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I have a bottle of Niagara icewine downstairs I'm very much looking forward to!

That's just not true, a flow on gov.uk can involve a lot of pages but they are exceedingly clear and easy to navigate.

Surely this just means Justworks is your HR team?

My local Morrisons has a few decent 3.4% ales for £1-£1.25, I am a loyal customer.

My local supermarket sells 3.4% ales for £1 each, it's fantastic.

The damage from WW2 to Europe was not limited to bombing and killing, it includes the economic harm inflicted on Eastern Europe in the decades afterwards by the Soviets.

Europe does build ships, even if East Asia dominates. But the US is abnormally low, like it build less tonnage than Finland.

Not everyone can operate civilian ship fleets, managing a global shipping operation is not a "pick up and do it", it requires some build up.

> What a weird one to pick. Do you think the US doesn't have massive ports like Europe?

The US has ports. But they don't build civilian ships, and they don't really own ships either. The vast majority of American ocean-going shipping is floated on ships owned by Europeans and built by East Asians

The rebuilding phase only really got started in the 90s! Integrating the post-communist states was a huge effort that is still arguably going on.

This is expected though, right? Even in Europe, unless you're a verysmall country, most business you deal with is domestic. Do by default, the largest companies mare going to be in the largest economies. Doesn't mean you can't get lucky every now and again, but you are handicapped by not having a large domestic consumption base protected via political independence.

China and the US are continent-scale megastates. Obviously a mid-sized Atlantic island like the UK, or smallish peninsula like Italy, are not going to compete on scale.

I work for a UK fintech that is bank-adjacent, the backend for the apps and the website are the same.

I imagine that if all banking apps go down as a result of war then bank websites, credit cards, basically any other digital financial thing will also be down.

If banking went down we'd have a hell of a time. It's not like I keep 6 months rent in cash on me.

To be fair South Australia is:

* Incredibly sunny

* Incredibly sparely populated

* Functionally winterless

Like it's the perfect setup for solar.

Somewhere like Denmark, Japan, even the US Northeast does not have those.

Nuclear fuel is available from lots of countries, including Canada and Australia, plus deposits in Europe that aren't being minted because uranium is very cheap.

Plus you can stockpile it super easy.

I can't speak for the graduate or American market, but I can tell you the market for reasonably experienced software people in London is hot. Loads of hiring and salaries are going up.

Being able to fly at all is a much better passenger experience than not having that choice in the first place. And I'll bet that flying first class today is far better than 50 years ago.

Would you put it past Trump to use gold stores as a threat?

What makes you think that? It says Lake Ontario here in the UK.

The US has the lowest percentage of it's population being immigrants in the Western Anglosphere. Like it's beaten by all of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and Ireland. Germany and France too, plus a while host of smaller European countries.

There's an argument that the US is the least immigrant friendly large Western nation. Maybe the medium sized ones too.

AI companies are doing this at a far lesser scale than libraries are, are you implying doing it less is worse?

If someone was ok with Nazis killing Jews but not Soviets, I am going to think they don't believe it's the killing that is the problem.

Rare and valuable books are not going to be in the giant pallets AI companies are buying. Most public libraries do not have professional archivists or anything like that, not so charity shops, or booksellers.

I imagine they know the public would react like the public is reacting. Like obviously this is not worse than what libraries and thrift shops do daily, but it is bad optics.

Can you explain why AI companies destroying these is worse than a library or bookseller destroying these?

It's more that, we don't need to preserve a million copies of the same mundane book. Losing a few copies to AI training is fine.

If it were legal they may well do that as a public branding exercise. Google already tried and got punished for it!

Europe is a big place. Domestic air con is ubiquitous in Italy, rare in the UK. But even in the UK, places like shops and offices will usually have air con.

I mean do we not want food to be stored for tough times? And the people who do this storing should get paid for it?

Unless you're French.