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People don't own the house just to sell it for more later on. Some live in them.

Winter/Summer cycle is more about the angle of Earths rotational axis and not the distance from the sun.

I suspect Chilean office problem was more related to timezones, if they are moving to Europe.

There is an interesting side effect here. Salaries throughout EU vary a lot. This will give people chance to better understand the salary differences between countries.

Can somebody explain to me where the companies get all these people? A lot of huge companies doubled/tripled in size during pandemic. Did people just take on 3 jobs or where we hit…

git branch -D *

Google dropped it from Android, but several phone manufacturers are putting it back in ever since.

Depends on how you drive and how large your car is. My moms old Renault capture diesel uses around 5l/100km on average (combined city/highway) while she is driving and around 5.5-6…

For me (I also use gas for heating), this would mean an increase of monthly expenses around 5-8% during winter months. (assuming 6x increase in the last winters bills). Though I do…

Well, this [1] guy did buy a 8 year old one. [1] https://people.com/human-interest/tesla-owner-blows-up-his-c...

I'm using 5-7 kWh/d. Pretty constant. Includes washing machine and induction stove, but excludes heating the apartment and hot water.

As Rust is llvm based, you don't need to compile it to C. Just write a backend that translates LLVM IR to C instead of x86_64. The IR is very C looking, it's probably overly comple…

It's so easy, it even occurred naturally in past. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reacto...

In practice, employers try to advertise themselves as high paying, to actually get some decent people. Even basic good stores like to have decent employees. In most cases, the lowe…

Even if this gets approved, it still requires all the member states to change their laws. Luckily for me, I already live in one of EU members that have such law in place. Allows me…

They are now accepting preorders for UK Germany and France [1]. [1] https://frame.work/blog/now-available-for-pre-order-in-uk-ge...

There isn't a demand for stolen car parts. There is a demand for cheeper/used car parts. This is in part due to lower salaries combined with people wanting to buy "cool" cars that …

I don't think they actually send them to baltics, as those are stolen from cars here also and they probably catch a better price in Stockholm anyway. Or sent a lot further than tha…

I would guess that it could be due to having more ions in air due to higher radiation levels.

Not necessarily. You can encrypt the search value clientside and search by value in its encrypted form.

How did Singapore tackle it?

According to METI[1] on summer 2019, there where 1.1*10^9 L of contaminated water with radiation of "≦a few hundred Bq/L". Assuming 200, we get 0.22 TBq of radiation in total. In c…

It's also expected to be accepted in EU on 21st december. And, if approved, vacination would be started across the whole EU on 27th december.

Probably the iMac is throttling due to battery getting old.