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That seems to be everyone above 16 years of age. It excludes inmates, that is penal and mental institutions (which in the land of the free is surprisingly sizeable chunk). Also exc…

We once had a rather angry Irish customer calling our support complaining that we called him a pikey (slur for gypsy). After some back and forth it turns out we just gave him an ap…

That is a very weird take to me. That big slam presumably is the spring breaking, a lot of energy released at once in a rather uncontrolled fashion. The same energy will be release…

Without knowing details, I can only assume you are misunderstanding something. I and everyone I worked with have bugs prevented by FK constraints. They prevent getting data to be i…

I make mistakes all the time as a developer, I would hate to be fired for them and if I would, I would never claim responsibility. And that's why I don't get how people expect dire…

Slightly related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bravo A thermonuclear test yielded much, much higher energy, due to unexpected lithium 7 reactions.

Don't know, seems like a good explanation. We have a number of machines that can take CO2 out, the "enough machines" is the problem. - they either require space (forests or whateve…

From what I can tell you can choose where your donations go, so you can focus on poverty and let skynet exterminate us humans if you'd want. https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/donate/…

Stumbled over a (German speaking) youtuber, "Held der Steine" (Hero of the stones) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVtbNWH_9So Who reviews "Bricks" of all kinds including Lego. He …

Well, depends, fundamentally it's a paradox. Either US company get's the data from the Italian one, making the Italian operation illegal in Italy Or The US company doesn't get the …

Apparently it's thought that meteorites hitting the ground freeze water around them after a bit. They get heated up, but it's pretty short, so the bulk of it is "space temperature"…

Reminds me of the "myth" of putting a Radeon GPU into the oven on low heat for a while if it was broken. I tried it when mine stopped working and indeed it fixed it. Also another R…

You may be shocked how much more you can get, I heard of being able to identify the movie/tv show you are watching based on power consumption of the TV based on brightness. Obvious…

I like the affordability too, but it also does not take into account edge cases. Our office door has this metal plate, it pushes outside (I believe it is that way for fire safety r…

Don't know about I_Byte, though I could have written what he has written. I can now actually afford games (in the quantity I consume them) now, so that question is fair. But thankf…

My sibling comments are a bit cynical. Considering the widely reported stress on health care workers during the pandemic I'd suspect that number may be higher than one would think …

I think the "suffer"/"rehabilitation" is only one of the important aspects. There is a selfish component as well, do I want to have low crime. A successful return to society facili…

That doesn't seem true. Picketey's (probably misspelled) "capital in the 21st century" has a compelling argument for exactly this kind of tax. And my realization that I can't see i…

I don't think those reasons are true for the "lack of entrepreneurship". I'd love to know some numbers actually, I know EU doesn't have as many unicorns like Uber, Google, Amazon, …