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Re:US hits Bank of America with $1.2B fine on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @01:46AM (#50082911)
Look to Danske Bank incident [0]

CEO resigns 2018, is charged in 2019, and in 2021 all charges against Danske bankers dropped.

Nordic countries are supposedly the most strict for this type of situation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danske_Bank_money_laundering_s...

Step 0: be included in Eurovision

Australia 2015 √

Canada 2027 √

Re:Yanis Varoufakis on the future of capitalism [video] on Saturday December 27, 2025 @08:55PM (#46407648)
The UAE has a CT (corporate tax) of 9% since 2023 [0, page 8]

This provides an overview [1]

For 2026 "The UAE's tax system is getting stricter. Not in rates. In enforcement." [2]

[0] https://mof.gov.ae/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Federal-Decree...

[1] https://mof.gov.ae/en/public-finance/tax/corporate-tax/

[2] https://www.kayrouzandassociates.com/insights/uae-tax-change...

Re:The past was not that cute on Saturday December 06, 2025 @07:24PM (#46178012)
In South Korea pet strollers outsold child ones [0].

DINKWAD (Dual income, no kids, with a dog) is rising [1]. Hospitality is changing to accommodate this [2].

[0] https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/lifestyle/trends/20231226/sales...

[1] https://www.thehistoryofenglish.com/dinkwad-meaning-origin-u...

[2] https://rochsociety.com/rise-of-the-dinkwads/

Re:The metre originated in the French Revolution on Friday May 23, 2025 @03:46PM (#44075975)
Re:NASA Downgrades the Risk of 2024 YR4 to Below 1% on Sunday February 23, 2025 @07:16AM (#43148755)
Here is ESA information regarding the asteroid [0]

[0] https://blogs.esa.int/rocketscience/2025/02/04/asteroid-2024...

Jeanne Calment gave up smoking at 117 [0].

Number of people who also lived past 117 is three [1].

Sarah Knauss had a fondness for sweets and hated vegetables [2] lived to 119.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment#Health_and_life...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_people

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Knauss#Health_and_lifest...

Re:A better approach to gravity: how we made EGM2008 faster on Monday December 02, 2024 @07:29PM (#42301891)
Related: Dr. Martin used PINN for creating a gravity model [0] and video [1].

[0] https://github.com/MartinAstro/GravNN

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UNtZ4sOVEI

Re:Ask HN: Should I Go Back to College? on Monday October 14, 2024 @07:48AM (#41836632)
For a sense of the workload, here is an open source curriculum [0]

[0] https://github.com/Artoriuz/OSEE

Spain fined Booking (Dutch company) 413M€ last month.

For abusing its dominant position, the post has only 2 points [0].

Yet, this one has significantly more comments.

The only political aspect is where the company comes from.

Forum members then want to speak up.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41115644

Related post [0] (not having enough).

Do US doctors relay this risk to their patients?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41037116

Thomas Garrity discussing mathematical maturity [0]

Author of All the Math You Missed: But Need to Know for Graduate School

[0] https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=zHU1xH6Ogs4

Bill Hicks on advertising and marketing [0]

[0] https://yewtu.be/watch?v=tHEOGrkhDp0

Could someone explain what happened via telephony?

Telegraph->Operator->Rotary->Touch-tone->Cellphone.

It would seem everyone of these would be a next step in technology and protocols.

Sending a text message via rotary phone is probably not possible. However, calling a rotary phone via smartphone should work.

Is there a reason why newer protocols could not be implemented/enforced?

Whereby email from proton to tuta (and similar new email services) it acts differently than when sent to the older version of email (current method).

Read Kafka's The Trial [0]

The protagonist just turned 30.

[0] https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7849

Re:Harvard Railroad Economics Exam (1906) on Sunday June 16, 2024 @04:57AM (#40695670)
Cursory search yields two things: Flour mills [0] and railway system [1]

[0] https://www.mnhs.org/millcity/learn/history/flour-milling

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Northern_Railway_(U.S.)

