Of course that's possible, if only to calm the nerves of the public (I don't think there is a legal obligation). However, hardly anyone requested it for Apple's equivalent product.
It's brave to announce this over the summer, a classic time for minor topics dominating public discussion. So far, however, there has been no hysteria, so I guess their communication department knows what they are doing, or got lucky.
I am not aware of any traditional German dish that resembles a pizza - and we definitely have a tradition of bread making. So apparently it was not obvious to everyone.
This plot point in Goldfinger blew my mind as a teenager (spoiler: Goldfinger does not want to steal gold - he want's to make the gold in Fort Knox radioactive, to raise the value of the gold he has). If there is one important subject that is not that hard to understand, but poorly understood by the general public, it's how markets work. I know many well educated people who make trivial mistakes when thinking about markets.
But you can't see from the outside if the drive was wiped. How can I be sure that I do not mix up the to-be-wiped and the wiped drives with 99.999% accuracy? That I did not unplug the drive before the whipping was finished? It's much easier with physical destruction.
It's a hard problem. Some stores have half-size paper towels, which I prefer, as paper towels are unnecessary large most of the time. So I want to price-compare based on number of sheets, not cm² ;)
Another way of saying "inventing hardships" is "raising the bar". People who struggle to find food might do all kinds of horrible things in order to survive - for example at the expense of other humans competing for the same food. When it becomes easier to source food, they can raise their moral standards. Do you think that's some kind of fallacy? That the standard should be the same, no matter how hard it is to source food (or, in the context of this discussion, alternative foods)?
I mean, the people who die of cancer are the problem. If 88% survive instead of 78%, 55% of those who would have died survived (taking these numbers just from your comment).
His personal data was most likely obtained and leaked by a foreign state, if memory serves me well. Said foreign state would also not be stopped by any number of men in black suites if it wanted to physically harm Bezos. That's simply an attack vector beyond any non-state measures.
Because then they cannot sell it. It's a BS story, they made a $250k investment because they expect to sell it for much more than that. It's a non-story.
Reddit is launching new German subs that are direct equivalents to popular English subs (like r/tipofmytongue). They have just sent messages to top German reddit users that ask them to interact with the content in the new subs - responding to posts that are just translations of English posts - which is especially rude with a sub like Tipofmytongue - the OP is not actually interested in the answers, by definition. It's a move I would not expect from a grown-up company, especially as it is directly annoying it's most active users.
Hm, the technical university I studied at (in a STEM program) has dozens of Erasmus partner universities, including programs in Sevilla, Milan, Istanbul and of course Barcelona. Erasmus is definitely open to all fields - maybe your university just had a bad international office?
Interesting! But the article is a good example of academic overthinking. A lot of theories mentioned in the article would not survive Occam's razor. There is the strong wish that everything ancient was meaningful, when a perfectly fine explanation is that it is a fun play with words. Maybe a very early and slow-traveling meme?
If these early '00 bridge builder games have taught me anything, you want to go as fast as possible, as you might reach the other side as the bridge is still in the process of collapsing ;)
I have several Lacks at my place that are >15 years old. When I ever get sick of them, I will put them on eBay for a free pickup, and within an hour a student will show up and be happy with the free coffee table that they can use in their student apartment for some more years. Dinner tables used to be made from solid wood and were pretty much indestructible. But how many families dine on a >100 year old table? Most indestructible furniture will get discarded as well at some point (well before they are actually broken beyond repair), because its out of style, has the wrong measures, is too heavy ...
Having one spouse at home is a tremendously expensive form of child care, from an economists point of view. But the cost is mostly flat with the number of children, that's true for sure.
I know plenty of people who reduced their gas consumption way before their contracts got updated. No financial stimulus, pure feeling of civic duty and solidarity - with Ukraine, with those who already had adjusted contracts, and out of fear for what would happen in the coming winter.
Wildly different meta data and needs for search. With classical music, it's a standard use case to search music composed by X. For most other genres, no one ever searches for a composer. On the other hand, there will hundreds of performances of the same piece, and listeners will want to scroll though them, instead of just seeing the 1-3 most famous renditions of a song. Or you want songs from a specific conductor or with a specific solist. All of this makes classical music very distinct, while search pattern for most other genres are kind of similar.
A lot of this can be explained by our moving of the goalpost towards still attainable goals. At the moment it's the 1.5C goal, that is becoming more and more unrealistic. But of course we will aim for 2C after that, because its still better than 2.5C, etc. This communication strategy backfires to some degree, but it is not inconsistent.
This article talks about 7m of sea level rise over the next couple hundreds of years. That's pretty bad, but its easy to imagine something even worse.
My brain-teaser back-of-the-napkin skills tell me that's also the order of magnitude of human poop produced in NYC every day (I'd think its closer to 2-3 million kg)!
Bot is a problematic example, as it has many different pronunciations depending on meaning and region. But non on the common pronunciations have an 'a' (IPA), like Gracias.
Sure, but if you miss your connection you can just take the next train. Frankfurt to Berlin might be impossible, but Hamburg to Berlin is manageable (4-5h), if money is tight, as is Hamburg to Sylt (3h) and many other connections in the 200-400 km range.