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anacolutheon Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

Beware that the parent hexagon does not contain its children...

anacolutheon The ugly story of how corporate America convinced us to spend so much on water

Nestlé CEO about water: https://youtu.be/TPY64EJcsG4

anacolutheon Learning Go as a Python Developer: The Good and the Bad

What if the depedencies you pinned have non-pinned depedencies?

packageA==1.0.0 depends itself on packageB

Therefore, you can find yourself with a different set of deps. Had a bug like this once.

anacolutheon 18-year-old personal website, built with Frontpage and still updated

Reminds me of http://villemin.gerard.free.fr/

anacolutheon Google to pay $1B in France to settle fiscal fraud probe

Maybe it is a response to a more global situation. Please look into corruption charges and fines of US Justice on European companies such as Alcatel, Société Générale, Alstom and you'll that these fines are quite a good instrument to weaken strategic European competitors (and the opposite is true as well) and even take them over. Example: https://www.economist.com/business/2019/01/17/how-the-americ...

anacolutheon Using Flywheel Batteries to Charge Electric Vehicles in Ten Minutes

For example, some wind tunnels are powered using flywheels (c.f. high enthalpy wind tunnel F4 from ONERA in France is using a 15 tons flywheel to get the necessary power).

anacolutheon France’s Prometheus reusable engine becomes ESA project, gets funding boost

SpaceX was awarded $1.6 billion for 12 cargo missions 10 years ago. Given their current pricing, that sounds a lot like public investment...

The model is simply different in Europe where public money funds most of the development costs: market size is smaller in Europe (compared to US institutional market for example), geographic return makes things more complicated and it is of course all about independent space access.

Finally, all US institutional satellites must be launched on American launchers ("Buy American Act"), which is not the case in Europe. Free market, were you saying?