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Another reason is that longer trucks are harder to overtake on motorways, the longer the truck the higher the risks for accidents. Europe has smaller highways and country roads.

Furthermore truck logistics in the USA is mainly based on FTL (full truck load), which means the truck just drives from A to B. In Europe LTL (less than truck load) is more common, which means pickup and delivery on multiple stops. This requires a better maneuverability, hence shorter trucks.

I believe in the great resignation within the leisure/restaurant industry. Waiters and chefs live mostly off tips, and the COVID limitations have deprived them from those earnings.

IMHO quite generous by them, in my former companies you skipped the raise talk if you joined less than 9 months ago. Makes sense, because you just negotiated your salary on entry.

Maybe it was just some sort of click bait to keep the reader on the page...

Italy could have been one country that introduced coffee to Europe, but let's not forget that the first Austrian Kaffeehaus opened in the 17th century as well (using coffee stashes obtained after the 2nd Turkish siege in 1680).

What truly killed Bialetti Coffee Pots is the sharp decline of gas stoves in Europe. Electric stoves heat up much slower and turn coffee preparation in pots into a lengthy procedure.

Wouldn't it make more sense to convert the video to greyscale and e.g. detect significant changes of brightness during frames and store them as vector coordinates (% of the playtime, brightness delta)?

Oh no, another company that creates ghost houses full of vacation Appartments that nobody uses because they are "investments". Has it come to your mind that an increasing number of European municipalities issues punitive taxes if the Appartment stays empty for n days per year?

Let me ask you a question: if you had the choice between drinking 4 espressos or 1 cappuccino, what would you choose if you wanted to sleep well at night?

If you follow PGs logic, it shouldn't matter because 1 cappuccino is the same amount of liquid than 4 espressos, but we all know it does, right?

Same goes for working on weekends. If all you need to do is solving a super-interesting engineering problem then go for it. If you are firefighting customer escalations in four failed IT projects at the same time, then I'd recommend to take a break.

No - my point is that some posters in this thread overestimate the monetization potential of exposure. Ultimately, it doesn't matter if the project is for profit or pro bono - either way you commit to unpaid work. Volunteering doesn't only have to be about a good cause, it can also be for your own professional benefit. However, you should be sceptical about the exposure potential of such a gig. The main drawbacks are that you are likely not the only volunteer in the project and that it's often pretty clear you weren't hired for exceptional talent (in the case of the Netflix show a potential customer can do a quick web search and learn that the show contacted many photographers and only accepted free offers).

To all the folks who would do it "for the exposure": my partner volunteered as a graphic designer for a well-known European charity event that featured a former US president, known music groups and fashion designers as pro bono acts and had a live TV broadcast.

She really liked to volunteer and we received free tickets for said event and definitely enjoyed it.

She added the project to her CV, but unfortunately it had zero impact on her career - no paid project was ever generated out of it.

She learned about the why in several job interviews:

- the design tasks were "below the line" work, applying an already developed corporate design to various event brochures like invitations or menues.

- she wasn't the only volunteer for this event. Every year it recruited dozens of musicians, hairdressers, actors, designers to work pro bono for the good cause. The hiring bar wasn't very high - everybody in the "scene" knew this which devaluated the reference.

I do see some parallels to the Netflix show - if they ask photographers to work for free, they will surely ask hairdressers, caterers etc as well. Creative power of those volunteers will likely be 0.

Your photos might appear on this Netflix show, which doesn't mean that you/your brand will do so. Or it might appear in the closing credits that are usually skipped.

I think relational "age brackets" play a huge role in the incel phenomenon. Let's assume that by convention the male partner in an adult relationship has to be 0 to 6 years older than the female.

This means that a female of 22 years can look for a partner between 22 and 28 years. A male at the same age can only look for 18-22 year olds (consent age, maturity of younger females) resulting a 33% smaller age range for potential partners.

