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For instance, in Poland (which is in Europe) you have all rights to create copies of software, music, movies, for your personal use after paying for the original copy. You cannot do this under copyright which strictly forbids you from creating copies of the original media. Copy-right, as a right to create copies.

In this meaning, copyright is not the same as authorship rights, which is a basis of intellectual property protection in Europe.

Similarly for software patents, they do not work in EU.

Which, if I read that right, indicates that for Netherlands, winter months in 2022-2023 had more sunlight than in 2021-2022?

EDIT: Another data point would be total solar energy production in winter divided by installed power, per month, in comparison to previous winter.

They also failed to grasp that outside temperature might not be the only factor affecting power consumed for heating, assuming we want to keep constant inside temperature. The most obvious is sunlight - when it's 0C outside, my home requires much less energy when the sun is shining through the windows and on the roof.

Weatharrr!

You can Fail-to-deliver and never locate the stock that you are supposed to borrow. Or you can short ETF with this specific company in basket while going long on anything else in this ETF.

Everything you own, even your own debt, can be used as a collateral by creating and selling swaps.

Officially, Rackspace is ~30% sold short. Someone is already making tax-free billions shorting it to death.

I have 2 gift cards and one additional "LunchPass" card issued this year in Poland, all three are magstrip only.

The magstrip readers are not removed from the terminals, even the newest smartphone-like have them, you just don't know where to look. Of course, sometimes cashiers are surprised that my card is magstrip-only and they are double-surprised when I show them where is the magstrip reader on the terminal they use :)

> can move from genre to genre constantly reinventing themselves

Sounds a little bit like Nokia, more than Apple. Paper mill, cable products, rubber boots, tires, TV, mobile phones... ;)

Too bad Phabricator is no longer with us. Are there any actively maintained forks?

She found a hardware solution to a software problem.