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You might have watched too much Chernobyl. It's not true that an irradiated person becomes itself radioactive. Once a potential radiation contamination (radioactive dust and materi…

The marginal cost of batteries grows more than linearly. When batteries are covering 0% of the need, the marginally added battery cycles many times, so the cost is spread over many…

S&P500 and other index funds are evaluating changing the rules for including stocks into the fund. There are multiple rules that might be dropped: * 12 months of trading * 4 quarte…

I checked and it looks like ETS are increasing prices of gas produced electricity 20-30€/MWh. So not little (although peaks are around 140€/MWh). But these are taxes that can be us…

What are you talking about? Spain is one of the biggest importer of Russia LNG, at 25% https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-remains-spains-to...

It's unfair you're being down voted, you're right. I used to think that we could get by with just solar wind and batteries, but then after collaborating with people on an ideal ene…

Capital costs starting to dominate doesn't mean that they increase. If capital costs are 10 and operating costs are 90, but later operating costs become 1, the capital costs remain…

It's an auction, it's called marginal pricing. Every producer bids for x KWh at a certain price (for each time slot), and the cheapest y KWh to cover all demand are taken, and all …

Not only that, after X months of not paying the landlord can request an eviction, and from the moment the eviction is requested to the moment its executed the government pays the r…

Catholicism has been in general against contraception. Of course it's still used, but probably at lower rates. Non protected sex leads to pregnancy at a much higher rate than prote…

This comment consider employees (people) as if they were algorithms to maximize personal revenue. That is not necessarily true. If FB where a place where people could feel proud of…

Message a recruiter working with the company (internal recruiters for example), they are litteraly searching for people, they'll be excited that a candidate reached out. Of course …

> The article talks briefly about mocking your database: definitely never do this. I definitely recommend doing this for same tests: it's the only way to check how your application…

This is what I saw. But I think it would be good to share the experience of a big, mature company with it to show that it's a system that can work, and can be easily added to compa…

They do, the repositories define dependencies, so when you change something everything that depends on you is rebuilt and tested. This prevents breaking changes, both for your depe…

Like some people, I was expecting to find a way to have the advantages of a monorepo while having projects in separate repos. This is something Bloomberg is doing, and it's very co…

Bloomberg let you do philanthropy work during working hours, and they assign you some amount of money depending on the hours you do that you can donate to charity. I met a few peop…

They aren't criminal until the court system declares them criminal. The lawyer is defending them before they are declared criminals. That is what "presumption of innocence" means. …

In practical terms, none. They are the same, and the same as using the curly braces. From the POV of the standard, those are different kinds of initializations. C++ has like 12 dif…

The law forced the companies to be explicit about what they do, and ask for consent. The user experience is made shit by the companies doing shady things. If they didn't do shady s…

Possibly, we'll never know unless that happens. But something that I noticed during the GME craze is how (some) people were making pledges to donate part of the profits to charitie…

True, but that was because no one had social media. Now that a big majority of people have it and interact over it, if you don't have it the chances of being marginalized are highe…

This, absolutely this! I did a lot of interviews (as interviewer) at a non-fang-but-close-enough, the guideline was to tell interviewees to pick the language they most prefer. Even…

Of course it was reviewed, it's when they provided misleading information on the usage of data, and later got fined for it. "Mergers: Commission fines Facebook €110 million for pro…