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I'm in the UK too and yes, gas is more economical for heating and cooking. However, not everywhere has a gas connection and some people do use electricity to heat their homes (e.g. storage heaters using cheap night-time electricity).
I found a Ukranian company selling some heaters (their website looks a bit old, so I don't know if they're still in business): http://en.hotmine.io/
Individual's bodies can easily cause a public problem e.g. communicable diseases and vaccinations. As a society it makes complete sense to provide some level of healthcare to everyone to prevent the spread of diseases.
Is it really true that USians have absolutely no idea about other countries? Do you really think that New Zealand is some kind of province of Australia?
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from the saving-the-date dept.
"Three-point-one-four was more than a number to museum curator Larry Shaw," writes the San Francisco Chronicle. Long-time Slashdot reader linuxwrangler writes: In 1988 at a retreat for San Francisco Exploratorium staff, Larry Shaw proposed linking the digits of pi, which begins 3.14, with the date March 14. Initially the "holiday" was only celebrated by museum staff but it didn't take long for the idea to spread and Pi Day was born.
For 38 years, Mr. Shaw donned a red cap emblazoned with the magic digits and led a parade of museum goers, each of them holding a sign bearing one of the digits of pi. Shaw died August 19 at age 78 and a memorial is planned for Sunday September 24. The memorial will be held in Mill Valley, California, the Chronicle reports, adding that "pie will be served."
Although knowing how to write algorithms is a very fundamental part of programming (and they SHOULD cover that in a CS degree), I'd agree with the young developers in not writing their own implementations in the real world. Writing good algorithms is hard and I'd prefer the expert developers to put the most useful algorithms into libraries rather than the less experienced developers who are straight out of college.
I reckon most coding jobs only really involve manipulating/displaying data from databases and having a nice GUI and you don't really need to be expert with algorithms for that.