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Life was different when sallers paid kick backs under the table to the people in charge of purchasing

This. Lexical sort works on dates stored as text in ISO format. For times, better standardize in storing in UTC and converting to and from local time. Although storage will suffer as this consumes way more data than storing as number.

Argentina needs a first step away from peronism and millei was as good as any. Sure he won’t complete any major transformation but avoiding that first step because change can’t be done well is also a misleading argument

While there is a political component to it, the real issue is that the HKD is too strong now and the cost of touristing in HK is very visible.

Now Venezuela Bolivia can become deeply indebted in yuan as well

Ugh. Right.

Bravo - excellent analysis.

As an extension to the bonds, the agreement also paves the way for Bolivia to receive foreign aid denominated in yuan, with all the different strings it will entail.

Finally the FAA has shown some initiative

They very likely saw, but very likely could not make the transition without causing revolt in its ranks and in its own middle management. Or even its own board directors.

Feck, everything Trump directly or indirectly touched went to shit