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In my dad’s case it very likely did - it was lung cancer and still pre-symptomatic, but had already started to metastasize, so a later discovery would probably have meant a much wo…

Extremely anecdotal: my dad’s lung cancer was found incidentally - shoulder pain → shoulder MRI → radiologist noticed lung nodules. The shoulder pain was unrelated, but the scan it…

Suprisingly the number does in fact seem to be roughly 80k per year, though a similar amount moved from Europe to the US. https://schengenvisainfo.com/news/over-75000-americans-mov…

That is verifiably wrong. Europe is extremely diverese and there have always been inflows for millenia. Also its pretty ironic hearing complains from europe about emigration consid…

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Uhm the east indian company has an estimated death toll in the dozens of million people? [1] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_major_famines_in... The company was onl…

One thing to consider: Germany has a rapidly aging population so it naturally gets more unlikely to fund and get success with new technology. Imagine trying to develop some shiny n…

I do agree but American big tech does hire quite a bit here, no? Amazon, google, msft, meta all have fairly big offices all over Europe. And many other big tech companies aswell, e…

I may be an extreme outliar, but these numbers seem quite low to me? The highest salaries listed there were about 30-40% lower than my new grad salary. Granted it’s an offer for an…

So the command to display the actual image is an argument of the cli. If you use kitty, u can simply use kitty’s internal utility function ‘icat’ to display images. So you simply a…

Also don’t forget that road infrastructure actually is a HUGE maintenance burden and thats where most of its cost problems arise.

You have misread, it talks about the open source platform OpenStack, and that over 8000 thousand developers work on OpenStack.

where do you got that 8000 developer number from? Sounds like a lot

There was basicly zero fighting. And slovenia was already before the breakup the richest state of yugoslavia

Im pretty sure that HIV is much more prevalent in homosexual communities [1]. [1] https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/group/msm/index.html

> because only tech companies hire developers That is completely wrong? The FAR majority of developers do not work in tech companies. Most big corporations have internal developer …

0 to 9 are exactly 10 digits.

I am from munich so my opinion may be skewed, but it is at best very average, as in some no name devshop/consultancy would pay this much(and even they tend to pay more). Nothing I …

A recruiter contacted me aswell and I asked about their salary. They pay 50k euro for juniors in berlin with afaik no stock vesting. How they even manage to get qualified personnel…

OP sounds like an app developer. They are saying that apps typically aren’t projects of that size

You have to keep in mind that med school and the equivalent of premed in germany is completely free. Of course that does not make up for the pay difference completely but it change…

Facebook may only be popular among the older generation but platforms like Instagram and Whatsapp are the main social media and chat services used even among the younger generation…

Actually right now its only one anime! Its "Revolutionary Girl Utena". The visuals are gorgeous, the premise of the anime is super interesting (A girl was saved by a prince when sh…

Two universal things that I discovered for me personally that give my life deeper meaning are friendship and art. I feel like no matter what societal status I have, how much money …