Nit just because it's interesting (to me at least): carbon dating is never useful on things this old. The halflife of carbon-14 is so short that by about 50k years you're pushing it to about its limit.
But yeah there's all kinds of decay chains and geology techniques used to date these things. It's a really cool mix of logical deduction and chemistry and cleverness.
Building on this, the general concept is radiometric dating, which can rely on any of numerous decay chains, with half-lives ranging from decades to 100s of billions of years.
Specific decay chains are effective clocks for differing lengths of time. Radiocarbon dating is often used on recent human or organic artefacts or remains, within the past 50,000 years or so as noted. It was uranium-lead decay which first demonstratively showed that the Earth was not "young", whether the few thousand years of theological textual analysis or the 30--300 million years that various geological estimates had suggested, but at least 1 billion years old, established by Ernest Rutherford in the early 20th centuries.
The present value of 4.54 +/- 0.05 billion years was arrived at by the 1950s, based on the ratios of lead to uranium within zircon crystals, the latter of which cannot form in the presence of lead, and hence, any lead present necessarily being the result of radioactive decay. The measurement process also demonstrated the extent to which modern industrial activity was creating pervasive lead contamination virtually everywhere, largely the result of leaded gasoline, one of Thomas Midgley's lethal legacies.
More generally, geochronology is based on numerous methods of which radiometric dating is but one, though a quite powerful one.
In the first case is often a case of wood thievery, a crime for profit. Can be also revenge (as in the sycamore gap) or just mental insanity.
In the second case can be a legal or illegal move. In some countries a centenary tree can't be chopped unless you ask for a special permit to the government. It the tree is a danger for historical or valuable structures, severe pruning or chopping can be allowed. If the tree has special historical, aesthetic or monumental value, the permit can be denied, even if the tree is in your property.
Your mileage may vary depending on the country.
That said, only an idiot would chop a centenary tree in their property if is not causing any serious problem to foundations or people. The presence of this tree will increase greatly the value of the property. Homes with trees have a much higher monetary value. Homes with ancient trees play in a special league of luxury.
It may even provide some special bonuses, like a decent fruit harvest each year, fertile soil, as touristic trap (see Beijin Ditan park Ginkgos, for example), or simply saving solid money on the energy bill of the house.
Well the Z80 was firstly an Intel "CPU" clone. It was not yet called a CPU but a microprocessor. That said it was still a cheaper retro-engineered clone of the Intel 8080.
He said than he have only tree requirements: Phone notifications, step counting & long battery life. But then faced with a Casio he said "Casio watches showed promise, but their limited notifications and unattractive styling didn’t meet my preferences for a more elegant design"...
His final choice may have been more because of the "elegant design" than his initial requirements. He confirm it more or less because he even "had to disable a ton of fitness tracking features that I’ll never use just so that I could do the things I wanted."
I am not sure why this stuff is posted now, but as someone who still need to use WebObjects at work because of a legacy product, we use instead Project Wonder:
The two images in the article, taken from the rescued boat. Show indeed than the sails where probably not used. One of the photos even show the sailors at work wile they seems to furl one of the the sail.
Also, the road taken is interested. They could have go to one of the ports of the British islands, like St. Peter Port at Guernsey. But this would have been dangerous. This part of the English Chanel, is full of smalls rock islands, shoals and one of the most dangerous marine currents in the world : The Alderney Race (or Raz Blanchard in french).
The "business reasons" by Google are probably completely fake, but we have some pointers from OP who give us the real reason :
- OP is russian
- OP was working at Yandex (who had an history of "strange" relationships with the russian government)
- in December 2022 Vladimir Poutine take over the russian subsidiaries of Yandex (through Alexeï Koudrine) -> more "strange" relationships
- OP received an official offer in December 2022
- Russia invade Ukraine in february 2023
- OP was terminated by Google in the following days in march
I am not Google, but i also would have avoided to hire a russian, just after the start of the war. I bet than all russian potential hire had been terminated the same way during the same period.
Too much red flags to take the risk to hire a potential FSB agent.
That doesn't check out, your timeline is not quite correct. Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, not 2023. That's before OP even started the application.
This is way too conspiratorial thinking and it’s more than likely Google did exactly what they said instead. Are Americans who work at large corporations with government contracts also all likely CIA agents to you?
I have no way of knowing why Google rescinded this guys job offer. But they did, in fact, halt at least briefly some Russian hiring in April 2022 because of the war.
