Kim Jong Un, les militaires et toujours les petits carnets...
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Messagerie : quelles sont les menaces ? - TOOLinux
▻https://www.toolinux.com/?Messagerie-quelles-sont-les-menaces75 % des emails reçus sont des courriels indésirables, ce qui équivaut à passer 40 minutes chaque jour à trier des emails non souhaités et potentiellement dangereux.
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Comment faire le plein moins cher sans polluer, grâce à l’huile de friture recyclée
▻https://www.bastamag.net/Comment-faire-le-plein-moins-cher-sans-polluer-grace-a-l-huile-de-fritureRecyclée, d’origine végétale, bien moins polluante que le diesel tout en étant beaucoup moins cher... l’huile de récup’ n’a que des avantages. C’est ce qu’a bien compris l’association Roule ma frite sur l’île d’Oléron, qui collecte auprès des restaurateurs du coin des dizaines de milliers de litres d’huiles. Ceux-ci serviront ensuite à alimenter les réservoirs ou les chaudières des personnes en précarité énergétique. Tolérée par les autorités, cette « raffinerie » de proximité ne s’en heurte pas moins à un (...)
/ A la une, #Recyclage, #Reportages, #L'enjeu_de_la_transition_énergétique, #Transports
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The Crisis Below the Headlines: Conflict Displacement in Ethiopia
Since April 2018, the ascension of Abiy Ahmed as prime minister of Ethiopia has ushered in a wave of national optimism. The new prime minister has moved quickly to open political space, promote human rights, and negotiate peace with neighboring Eritrea. However, behind the positive headlines—and indeed positive measures that merit international support—a major humanitarian crisis has unfolded in the south of the country. Over the past year, intercommunal violence has displaced hundreds of thousands Ethiopians. At the outset of the crisis, Prime Minister Abiy’s administration took laudable action in collaborating openly with United Nations agencies and other humanitarian organizations to mobilize and coordinate a response to the plight of internally displaced persons (IDPs). Unfortunately, however, it has more recently taken steps that have compounded IDPs’ suffering by pressing for their return home before conditions were suitable.
As political ground shifted at the federal level, long-standing grievances between ethnic groups over land, borders, and rights re-emerged in an explosion of violence in southern Ethiopia. Significant displacement occurred between April and June along the internal border of Oromia and the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ Region (SNNPR).
In September, a team from Refugees International (RI) traveled to southern Oromia and SNNPR to assess the situation of the displaced and the response. The team found that while the government made a proactive effort to partner with international humanitarian organizations early on, this positive trend was soon upended. In late August, the government began to restrict the delivery of assistance, telling IDPs that they would only receive help if they returned home. However, because many return areas were destroyed in the violence and remained insecure, a number of IDPs who tried to return home now find themselves living in secondary displacement sites.
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The government must take four key steps to address the crisis. First, it must refrain from carrying out additional premature, non-voluntary returns and allow aid organizations to provide assistance in both areas of displacement and areas of return. Second, it must establish a clear and transparent plan for voluntary and sustainable returns. Third, the government should implement this return plan in close coordination with relief organizations. And fourth, it must inform IDPs who have already been returned that they can live where they feel safest and that aid provision will be need-based. Donors and humanitarians must advocate for these changes while working with the government to support an overall improvement in its response to conflict IDPs.
Resolving ethnic disputes will be a long-term endeavor for the new government. Displacement due to intercommunal violence is therefore likely to remain a challenge for the foreseeable future. Indeed, over the last few months, tensions on the outskirts of Addis Ababa caused thousands to flee while another 70,000 people were forced from their homes in the western state of Benishangul-Gumuz. The government’s push for premature returns in the south should not become the precedent for responding to ongoing and future displacement crises.
▻https://www.refugeesinternational.org/reports/2018/11/14/the-crisis-below-the-headlines-conflict-displacement-in-ethio
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#Carburants : Les #agrocarburants polluent plus que l’essence et le diesel
▻https://www.novethic.fr/actualite/environnement/climat/isr-rse/les-agrocarburants-polluent-plus-que-l-essence-et-le-diesel-146565.html... de plus en plus de Français se tournent vers les agrocarburants, souvent moins chers et présentés comme des alternatives vertes au diesel et à l’essence. Or, selon plusieurs études, ils seraient en fait plus polluants que les carburants #fossiles à cause de la #déforestation qu’ils génèrent, de l’accaparement des #terres agricoles, du stockage carbone...
