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  1. Re:Spend a winter in Toronto. on Canada's Play For Immigrant Tech Talent (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Iceland is actually not particular cold in winter.
    Germany, France etc. has no winters more since decades.
    If I would live in France I would spent my somers in Brittany and my winters in Provence.

  2. Re:What we should do and how on Canada's Play For Immigrant Tech Talent (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    What has pregnancy to do with that?
    If I was a woman and wanted my kid to be a born american, I simply entered with a tourist visa. Facepalm.

  3. Re: All those Americans who want to leave can now on Canada's Play For Immigrant Tech Talent (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    This simply is not true. There is no labor shortage, and in fact the very idea of a "labor shortage" is pure lunacy; it cannot exist. The only thing that can exist is a shortage of labor willing to work for the wages offered.
    That is bollocks.
    From where should a high skilled developer come?
    Hu? They are not there. Simple. That had nothing to do with wages.

    Your particular company, can offer a super high wage to get some developer switch to you from another company.
    Now the other company has an open job offer and can not find one.
    The shortage is still there, only wages have increased, and only some other company is at the losing end.

    To prevent labourer shortages you need to plan education better, as a country/ministry of education. Does the US even have a 'ministry of education'.

  4. Re:All those Americans who want to leave can now g on Canada's Play For Immigrant Tech Talent (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    You need the skill to be willing to work for less than anyone else who wants the job.

    In your world. The rest of the world is quite different.
    No one is replacing my job because he is cheaper. Actually I was the first applying for it who could prove in an interview that he has the required qualifications.
    So: the job offer is closed. No one can even apply to it ... a no brainer actually.
    I terminated about 10 open applications today and canceled one phone interview.
    If I need a new job, it takes me 3 - 5 days to get one and rarely more than a month.
    And: I get the price I want, as I'm applying to an actual open position. I'm not replacing someone who charged more. I either apply to a complete new position, or to a position where the previous person simply left.
    My job gets replaced when I quit the job. But usually my position simply vanishes when the project is finished.

  5. Re:Too hard to find flaws? on iPhone Bugs Are Too Valuable To Report To Apple (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    You seem not to lnow much how an OS works, how its security works and particularily why iOs is that secure.
    Your post is pointless.

    It starts with 'skiled hackers trying to break', you watch to many bad movies about 'hacking'.

  6. Re:There is always a solution: on iPhone Bugs Are Too Valuable To Report To Apple (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Then they quit and get replaced by cheaper developers that create more bugs.

  7. Re:Effects on overall speed? on OpenBSD Will Get Unique Kernels On Each Reboot (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Code pages are usually read only.
    Only data pages can be overwritten.
    So modifying code is most likely impossible or needs an attack vector where the access bits of a memory page can be changed.

  8. Re:Effects on overall speed? on OpenBSD Will Get Unique Kernels On Each Reboot (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    On the other hand it makes it more likely that such kinds of bugs manifest themseves.

  9. Re:No problem! on EU Parliament Calls For Longer Lifetime For Products (eubusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably you missed the keyword, I probably should have emphasized it:
    Aren "Torx screws" an example?
    You cannot buy a screw driver for them here in any market.

    HereI get torx screw drivers only specialized shops, or have to buy them from Amazon or other vendors in the USA!

    I have one ... for my old Mac SE, I needed it to mount an accelerator card, had to remove the main board for it.
    That torx screw driver costed me about $30 ... 1992.

    Except Apple products that are sold here, I never saw a torx screw anywhere, we are metric :) we don't screw up with screws.

  10. Re:Clueless journalist on California Has So Much Solar Power That Other States Are Paid To Take It (mic.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not convinced you're even ten years old, let alone been involved in the industry that long.
    That is your problem not mine.

    Why don't you read the link you gave?

    It clearly says exactly the same thing I did in my previous posts, facepalm.

    But perhaps you find a link for California :D so I have something interesting to read, as I don't know how you trade power there.

  11. Re:The obsolescence economy & economists? on EU Parliament Calls For Longer Lifetime For Products (eubusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course it adds cost.
    The question is is it bearable or not.

    You have to have a connector for the battery on the phone, and a more expensive battery that can connect to that connector.

    Right now the battery is just soldered with 2 wires to the device.

