Recent content by Juan

Here there is an accurate take on what's going on: A New Far-Left Dictatorship Is Coming to Europe - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

I went to the French Riviera. It was really nice there! In Spain everyone is against the Catalan amnesty, which is portrayed very favourably in media like The Guardian... but here everyone is against it, the army, the judges, the citizens. Actually Pedro Sánchez did not have that "proposal" in...

I am back from a short vacation only to see Spanish politics are getting worse and worse. The country is heading towards a disguised dictatorship and things are looking pretty bad here. Mass protests over amnesty deal in Spain as hard-right condemns ‘coup’

She's a bit too late for this. The US has fallen behind in privacy and data protection laws. And the EU does not really enforce laws regarding those issues. Politicians have sold themselves to Big Tech. Kamala Harris to call for urgent action on AI threat to democracy and privacy | Artificial...

All the fun was in the small print... but now... "poor" PayPal: FCA acts against PayPal and QVC as more Britons turn to buy now, pay later | Borrowing & debt | The Guardian

Just for general information... apparently Google has an "Appeals Department" that reviews again your genuine reviews of businesses, restaurants, bars, shops and institutions on Google Maps, after they are unilaterally deleted by Google, applying censorship to boost the score of restaurants...

The House In Tarragona Of Ukrainian Journalist Anatoli Sharii Was Attacked With Molotov Cocktails (worldnationnews.com) It seems Zelensky also wants to silence journalists who are critical of his regime. News in Spain covered this story today and apparently the house of that Ukrainian...

I still do not see the "AI boom" anywhere. Commuter trains keep breaking up all the time, and keep coming delayed, and Google consistently fails on predicting it, and, even worse, updating train information that is available on screens at the stations and also over the PA system... So much for...

The dark side of Big Tech: constant scams. Booking.com customers targeted by scam ‘confirmation’ emails | Scams | The Guardian

Make Amazon Pay sounds pretty good. The company has to be held accountable, and pay all the avoided taxes due in Europe. Exhausted Amazon staff fight back against retail giant at global UK summit | Amazon | The Guardian

Some of them were victims of a scam. Others said that there were commissions and charges to buy and sell, and also there's lots of volatility. It's not a safe investment. Looks like a huge bubble.

The Winklevoss brothers were some of the main promoters and advocates of cryptocurrencies. About Bitcoin and other crypto, I do not know anyone who has made money out of it. Some of my friends "invested" and for a while they were making paper profits. All of them lost money. One of them...

Another crypto scam: Cryptocurrency firms sued over ‘$1bn investor fraud’ by New York state | Cryptocurrencies | The Guardian

For instance? I read all the hype about AI but Google cannot tell me accurately if the next commuter train is going to be delayed. Specifically about Bitcoin, why would any country back Bitcoin if central banks are going to launch their digital currencies?

What about those people who lost their "key" to their crypto account? Like that British chap who is looking for his old discarded computers or hard drives in a massive dump... because he had Bitcoin stored there, and his "key". So who would take that political cost? Massive layoffs...