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El #petro no ve la luz y se convierte en una gran estafa de Maduro
▻http://www.el-nacional.com/noticias/gda/petro-luz-convierte-una-gran-estafa-maduro_259941Transcurrido un año [del] nacimiento [del petro] y con varias resurrecciones encima, el chavismo vende el petro como un «Superman económico» con el que pretende resolver su derrumbe económico y como una de las piedras angulares de su narrativa propagandística: la alternativa criolla para la economía del mundo.
Creado en un principio por el gobierno para evitar las sanciones de Estados Unidos, el petro navega atrapado en una tercera dimensión ajena a la economía real del país.
Incumpliendo una fecha tras otra, el gobierno nacional fue incapaz de lanzarlo a la circulación digital.
La semana pasada, incluso, sufrió una nueva mutación, para transformarse en un certificado de ahorro. Nada se sabe, mientras tanto, de los 5000 millones de dólares que el gobierno aseguró que ya fueron invertidos por compradores de petros.
Para la mayoría de los expertos, el petro es una fantasía que se trata de imponer al país como forma de pago para comprar pasajes de avión, compraventa de viviendas y otras actividades económicas cuando ni siquiera se respetó la fecha de 5 de noviembre como inicio de operaciones, el último fiasco. El atrevimiento revolucionario es de tal calibre que el general Manuel Quevedo, presidente de la petrolera estatal Pdvsa, propuso que el petro se convierta en método de pago para la OPEP, «la moneda digital para el petróleo».
«El petro es un fraude. La aplicación de Android para adquirirlo ha desaparecido misteriosamente. Se ha lanzado dos veces y nada. Las principales agencias de calificación criptográficas lo llaman una estafa», aseguró Steve Hanke, profesor de economía aplicada en la Universidad John Hopkins (Baltimore).
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«Están copiando nuestra inferfaz, que es muy particular, única, la han copiado exactamente», subraya a la nacion JP Thieriot, CEO de Uphold, plataforma de dinero digital que aloja varias criptomonedas y que tiene en Venezuela, con 100.000 usuarios, su segunda comunidad de clientes.«Lo más gracioso es que nos pusimos en contacto con ellos mediante Twitter. Increíblemente nos contestaron que China copió la tecnología de Occidente durante décadas y al perfeccionarla se convirtió en una fuerza mundial. En este caso no tenemos miedo de reconocer una cosa buena, nos dijeron. Jamás un gobierno soberano había respondido de esta forma», asegura Thieriot.
La #criptomoneda dash es la otra gran inspiración del petro. «Es un clon descarado de dash», aseguró Joey Zhou, principal desarrollador de Ethereum y el primero en revelar las copias bolivarianas.
Un experto venezolano conocedor de la operación pormenorizó a la nacion varias de las anomalías que presenta el petro.
«La característica principal de un #blockchain (cadena de bloques que elimina a los intermediarios tradicionales) es que todo queda registrado en un libro mayor de cuentas públicas, inexistente todavía. No se ha registrado ningún cambio de mano del petro en ningún blockchain. Hay un backup blockchain al que se puede ingresar, pero ni siquiera está 1% de las supuestas transacciones que han sucedido con el criptoactivo», especifica, bajo anonimato.
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Le gouvernement songe à favoriser le télétravail pour limiter les arrêts maladie
▻https://www.crashdebug.fr/actualites-france/15266-le-gouvernement-songe-a-favoriser-le-teletravail-pour-limiter-les-aDROIT :...le télétravail pour limiter les arrêts-maladies
= Un nouveau moyen de licenciement, arret-maladie, impose le télétravail ou la porte... Une fois acceptée on dira bah finalement vous n’étiez pas si malade que ça donc reprise immédiate du travail normal
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Les salariés peuvent déjà préférer le télétravail à un arrêt maladie, et certains souhaitent revenir au travail.
ALLILI MOURAD/SIPA
Le Premier ministre a jugé ce mercredi que le recours au télétravail pouvait être une « piste intéressante » pour réduire le coût des arrêts maladie. Ce dispositif ne s’appliquerait qu’aux salariés volontaires.
