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Surprised it took so long for a car-centric country to get on board with these

Research the "Treaty of Tordesillas"... by which I mean, don't just look up a one paragraph summary, spend a bit of time with it. A few papal bulls at least. Ideally in a modern formulation you should encounter the term "Requerimiento" without having directly searched for it, and how the modern iteration of the line-of-demarcation doctrine is a reaction to that in a way the 1494 version didn't have to contend with.

I'm not doing advocacy here, I'm giving pointers on how to come to a deeper understanding of what is going on.

It is also important to understand that the United States is directly attacking this doctrine by just sitting there. You are free to agree with the United States. Again, I'm just giving something to guide people to a deeper understanding of what is going on beyond the surface level playground politics of it all. There's more going on than that.

The Netherlands and France share a border on the island of Saint Martin

This is an interesting point about energy market balancing but it has causality backwards. Spain simply has a better energy mix than Germany, no matter how big the spread between the countries is as a function of interconnectedness.

What is going on with the second element in the final example?

    std::pair x {1, 2.0};
    auto [v, w] = x;

Why is the second element a float according to the blog post?

    std::tuple_element<0, std::pair<int, float> >::type&

The meandering movement of the droplets around the sides remind me of the Gray-Scott reaction–diffusion system

This has little to do with equilibrium analysis, it is just the market for lemons story but for the ad space. You need to investigate the buyers and what they believe about brand quality.

Meta famously tracks people extensively even if they don't have an account there, through a technique called shadow profiles.

Democratic AI is non-negotiable

I experienced the same, I had to disable my adblocker to view it, it seems the content is inside a tag `<article class="social-sharing">` but I am unsure whether this triggered my adblocker.

I think in the example the parent gave `arr[3]` is past the end of the 3 element array, where `i` might reside, potentially changing its value.