You are underestimating the importance of polar or SSO. Equatorial orbit is used for transfer to GEO and interplanetary missions, but SSO is used for earth observation, military reconnaissance, and the oh so popular LEO telecom constellations. All these topics are very important for the space industry currently.

E: Also, SpaceX seems to be phasing out its Rideshare Programme, on which a lot of micro satellites were relying. If they do, there will be a real vacuum in terms of launch and people will really want additional launchers to the occasional Arianespace launch, and some price competition.

There are major societal drawbacks in investing in indices, even though one might benefit personally.

1. You don’t hold the shares, the index fund managers do. So you don’t sit at the board of shareholders and the index managers may not have the same idea as you on how businesses should be handled. Typically, short term gains at the expense of long term social and environmental balance.

2. The stock market is basically a machine to separate good business from bad one. You invest in underrated companies and divest from overrated ones. Once a significant portion of the investors put their money in indices, the whole market goes up or down together, there is no more filtering. Healthy businesses might go down because bad ones go bankrupt… rings a bell? Subprime crisis anyone?

So the top 10% of players is comparable to the top 10% of monkeys? Would the “Skilled” category not be lucky as well? I mean, a p-value of 10% is not great…

If your question is genuine: Kings in European constitutional monarchies (or at least in Belgium) play a political part outside of the political circus of constant posturing.

First, they help to broker deals between parties elected by the people. In Belgium we have the awesome proportional representation, meaning that we escape the drawbacks of first-past-the-post. But we have a shitton of parties that need to negociate and compromise. The king is the showrunner but only elected officials are in power in the end.

Second, they perform diplomatic missions. These missions rely on personal bonds maintained over decades are more stable than for a president that can change every few years. The phone calls of the King allowed Belgium to obtain needed gear during the covid pandemic. We can also see how quickly relations can suffer when a bad president is in office. A King means stability.

Finally, the King must know his place. If he steps out of line and expresses the tiniest personal political opinion, he’s sidelined real quick. That happened in Belgium when the King refused to sign legalization of abortion. The parliament declared him unable to reign and the law was passed anyway.

It is true that the US has a loooong way to go. It’s insane to me that even the most progressive among y’all don’t even see the point of starting this journey.

Here’s the support page from Anthropic. Another win from the EU, that’s great! Really curious to read the technical paper about the detection.

That’s neat! We should have this for European brands as well.

My Mom shaved her head on het wedding day, surprising everyone including my Dad. She never told me more than " 'cause I wanted to" :D

No problem with that! It’s nitpicking but I’d have preferred he used a more objective qualifier. And a bit less… judgmental towards what he thinks are “minor” countries.

I wouldn’t say that the Nordic countries are minor. As a Belgian, I’ll abstain on the status of Belgium.

But in no way I’d call Luxembourg major 😄

Anyway, this classification is subjective and reveals the personal biases of Sanders towards, apparently, rich countries.

Ah yes, beetlejuicing I believe was the term!

Yeah, the guy in my story was to be a developer as well. Clearly it’s way more confortable to work on Linux. The justification in my company is that the security protocols are already built for Windows so they don’t want to redo the job on Linux. Handling to OS’ would increase their work load.

Absolutely. If you’re so strict about this, you should definitely ask.

In my story, he was not really fired. But a new hire in my company was handed his computer. Seeing it was on Windows, he asked to work on Linux instead. IT told him that Windows was mandatory so he resigned on the spot.

Based af, but he didn’t even enjoy the burrito he ordered for lunch :(

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It’s great! You really should sign them, though. Besides self promotion, attribution is important to find the sources, credit the materiel and find more of your stufd!

59 Dutch - 40 French - 1 German actually

I’m forced to use Windows at work.

Task manager itself has started to freeze and crash nowadays 🫠

I found out I became allergic to cherries some weeks ago. :(

I know it’s an unpopular opinion but what’s the point? They’re obviously not talking regularly and people get avalanched by congratulations due to social networks reminders, so would it mean anything?