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Dov'è la gomma? :-)

I’m interested in ocean container shipping, so I built a Google Sheets add-on to automate the process of tracking shipping containers. It’s called Container Tracker and I just got …

All models are wrong, but some are useful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong

Honest question. Shouldn't this internet banking that offer authentication as a service do it via at least mandatory 2FA for log in. I would guess that way fake bank sites would be…

Grok gives this as an excuse for answering "The surgeon is the boy's mother." : > Sounds plausible and on the first read, almost logical.

In my opinion, port costs never go down with automation. If anything, they go up when automation is deployed (this essentially means unmanned reach stackers, more cranes and eventu…

An important reason for intergenerational conflict is that older generation offers mostly advice, while young generation expects an examples.

>Approximately 100% of CVEs, crashes, bugs, slowdowns, and pain points of computing have to do with various forms of deserialising binary data back into machine-readable data struc…

Just because ship can carry nominal value of 15K TEUs, it is very hard to estimate how many containers are currently on board. Also, empty container looks exactly like the full con…

This! I don't mind seeing some ads. In fact, they could be very useful, if they are relevant. Google knows enough about me to do this.Instead, I am regularly getting things I reall…

Top ocean carriers (including Maersk) are mature and well established organizations. For what concerns their core activities, that is transporting of containers from A to B across …

Great book indeed. My favourite quote from it is: "The name of the game is not to always be right, but to be right often enough".

This. I witnessed it today. I was running out of washing powder, still keeping the old box (6.5 kg, promotional price 25.95 chf sticker). Went to COOP (CH retailer), again "promoti…

Excellent question to which there is no easy answer. There is no site available that can give a price for which you are sufficiently sure you are getting competitive rate for which…

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-54922374 from the article "As of 1996, about half of the countries in the OECD allowed companies to deduct bribes paid to foreign officials from t…

Majority of shipping/trading documents are formalized under EDIFACT standard for example, this is the layout of Bill of Lading/Shipping Instruction, so called IFTMIN https://servic…

Agree. I can add to this the retailers Migros, Coop and digitec.ch (amazing). We are so used to the quality of their services, that we take them for granted.

At least on my searches with Google Flights, Wizzair shows up as a carrier for EU flights. Good search engine for low cost EU carriers is https://www.azair.eu/

Article is wrong. The rule for max 2 container height stacking was for areas *outside" of the port/terminal, i.e various container yards hinterland.

Ocean carrier i.e. Shipping line in 99.9% of the cases There are few shippers that own containers, so called shippers owned containers (SOC) but they are minority

Should be shipping only, container is just the box that is used to ship your cargo in and you don't directly pay for its usage

"a leading world center for research on coronaviruses" presumes some form of uniqueness amongst potential other similar facilities

If we apply Occam's razor [1] decision between "Wuhan, however, is home of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a leading world center for research on coronaviruses" and "Wuhan, there …