  12. Re:The question they should have asked on EU Parliament Calls For Longer Lifetime For Products (eubusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    In Europe you go into a shop.
    Look for what you want to buy.
    Chek the price and check your wallet.
    Then you buy, or don't buy or take a financing deal.

    And what percentage would be willing to pay significantly more
    Like in your country: no one cares about this: because no one knows. And if they would know: they would not care anyway.

    Having products that have a decay date build in is a crime to the planet and to mankind.

  13. Re:This need to happen... on EU Parliament Calls For Longer Lifetime For Products (eubusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    Seems you have a fan club.
    Of haters.

    Somehow more interesting that a fan club of fans ;D

  14. Re:No problem! on EU Parliament Calls For Longer Lifetime For Products (eubusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    I was speaking of engineering complexity, not how big of a parts-pile you have on the workbench when you disassemble the device.
    And that exactly is your flaw in thinking :D

  15. Because you have no law demanding 2 years warranty.

    Stupid idiots that think the market will organize itself to the better of the customers.

    Who actually came to that brain dead idea?

  16. Re:sign overheated economy cooling down on EU Parliament Calls For Longer Lifetime For Products (eubusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    Product/Assembly lines already existed in the early bronze (actually copper) age.
    In roman times it was called a manufactur(y).
    So I doubt anyone stole from anyone else.

  17. Re:No problem! on EU Parliament Calls For Longer Lifetime For Products (eubusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    Aren "Torx screws" an example?
    You cannot buy a screw driver for them here in any market.

  18. Re:Dear NASA on NASA Is Going To Crash a Satellite Into an Asteroid (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Venus most certainly is not an option.
    Besides Moon and Mars there are not many options anyway, Titan? Europa?

  19. Re:Pattern emerging here... on Tesla Factory Reportedly Described As a 'Predator Zone' By Female Employees (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Because you are just a male, and that might be the reason you are an idiot?
    On the other hand we europeans don't really understand those issues.
    If someone is harrasing a woman at his/her job, he pretty quick has a big bunch of problems.
    No one is spreading that however in the news.

  20. In ancient mythology Jesus was the son of (a) god.
    So I guess it is a question of parent/child relationship if he was god/father fearing, or if he simply loved him.
    I think I read something regarding Jesus that had something to do with love ...

  21. Re:Past the boiling point of water? on Iranian City Soars To Record 129F Degrees: Near Hottest On Earth in Modern Measurements (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    A common misconception. Zero F is actually the freezing point of salt water of a specific salinity. The other points were chosen such that the distance from pure water freezing to boiling was 180 degrees.

    No it is not. First if all the freezing point of a salt water solution is not interesting. No one is confronted with that in real life.
    The 'other point' is 100F, that is your body temperature.
    There is no mystical 180 point (what would be the sense of that?) for boiling water? That is a coincident.

    B) and C) are true, There are probabky a thousand cases.

    The crime rate in the US is roughly five to ten times higher than in Europe, the murder cases more than 100 times.
    No idea where you get your numbers from. You can easy google that.

  22. Re:Clueless journalist on California Has So Much Solar Power That Other States Are Paid To Take It (mic.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't need to switch the powe plant off.
    You only need to disconnect he plant from the grid.
    And if the plant is a fossile one, you disconnect the generators from the steam.

    The rest of your post is as idiotic as the previous ones.

    Hint: to sell energy for a negative price to a different region/country, you need to make a desicion, set up the deal on a kind of stock market, wait for a buyer, and switch the grid to transport it that way.

    That takes (an) hour(s).

    I suggest to read something about how power grids work, instead of spreading your bullshit here.

    Hint: I worked nearly ten years for one of the mayour power companies here.

  23. Re:It's not the bikes... on Hanoi Plan To Ban Motorbikes By 2030 To Combat Pollution (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If you are not allowed to drive the bike, why would you/anyone buy it in an auction?

  24. Re:No problem! on EU Parliament Calls For Longer Lifetime For Products (eubusiness.com) · · Score: 1

    Interesting!

  25. Re:Trolioliolo on Study Finds Yoga Works As Well As Physical Therapy For Back Pain (time.com) · · Score: 1

    We started with your claims of a 'life force energy', one that has no more evidence for it than a supernatural being. You ended there with no evidence.
    I made no claims like that.
    You probabky got side tracked in that threat and answered to the wrong person.
    That would explain the strange circles our discussion/conversation is making, at least.