I think it is more about urban vs rural voters. Latter group is more likely to vote with CG, even after emigrating. It takes more time for them to pick up western values simply because they are economically disadvantaged at home and to a lesser degree abroad as well.
While some areas of the firm may indeed have what you call old and crumbling tech, this is far from the rule. I expect the electronic trading arm of JPM to be far and beyond what you normally can find at tech firms. The arms race in electronic trading constantly produces innovations out of necessity. The reality is innovate or die, and no inventing yet another sloppy JavaScript framework does not constitute innovation.
Orban is the prime minister not the president. As for being chummy no Hungarian prime minister or president current or former has ever served as board member for Gazprom, nor served as head of shareholders for Nordstream AG, or director of the board for Rosneft the Russian oil company. All these positions were/are held by a former german chancellor Gerhard Schröder whom had put Germany onto the path of closing perfectly working nuclear plants and thus leading to the current dependence on Russian oil and gas:
You are trying to shift the blame, but Germany was not blocking the airspace for weapons delivery to Ukraine or blocking the sanctions. Ration of dependence of Germany on Russian Gas/Oil is way lower then ratio in Hungary.
I'm putting things into perspective. Hungary has 136 km shared border with Ukraine, it also represents only 0.25% of the global GDP, and it is a small country of less than 10 million inhabitants that took in 700'000 Ukrainian refugees. It is okay to disagree with some of their positions, but to put blame one them for the current mess is ridiculous. As for ratio of dependence I have no idea how you did measure it, but it was certainly not per capita gas consumption.
Don't forget Merkel. There are still people that say that Merkel was always against German dependence on Russian gas but could not do anything about it. For 16 years!
There is more "evidence" that Merkel is a long-term Russian intelligence asset, recruited from her youth in East Germany,[1] than that of Trump being the same. One guess on which claim is incessantly repeated by the bien-pensants of the chattering classes.
Bonus: Trump and Stoltenberg argue on camera (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpwkdmwui3k>). Who turned out to be right? Who turned out to completely, totally, 100% wrong?
[1] Something else never talked about is how her parents moved from West to East Germany when she was a baby
You have to build solar panels and wind turbines. Then have connecting service roads able to carry heavy equipment. Wash the panels frequently or watch their performance plummet. Grease moving parts to avoid friction losses. Maintain the rotor blades at the cost of significant downtimes. Replace everything after 20 years as that is their average lifespan. Deal with all poorly recyclable waste you have created. Overbuild all transmission lines by a wide margin, to compensate for the low density and intermittent nature of wind and solar. Accept that what could have been truly space reserved for wild nature is now used for low density energy farming. I really don't see how wind and solar are renewable in the true sense of the word. From an ecological perspective the point should be to use our resources efficiently so as to return large swaths of land to pristine nature. Currently you can do this two ways: one use high density technologies like nuclear, the other is to go extinct voluntarily. My choice was made after becoming a parent.
Both Go and JS are async and callback driven. The difference is that with JS those nasty callbacks are painfully explicit, whereas it is all hidden in Go. Node's callstack is a goroutine, except that the latter can also be preempted. If you have 100000 requests in progress in Node, it will consume at least as much memory as a well written Go program would.
The Linux version was benchmarked with gettimeofday() while the Windows one with QueryPerformanceCounter. The first has a lower resolution of 10 micros and as such the benchmark is not comparable.
gettimeofday() is totally inappropriate for benchmarking. Any time the system clock is being adjusted by NTP, for instance, your benchmark timing will be skewed.
They should be using the following API if they're going to use the system time to measure time differences:
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, ×pec);
It's a really good clue that a timing function is inappropriate for benchmarking when the man page talks about time zones.
gettimeofday has nanosecond precision and has whatever resolution the underlying clock has. On most recent machines, the clock is the TSC and you really do get nanoseconds out.
For something to double in 10 years it only has to grow by 6.9% per year. This is from a somewhat unusual application of The Rule of 69. Latter is way of determining doubling time of something that grows by x%: just divide 69 by x and that will be the doubling time in periods.
So if the DB grows by 10% weekly, then it will double in 6.9 weeks. If the interest rate is 3% then the debt will double in years, etc.
The Rule of 69 is good for a approximation, that works well with low single digit increases.
The rate of economic growth has little relation to the stock market yield. For one you have forgotten about the dividends, currently around 2%. Now lets assume the company grows by 3%, so your shares will now be worth 3% more. But the total return will actually be 5%.
However here I assumed that there was no drop in optimism, or pessimism over the one year period. For if you were to bought in when expectations were high, your actual return would be lower.
Sometime the relation between growth and return is completely paradoxical. You would expect that in the past 100 years a portofolio invested in UK stocks to be dominated by one of US stocks. After all the first country went from being The Global Superpower to dubious second rate global player, meanwhile the US had done the same in reverse. Yet an investor in UK stocks would have been marginally better of.
Likewise you would expect China with its spectacular growth, to have brought impressive returns compared to the US. Yet that had not happened.
Seems a bit patronizing to assume that farmers will buy a product that does not work, then continue to do so after it had proven that it yields no advantage. If it were the case that the advantage lasts only two years, then nobody will buy the product on the fourth year.
Lastly the "patented life" argument is incorrectly attributed to GMOs. First proponent of patents in this field was no other than Luther Burbank (1849-1926), a pioneer in agricultural science. He had spent the better part of his life arguing for a means to protect his achievements. Finally the Plant Patent Act was passed in 1930, some years before his death. As it stands now "life was patented" for 85 years already, while the first GMO appeared in 1994 only.
Not at all. We speak of farmers of third world countries, where many barely can read and write and are not schooled in economics or corporation trickery.
