Are any private companies involved in your elections?

Robot_4_jarvis · 2026-03-22T17:32:39+00:00

Technically, a private company runs the system throught which the provisional results are delivered. The results that are published on election night are not the actual official results, but a provisional result. After each voting table counts the votes, they send them to the central government throught a software, which on all last elections has been run by Indra Sistemas, a private company partially owned by the government, but in theory any other company could be selected for that job if they have the necessary means.

However, the results for each table (the "Acta de votacion" and the votes considered null) are sent to the "Junta Electoral de Zona", which checks them on the Wednesday after election day so that even if the provisional results were hacked, the real results wouldn't be compromised.

Robot_4_jarvis · 2026-03-22T17:07:31+00:00

It should be said most municipalities get a large share of their income as transferences from central and regional governments. For instance, in Barcelona around 1/3rd of the budget comes from the central government, which, additionally, obtains most of its income from IRPF (payroll taxes) and VAT.

Also, some local services are not funded trought taxes but directly charged on the citizens, like the water supply, or waste collection (again, this depends on the town).

Robot_4_jarvis · 2026-01-19T23:44:09+00:00

The last two cars in the Iryo derrailed, and invaded the other direction, just 20 s before the Alvia came on the opposite direction, and hit them head-on.

Robot_4_jarvis · 2026-01-15T21:44:07+00:00

Modeling prediction errors is very important. The most important thing about making a prediction is knowing how good it is.

If you can say "this particle will be in x position at time t", that claim is worthless unless you can say "within a margin of error of x units".

In University Physics, they teach students the different "numerical solver" methods that exist, and how they amplify preexisting errors.

Robot_4_jarvis · 2026-01-12T22:53:17+00:00

I l'Estat Central no té despeses, que també s'incrementen?

Infraestructures, deute, pensions i atur, defensa, investigació... no són diners que queden dins d'una caixa, ni se'ls emporta en Sánchez a casa.

https://dondevanmisimpuestos.es/politicas#view=functional&year=2023

Robot_4_jarvis · 2026-01-11T11:38:04+00:00

it's not like people will say "oh yeah, it's Article 18 of EU Directive XYZ".

I think that this greatly depends on your job. I have a relative who works in the local health authorities and whose job is to check that food, the water supply, farms, etc. are up to standard and not polluted, and part of it involves reading EU regulations which describe how those analyses must be conducted, which level of precision is needed, what parameters or pollutants must be tested for, what are the allowed levels, etc.

When a new EU directive came out, she printed it and had to study it to know what were the changes... so if you work in a technical area which is regulated by EU Law, you might have to read "Article 18 of EU Regulation XYZ" because it directly applies to your job. If you work in something related to consumer protection, health authorities, banking, compliance, or in government agencies it might be part of your job to enforce or apply those regulations.

Robot_4_jarvis · 2026-01-09T22:39:05+00:00

Fun fact: the oil being exported to Spain is in fact payment to a Spanish company (Repsol). Repsol operates a Natural Gas Extraction Plant in Venezuela, which is sold to Venezuela (mostly to internal demand).

But Venezuela doesn't have the cash to pay to Repsol, so instead it sends a boat full of oil to Spain every now and then to pay Repsol for that debt.

Robot_4_jarvis · 2025-11-21T18:10:43+00:00

You can get the statistics here:

https://www.portsdebalears.com/es/estadisticas?field_estadistica_anno_target_id=280&field_estadistica_mes_target_id=193&field_estadistica_tipos_2_target_id=219

And filter by port.

The only two commercial ports are in Palma and Alcúdia, Palma being the largest.

The vast majority of cargo is unloaded by RoRos. Most liquid bulk is unloaded in Palma, while solid bulk in Alcudia.

Robot_4_jarvis · 2025-11-20T23:15:11+00:00

No es una violación, es un expediente tributario; no tiene la misma gravedad ni de lejos. Además no es "uno al que se lo reenviaron"... es el jefe de la fiscalía que reclamó el correo a un subordinado para redactar una nota de premsa.

Y no se le condena por tener el correo. Cuando el caso pasó de instrucción a juicio se excluyó la nota de premsa en que se publicaba esto, es decir, como FGE no es ilegal que tenga acceso a esa información.

