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Complementary movie on this topic: "No More Bets" from 2023 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_More_Bets

London has a special microclimate and pleasant weather all year around. No extremes and less rain than other parts of the country.

True. Generally whatever niche interest people have, they usually can find it in London. As a fellow passenger old lady once put it on the tube: "London might not be the prettiest …

Agree. Meanwhile the number of cars noticably decreased. Lower noise, better air, significantly more cyclists. The 20mph speed limit certainly helped to achive this. (Too slow to m…

Tax returns should be public. Like in Norway. That would sort out all kinds of "payment gap" issues as well.

Holding the option key allows exactly that. Menu item is called 'Zoom' for some reason.

and in London since 2020: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-54452835

That is being said, she managed to buy one soon after, when cars were still an exotic luxury. “I will confess here and now that of the two things that have excited me most in my li…

This pandemic is also significant a moment in history when antivacc views gained wide social acceptance. This will hinder future vaccination efforts. I agree with you otherwise.

Opt-in rate = 43%

Yes. By that age people getting tired of "being managed". Large companies have more management positions though. What should someone 40+ do at a small firm? Start again at BIG Co a…

I agree with you that inexperienced (lower paid) or young developers might find the US attractive if there weren't visa issues. The older better paid ones, maybe with families even…

To give an example: I was among the first airbnb users when it started. In the past few years I used booking.com more because I liked both their website and booking experience bett…

The US and California in particular lost it's appeal. 20 years ago it was the dream destination for many. Now, even some Indians steer away. I don't know a single European who woul…

If you invest time learning Erlang everything around Elixir will make sense and it will be a pleasant experience not only to "write" but to test, debug and maintain as well. I woul…

One problem/feature with email is that that new collagues do not see historical conversations. While the typical chatroom is searchable.

AVAAZ is similar. I supported them monthly for years with a small amount, then this year I wanted to direct my funds to some other cause and they asked me to send an email explaini…

This is from the book: The Year 1000 by Valerie Hansen

Actually BEAM and Erlang pre-dates Java. ;-) As for compatibility: why is Java 8 market share so high in 2020?

Germany is silent as Hungary recently saved the German military industry by placing the largest order it ever received from outside. (Since WWII) Russia is a friend of Orbán as the…

Esc-. is more portable. Works on mac too.

Yes. Motion controlling a Mammography device of one of the largest healthcare companies with CANopen in the early 2000s where one of the selling point over Ethernet was that CAN al…

Perhaps AWS Certificate Manager certificates are deliberately large so more outgoing traffic can be charged? Interesting idea from the post: "it could be a selling point for a Cert…

Referral by former colleague.