Pour contenir le coût grandissant des arrêts maladie (plus de 7 milliards d’euros par an), l’une des pistes envisagées par la mission Bérard-Seiller-Oustric consiste à développer (...)
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Local Futures: Beyond the Monoculture (1998)
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/local-futures-beyond-the-monoculture-1998A sequel to Ancient Futures, giving examples of Local Futures’ systemic approach to the problems of the global economy. The 23-minute film challenges the commonly-held belief that globalization is...
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350 ressources culturelles et scientifiques francophones en vidéo - Ministère de la Culture
▻http://www.culture.gouv.fr/Thematiques/Langue-francaise-et-langues-de-France/Ressources/Ressources-pedagogiques-et-sensibilisation/350-ressources-culturelles-et-scientifiques-francophones-en-videoLe présent document recense quelques 350 chaînes YouTube culturelles et scientifiques francophones potentiellement adaptées à un usage éducatif, sélectionnées pour la qualité de leur contenu. Les chaînes sont rangées ici par disciplines traditionnellement enseignées à l’école en France : littérature, langue, histoire, géographie, éducation civique, philosophie, économie, mathématiques, physique-chimie, biologie, technologie, arts, sport et, pour ne pas laisser de côté les atypiques, culture générale.
▻http://www.culture.gouv.fr/content/download/200291/2129558/version/2/file/350%20chaines%20Youtube.pdf
Ça peut servir.
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Uber Releases Ugly 3Q 2018 Results: Losses Widen to $1.1 Billion, Growth Slows | naked capitalism
▻https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/11/uber-releases-ugly-3q-2018-results-losses-widen-to-1-1-billion-growUber has no plan to make money – it would have to raise fares 2 to 3 times to become profitable – how long will investors continue to subsidize a Company that promises to make it up in volume.
Alles klar?
Posted on November 15, 2018 by Yves Smith
From Hubert Horan:3q P&Ls released tonight. Losses and margins got worse. Gross revenue growth continues to slow down, showing their inability to fix the fundamental weakness in the core car service business.
Expenditures on the marginal business (food delivery, scooters) that are key to the longer term growth narrative drag results down further.
Mainstream media coverage hasn’t reached “The Emperor has no clothes” point yet, but stories are raising explicit doubts about the viability of next year’s IPO.
Actually, as we’ll discuss, there are Uber skeptics, just not necessarily among reporters.
First, from Eric Newcomer at Bloomberg, who shows doubts about Uber’s proposed IPO valuation of $100 billion and its oft-made claims that it’s another Amazon:
Uber’s sales are dramatically slowing even as the ride-hailing company is spending more to fuel global growth, particularly in its food delivery business. Revenue growth of 38 percent in the third quarter was almost half of what the growth rate was six months earlier, when the company was negotiating a $9.3 billion investment led by SoftBank Group Corp.
That’s a troubling sign for a serially unprofitable business that hopes to get valued like a technology company in a planned initial public offering next year. Uber Technologies Inc. lost $1.07 billion in the quarter ended Sept. 30, an improvement over a year ago, but the loss widened 20 percent from the second quarter.
Highly valued companies typically grow quickly or generate big profits — and great ones do both. In the fourth quarter of 2005, Amazon.com Inc. had about the same revenue as Uber’s today — just under $3 billion, not adjusted for inflation. Yet, Amazon earned $199 million in profit and was worth about a fourth of Uber’s $76 billion valuation.
TechCrunch was more credulous, and also touted a more flattering profit metric:
Uber, which is expected to go public sometime next year, just released its Q3 2018 financial results. Uber’s net losses increased 32 percent quarter over quarter to $939 million on a pro forma basis, though Uber expected these losses as it continues to invest in future growth areas.
On an earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization basis (EBIDTA), Uber’s losses were $527 million, up about 21 percent quarter over quarter. And as Uber prepares to go public, the company has started presenting the income statements with stock-based compensation.
Ten years from now, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi envisions its core ride-hailing business accounting for less than 50 percent of Uber’s overall business, Khosrowshahi told me at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018. That means Uber expects businesses like Eats, scooters, bikes and freight to contribute to be more of Uber’s business, which requires Uber to invest heavily in those businesses.
