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All other destroyed cities (e.g. Arnhem, Nijmegen) were bombed by allied forces in their attempts to drive out the occupying Germans.
Even today it is following Moore's law, although not at Intel: https://medium.com/predict/moores-law-is-alive-and-well-eaa4...
I went through all the levels.
>> What do you think is holding you back?
What was holding me back was: 1. Spoken French goes much faster than the French spoken in the course so I wasn't able to understand most of it.
2. To form a sentence to express yourself in real life is much more difficult than to translate a given English sentence like in DuoLingo.
I agree that to be able to use a language you need to do more than just follow a course like DuoLingo; you have to read books, watch television and most important practice it in real life.
For instance, I completed the entire French course but I still can't have even a basic conversation when I'm in France.
When teens reach their adolescence, the functioning of the frontal lobe in the brain is tuned down. The frontal lobe is what gives people self control; tune it down and you become more impulsive, emotional and risk seeking. The frontal lobe only returns to its normal mode when people reach their early twenties.
Source: e.g https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?Con...
The effort of learning Scala vs Haskell as at a professional level would be more or less equal.
And then the bubble burst and the sentiment was 180 degrees opposite. By then our company had already acquired some customers and was making some money, and was ready to expand and grab a significant piece of the market. However it didn't matter what we did or what business plan we made, it was just impossible to raise any kind of money whatsoever. So our startup continued living its zombie life until it was taken over by a competitor a few years later. In the end I was lucky because this way I could survive the years after a crash while still having a job. But it left me with mixed feelings about the so called angel investors. It didn't appear to me that they had any idea what they were doing.
I think biology itself provides us with some clues of what is likely to happen. There have been other species in the past that because of climatological or geological changes suddenly had a very easy time surviving. Take the Dodo for instance. What happened to them is that they gradually lost most of the survival features that they didn't need anymore. Perhaps this is the future of any intelligent life form and maybe this is why we don't detect any sign of them in the universe.
I have been mildly depressed in the past and sometimes it struck me how narrow my view of the world was in those days. Sometimes literally, it seemed as if I was looking through a tunnel and that I was more busy with all the negative thoughts that were going on in my head than with what was really happening around me.
It is well known that drone strikes are terribly inaccurate and therefore the risk for civilian casualties is high.
But bad naming practices have nothing to do with FP per se. Although it does seem to be fashionable in part of the FP community to have everything as terse as possible including variable names.
Here is a hint why this happening: not all government bonds have such low yields: only some European countries and Japan have, the USA bond yield for instance is quite a bit higher.
The reason is that there is currently a huge buyer for European government bonds: the ECB. The ECB's "quantitative easening" that has been going on for the last years is artificially keeping the yields low.
The current gold rally tells us that there is a lot of global political and economical uncertainty. Think of the Brexit, the Iran troubles and the global trade war. All these issues could cost big money for governments so it makes their bonds less attractive.
In my opinion you're putting the bar way too high if you require anybody on this forum to only reply to a discussion when he/she not only can point out a failure in the arguments but has the correct solution as well.
Finally, you are putting some rather dubious solution in my mouth with your comment "What is your point? Should we kill everybody over 70 years old?". Of course I didn't have that solution in mind.
Perhaps at this point in time we could just make things work by cutting back our lifestyles: but 20 or 30 years later the grown population would again need more food and more natural resources. And hungry people don't care about changing the world but about getting food for today, sustainable or not.
'Wealth, in Piketty’s view, perpetuates itself, and effortlessly earns its return (never mind the work, risk and selection issues involved). By continually paying the interest on its debt, the governments of Austen’s Britain financed the leisurly lifestyles of the rich, just as the “natural” return of the modern-day rich contribute and maintain today’s inequality.'
This completely disregards inflation. E.g., if government bonds guarantee a 3% payout but inflation is at 3.5%, your wealth is not perpetuating but leaking away.
What most repliers seem to have overlooked is that OP is saying that timezones should be used for presentation. Maybe it was not clear, but that also means they should be used for input conversion. But once the dates have to be used by the business logic of your system, you really want to prevent the headaches you will get when you have to deal with timezone transformations everywhere. That really adds a ton of complexity, is easy to overlook and above all an error in timezone conversion can go undetected for a long time.