Re:Ask HN: Learning Maths from the Ground Up on Sunday March 24, 2024 @08:27PM (#39811793)
Susan Rigetti has a nice overview [0]

In this Susan recommends https://www.khanacademy.org/, which is good for most things learned in primary or secondary school.

There is an open source curriculum equivalent for an undergrad compromised of MOOC and similar resources [1]

Similar to the above is a markdown [2], with a scope directed towards people coming from a CS background.

After this perhaps focus more on statistics & data science for metric interpretation. R for Data Science [3] is an option.

[0] https://www.susanrigetti.com/math

[1] https://github.com/ossu/math

[2] https://github.com/NavigoLearn/RoadmapsMarkdown/blob/master/... for computer science/full-roadmap.md

[3] https://r4ds.hadley.nz/

"In business news, 3M and M&M have merged to form, get this, Ultradyne Systems." Simpsons S14E12 [0]

[0] https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_script...

From details elsewhere [0], Dutch company booking.com could be added.

There are probably more that did not make the first round:

Telegram

Spotify - Sweden

OLX - Netherlands

Ryanair - Ireland

Are some possibilities for the next round.

[0] https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/the-digital-markets-act-i...

Sorry, have not seen "very receptive".

Received a masters degree in STEM from a Nordic country. This somehow rendered me less desirable in being hired?

Living on the streets is not what I envisioned while signing up for an university program.

Find a place where your back is against a wall.

Libraries tend to have a place for seclusion; where you can have an interview or small group meeting.

These may need to be reserved. Speak with the librarian, services provided are higher than one perceives.

Using polarised glasses and modification to a monitor [0]

[0] https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=zL_HAmWQTgA

Re:Ask HN: LeetCode Repo with Problems and Tests? on Friday November 10, 2023 @12:14AM (#38215303)
Re:Ask HN: Favorite way to typeset mathematical notes? on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @07:35AM (#38189559)
There is the option of incorporating vim with LaTeX.

Gilles Castel goes over this in [0]

Results of lecture notes can be seen here [1]

[0] https://castel.dev/post/lecture-notes-1/#vim-and-latex

[1] https://castel.dev/notes

In 2025 bans of diesel will begin for some large populations Athens, Madrid, Mexico City, Paris, etc. Electric buses for Cape Town, Milan, Quito, etc. [0]

If these occur with no difficulties, it will be easier for governments to uphold their 2030 and 2035 agreements.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_fossil_fuel_vehic...

Re:42 is the answer to these 5 fundamental questions on Thursday October 19, 2023 @02:02PM (#37946261)
Reminds me of a quote in Pi [0]:

“You want to find the number 216 in the world, you will be able to find it everywhere. 216 steps from a mere street corner to your front door. 216 seconds you spend riding on the elevator. When your mind becomes obsessed with anything, you will filter everything else out and find that thing everywhere.”

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_(film)

Re:Ask HN: Should I use Google Analytics ? on Monday September 11, 2023 @10:33AM (#37467886)
There is an ethical website [0].

The EU has created an alternatives website [1], which is tech from EU.

Note there is some overlap.

[0] https://ethical.net/resources/?resource-category=analytics

[1] https://european-alternatives.eu/category/web-analytics-serv...

Thank you for this info.

The Antarctic sea ice for 2023 has a noticeable delta.

Comparing between Aug 23, 2022 and Aug 23, 2023 the difference is 1,452 million km^2 which is hard to visualise.

If it were a country it would be the 19th largest country [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...

Some interesting countries with better freedom of the press than United States (2023): Namibia, Moldova, North Macedonia, Argentina[0]

[0] https://rsf.org/en/index

From the website it states the following.

"It is a snapshot of the media freedom situation based on an evaluation of pluralism, independence of the media, quality of legislative framework and safety of journalists in each country and region."

Is there an different list to compare against?

@Kapura since your country is big: would it be better to compare each state individually?

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