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"Bitcoin is popular in the west and the US specifically because it lacks the cutting edge financial networks rest of the world has." This only applies to the US, Europe has a insta…

I know what you're saying, but the fact they don't do this doesn't make the statement untrue. Tesla's mission is (from their website): "Tesla’s mission is to accelerate the world’s…

That's probably an artifact of the reporting process. Most hospitals don't report during the weekends.

You're not being genuine here. The grand parent clearly states medical policies, which are not up to the EU to determine. That the EU has the power to dictate policies in other are…

Yes, but the areas over which the EU has a say are clearly defined by the member states and healthcare isn't one of them. So the fact that the EU creates policies on other topics i…

It's well established within the EU that healthcare is a handled on a national level, so the EU won't respond to COVID-19 like the US does on a federal level. The countries within …

You can patent things even if you don't know exactly why it works. However a patent has to enable others to create the thing that is patentend. That is to say, somebody who is up t…

Apparently they are already selling them to RyanAir under the name 737-8200 to get rid of the MAX naming

Not an expert, but if you are running absolutely no untrusted code (which is hard depending on your definition of untrusted), then the risks are low. However, when a vulnerability …

Here in the Netherlands GJ (gigajoule) is used for buildings that use blockheating.

I agree with you that static typing can create more work on the boundries of a system. However, the problems you describe also happen in dynamic languages and they have just as muc…

If you hover over Africa you'll notice that the steepness of the lines is much lower than the rest of the world. Extrapolating from the lines I'm guessing they'll end up at 3-4 chi…

Of course you can support punishing the people and business of the United Kingdom. The government is not a separate entity, it represent the people and businesses of the UK and act…

Means that they have short-selled Tesla stock. Simply put, they are betting on the Tesla share price to fall. Edit: Together with the highly dubious "statistical" analysis they did…

Yes, it has to be flushed from time to time. Normally this happens automatically when it is needed. fsync() just forces a direct flush.