Great reminder that Hong Kong was going through some intense pro democracy protests before Covid. All that seems to have swept away

Food waste?

The foil layer is an oxygen-impermeable layer.

Thin plastics can slowly allow gases to cross, and without the foil layer the shelf life of the contents would be reduced.

How Israel isnt in 1st place? We spend so much on military

Very interesting! Would also be interesting to do analysis by these regions. I can tell by looking at the graph that a much higher percentage of the Middle Eastern countries are above the threshold than in Africa.

How many of those countries are NATO members?

I see what you tried to do but didn’t

Congrats on your new sustainable runway!

This is very neat! I like that you color coded the regions also.

Data: data.worldbank.org, data sets for gdp, population, defense spending, percentage of defense spending.

Tools used: R with ggplot2

Explanation: The black line represents 2% of GDP spent on the military, hence countries above that line spend more.

I think your second paragraph is in line with what OP was going for. Doesn’t seem to be anything from them trying to draw a larger connection. Absolutely wild that HK is only operating at 1/6th of its precovid traffic.

OP, it would be interesting to see if any other SE Asian cities became transit hubs in the meantime, or if in general the world is still in the first steps of recovery.

What about other latex hmm… things

It's a topographical map, which traditionally use colour to represent elevation, darker colours usually being higher and lighter colours being lower.

Thanks for already answering my question. Always wanted to know how to make them.

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I mean i believe reading they sold some bonds in the German market that were like 0% interest or maybe even negative? Like of course they’re gonna take on debt and do stock buybacks, they can already fund whatever R&D they want

These are definitely correlated, but there is probably no common single factor other than COVID-19. Especially considering (I don't think) Indianapolis and Hong Kong have ever had a direct flight connection. So while each data set may be interesting on it's own, or grouped in a larger data set, the two, directly compared, don't really make sense together.

The most interesting thing about this graph, is that a large transportation hub like Hong Kong has basically barely recovered, in comparison to a smaller hub like Indianapolis. However, looking at the data provided before COVID-19, it looks like airport shutdowns in general cause major disruption and there could be a multitude of reasons why a place like Hong Kong may have (and continue to have) lower air travel traffic volumes, especially 2 years after an event like "protests".

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From what I know, all are recyclable with caveats, some of which I will mention below. NA doesn't lack the tech, it's more realistically the motivation, there's generally no money in it unless it's sorted, sorting takes money, so very often it is sold to poorer countries or countries like China where it can be sorted relatively cheaply or incinerated as fuel to generate electricity.

Other considerations are things like FDA and others regulations that prevent something that has been to a consumer (all of us) from going back into the production stream for use in medical or food/beverage containers for health/safety reasons. I'm not sure if it's because they fear a virus may survive the manufacturing processes (almost impossible, unless it's purely a clean and reuse type of thing) or because thermal degradation of the regrind material or material mixed with others containing different additives could affect the packaging (far more likely, especially in the case of PolyStyrene [PS] that uses foaming agents often to make Expanded PolyStyrene [EPS]--like foam cups that McDonald's used to have). It's also why mixed material packaging, like ketchup packets with foil liners and milk cartons can't be recycled, the outer carton is paper, but there is a plastic liner inside of it.

Here I was trying to figure out what Hope did to get left with most of the trash.

And of all the grimy fast fashion companies, shein is by far the grimiest

Didn’t expect my home airport to show up in data is beautiful. Just being from Indy this is a fascinating graph.

Well, you aren’t paying taxes on it because you haven’t profited off the increase in value yet. The profit occurs when you sell, hence the taxes.

Like if you own a baseball with Babe Ruth’s signature it will go up in value with time, but you won’t actually get any cash from that unless you sell the baseball. Let’s say you were taxed on that increase in value before selling… ok, so you pay the tax even though you haven’t actually gained any money yet. After you pay the tax, you have the ball re-appraised and find out to your surprise that the signature is fake. Suddenly, your ball is worthless and you just paid taxes for money that you never actually had. Stocks work on a similar principle because “value” isn’t the same as “profit”

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