I agree, that's why I chose to include info about EU, and of course my comment is meant to be just one extra data point.
Definitely there will be huge differences around the world, but prison work may not always equal to exploitation.
I actually know people that had some business inside prison in EU country and the experience was that there were more prisoners asking to be working than it was possible to use. Main driving force was that time passes faster when you are busy, with another advantage that earned money could be used to buy some extra goods. Also, some of the former prisoners continued to work in that company once their prison time was over, so it was really good help in transition to freedom.
Since prison work is voluntary, there is not much space for exploitation.
Ironically, but when you open your ex-colleague's code 5 years later, you would easily guess Foo, but you would be very thankful for LinkedList<HashMap<MyFancyBusinessObject, String>>> type definition.
Because that ESL would pull most of the money from other leagues. At the moment also smaller teams have chance to compete in Champions League and even smaller sucess in first qualification rounds brings enough money to small team to try very hard to get into it next year. This, on the other hand, fuels and improves quality of teams in smaller european countries. All the money is distributed across more teams. This is not something big teams look for, of course.
What if I pay with 100 Euro bank note and get back "tainted" 50 Euro note and then pay in bar? Bank notes are not just collected and sent back to bank.
Sure, it may be solution, but there is a lot of muscle memory that is bound to size of goals. If you have goalkeeper in junior league it would be very complicated to pull him up as backup to senior game. Or from lower league to upper one.
All the angles and distances would need to be re-trained when switching leagues. I cannot imagine that, really.
I think it would be easier to somehow limit area blocked by goalie equipment together - so if the goalie is very tall, pads would need to be either narrower or not that high to keep some max blocking area. And this is only IF we really need to do some change at all.
Problem is that if the net is too big, it will be different game. I was maybe too generic with "kids". Youngsters (cca 10 years and more) are playing in official nets on full size field, so if they were bigger they couldn't catch almost anything that goes directly into any of the corner, or they would have to be away from net extra few meters. This would change game drastically. Especially with young players I think it is much more important to build up chance, pass and "play", not only shoot slapshots from blue line.
Also, in non-pro games, there are plenty of goals. There is no need to have much more. If you play on amateur level, like I do now, you would see that there is usually problem to find enough goalies (for many reasons) and with bigger net it would be even worse, because if you are under 190cm you would be there for laughs.
I'm in Slovakia. I think problem with watching hockey in TV is not only about quality of players, but also production of the broadcasting. Here NHL shines and it is big difference. When I was on live match, it was quite watchable (even Slovak league ;), but in TV it lacks the action that is provided by good broadcast production - a lot of cameras, cuts, etc.
Also around here it is quite uncommon for goalies to fight, but especially goalies coming from Canada tended to "payback" in some brawls around crease with blocker and paid dearly for it, as they had to leave the crease during important play-off game afterwards.
I'm not sure how referees are handling this in Canada or the USA, but in Europe, if the goalie hits any other player with blocker to head area, it is the game penalty for him. If the goalie starts a fistfight (without gloves), it is also the game penalty.
Goals from blue line are not that uncommon even in NHL [1]. Also, hockey is played on many different levels than NHL and trust me, if I got one USD for each goal I got from blue line, I'm doing just fine :)
Goalie equipment rules are the same or more restrictive than in the past (pads are more narrow than they were allowed before).
The difference is that current goalies in NHL are HUGE. When I see how tall they are when they are on their knees... OMG, I'm that tall when I stand in the crease.
Catcher and blocker sizes are given and the same for everyone. The difference is with pad size where total height is limited by lengths of your bones so tall goalies can effectively have much larger pads. So, not only they are already big and block a big portion of the net, they block even more space because their pads are allowed to be much taller and thus blocking even more net.
I'm a hockey goalie, too. I think we have to think about non-NHL goalies too. Not every adult is 2m high and if we make net size bigger we will effectively make the game unplayable for "average" goalies. When a shooter shoots on you from 3-4 meters, there is not enough time to react too much and you play mostly angles and block. I can imagine that kids playing in a much larger net would lead to a very different game where shooting is much more beneficial than any other option.
Yes, NHL is what most people watch on TV, but there are millions of people playing the game that would have it ruined.
You are right, I had similar data and same warning as I got for COVID-19 from Oura cca year ago with regular flu. It is now more important because of COVID-19, but it is also very helpful for any similar illness that one may spread.
In my case HRV went down almost 30% before I started to have symptoms with 50% of average on the worst day. Resting heart rate went up 35% on the worst day and respiratory rate went up 18%. But only HRV was obviously changed before I started to feel symptoms and became infectious.
Oura was quite good with warning me that something is not ok and I should take it easy on the morning of the day when I started to have symptoms. I was tested positive later that day. Interestingly, nobody I met days before I was warned was infected, so in my case warning came in right moment.
But as the parent explained, many of these chronic Lyme patients may be just misdiagnosed. They believe they have Lyme, but the problem is some other disease.
Fuji X-Pro line is direct Leica competitor. I never owned Leica, but I love my X-Pro cameras. Rangefinders are so interesting to use and X-Pros give you variability - you can use optical rangefinder, mix of optical/digital rangefinder with focus peaking, fully digital view finder or back screen, if desired. This gives you a lot of flexibility as different things works best for different lenses. Physically, camera is very nicely built and joy to handle, because all important settings can be set mechanically.
Nobody says it is not possible to use PHP in all the use cases you mentioned. But is PHP the best tool for those, or is it just the one closest to the hand?
You definitely can do surgery with a kitchen knife instead of a scalpel, but often the long-term result would be better if a more appropriate tool was used.
They probably have a lot of customers still demanding Intel CPUs. Mac minis are often used in server farms as build servers and there are many companies that would require Intel CPU there for some time.
In my EU country minimal car speed for highway is 80km/h, so this car would be allowed to drive there. Trucks are limited to max 90km/h on highway here, so only question would be if it is agile enough to be able to safely overtake trucks, or it would just have to follow some truck most of the time... I think that is quite ok for city car.
Similarly, thanks to async ad loading, gmail replaces first two items in my email list with ads with such a convinient delay that I accidentaly click on the ads more often than I would like to. Occam's razor would say that if it can bring more money, it is not accident.
I believe there are few runtimes out there that have such a good monitoring and profiling tools for free and out of the box as Java. Java Flight Recorder, remote debugging and monitoring can be really useful for rare production performance issues.