Carioca

> The point of the "x2" modes is that they use the second pair of lanes that would otherwise go unused.

Thank you for answering a question I didn't know I had

While this is a good long-term heuristic, I'd describe the upper rungs of government as more cynical on matters of science and theology than a typical fundie.

The only relevant difference is that you might be able to push it back a bit on "strategic interest" types of arguments

For a country that has been a "brain magnet" for a good century, a "brain drain" might just be "talented people from wherever choosing to go somewhere else".

Case in point: an EE I know who is finishing his master's[1] is considering interesting proposals from solid (but not top tier, think Texas not Massachusetts) universities from the US, Germany and China. While he's afraid of the culture gap with China, it's clearly the one that has the more interesting things going on technically and the one he feels more excited about

[1]Engineering by itself is a bachelor's level degree here

A friend in a prestigious European university said that applications were up in basically all fields

> Why would this be news?

Mostly because international litigation is, let's say, fraught issues (as in "good luck!")

I mean, could be accurate if they deliver the drones broken

Big difference for ffmpeg especially (but I imagine for curl too): it's not just one guy in Nebraska. Seems to have a very healthy community of devs involved in it.

Yup! And their whole social media “thing” is doing these kinds of on-topic analysis of (mostly consumer) devices

> USG has not deleted and re-issued their USD even once so far afaik. Other countries do it more often.

Interesting side note: they did it once, just after the ratification of the US Constitution. The Revolutionary War was funded in some sense by devaluing the Continental Currency of the time, denominated in "Dollars". You could argue that the "US Dollar" only came to being with the coinage act of 1792, but as a Brazilian I'd say "Potay-to, Potah-to"

Also never seen one here in Brazil FWIW

And beyond pricing strategy, there are people who feel that a fair price is intrinsic to the product (e.g. the amount of work that goes into it). For example, it's pretty common in the classical guitar luthier world for there to be a decade-plus waiting list for some masters. They refuse to scale up their prices to “market-level” (i.e. a couple years max, takes months to build a guitar), because they don't want the guitars going to someone for purely economic reasons. Mind you, these are still very expensive, five figure instruments.

(edit: you could obviously think of it as a strategy that maximizes some other utility function in which profit is just one parameter)

As agoose77 said on another comment, Github probably disabled the whole LFS (Large File Storage) for that repo

I'm pretty sure Github disabled image downloads for that repo in the last few minutes.

While I agree with most of what you've said, I'm not sure I see a use-case for the distinction between Hyphen, Minus and Hyphen-Minus. Specifically, with having all three. If I were designing Unicode, I'd remove the Minus sign specifically. That way, if you absolutely need to e.g. use an old font that used long minuses (in old texts they could be even an em-dash), it would still be _encoded_ as the parseable expected by every software to date