The male "hunting range" is further diminished by the fact that they cut the ties to their high school at the age of 19 (college, job). This means they lose access to younger potential partners and have more equally aged women in their environment, who are likely more attracted to older males.

Because your activity contributes to the appreciation. A good restaurant attracts a lot of people, which in turn attracts other businesses (think of bookstores next to popular cafés). This increases the worth of the property.

Maybe it is an "ALDI" job. Aldi is known for overpaying their shopkeepers by about 30%, but expects them to do the work of at least 2 shopkeepers at other stores. Still makes sense from a business side.

The problem with Germany and many parts of Europe is Nearshoring. Why overpay a developer at Berlin if Polonia is just 200km away? Same goes for Vienna and Hungary. I'm sure silicon valley salaries wouldn't skyrocket that much if the Mexican border was closer and less restrictive.

10% is the absolute minimum and doesn't buy you anything of the house, it just covers the legal and realtor fees.

Consultancies/Contractors can be career boosters, because they have a rather high attrition rate, which allows you to grow into more advanced positions faster than in a product shop (e.g. Dev -> tech lead or software architect). You should insist to be hired with that perspective. Unfortunately, consulting is a low-margin business, so expect to be laid off quickly if projects run dry. Time-Tracking is a huge pita in project organisations too.

I don't get why Amazon should be scared by AGPL. I mean all of their services run on GPLed Linux, why should they be scared by a GPLed Grafana?Even if they had to open-source their Grafana contributions, they could do this in a way that they are worthless for potential competitors (e.g. if the contribution depends on a proprietary Amazon system)

Strictly speaking, only Austrian grammar school teachers appointed as civil servants were allowed to carry the title Professor. That appointment (Pragmatisierung) is somewhat comparable to academic tenure: you had a job guarantee and the right to stay at "your" school, whereas non-tenured teachers had to switch schools in case of insufficient work hours. But a tenured teacher had a lower salary compared to a non-tenured one and so emperor Franz Josef had the idea with the additional Professor title. A smart move, because he satisfied the academic "vanity" of the teachers which kept salary costs lower.

Since the difference between tenured and non-tenured teachers is beyond the understanding of 10-18 year old pupils, they called every teacher "Professor".

Small correction: only grammar school teachers are called Professors in Austria, junior high school teachers just "Herr/Frau LehrerIn". In earlier days, you needed a master degree to teach in grammar school and just a bachelor degree for junior high.

Agree. In the end commercial and open source software aren't that different: the more dollars you put into it, the more say you have on the roadmap.

GitLab comes to my mind, where an issue can either be open or closed in the community edition. You literally have to pay for "work in progress".

Bankruptcy is not independent from the stock price. If your company goes bankrupt, its shares are voided.

You should also consider the liquidity risk when selling a house. The MSFT stock is traded thousands of times per day, so there is strong consensus on its price. A house like yours in a neighborhood like yours is maybe traded once per year, so there will be less consensus and you would have to wait longer for a suitable buyer or discount the price.

My gripe with the Python csv.reader module is that it has no skip_lines parameter. Ill-formatted lines at the top/bottom of a CSV file are quite common

I think the "retail demand" for phones is closely connected to phone repairs. Unlike a computer, a phone is carried around every day and has a much higher chance to break. Customers depend heavily on it, so they are not willing to send phones to repair centers and wait weeks for a return.

I guess the work contract also said that the Facebook employee has to show up for X hours per week at Facebook HQ to fulfill their duties. In other words: the permanent home office arrangement requires a new work contract anyway.

And? Every supermarket chain does this... First they look for good-selling brand products in their assortment, then they launch a very similar product under their own house brand following the "80% of the quality for 50% of the price" principle

Proximity to the raw materials is another important factor. Latex gloves are mainly made in Asia, because that's where most of the rubber trees are.

Large parts of the track were re-paved specially for this event with fine-grained asphalt to avoid holes and unevenness. The re-pavement was paid by a project sponsor.