Is it the same problem https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14358275?

Is it the same issue https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14356409?

Looks like it. But this one is a year old, without any apparent resolution.

That's the point. I know the guy who posted this question on stackoverflow, a case was opened with Firebase support on August 15, 2016. They're STILL exchanging emails with no resolution as far as I know.

Well...that's the flip side of serverless. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I looked around for alternatives, but I haven't seen anything else more compelling than a MacBook Pro.

And the export winners are: The five permanent members of the UN Security Council.

"The country must be depending on weapon exports to keep their economy going" = keeping wars going is good for sales

What about the fact that (before Russia invaded Ukraine) global death rates from conflict go down nearly every year? Could their be an argument made that prevalence of weapons systems reduce outbreaks of conflict, in effect making arms providers 'peace manufacturers'? Not my perspective, just wondering.

When you hover over a chord you can see both exports and imports for each pair of countries. The arms imports visualization is here: http://insightfulinteraction.com/armsimport.html

What's interesting is that a lot Ukrainian arms exports are to Russia with which it is now at war.

Russian deep sea exploration ship PROFESSOR LOGACHEV is heading to the Stockholm archipelago (http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/273456410)... while Russia officially denies submarine accident (http://function.mil.ru/news_page/country/more.htm?id=1199615...)