And why should we expect UberEats and scooters to become profitable? Just because Uber wants it to be so?
The New York Tines’ story came off like a string of Uber talking points, with the only apparent real cause for pause that Lyft is also planning its IPO for 2019. For instance:
Uber’s I.P.O. is likely to create an enormous financial bonanza for its many investors and shareholders, including the company’s co-founder, Travis Kalanick, as well as venture capital firm Benchmark and the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank.
To get ready for a public offering, Mr. Khosrowshahi has been trimming Uber’s money-losing businesses. Uber has withdrawn from markets including Southeast Asia and Russia, where it faced stiff competition and was spending a lot of money. It has focused on other areas, like food delivery, as well as other geographies that show more potential for growth. On Wednesday, Uber began a loyalty program that will give riders access to extra perks the more frequently they use Uber services.
Uber said Uber Eats, its food delivery business that started in 2015, was growing rapidly, with bookings through its separate app up 150 percent from last year.
Yet Uber’s spending also continues to rise. The company said its total costs and expenses were $3.7 billion in the third quarter, up from $3.5 billion in the prior quarter.
It would be more accurate to say that Uber is cutting some loss-generating operations while expanding others.
Finally, to the Wall Street Journal:
The results for the three months ending in September show that Uber is still growing quickly but is likely to be unprofitable for some time. In documents for a bond offering last month, Uber said it expected it wouldn’t reach a profit for at least three years.
Uber has turned its attention to providing customers with a host of transportation options in addition to its core ride-hailing service. Mr. Khosrowshahi said he is particularly hopeful about electric-scooters and bicycle rentals, which he has said can be a low-cost replacement for short car trips in urban centers.
“What we’re going after is essentially to debundle car ownership,” Mr. Khosrowshahi said in an interview at The Wall Street Journal’s WSJ Tech D.Live conference Tuesday. “A world in which the people who cannot afford to buy a car have access to consistent mobility wherever they are, that’s a better world.”
Of the 22 comments on the story so far, only one read as positive, and other readers dismissed it as bad sarcasm. And remember that WSJ readers viciously attacked the initial stories on the Theranos fraud, accusing the journalists of being jealous of a talented entrepreneur. A sampling:
charles cotton
I’ve been tracking Uber and its copy cat, Lyft since 2013. The underlying root of their both their problems is that there business platform is toxic and can not ever make a profit. The burn rate is over 90% of investors money which has resulted in a meltdown. Outside investors have dried up and quite frankly dismayed. Such investors were all reckless, naive, and greedy being lured by hyped, false financials and advertising.
The promise of “get in quick, we’re going public’” being the worm on the hook. There were no accurate disclosures or prospectus given to the investor…. No one really knows what is going on at Uber.”
Joseph Swartz
Uber may be the biggest con game the Street has seen in decades…..an IPO of a Company that loses billions of dollars, subsidizes every ride we take, and has gone off the path with Uber Eats, a ridiculous venture. I recently read it’s drivers last about 6 months, on average, before quitting.
Uber has no plan to make money – it would have to raise fares 2 to 3 times to become profitable – how long will investors continue to subsidize a Company that promises to make it up in volume.
Gary Ayer
Uber is raising money via a public offering because otherwise they would go out of business due to continuous losses.
Jef Kurfess
Doing a thriving business selling dollar bills for $.85?
So Uber’s PR machine is having less and less success in keeping its story going. But will polite press amplification be enough to save Uber’s bacon.
#Uber
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Der Verlust der Patrie - Illustrierte Aeronautische Mitteilungen, XIII. Jahrgang, 18. Januar 1908, 2. Heft
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Naked mole rats and ant colonies have more in common than you think
▻https://massivesci.com/articles/naked-mole-rat-ant-colony-swarm-intelligenceThey both demonstrate something called ’swarm intelligence’
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100 balles ou la taule, brèves de justice
▻https://paris-luttes.info/100-balles-ou-la-taule-breves-de-11027
Vendredi 2 novembre. Une après-midi banale à la 23.1, ou comment les comparutions immédiates reflètent la justice...On est là, une vingtaine. Deux copines se sont faites arrêter pour un vol à go sport, histoire de vivre sans se contenter des 400 balles octroyées par l’État.
#justice #repression #tribunal #luttedesclasses #prolétariat @rezo
