Or why not use a VOIP like protocol with end to end encryption like WhatsApp or telegram ?

Because that requires buy-in by the person you want to call. And Mr. Trump wants to call whomever he wants, whenever he wants; he's not going to wait for his staff to arrange for the other person to install WhatsApp.

I think op wanted to point out the comment that was saying how impossible picking grapes would be by ai.

Why does it need to be AI? One of my neighbors has an Italian tractor that harvests grapes. Just takes one person to drive it along the vines.

Bah. Difficult is the word. When someone says something is impossible is just means they don't know how to solve the problem.

Or maybe the guy that "knows how to solve the problem" is solving some other problem, not the actual problem.

I count three wine makers among my friends. None of them machine harvest their own grapes, nor will source machine harvested grapes from other growers. It would be very bad for their respective brand images.

Does that mean they're convinced the results would be unsatisfactory, or just that their rustic image is more valuable than increased efficiency?

Some of both. Machine harvested grapes have a lot of field run, leaves and twigs, etc, and also the grapes are not as gently handled. So you at least have to keep the larger pieces of cruft out of the fermentation vats. But marketing image is also a big part of it, rightly or wrongly, which is all top-line dollars, less cost of harvesting crew, of course, but it pencils out. We are talking premium wines here, not two-buck-Chuck.

In Spain and in Portugal grape harvesting machines are common. They are also used for harvesting olives. The vines have to be planted in hedges. The machines straddle the hedges and gently shake the tree with rubber flippers. The vines have to be ripped out when they become to brittle.

We have mechanical harvesters in California but I haven't seen any that are gentle or use rubber flippers. Mechanical harvesters typically shake the trees/trunks a small amount but quite quickly. For grapes the shaking might move the top of the vine a foot or so at several hertz. The shaking is strong enough that most grapes are plucked off the stem merely because of the weight of the berry and the whip-like motion of the shaking. The newer style bow rod machines use multiple UHMW rods bent into a question mark like shape. A large number of materials were tried but UHMW is the strongest material that could be found for the application. If adamantium or vibranium could be sourced I'm sure it would be used.

A company of 10 will produce an output of 6 if 3 people produce 50% of the work. A company of 100 will produce the output of 20 if 10 people do 50% of the production. So a company of 100 will produce 3 times more than a company of 10.

This article is trying to rebute David Horrobin idea that if everyone is creative then the world will soon be become crazy. It takes a geniuses to see a stick as a weapon. If Everyone starts becoming creative then the whole society will quickly devenigate.We need slme order. Horrobin arguement goes against the idea that everyone can be a creative genius. What is interesting about his idea is that how universal craziness is amongst a small proportion of the population, which means it is has been around a very long time.

Reminds me of a differing but related idea. Society at large is already crazy but nobody notices because it has been so normalized being rational is looked upon as crazy.

The promoter of doctors handwashing wound up instituionalized. And it isn't a in the past problem. I mean look at interviewing etiquette and ideals for one. They distrust people who can't or won't put on a mask convincingly enough as untrustworthy. Not even as "unsuited for a job where it is relevant like sales or acting". That is frankly barking mad to only trust those capable of faking.

The Portugese non-habituall-residence status has a reduced tax rate, or no tax rate if the tax on the income had been paid elsewhere in a non-tax haven.

You can apply for it if you have been non-resident in Portugal for more than 5 years, and lasts for 10 years.

It does not apply to Social Security which in Portugal is very high.

It is very critical to structure everything in the right way otherwise you may end paying more tax and Social security than you would in Ireland!

Getting the right advice is critical. I got the wrong advice and it took it years to solve.

Do you mean that in addition to the discounted taxation I should pay an extra for the Social Security?

Yes. NHR status affects your income tax, but not social security. It is pretty much designed to attract retirees from other EU countries (and those are almost non-affected by social security).

This is slightly different as he is looking to apply for non-habitiual status. This is quite a bit more complex and I would not do it without good professional advice. The major accounting firms have set up a production line, and I really would talk to them. These are PWC, Deloitte, etc. I took some very bad advice when I moved to Portugal, and it took years to sort out. Be very careful in who you take advice from. If you file one bit of paper in the wrong order it can take years to solve.