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You seem to underestimate how many companies and government organizations rely on American hyperscalers

No. That's the point. Those are exactly the institutions you want to target. We want them to switch away from American companies.

On one hand I agree with you, but I can also see that you can't let every class decend into a debate about the material. Unless you have the time to build every "scientific fact" up from the evidence that led to it (and you don't) you'll forever be having arguments against every idea coming out of a bunch of 10 year old's heads.

So you teach it all as solid fact, and then add the nuance later when they're older. Trouble is, a lot of people either didn't really understand the impact of the nuance or didn't connect the dots back to the things they were taught early on.

As for the maths thing, consider that maybe...just maybe...they were teaching you a more advanced technique using a simple example. You didn't need that technique for the simple example. You needed it for the next part of the course, but you learnt it before you needed it so you understood it when you did need it. You didn't understand that because you only saw what was Infront of you.

Not currently recognised as a dwarf planet. A bit of scanning seems to suggest there's a good argument that it's should be designated a binary planet system, but that would call into question if the Earth - Moon system is too.

The Moon not being a moon would really mess with people.

So, currently, no not Charon.

That's correct by definition, but the reason the definition was changed to exclude pluto was because our knowledge changed.

We found more Pluto-like objects and it became clear they weren't the same thing as the other 8 planets. They needed their own classification. So we created one (Dwarf Planets) and put Pluto in it along with its brethren.

Here's the thing with "facts". Every scientific explanation is just our current best explanation. They're not all perfect and as we learn more the explanations change.

The lesson of Pluto is that science evolves and you have to stay up to date. They'll be a bunch of stuff you learned as facts that has now been revised, corrected, reclassified or revoked. The other obvious one is how much the appearance of dinosaurs has been revised over the last few decades.

All because of a cartoon dog.

I don't think they'd care if Neptune and Pluto swapped names.

They'd rather remove Pluto from the list than add Ceres add Pluto, Eris, Haumea, Makemake, Gonggong, Quaoar, Sedna, Ceres, and Orcus.

Well looking at that still image, it appears that that cycle lane is of a decent size and has double yellows. Looks like the safest place for a cyclist to be in that case as it allows people to pass safely. If I saw someone cycling out of the cycle lane in that situation I'd think they're being foolish. Taking a greater risk than necessary and causing an obstruction.

Is someone not being in the cycle lane an excuse for road rage? Of course not. There's no excuse for road rage.

Depends on two things

1. What performance counters your CPU has.
2. What you consider to be a memory load.

Tools like perf on Linux can get you access to your processors performance counters and you'll be able to see how many "events" occur while a process is running.

What's an event? Well they can be configured to monitor all sorts of things in the CPU. Instructions executed, Interrupts, page table misses, and on some loads / stores.

Memory systems on a CPU aren't straightforward though. They contain multiple levels of cache, each of which reduces the number of accesses which go to the next layer. So depending on which level you measure, you'll get different numbers.

Yes, which is why he's been told to make Canada and Greenland US territories.

There's no reason for the world to put reciprocal tariffs in place that are actually reciprocal? The US President started this.

To get a sense of scale on how important US imports are to the EU. Total imports to the EU were $6.5T in 2024. The US was (as you said) about $300B. It's 18% of US Exports. It's 4.5% of EU imports. Significant, but trimming it down is probably fine.

What we do import from the US is fossil fuels. Oil & gas, and processed variants of that make up around ⅓ of all US exports to the EU. The short term need for US O&G went up with Russia invading Ukraine, and the has made the US supply more important. Thing is, that's looking temporary. We're also regearing to need far less of it. EV sales continue to rise (except Tesla's). Renewable electricity generation gets bigger every year. In 2024 the EU spent 16% less on energy imports than 2023.

The US's leverage over the EU is not economic. Sadly, right now it's military. The EU doesn't want to piss Trump off because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. We'd like the US to stand resolutely beside us in the defence against Russian aggression. Unfortunately Trump sees Putin as a role model, not an enemy and can't bring himself to act against him.

Also, I appreciate that every picture I see of Trump, even on official news sources, is an unflattering one.

Err... that's Ursula von der Leyen

How can they sell your details if you don't register for an account?

I'd personally much rather sync was done with no account. More like synching where clients connect directly to each other with a QR code (or cut&paste code)

I'll tag people when they've got into big arguments about something I find important. I might agree or disagree, but I'll tag them with whatever it was they felt strongly about.

I find it interesting to see if I caught them on a good or a bad day. Do I always dis/agree with them on all topics, or was it just that one? Did I judge them unfairly?

For example I have one person labelled "Too Angry". I can't remember what they were angry about that first time, but it's amazing how often they're still angry when I see them.

Now tagged "Definitely has ten toes".

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Or in American ...

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I've been to Egypt several times, and sometimes I've stayed with people who have moved there.

The impression I get is that there very few ways for people born there to raise themselves up above what I call "The Hustle". There's a state of being where the key to survival is extracting money out of everyone you meet. By fair means or foul, you must make money.

It can be making sure every person that walks into your shop buys something. It can be being a kerb crawling tuk tuk driver pestering walkers by. It can be thieving. It can be taking bribes in local government. Everybody is on the hustle. You can't afford to trust people because they'll take any advantage they can. It's a permanent state of stress and fear.

...and then there are the immigrant whales that move there, buy a big house on the coast and exploit the locals by flashing the cash.

All of that said, when people do manage to find something stable, they're a great people, but there are so few decent ways to make enough money.

Javis, his AI assistant, did all the work.