>As soon as he heard the world “Black@TED”— the “Employee Resource Group that exists to provide a safe space for TED staff who identify as Black” Colman recognized that he was f*cked.
The whole point of the fairphone is, as the name implies, that it is fair. That means that all the components/elements are sourced from (where possible) sustainable sources and all labour is paid for fairly (no 'sweatshops'). If you would rather have a flashy screen at the lowest price possible with no regard to the actual cost (human, environmental, etc.) then you can buy litterally any other phone on the market but it is great that the fairphone exists for the people that these kind of issues do concern.
Xiaomi is the essence of Chinaware: Xiaomi are hard to open/repair (environmental unfriendly), workers don't get a fair wage, materials are not fairly resourced, it has a locked bootloader, they have their own bloatware (MIUI), probably contain spyware, and likely don't even pay fair taxes.
Also, the successor of Fairphone 4, Fairphone 5, has 5G and OLED.
I've been in tech for ages and I hate fads, and consider myself decent at spotting them. I was skeptical when I first started seeing Rust stuff but then I tried the language.
Definitely not a fad. It's a real innovation. Not the best language ever for language nerds / purists, but it brings a lot of important innovations down into the realm of the practical stuff you can easily use for real projects.
The only way it's going away is if something dramatically superior appears. Language design is very very hard and most "advanced" languages are impractical for real world use for various reasons, so I am not holding my breath.
The other newish language I like is Go, but for different use cases. Has a different design philosophy and imposes less cognitive load, but it's also designed for a different niche.
It's in fact pretty easy to melt an egg. First, raise it above 29 degrees Fahrenheit or so, and this will melt the internal section. Remove this melted internal section and set it aside. Now melt the external section, which is mostly calcium carbonate, by raising it to about 1,517 degrees Fahrenheit. There, a melted egg.
"In 2015, a team of chemists in the US and Australia showed they could reverse the process. They added urea to liquefy the boiled egg whites, then put them in a vortex device to pull apart the proteins and return them to their original state."
https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/can-you-unboil-an-egg
I believe it’s theoretically possible (practically impossible) if done in vacuum (to prevent oxidation) and you somehow increase the density of the egg to remove any vapor pressure (to prevent vaporization).
Just guessing here. I’m no thermodynamics expert, just a guy who melt things occasionally.
At atmospheric pressures it would sublimate rather than melt, so it’d be even worse in vacuum. You’d need a reducing atmosphere with high pressures. Carbon is not that easy to oxidise, but there is some oxygen in the egg. So you should be able to do it in a container filled with argon, with an oxygen getter. You’d need to bring it to 106 atmospheres (easy) and 4600 K (really quite hard). The good thing is that at these pressures you should not have issues with the water expanding too much. It’d be better to have a hole in the shell, though.
That is ignoring any interaction with the shell, which should melt around 1600 K.
That is a matter of debate, I don't have a good answer for you. I see the US at one extreme of saying: you are responsible for your health in all ways. In Israel it is like, we give you the option to be more healthy but we'll catch you if you fall. There are many many progressive taxation rules. Basically if you earn a lot you pay more. It is one of the most (if not the most) heavily taxed country in the world. Mostly because of arms budgets. In Israel we view the survival of every person as important because we are relatively few. I am guessing when you have 100s of millions of people this is less important for survival as a whole. Good or bad, you decide what works for you.
In American English (not sure about the rest of the world), these programs are literally known as "social safety nets", as in nets that might catch falling aerial performers. Just interesting to see the language used. It'd be nice if they were respected in America.
That's what they already do, but the genuine OLED ceramic screen can't compete in price with some crappy LCD screen with regular glass that shows ripples when you push it with your finger.
