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!35K, I just payed $11K for the same in Europe. But here in Spain it is not financially worth it, but insurers against frequent brownouts and 3 outages a year

I think its worse, the governments will be unable to deliver (my perspective is Europe). Think one needs to consider many strategies to avoid starving when retired. But I fully exp…

Yes, their government should be able to honor their promises.

I am more optimistic. I always suggest automatically dropping x% of ones income into an index fund. At the least it will hedge against the very real chance governments will not be …

European pensions are predominantly unfunded, and promises typically amount to 3.5 times GDP. The prevailing view among those who have looked at this is that nobody under the age o…

yes, number 1 reason why the researchers around me pick R. RStudio just works. I had to run someone's 10 year old R workflow last week. Ran perfectly. Last years python code will n…

Asked a Spanish professor of computer science, and he said the system is so corrupt that nobody cares. Everybody knows about this guy, and nobody cares.

we dont have these tariffs in europe, and still the sunnyest place in europe, the Canary Islands, make 85% of their electricity with oil. Always wonder why they dont have more sola…

most are specialised in my field. for the more general, I cannot work without dynlm and plm. Just last week I needed to compare the empirical distribution of something to a known r…

yes, what I see. R is so dominant in stats, and the momentum against it around me is more towards Julia not Python.

Could not agree more > I'll be happy when we have a successor language for R, but it won't be 2024 Python. When it comes to statistics, and especially having to program stats analy…

The R code I run daily has at least 10 stats libraries that don't exist in Python, an important new one dropped a few days ago. And as someone who uses both languages daily, Python…

can I add a third class. - those who need latex+dvips+ps2pdf and if you ask why, 2 packages: psfrag and pstricks.

> LaTeX: contrary to how it sells itself, it's not good at compiling old files. yes and no, that bit me last week, some packages decided to become incompatible. but in my case 99% …

Yes, but its more complicated. In my case I have slides with a number of include files, some have not changed since 2006 (just checked), one does not want to maintain slides with s…

> The author is a PhD student that has been using LaTeX heavily for 10 years. But what should a new student use, and why? When the only reason to choose LaTeX is old colleagues and…

Nice piece, and his comment on typst is spot on. I would love for typst to displace LaTex, I hate LaTex and use it every day, and deep inside know it will never go away, unless a m…

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I do wonder if that could happen where I live. Regardless, it is hard to stay in hotels without them copying passports, a local law. Happened to me last month in both Switzerland a…

Most hotels I go to demand to make a copy of my passport. I am sure they have zero security. Why not give it to Wise? What is the concern?