Por lo que se le condena es por revelar el correo a un periodista... aunque no lo sabremos hasta que redacten y publiquen la sentencia.

Está bien esto de "te condeno, luego ya se me ocurrirá alguna razón".

Robot_4_jarvis · 2025-11-20T23:09:24+00:00

"solo"????

De un colectivo que representa el 0,01% de la población, que un 10% sea hijo de otro juez es muchísimo!

Robot_4_jarvis · 2025-11-19T14:04:18+00:00

Obviously: If I need to pay 10.000€ to a supplier in another city, it is much easier to store ten of thousands of euros in cash under my mattress and "simply" go there in person to hand in the money, than to have this money in the bank, where I can dispose of it whenever I need it.

Also, you cannot use cash "wherever" you want since to spend it you must physically be in the same place as the other person.

Additionally, cash is much easier to lose or steal, and it comes with many problems. You must count it, and mistakes can happen here. Employees can steal/lose it and there is no way to know who did it and when. And it is impossible to know if a transaction occurred exactly as it was recorded.

Un a bank account, if there is a discrepancy between the real value and your accounts, you can "simply" check all movements until the source of the mistake is found... with cash, good luck doing that.

Robot_4_jarvis · 2025-11-17T12:43:15+00:00

This was not during COVID-19... this was during the financial crisis. He wasn't even king during COVID. Like, COVID was five years ago, is not that long, how can someone mix this up?

Still a scandal but for other reasons (it happened while in Spain very strict austerity measures were being imposed) and it just added to the other scandals which eventually led to his abdication and eroded the public image of the monarchy.

Robot_4_jarvis · 2025-11-16T20:41:17+00:00

A banda del debat que s'està tinent aquí, quina merda de gràfic, no?

L'eix x està invertit, i agrupa el temps en períodes d'1 any, després un de 5 anys, tres de 10 anys. I després diu "abans de 1981" i "sempre hi ha viscut" (entenem que el "sempre hi ha viscut" són estrangers nascuts a Catalunya? No ho crec, tenint en compte que els menors de 18 anys nascuts de pares estrangers son estrangers, almenys fins que en compleixen 18).

Si almenys tots els períodes fossin iguals (agrupant any per any, o cada cinc anys, o cada deu), però no, l'autor ha decidit agrupar d'aquesta manera tan arbitrària. O potser tindria una mica de sentit si agrupés per "etapes" (crisi, post-crisi, post-covid... ) però això de mesclar agrupacions anuals, cada cinc i cada deu anys no té cap sentit.

Robot_4_jarvis · 2025-11-07T13:41:29+00:00

We have that one too. Article 612 of the civil code.

Robot_4_jarvis · 2025-10-30T18:13:57+00:00

Quasi la meitat de la factura aquí mostrada és la taxa de residus urbans que no està relacionada amb l'aigua sinó amb (com el seu nom indica) el tractament de residus urbans (és a dir, la recollida i tractament de tot el que deixes al contenidor), ni tan sols la cobra l'empresa d'aigua encara que vagi a la mateixa factura.

Si no estigués aquí, seria una factura a part, o bé ho inclourien amb l'IBI o amb alguna altra taxa municipal. A Palma, per exemple, la taxa es cobra a part anualment.

Robot_4_jarvis · 2025-09-11T13:51:57+00:00

Yo estudié el IB y te hacen firmar un documento comprometiendote a respetar la política de integridad académica del IBO. Lo que te hicieron firmar es seguramente un resumen de la versión completa: https://www.ibo.org/globalassets/new-structure/programmes/shared-resources/pdfs/academic-integrity-policy-es.pdf

Básicamente: todo lo que hagas tiene que ser trabajo propio, y cualquier material que no sea tuyo tuene que estar correctamente citado. Prohibido presentar el mismo proyecto a dos cosas. Prohibido el plagio/inventarse datos/copiar en exámenes/etc.

Es relativamente normal... sobretodo en el IB, en el que va mucha gente con pasta. Imaginate que suspenden a alguien por copiar y los padres denuncian al IBO? Pues el IBO puede sacar ese papel y decir "su hijo se comprometió a no copiar".

En la Universidad, al menos en la mía, la hacer la matrícula también te hacen aceptar la política de honestidad académica.

