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This sounds great to me, I would love to know how much a procedure costs before I have it instead of having bills for arbitrary amounts of money show up one at a time over the course of six months.

I found German noun declensions a pain to learn and you basically just have to memorize the gender of each noun. Spanish grammar is simpler in comparison and the -a vs -o ending tells you the gender of most nouns.

Also, like the article mentions, English has just as many words with Latin roots as it does Germanic.

Plus they have ironclad job security and a pension (which practically no taxpayers get), so it's not directly comparable to private sector salaries.

Not true, on Fridays after lunch time can sometimes pass as slowly as 3 seconds per second.

The US has also lost its lead in manufacturing during the same time period.

Re-write McKinsey in Rust.

Are you sure? I'm in the US and it displays the entire price (including cleaning fees) for me.

The Soviet Union had chronic housing shortages. Multiple families would live squeezed together in one small apartment. The waiting list to get your own took years and years.

I doubt that will be a problem here. Their Kentucky plant is huge, it's been around for decades and it makes lots of high quality cars including the Camry. Toyota goes to a lot of effort to teach the workers their production system and culture.

Also higher crime.

The user notes feature was the best thing Twitter ever did so I disagree that they can't release meaningful updates.

It's hard to disentangle how many of their problems are due to staff cuts vs Musk being unpopular with advertisers and the coronavirus tech bubble bursting.

It's honestly impressive how productive the American economy is even with all of the shackles we put on it.

Eurasia is massive compared to the Americas and has a lot more domesticated animals, so there were more diseases percolating there.