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I believe you are talking about Michaláková. She lost parental rights because she talked to press.

http://zpravy.idnes.cz/norsko-michalakova-soud-0w5-/domaci.a...

Barnevernet, social services, child abduction.

There are a few thousands such cases, mostly in east-european countries. It is recommended not to bring your family to Norway, if you find job there.

Norway has zero transparency when it comes to children rights. Some governments (Slovak, Czech, Romania) recommend not to travel there with children.

EDIT: Some explanations.

- In Norway social services (Barnevernet) can take children from family without any explanation.

- Parents are under gag order, and can not talk about their case. Talking to press means you loose parental rights.

- There is no appeal, proof, or any oversight.

- Barnevernet does not release ANY details about cases. It is to protect children.

- No details are released even if child is already dead (suicide) and does not need protection.

- Bernevernet has zero oversight, it does not even allow foreign social workers to look into their materials.

- People who work for Bernevernet can also work for private companies which provide child care (unique in Europe). So person who decides on child removal may have direct financial benefit from doing so.

- Siblings are often split and placed far apart (8 hours drive).

- Removed children must speak Norwegian, mother tongue is suppressed (siblings are split). Foster parents often do not have common language with children.

- Relatives of children (grandparents, aunties, divorced parents) have zero chance to get custody.

- Anonymous surveys (parents are under gag order) indicate there are thousands of such cases (Norway is very small country). Mostly immigrants.

Does amazon even have a presence in austria? I thought it is handled from other countries.

I would argue it was first space flight guidance computer.

Technically nazis V1 had analog guidance computer and traveled in space. The same with all later ballistic missiles etc.

Early soviet manned space flights (Vostok, Voschod) were fully automated, in case pilot passes out. Americans did not had that until Apollo.

There was even 'password' login :-) [wiki, Vostok 1]

> The entire mission would be controlled by either automatic systems or by ground control. This was because medical staff and spacecraft engineers were unsure how a human might react to weightlessness, and therefore it was decided to lock the pilot's manual controls. In an unusual move, a code to unlock the controls was placed in an onboard envelope, for Gagarin's use in case of emergency.[7]:278 Prior to the flight, Kamanin and others told Gagarin the code anyway.

Europe was like that for a long time. France and Germany were vey scared when eastern countries joined EU.

OpenOffice uses name 'office' for 30 years, 5 longer than MS does.

Wiki:

> OpenOffice.org originated as StarOffice, a proprietary office suite developed by German company StarDivision from 1985 on.

> MS office 1.0 released : November 19, 1990[1] Office 1.0

> More than _one-third_ of Italy’s richest people inherited their fortunes, compared with _just 29 percent_ in the U.S

Garbage article

Multiple storages. One in startup, second on Dropbox, one local, another one in AWS Glacier. This way startup failure does not affect users.

Sounds like a good idea for startup. Archive someones social media, if they require it. Perhaps browser plugin which archives all visited pages with some filtering.

Is it a bad thing? I imagine most results from such data will not have direct benefit for users (advertisement, profiling, persecution).

GitLab looks very tempting, congrats to their team.

Question: I would like to migrate from Github to Gitlab, but can not really move. Is there some bridge, which would mirror Github repos (with Issue tracker and pull requests) on Gitlab?

> foreign contagions brought into the country can spread like, well, rabbits.

> is caused by a mosquito-borne virus

I think it is just question of time, until some countries decide to eradicate mosquitoes on their territory. Seems like cheaper solution than vaccinate entire population against dozens (if not hundreds) diseases.

Blood tests, to get second opinion. GP disagreed with patient suggestion, and had loundry list of treatments to try first (including shrink and accupuncture).

Three months is reasonable number if you have no GP (have to register first), bad english and live in poor neighbourhood.

Visiting foreign doctors is cheaper and faster.

Yes, but in UK you have to go through GP for everything. It can take months before seeing specialist for trivial stuff.

My friend had diabetes, her GP could not even diagnose that from basic symptoms, several visits and blood test.

I strongly recommend to anyone with 'mysterious' long term illness to visit doctor in other country.

There is something similar in Greece, people can not pay their share for filling up common heating oil tank. Lot of houses are not heated in winter (sometimes bellow freezing with snow).

It is not question of trust, but poverty. People are not gaming system to buy new car or TV. Food is more important than electricity or heat.

How about thousands of people who died at sea? OSF paints EU as paradise on earth, to drive people into sea.

If OSF wants more immigrants in EU, they should buy flight tickets, and sponsor visa applications.

I am not sure XPS is a business laptop. For enterprise there is Latitude line, with more ports and higher price tag.

But I am not sure the price is worth it. XPS is very good.

http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/84/campaigns/xps-vs-latitude...

You can harvest ivory without killing elephant.

Decompression on byte[] is 3x faster with unsafe. I think modern JVMs are far from optimal.

Using sun.misc.Unsafe to access array elements would make it much faster. Also ArrayList with preset size is faster for inserting elements.

> While the prospect of longer lives is a good thing, problems arise when a shrinking work force cannot foot the pension bill.

Not true.

In EU the retirement age is moving as population gets older. By 2040 retirement age could be around 75 years.

Maybe it is better, politics is now more open and problems can be recognized faster. In 1850s British government did not notice, that millions were dying in Great Famine.

I know GP who could not diagnose diabetes from basic symptoms and blood tests, and send patient to acupuncture.

I think mods should add (2013) into title.

12 hours a day is not uncommon. Even in EU and public sector, for example doctors in some eastern countries have to work this way.

Anyway, my point is: this study should not be miss represented.

Oriental Institute has lecture about ancient beekeeping on youtube with photograph of 2500 years old honey. It is recognizable but far from eatable.

> concludes an extensive new Danish study.

> A study of 4,500 public employees... at Danish schools, hospitals, nurseries, offices, etc.

Public employees in Denmark work 35 hours a week, with 8 weeks holiday for teachers and 5 weeks holiday for others.

I really do not think this study applies to people who work 12 hours a day with no holidays.

Also it was published in 2013

Spin locks are not very power efficient.