especially when starting new courses or updating older ones. The numbers of subscribed students seem heavily inflated for many courses by these practices: Just compare the number of (useful) reviews with the number of students subscribed.
I agree - the deep discounts lower average engagement by a lot. From what I've seen, most students who binge-purchase don't actually start learning from the courses they buy.
other governments have proposed similar things - in europe there is a widespread distrust of these systems because they were used very effectively by the Nazi's - record keeping in the Netherlands was very good - 75% of jews were killed, in france the people collecting data conspired to protect jews by not punching the jew slot on the punched card and only 25% were killed
a belgian company sold an ID system to the rwandan government, it was used by one tribe to find people from another tribe so they could kill them
these systems are deadly in the wrong hands - if the info is not there, it can't be abused.
> in europe there is a widespread distrust of these systems
What makes you think that? In the UK maybe, but certainly in Spain no one thinks twice about their ID cards. It's just something you have and use to identify yourself - both in public administration and in private transactions, for example paying money into a bank over the counter.
We have had Personal identity number system in Sweden since 1947. Maybe because we where spared most of the atrocities of WWII I don't know of any strong resistance against it. But it is also combined with laws that strongly forbid registration of some types of information, such as ethnic group or political leaning.
And it is oh so convenient! I'm moving in a few weeks, and I had to fill in a form on a website and the tax authorities sent me some papers to sign and return. And that is all! Now all government agencies, the banks and larger companies that I deal with, and all magazines I subscribe to will have my new correct address in their system within days.
I do not agree with the point that if Nazis used X to kill Jews then we should not use X. For example, Nazis used trains to transport arrested Jews. No government should build railroads then?
"these systems are deadly in the wrong hands" - In the context of this thread, I hope you are not comparing Indian government with the Nazis. Such a comparison would be misusing the Nazi term and insulting the severity of crimes committed against Jews.
"if the info is not there, it can't be abused" - We can't move to the stone age now. Your car registration details at the DMV can be used against you. Your SSN details can be used against you. Information is stored about every citizen, in every country.
I hope that people realize that schemes such as UID present many benefits - reducing corruption, bring transparency, and ultimately, giving power to the people.
i wasn't comparing the Indian government with the Nazi's - but i will say there has been a long history of religious bloodshed in India, it doesn't take a major leap of imagination to see that someone with nefarious intent towards Hindu's, Muslims, Sikh's etc should not have access to extensive information about them - human nature being what it is, and looking at what has happened in those circumstances throughout history.
i was in oslo & amsterdam recently and the difference in junkie on the street levels was staggering - much much higher in oslo where drug laws are harsher.
i imagine this is a reasonable factor in amounts of prisoners in the two countries, though haven't checked data on percentage of prisoners who are heroin addicts.
Norway lags even continental Europe by 20 years or more when it comes to the drug debate, I'm afraid. It's the "dark side" of Scandinavian culture that remnants of protestant piety have successfully dominated our attitudes to drugs and alcohol in a very damaging way, where, while on one hand "everyone" acknowledges drug abuse as an illness that people needs help to combat, there is still very much an air of judgement over attitudes to junkies that makes it very hard to get support for reform of drug laws.
thats encouraging to hear - it seems like huge problems in the US are starting to force a change towards harm reduction, i think it's vermont where it's really out of control and they're changing laws a little bit, for example, if an addict calls an ambulance for someone who overdosed, then they won't be arrested or charged for drug offences
I have no idea what crimes the Oslo police are actually focusing on, but drugs seem to be on the absolute bottom of their list. It would be one thing if they didn't have the resources to respond to every call about a witnessed drug deal, but they won't even send someone out to collect the drugs when they're told where the dealers are hiding them! At least they could get some of the drugs off the streets that way.
Actually, they do focus on this from time to time, busting a lot of dealers and drug addicts. This normally happens when the area they dealers/addicts occupy becomes too annoying for the public.
However, it doesn't solve anything. It just spreads the drug addicts and dealers around the city for a while, making drugs available everywhere instead of just around the "junkie area".
And then when the police stops busting people, a new "junkie area" appears.
part of how that was tackled in holland was that if an addict was arrested they were offered a choice between being charged or going into treatment - and they may have also been banned from the junkie area (normally people are arrested if they violate this kind of ban)
That sounds like a very good practice. Much better than here. However, there aren't enough political will to do something like that here.. The bars for getting into treatment, especially with "replacement drugs" are way to high.
some parts of the UK had problems with dealers scaring away litter collectors and road repair crews - they were hiding drugs in cracks in the road and empty coke cans in the street
end result was bad roads and lots of rubbish in those neighbourhoods
The war on drugs is still going on in Oslo, and the human cost is evident in the human misery on the streets (and filling up the prisons). The dutch have reached a more enlightened stage in the fight against drugs, and it shows.
i'm not sure they live on the streets or not - but i think it's safe to say that the heroin problem is holland is being dealt with and in norway it's out of control - last figures i saw were 17k dutch addicts with 12k in treatment, no idea how norway stacks up though
that article says that the dutch want to close 19 prisons due to lack of prisoners, but there are not enough prisons in norway
My point was: The fact that the Netherlands has too many prisons and Norway too few compared to prison population does not entail that the amounts of prisoners are wildly different. In fact, they're pretty much the same. Norway just hasn't built as many prisons as the Netherlands.
yes, it's pretty ropey all in all - generally speaking people going to live with their families for a while has a higher success rate than anti-psychotic drugs, 60% vs 30%
in the 3rd world people can't afford drugs so tend to go for the family option
doctors in finland have adapted the 3rd world approach successfully and collected a lot of data along the way - incidence of schizophrenia is dropping in their region
someone i know worked in a general store in his teens, he's been running his own cafe business for 20 years now - working in the store taught him almost everything he needed to know to run a cafe.