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If it lowers air travel then it's a good thing, since it's probably the only way the US will meaningfully invest in high speed rail.

Isn't the 4 star resort also usually in a country that has at least 50 to 1 difference in purchasing power?

If OP had said "in last 40 years" then yeah sure.

But since the middle ages, or 500 years ago, how is that common knowledge?

It's not a problem so long as borrowing costs are low.

Now if USD loses reserve status, that could be very problematic, since the US basically spreads its borrowing costs to the entire world.

Citation needed.

Also, even if true, a lot is likely due to people leaving the countryside and migrating to the cities during the latter half of the 20th century. To feed these urban populations, an enormous amount of food needs to be imported from other countries. So really the deforestation has been exported, same as pollution from manufacturing.

Yeah they sold off pretty much their entire motor industry to the Germans (Mini, Bentley, ..), Chinese (Lotus) and Indians (Jaguar, Land Rover).

Typical case of short sighted capitalism.

Unlike the EU and the US, the UK doesn't have any major car companies anymore, so there's less of an incentive for them to apply tariffs on Chinese imports.

I don't understand, wouldn't it make it easier?

My grandpa was doing just fine before those newfangled chariots became all the rage. What's wrong with walking?

> We really need to deescalate the whole situation and stop the violence.

Yes. Also, I would like a poney.

Yes, there's lots of content on IPv4, and there is also a lot of traffic from India...

If India were to turn off IPv4, it would be a great incentive for IPv4-only sites in the US and Europe to add an IPv6 address.

Which is strange given a lot of US airpower is flying out of UK airbases.

Given French companies' past activities, a sizeable under the table payment from CMA CGM wouldn't surprise me.

Be careful what you wish for.

Ariane 6 started operations less than a year ago, and already development is under way for the next generation. Funding is partly coming from the EU, so the political process has very much started.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_Next

I'm not disputing the fact that the EU is behind the US and China, but again the EU budget is way below. Given the financial limitations ESA is actually quite capable.

The approach is fundamentally different: in Europe it's organized by where you want to go (or do), in the US it's organized by cardinal directions.

In the US, if you're on 89th Street and 5th Avenue, and you want to visit your friend on 10th and 1st Avenue, you'll know exactly which direction to drive. Need to go to another city? Take the highway following the direction the other city is. Americans are typically good at knowing where the sun rises, or are always getting lost.

In Europe, you know your friend lives by the main hospital, so you follow the signs indicating the hospital, and then (if you're lucky) signs to your friend's neighborhood. From there you need to know how to get to the street they live on. Need to get to another city? Follow the highway signs indicating that city, if it's close by, otherwise you'll need to know what cities are on the way to it.

When we lived in the US, I could easily find any address in most cities. My wife was always getting lost, sometimes going to the complete other side of town.

We've been in Europe for over a decade now. She has no problems getting around to most places she needs to. I'm always getting lost going someplace new.

It's mainly about budget, the US and China spend more than Europe.

It looks like the next generation will be reusable though, there are a few programs to that effect, both from established players and "new space" startups.

It hasn't started, although we could be in the precursor stage.

Given the current instability, political changes should be a high priority.

My last Windows install was XP, but I stopped using Steam a couple years back. I prefer to own what I buy, so now only purchase on GOG.

However I'm very thankful for the work Valve has done, as this has made Wine much much better.

I can now just download a game from GOG, set it up with a winetricks one-liner, and expect it to work. Even the latest games that just came out.

Although to be fair I usually wait a couple months to get a good discount. But, before, you had to wait years for support, if any at all.

I'm also seeing some studios releasing support for Vulkan either day one or in updates, which is great.

5 per cent is a significant number. In many elections for example, this is the minimum to have representatives and/or receive state funding.

Not just the US.

Rather strangely when choosing transportation options, people generally don't say "I'll take the subway it's safer", when it very much is.

On the other hand people accept things like "I have a fear of flying" much more easily than "I have a fear of cars".

I think OP's point is that certain government agencies have already transitioned or are in the process of transitioning. As such it would make sense for them to fund LibreOffice, given that they now depend on it.

There has been a 2x and sometimes even 10x in PR size, measured in LoC...

But that's not really what we were promised.

Feeling like a spoiled little kid. FreeCAD and Blender had some really nice updates recently too.

Now just waiting on GIMP!

Unfortunately, Krita doesn't have the same use.

Absolutely, and it's a good language when used properly. This was more of a problem with the hype surrounding it.

Yes.

OpenOffice, controlled by the Apache Foundation, and LibreOffice, controlled by the Document Foundation. No look in, since both are open source.

For a closed source solution use MS Office or Google docs.

One of the slowest, most ineficient code bases I've ever worked on was in Go.

The mentality was "the language is fast, so as long as it compiles we're good"... Yeah that worked out about as well as you'd expect.

Every spring the numbers go up compared to the year before. That's interesting, no?