I don't think this shows anything because intelligence was given as a rating, while attractiveness was given as photo. Presenting attractiveness on a scale would make it more fair but only shows how a rating is not how we measure these things naturally. A video of the man doing something intelligent or stupid might be better. But like this, it just replicates prejudice.
If it is just that, they should have written so. Because what they wrote was that some devices may be affected from this optimization. Nothing general. And if this is really an issue, all those that now change to Lineage or Graphe will be an even bigger issue soon. Because in that case, Google knew, and did not say so.
I assume its a responsibility thing. If your bank login gets hacked on a no longer supported phone, you cannot point at other issues since you were not uptodate anymore. Even if it doesn't matter.
Why is this the case? I mean buying crypto via a ?local? exchange is possible, but it is not possible to buy a more stable currency. How is the crypto bought, does someone sell it in that local currency? Because if not, you still need zo transfer your currency to (in >90% of cases) USD and then buy crypto. So why not just use those (the same way everybody else does).
If you mean to hold USD-denominated deposits in a local bank, the local government can easily confiscate or convert them. Numerous such examples.
If you mean to hold USD paper notes, that does happen a lot all over the world as you say; and not necessarily legally. Many advantages to digitization (and some disadvantages).
I think that coming down from 5T to 0.5T means that TSMC cannot be reproduced locally, but everything else is on the table. At least TSMC has a serious roadmap for its Arizona fab facility, so that too is domestically captured, although not its latest gen fab.
The prices were already high before wind and solar power came to be (and for quite many years grid prices where among the lowest in EU, while consumer prices where among the highest). The high consumer prices for electricity in Germany are a result of grid fees, taxes, taxes on grid fees, taxes on taxes, and a lack of political will to lower those.
I live in the UK where we people point at the rest of Europe and say "why are our prices so high here when we have 50+% of our power coming from wind".
> The high consumer prices for electricity in Germany are a result of grid fees
Grid fees are a coverall for "making sure the whole thing runs", which in my mind covers "making sure there's gas (at least that's what we use in the UK) to cover the shortfall when it's not windy". The Gas stations need to be able to spin up to handle the demand, so it's an abritrage where you really want to maximise the amount of wind you use, while paying as little overhead to keep the gas ready to go. It's like being on-call, and having your on-call pay amortized into your regular pay.
No state does. The Russian state started in 1917 and disclaimed all debts of the Czar. The Ottoman empire ended and was replaced with the Republic of Turkey. Modern Germany doesn't inherit from any of the predecessor states after WWI and the Nazi era.
I'm currently reading a book about a war in the 17th century. One thing that is entirely different from today is how kings and governments could just stop paying back their lenders and there was nothing you could do about it but send angry letters...
Ofcourse it worked the other way too. Entire armies of paid mercenaries could just take the money and run into the night.
Not to say that Kings just completely stopping payment to lenders never happened, but this paper argues (at least for the case of Philip II, who defaulted 4 times) that lenders had sufficient leverage to ensure that while kings might miss payments, that kings would eventually continue to pay. And of course, this makes some sense - why would people lend money to someone they had absolutely no leverage over?
The paper argues that lenders (or at least Genoese lenders who provided at least 2/3 of short terms loans) were able to work as a bloc with sufficient power to compel the King to eventually resume payments. As you pointed out, the King is mainly lending money to pay for armies. Being cut-off from credit is the same thing as being cut off from his army.
An interesting point that this paper makes at the end is that in a pre-modern context, lenders would have understood that sometimes... shit happens. They understood what the mechanisms a King would have for generating revenue, and that these revenue streams were not stable (taxation and silver shipments from the New World in Philippe's case), and that a King could in deep default "in good faith" and still be a "good enough" financial situation in subsequent years. That is in fact why the King even needed to borrow money from them to begin with.
Modern Germany doesn't inherit from any of the predecessor states after WWI and the Nazi era.
Not quite. Its criminal code inherits directly from that of the 1871 Reich (including quite notoriously Paragraphs 175 and 218).
But it is correct to say that its constitution inherits only back to 1919, and it never maintained any pretense of connection to the Holy Roman Empire.
Thats the first thing I noticed! I've been doing bits of genealogy research into a couple great grandparent lines that already have quite a bit of research done (on males) from the mid-1500 to late-1800's and one line is Henry's and John's (and a random Abraham); another is all Peter and James (then a random Jesse)
