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Not necessarily: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/discouraged_worker.asp

In the UK people sometimes make the claim that the unemployment rate the government is quoting is so low because people have given up even looking

I think two things get mixed up (not by you)... a lot of sites, especially American ones, only started showing any kind of notice/request for consent once GDPR came in. But there was another wave before that, which everyone called the "cookie law" but which is apparently the ePrivacy Directive.

A couple of interesting bits from https://www.privacypolicies.com/blog/eu-cookie-law/

"On the other hand, providing your customers with a customized user experience or tailored product suggestions is not a requirement for an online store, and cookies that enable these features do not fall under the "strictly necessary" category. You'll need to get consent before you use them."

"Depending on your country's interpretation of the law, you may only need to get a user's "implied consent." Rather than forcing every user to click "accept" ... you can instead display a short message informing them that cookies are being used, typically through a header bar or some other non-obstructive method. After a predefined period of time ... the announcement can disappear."

I think what happened is that a lot of sites went for non-compliance or implied consent until the GDPR came in requiring proper consent for most cookies and harsher penalties (?) and everyone went from 0 to 100. But people were complaining about & blocking even the implied consent banners when they first came in. Now everyone thinks the GDPR is about cookies but it's really about tracking.

eh, I figured it out, but I think even that only works if the writer and reader have shared assumption that the thing in question inevitably grows and so insert "(rate of increase of)"...

"VR slowdown", I'd think less people are buying in, but no-one's throwing their headsets away. "Border crossing slowdown", the number of people crossing the border is actually less than before.

Not the person you're replying to but pumped hydro is the most primitive I know of.

Also: why must the highly variable renewables share the grid with highly variable demand, use them to make hydrogen (only when the sun is shining/wind is blowing), feed that into a totally separate power plant, simple to manage - if renewables really get cheap who cares if it's inefficient.

Of course greed ruins everything but part of the distibution cost is paying for energy (to make equipment, transport it around, feed the people involved, etc.)

This supply/demand equation doesn't necessarily have to involve incentivising increased supply, maybe the increase in capacity from offering the difference to drivers isn't worth it compared to just profiting from the scarcity.

(agree)

> but something practiced in a couple of villages in Gifu prefecture

It could say "the Gifu prefecture tradition..." and still "actually only a couple of villages do it" would be valid, and so on and so on...

On the other hand the way we write headlines lends itself to misinterpretation deliberately. It could say "A few people in Japan eat wasps" but nobody would click.

Wouldn't we then have to give them some sort of asylum? Doubt that would go down well.

Ironically the EU warranty rules are still in place and it feels to me like this would probably break them. EVGA can say "Britain has become an bad place to do business post-Brexit" and leave, plenty of people, especially young people who buy graphics cards, would support it (but probably wouldn't care enough to import their products from elsewhere).

But to stay and then make your customers responsible for unexpected charges when your own product turns out to be faulty, seems like a bad sign.

Professional cleaning at home! * by removing surface stains

Restore tooth enamel! * contains flouride which promotes remineralisation

Appear universally on toothpaste ads in the UK

The context is people learning the language though... this sort of efficiency will always come with familiarity, like how you can read 21:00 as 9 without thinking about it

It helps that change happens particularly fast at that age, so the difference between newborn and 6 months is worth mentioning. Later on the units go up again and we just say "I'm in my 30s" :P

On the other hand a computer/car/house can also be 10 years old but not 0.

Maybe worth mentioning the Epson EcoTank, included ink lasts forever, works offline, no weird DRM on the ink bottles that some are discussing here

I think the language is accurate and that's the problem (or not depending on your perspective) - sprints are all or nothing, and a way to create an artificial sense of urgency. "It's the last day of the sprint, better work late/cut corners because 99% done is failure". And then if you do your reward is one more work item next sprint, to ensure everyone is working as hard as possible all the time.

It's more forgetfulness/plans change... I think probably installing water fountains everywhere would help more than giving everyone a metal water bottle.

That the problem is apparently only in tourist areas is further evidence that the French love books, if anything

Surely devs have very limited influence over this? I can't imagine everyone else also does leetcode?

Doesn't need re-explaining but makes me realise we often talk about comments explaining what code does, which leads to "your code should be well-written so it's easy to understand what it does" or "I'm a good developer, I can understand that easily by reading it".

But as you say the question is why - people will often be reading existing code because of a bug, so clearly the thought process that created it had a faulty step somewhere.

It means (for those of us who can't let go easily) going through every tab, opening all the interesting pages it links to, bookmarking them, preferably with screenshots, downloading any videos, etc. I'd rather they weren't in RAM but there's no easy way to move them to disk (automatically would be ideal)

Tab hoarder here: mentally, they're somewhere between history and how you probably treat tabs. Probably 90% of my actual switches are within the last 10, another 9% in the last 100, etc. All I really want is infinite storage of pages with exact state, including dynamic content. Since history can't do this I use tabs and wait for the inevitable browser crashes. I think there's no particular moment/decision when a short-term memory becomes a long-term memory, tabs are the closest you can get to this. They're not at the front of my mind.

You're probably right but it's not like Apple wouldn't take the chance to kill that off if they thought they could get away with it

But we should start there and everything else should just say "this will help you feel less hungry with less calories". If you had the willpower to just drink 1500 calories of Coke for a day, you would lose weight, you'd also feel hungry all the time (and die eventually but that's beside the point).

(p.s. they say it's 140)

There are exceptions and I see how it can act as a sort of safety net group of acquaintances on which you can build... but for most people, work has got to be the worst place to find meaningful relationships and purpose, hasn't it? You can be made redundant in a moment and lose contact, there's money, an explicit hierarchy, and competition making everything awkward, and the purpose is usually questionable (hence the money)

I usually just take both, and even then, I sometimes wonder if they actually do anything or if it's just a mass scale placebo conspiracy.

>most (x) ever in (y)

The hottest temperature ever recorded here isn't some niche thing like most rainy April for 5 years. Also maybe the fact that there's constantly new unusual weather should tell us something.

Buy a second phone, that's what some do in China due to an "anti-fraud" app with slightly softer enforcement

Not sure if you meant something else but just in case, "the majority of gas, at least in EU, is burned in residential heating units" means natural gas i.e. methane, not petrol/gasoline

They annoy me slightly, I think the reason is people clearly put effort into coming up with "hilarious" combinations and then try to pass them off as a spontaneous product of their strong feelings. The real internal response was probably a boring combination of the same old words and maybe some now banned ones from school you can't fully shake.

It's like the tumblr trend of suddenly switching to caps partway through a word, the verbal equivalent works but I know you're proofreading your posts.

"bad_country's threatening behaviour is becoming a real problem..." "woah, careful not to blame the people, it's their /leaders/ we don't like" (level of popular support for leaders never questioned)

"stop telling consumers to save energy when these companies pollute as much as ### people" (omitted: in the course of producing half the world's fertiliser or whatever)

You see it all the time

"the outbreak takes place during a national holiday with extensive domestic and international travel by Brinians"

"population 250 million"

Doesn't sound like Britain at the moment