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the ICO is toothless by design

They did so because politicians told them to, with the threat of withholding funding, due to lobbying by Boeing. Boeing management is the root cause.

in addition there are several mods that increase the depth of the production tree and materials used

At the other side of the fence we have JS/TS experts writing inscrutable one-liners by chaining 15 lodash commands.

Having tried both SQL and the approach of using a programming language + framework of the day, I prefer SQL for data manipulation. It's far easier to troubleshoot, scale, hand-over or maintain in the long run.

I've also been looking for that. In an ideal world there would be a small, fast, standalone cli tool that can convert csv to parquet. There is a (sadly, unfinished) parquet writer Rust library in the Arrow repository that looks promising. All approaches I've tried so far (spark, pyarrow, drill, ...) require everything and the kitchen sink. So far I've settled on a java cli tool that uses jackson + org.apache.parquet internally, but it's cpu bound and has a huge amount of maven dependencies.

bloodthinners to prevent clots.

It's likely that rituals were they way they structured complex activities. Put the food beneath the snow and sing a song, using prescribed steps, so the gods will preserve it. Bandage a wound, put a poultice on it and sing a song, so the spirits will make it heal. Again, using prescribed steps handed over from generation to generation, because they knew it worked but didn't know why.

a fun way to learn the basics, is to start playing at screeps.com. It's not applicable to web design though.

they share with GSK even if you opted out, because GSK is part owner.

Yes, a grey zone exists. That's not a reason for inaction in other cases. Where to draw the line between murder, manslaughter and unfortunate accident ? Where to draw the line between fair use and piracy ? If anything, start with policing obvious falsehoods ("Obama and FEMA will take all your guns").

the UK one has no teeth.

any advice on how to invest in ETFs while in Europe ? Vanguard is not available and local banks charge high management fees.

Or it was started to improve their bargaining position against ISPs, and was dropped in return for additional concessions.