Right, let's talk about the paper in question instead. It's based on:

"We draw heavily on data from the Decision Maker Panel in our micro analysis. The DMP is a large and representative monthly online panel survey of UK businesses that we set up in 2016. It is run by the Bank of England in partnership with King’s College London and the University of Nottingham and is supported by funding from the Economic and Social Research Council."

Do you think the Bank of England knows their own economy?

...you realize that pennies don't solve that "problem," right? We already have to round the final total for virtually all purchases after calculating the tax.

We MUST be able to inspect and age verify every AI slop porn image to protect the fictional children!

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France and Germany are doing it! They both have made a lot of software from scratch (FOSS), and in France they're actively aiding their local governments transition (hands on assistance migrating). It's an extensive collection of applications replacing everything from Teams to Office.

France:
https://code.gouv.fr/en/action...

Germany:
https://www.heise.de/en/news/M...
https://www.opendesk.eu/en

The French and German governments got together to release an open-source Notion alternative called "Docs", which is a collaborative document editor that could potentially replace non-EU platforms like Notion, Confluence, Google Docs, and others.

I'm pretty sure that intra-group violence is generally more common than inter-group violence and hence the latter is the one that stands out as an intentional decision.

And yet, Australian National University identified significant pumped hydro storage potential in Australia many years ago. Definitely more than they'd ever need.

If you read the article carefully, they are talking about lenses THINNER than a hair. I see several of the posts here thinking the width/radius of the lenses is this small, a reasonable mistake given the way this was written. Having a radius that small would severely reduce their light gathering ability, requiring very bright light or very dim images or very long exposure times.

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Physical letter services can be replaced though. In Scandinavia, we have official digital mailboxes for important documents (government and businesses). It's not email, but another type of service.

Only certain types of private businesses (banks, insurance, etc) and government agencies can send you messages. Spammers and scammers are not able to send messages at all.

The mailboxes are free, but operated by private companies. You can only read the messages on the Web, or in the official app. You must use an official digital ID (with two-factor auth), but there are several digital ID platforms available. You're free to pick your own provider, but there are only two or three. There are fees for sending letters, but not for receiving them.

Just last week, we received notification that IBM is rolling out a "program" to upper-level employees with decades of experience. The idea is that we would work reduced hours for the next year at full pay, and then leave IBM after a year (next March, I believe.)

Of course, this is for US employees only. I think we can be sure that the replacements for these employees (if there are any) won't be in the US.

You didn't "cut cable" if you didn't have it in the first place; the number they're citing is a percentage of total households without cable, not the number of total households that had cable and got rid of it.

The roguelike games also have a low barrier for people who want to write their own, as there are freely available graphical tiles, libraries such as Doryen to do the heavy lifting, and plenty of tutorials covering most programming languages. See https://roguebasin.com/index.p... for some tutorials.

Most existing games are open-source, so if creating a new game doesn't appeal, you can download your favourite and start changing it to be more to your liking.

In Russia they jail people for talking about the war. Sometimes they make them apologize on SoMe. Speak badly about any politician and expect even worse; beatings, jail, etc.

Nah, the fund is not used for pensions, but we called it that to keep politicians in line on spending. A reminder if you like. It's for the future and our grandchildren, not today's old people. We have another fund for actual pensions.

We do use the interest from the SWF fund in our national budget, so it's paying for some things today - just not pensions alone.

What country do you live in? Up here in northern Europe, I haven't received a letter in years. Bank statements and bills have been digital for 25 years now. My mailbox is always empty. If we put a certain sticker on our mailboxes it's not legal to put fliers or advertisements in them. The companies respect the law.

Our national postal service stopped delivering mail daily because it had no purpose. They deliver every other weekday now. They're considering stopping deliveries of mail to households altogether and replacing it with post boxes in central locations. We already have pickup points (automated boxes) owned by the postal service, so people are already familiar with it. The elderly can still get their mail delivered weekly though. The postal service is focusing on delivering parcels instead of mail to stay viable.

Small local newspapers have gone digital, but national newspapers still make paper versions. Paperboys still have a route. The elderly can still get their daily paper.

It was "proven false" by mathematicians who considered the number 200,000 to be the same as "infinite."