If you are in power, your gender becomes irrelevant.

Why else would a fuckton of oppressive monarchs be women?

Is “tgg he stay” an auto-miscorrected variant of “that is still”?

Nope, the treaty with Ukraine (purposefully) never specified consequences for anyone violating it. It only said (I’m paraphrasing here because I don’t want to look it up) that the signatories will respect Ukraine’s borders.

The US respects this treaty still and doesn’t recognize Russia’s claims to Ukrainian land. The lack of specified consequences for anyone violating it makes the treaty nearly worthless.

Signing “I will respect your border” is very much different from “I will defend your borders”.

The UK had a defence treaty with Poland though. Had this treaty not existed, the UK would’ve probably done nothing.

The UK didn’t start the conflict, it was Germany who forced them to act or lose all trust in upholding international treaties.

Base load doesn’t exist. At least not in the way you consider it to.

Right now energy production is based on demand. With renewables, this should be reversed: Demand should adjust to the supply.

One very quick way to achieve this is by mandating dynamic electricity pricing for everyone - company or individual alike.

It will not take long for energy intensive companies to construct their own battery storage (since “purchasing” at -1 cent/kWh is much more economical than at 60 ct/kWh). Consumer demand will also adjust. If your washing machine costs 3€ to run at midnight and -10 ct at 2 pm, when do you think people will wash their clothes? The same goes for charging their EV, vacuuming etc.

The sole remaining factor is heating in winter. Which can not be solved by better battery storage but rather by building thousands of wind turbines everywhere.

The E in EBC is basically as relevant as the E in European Article Number (EAN) which are used globally.

I suspect Tunisia is one of those countries that desperately tries to appear tough to their population. It’s a national embarrassment to have a foreign nation attack vessels in your water without you noticing.

That doesn’t prevent someone ordering “everything” at max quantity, which is almost certainly a “malicious” order.

The idea of anomaly detection is to project some input onto a (high dimensional), numeric output. From the training data alone, you can then see where the projections are clustered and develop a high dimensional “boundary” where everything within is known and good and everything outside is unknown and possibly bad. Since orders come in relatively slow, a human would be able to check for false positives and overwrite the computer decision.

By the way, an ideal training set is preprocessed and has duplicates removed and new orders added by recombining parts of individual orders.

For example, if we have 3 orders:

• (Hamburger, Fries)
• (Hamburger, Fries)
• (Cheeseburger, Sandwich)

We could then create the following set:

• (Hamburger)
• (Cheeseburger)
• (Fries)
• (Sandwich)
• (Hamburger, Fries)
• (Hamburger, Cheeseburger)
• (Hamburger, Sandwich)

And so on, and so forth. A naive variant is just taking the power set of all valid orders.

There are machine learning algorithms for anomaly detection though. They actually work decently well because exploits like this do in fact differ significantly from regular orders. Because they assume all anomalies are attempted exploits, their false negative rate is rather low while their false positive rate can be a bit higher.

Taco Bell has the capability to create a decently large training set from all recorded orders (which must all be valid and non-malicious) so they shouldn’t have too many issues developing this model.

If an anomaly is detected, make a human verify it is indeed an irregular order.

The incident occurred in Kano state, one of 14 majority-Muslim states in northern Nigeria subject to Sharia law.

In northern states governed by Sharia law, homosexuality is punishable by death.

Damn I thought those Americans were exporting evangelical Christianity, not Sharia law. TIL.

Water?

From the article:

In some places, the main criticism that residents have about data centers has to do with the amount of water they consume to cool servers. This isn’t the case in Marseille, however, which is well-supplied with this resource.

The “drying up” in the headline refers to electricity consumption.

No, he has owned a private jet for many years prior to becoming chancellor.

Yeah, it’s the same unit just offset by a factor of ten:
% = 10 * ‰

Like floquant said, many European countries use per mille (which is denoted by ‰). It’s easy to convert those two but you first have to realize the need for conversion if you don’t read carefully (since the symbols % and ‰ look similar at first glance).

For those confused: Americans use percentage for blood alcohol concentration.

That’s 0.91‰ and 0.8‰ respectively.

No, she is a CIA agent since she left Hong Kong and only CIA agents would ever leave China.

Those numbers seem… all somewhat tiny?

Like, the smallest dedicated news channel in Germany has 2.4 million daily viewers for comparison. Germany does have 80 million citizens instead of 68 million like the UK but that can’t be the reason.

It may be intentional.

A strong currency is good for imports but awful for exports.

A weaker currency is awful for imports and good for exports which Trump('s economic advisors) want.

China in particular is actively keeping its currency weak to ensure continuous exports. There’s a reason it is at its weakest point since 2007 compared to USD and EUR:

EUR: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/policy_and_exchange_rates/euro_reference_exchange_rates/html/eurofxref-graph-cny.en.html

USD - haven’t found a decent official source

Eh, as suprising as Cuba backing fascist Russia.

You don’t have much choice if your significantly larger and more powerful neighbor constantly threatens to invade you.