Swiss in Taiwan

Lugano 🇨🇭 to Charlotte 🇺🇸. Now in Taipei/Keelung 🇹🇼.

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[Swiss in Taiwan @Oceanlugano]

"Kindle Direct Publishing is temporarily unavailable". It's been close to a week now. Does anyone know why?
#kindle #KDP

[Swiss in Taiwan @Oceanlugano]

@bivouaclabel Be careful with any type of agent: https://t.co/GoPXrXLmnQ
As in, have it create the code, but I'd be wary of letting it operate directly in MSAccess.

[Summer Yue @summeryue0]

Nothing humbles you like telling your OpenClaw “confirm before acting” and watching it speedrun deleting your inbox. I couldn’t stop it from my phone. I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb.

[Swiss in Taiwan @Oceanlugano]

Is https://t.co/CM3Md9JoMN down for anyone else?

[Adam Butler @GestaltU]

Fun fact: The 1998 paper that introduced Google and PageRank to the world ends with this acknowledgment:

"Supported by the National Science Foundation under Cooperative Agreement IRI-9411306. Funding also provided by DARPA and NASA."

Sergey Brin was on an NSF Graduate Fellowship. Larry Page was a PhD student on the grant.

Google—now worth $2 trillion—exists because American taxpayers funded "the Stanford Integrated Digital Library Project."

Not a startup garage myth. A government grant.

Every time someone says public research funding "picks winners and losers" or "crowds out private innovation," remember: the most dominant technology company of the 21st century was incubated entirely with public money, inside a public university, by researchers on federal fellowships and grants.

The private sector didn't see it coming. VCs passed. The government funded it anyway—not because it would become Google, but because fundamental research into information retrieval seemed worth understanding.

That's the point. You can't predict which grants will change the world. You fund the science and let researchers explore.

The internet (DARPA). GPS (DoD). Touchscreens (CIA/NSF). mRNA vaccines (NIH). Google (NSF/DARPA/NASA).

Public investment in basic research isn't wasteful spending. It's the seed corn of the entire modern economy.

[Swiss in Taiwan @Oceanlugano]

@AngelicaOung The only way I lose weight is by not eating in the morning (I still drink my coffee). Then picking one meal. It's usually dinner since I'm the same: once I start eating I'll keep munching all day. But never spoke with a trainer about it. Everyone's body is different I guess.

[Swiss in Taiwan @Oceanlugano]

@rgbrizi @owroot Crazy. And I was waiting for the last sentence. If the kids really enjoyed it I was going to say they're still nuts, but at least they're doing it to make their kids happy while they're young and can enjoy it. But no, it's just some imaginary keeping up with the joneses thing.

[Glenn @GlennLuk]

Scholars once worried that China's gender ratio imbalance would lead to a generation of surplus men, fueling crime, chaos, and even war.

What we got instead was ... this.

[Swiss in Taiwan @Oceanlugano]

@rgbrizi @foreignersinTW No but now I know what to do at the next wedding I attend.

[Swiss in Taiwan @Oceanlugano]

Listening to Casey Kasem from the 1980s and I'm starting to think some of these calls/letters from people were probably fake.

[Swiss in Taiwan @Oceanlugano]

@DrLoupis__ Do you mean a lot of AI images posted for clicks and attention? Yeah. We are.

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

Paid maternity leave around the world

[Swiss in Taiwan @Oceanlugano]

@AirplaneCentral You mean besides Singapore Changi?

[Swiss in Taiwan @Oceanlugano]

@foreignersinTW I got the alert but felt nothing on the 2nd floor. Was it big?

[Swiss in Taiwan @Oceanlugano]

@michaelturton Where is this?

[Swiss in Taiwan @Oceanlugano]

@HistorianZhang I mean, Bimbo means baby in Italian. But even then it's odd. Bambino is more common. And wouldn't they at least check with an English speaker?

[Swiss in Taiwan @Oceanlugano]

@MossyRock3399 @satyanadella Making MS Teams work smoothly

[Swiss in Taiwan @Oceanlugano]

You know what they say: 16th time's a charm.

[Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen]

I welcome the agreement on our 16th package of sanctions.

The EU is clamping down even harder on circumvention by targeting more vessels in Putin’s shadow fleet and imposing new import and export bans.

We are committed to keep up the pressure on the Kremlin.

[Swiss in Taiwan @Oceanlugano]

@AngelicaOung At the risk of sounding naive, what about India? Their GDP overall is pretty high, although I'm not sure how cohesive they'd be as a partner.

[David Carretta @davcarretta]

Draghi: "The report was published in early September (...). Today, five months later, we what? We discussed—what do we get out of this discussion? That what is in the report is even more urgent than it was five months ago. But that's it".

[Taiwan News @TaiwanNewsEN]

Feature photo: Taipei reveals itself from Keelung Mountain
https://t.co/5GlgwRq34f