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One city has a millionaire who builds a yacht for 100M dollars in a local shipyard and uses it for holidays. The neighbor city has a millionaire who spends 100M dollars to build 10…

I think the core idea is to avoid someone actually losing money. The producer might end up with a loss, the actor's profit is strictly positive (not accounting for opportunity cost…

It's important to be precise because everything is not the same. In the German case the ruling was not because someone posted a critical meme, but because it was not entirely obvio…

You are of by a factor of 10.

Any educated reader can be assumed to interpret 'heiress' as 'heiress to a fortune' in this context.

The irreversibility is still important to highlight, as it is distinctively different from a similar consent issue with search: "Google indexed my website against my will, but I wi…

The only winning move is not to play.

Hydro power is a great thing, it was the first renewable energy that was available in meaningful quantities. However, great sites for hydro power are definitely limited. We will no…

Just to add to that: Any fluctuation in prices works to incentivise storage, negative prices are not so special in that regard. Negative prices allow for some weird actions to beco…

That's a very optimistic outlook after it was revealed what preparations had been taken to deal with a global pandemic, a risk scenario that at least every country had a playbook f…

Stocks can fall quite a bit before a company fails. Aviation is full of companies with huge revenue and tiny profits/valuations.

Because correctly assigning blame does not solve any issue caused by the racism?

If the pot size stays the same, you are just shuffling around between artists. So artists who are listened to by people who only listen to a bit of music benefit, and those listene…

It's a tautology, as no implementation of a concept will ever be equivalent to the pure concept. The real existing examples of implementations of concepts will still tell you somet…

As drawing discoveries are hardly a thing, I see no ambiguity here.

It's an artifact of how the measurement is made, as it accounts for insurance profits. While a good proxy in normal times, corona sent this measure into a wild rollercoaster-ride. …

By flipping thousands of coins for this paper, I am sure their participation exceeds that of many 5-author-papers.

I can imagine that many great academics might have difficulties 'holding a job'. A PhD is certainly something to be proud of, just as running a marathon, raising a great child or h…

Wherever there is a Tarif, there are Außertarifliche Angestellte who can freely negotiate their salary, if it is at least 110% of highest Tarifgehalt. Unions cannot do anything abo…

On my Android Samsung Galaxy, when I want to know the password of a saved Wifi, I generate a share-QR, screenshot it, and have a QR scanner scan the picture to extract the password…

Add enough pizza alternatives to make it a somewhat plausible diet and that's an actually great idea - for the crowd that can afford a fully delivery-based diet.

I guess you also need to draw and pay for a lot of electricity most of the time to get that kind of deal.

The sentence is ambiguous, however, West Point was founded in 1802.

I'd guess one would use a voice recorder to practice the skill, that way you get pretty fast feedback on how to make the right sounds in reverse. As a child I practiced to say my n…

If you are just interested in the percentage share (not a map of labeled data), all you need is random sampling. Classifying a couple of hundred coordinates is sufficient, takes at…