@SantiagoAuFund Because if you want to sell and buy from the US market... both the largest and wealthiest consumer market, and the world's largest oil producer, there's no way in hell the US would ever accept not using the USD.
@SantiagoAuFund Trying to get Canadians angry? I'm all for it.
They once detained me at the border for an hour and a half in a holding area because my technical software training program I was running for a Canadian business wasn't "Canada focused" enough.
We even had a Canadian sub office.
@UpdatingOnRome Likely do to 10,000+ years of heavy drinking culture, European ethnicities will probably on average have a higher alchohol tolerance than non-European.
Indo-europeans used alchohol to purify water, and as a result, natural selection killed off people with adverse reactions to it
After 46 years without building a single primary aluminum smelter, the US is starting one in Inola, Oklahoma.
Century Aluminum and Emirates Global Aluminium plan to produce 750,000 tonnes per year, which would more than double current US output from four remaining plants that together make roughly 680,000 tonnes.
A smelter this size consumes about 11 TWh of electricity per year, comparable to a city the size of Nashville, because producing one tonne of primary aluminum requires around 14 MWh of continuous electrolysis.
In 1980 the country had 33 smelters producing 4.6 million tonnes.
https://t.co/A7sWwgcz3G
@SantiagoAuFund Angry BRICSlayers already coming out in droves ahead of the China meeting, declaring a winner, even prior to any content, regardless of the fact that a "winner" can only be declared in a several-year hindsight.
@DrPippaM@SantiagoAuFund Texas triangle magalopolis.
Theres a few others around the country:
S. Cali, N. Cali, Cascadia, Great Lakes, Florida, and obviously the Northeast Megalopolis.
@SantiagoAuFund Well that's original. What prisons did they grab the other missions from?
Also, a hole: it would have been better to keep reusing the same 3 instead of using different ones if this was the case.
@PurpleRock33@bdomenech As someone who lives very comfortably and frugally:
265k in 1994 = 600k today.
A 600k pre-seed fund today is more than most startups get. Most pre-seed funding is 100k-500k.
Don't come out claiming things you know nothing about, whilst insulting anyone who disagrees.
@EP_EPRS@EP_Justice Your policy writers seem to have limited business experience, and instead focus on individual use.
There's no policy framework you could establish that wouldn't hamper your own countries' tech company development by restricting VPNs. They are critical infrastructure for data.
@unusual_whales Even if re-opened fully today, the resulting chain reaction of shortages is going to make the Arab spring look tame.
Remember, the Arab spring of 2010 was caused by shortages of energy (transport) and fertilizer (wheat). Both of which are more constrained today than in pre-2010.
@SantiagoAuFund I wonder how much they're going to end up spending trying to modernize the old plants to get them running again, all whilst new small modular reactors begin coming online for everyone else.