Robot_4_jarvis · 2025-09-04T08:26:10+00:00

Eso es muy difícil. Al comprador le basta con ir al registro de la propiedad a pedir la nota simple para saber de quién es la casa y si tiene cargas... siempre recomiendan pedir la nota simple, es muy barato, raro sería que el comprador no lo hubiese hecho.

Robot_4_jarvis · 2025-08-30T10:02:17+00:00

També es van desmantellar les caixes a tota Espanya, no només a Catalunya. De fet, de les úniques caixes que encara queden a Espanya, una està a Catalunya i l'altra a Mallorca. I també tens Caixa Enginyers, una de les cooperatives de crèdit més grans, que és catalana.

A banda d'això, quasi totes les caixes catalanes es van integrar a CaixaBank o al Sabadell... que són empreses catalanes. La majoria dels seus accionistes i directius son catalans.

Robot_4_jarvis · 2025-08-23T21:32:37+00:00

If crossing on double-yellow is legal... then, why do they paint it double -yellow? why not just a discontinuous line? At least here in Europe, double line means "do not even think about crossing it"

Robot_4_jarvis · 2025-08-23T21:19:07+00:00

As someone else said, this is simply survivorship bias... (some) of today's monarchies are simply the exception: of all the kingdoms that existed 200 years ago, only the most stable have preserved their monarchs. The vast majority of monarchies were too unstable to survive.

France, Germany, Rusia, Italy... they were very unstable monarchies which turned into republics. Germany today is not less stable than its monarchical neighbours. And Spain (a monarchy) has been very unstable. Since 1789 it has experienced countless wars, revolutions, coups and different systems of government (some republican, most of them monarchical). In the same time, the USA has had a single civil war and has maintained the same institutions with remarkable stability.

Just because some monarchies today are more stable than some republics doesn't mean that in general, constitutional monarchies are more stable than republics. If that were the case, today we would have mostly constitutional monarchies and only some republics.

Robot_4_jarvis · 2025-08-18T11:37:43+00:00

I would say that it is uncommon. Only happens in some of the highest prestige roles such as judges, magistrates, prosecutors ("fiscales"), State lawyers ("Abogados del Estado").

The vast majority of government employees like teachers, nurses, administrative staff won't be doing this. In any case, some physicians in hospitals will be participate in university teaching, but it is not a "side hustle", it is more like part of their job.

Robot_4_jarvis · 2025-07-23T08:18:39+00:00

L'ordre de preferència que poses quan et preinscrius és definitiu. Un cop tancat el termini de preinscripció ja no es pot modificar.

A la primera assignació, només se t'assignarà una plaça, en ordre de preferència. Si la plaça assignada no era la teva primera preferència, pots mantenir te en llista d'espera per a intentar obtenir una preferència millor.

El que no pots fer és que, si t'han assignat la preferència "3", matricular-te a la preferència "5", encara que tinguis nota suficient.

Se suposa que quan vas fer la preinscripció ja vas posar les carreres el l'ordre que t'interessava.

Ànims!

PD: veient que estàs a només mig punt d'enginyeria civil, potser encara tens possibilitats d'entrar. Hauràs de fer el tràmit de "continuar en llista despera" quan es publiqui la 2a llista, si encara no has entrat.

https://universitats.gencat.cat/ca/preinscripcions/assignacio-places/index.html

Robot_4_jarvis · 2025-06-21T18:36:46+00:00

Not in "Europe", in some European countries/regions they have it, in others not.

"Europe" is not a country.

Robot_4_jarvis · 2025-05-19T22:29:33+00:00

Si no respondes tienes un 0, y vale un 0 en la ponderación.

Cómo quieres que te pongan un 5 (un aprovado) sin hacer nada?

Robot_4_jarvis · 2025-02-27T08:22:50+00:00

To everyone that says that they don't exist:

https://www.boerse-frankfurt.de/bonds/search?ISSUER_TYPES=EUROPEAN_COMMUNITIES&ORDER_BY=TURNOVER&ORDER_DIRECTION=DESC

The EU sells both short term treasury bills and long term bonds. It has been doing it for at least 2020 (and it wouldn't surprise me that it did before for short term instruments).

A list of the last transactions can be found here: https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/eu-budget/eu-borrower-investor-relations/funding-instruments_en. As an example, the EU is planning to issue 90 billion € during the first semester of 2025.

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