Mostly agree, but;

The reality is that if China stops supplying the world with stuff, we’re fucked

The entire world relies on China’s cheap and available “stuff”, and it encompasses everything

I think is more their engineering expertise than cheap manufacturing. Cheap manufacturing can be easily moved to other countries as is already happening in India and Vietnam among others. However China has big expertise in high tech/large scale manufacturing in many areas like electronics, batteries, EV’s,… that doesn’t move easily.

However for those engineering domains China also strongly relies on other countries. In our world you can’t do everything alone.

The have enormous military power

They haven’t fought a war in 4 decades though.

Dat hangt denk ik af van het thema. Op asiel misschien rechtser, maar op sociaal gebied?

Has she lived outside the country before? Do you want to go somewhere else with her? If she wants to stay close to family why not try Canada? It’s close by, similar climate and time zone and culturally not that different from the north east.

Alright thanks! so it means you’re showing RTT theoretical/RTT actual? That makes sense!

Super cool plot! Few questions, I was trying to read the scale bar. It says RTT/(1-(2*distance/c)). I guess that’s a typo? otherwise I’m not sure what it would mean.

Then the scaling goes up to 10, did you multiply by 10 or did you inverse the values? (Inverting would mean higher values = lower connectivity? which I guess is possible in Europe if we have to consider the routing ?).
Also it’s very interesting how uniform the whole American continent is.

Cool I’m super interested in the result. I’m marking the post!

Edit: I also love the visualizations, didn’t make that clear in first reply 🫣

Could you calculate shortest distance to each point (using for example haversine formula) and then divide each time you got by 2*distance/c to get some sort of normalized score for connectivity? Anything closely approaching 1 would be the optimal connectivity to that destination.

Edit: c would be speed of light

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This was an interesting remark, I never thought of that

There are an estimated 11 million people there who contribute to the numerator (GDP) but are not counted in the denominator (population).

I don’t think German citizenship is why Americans would want to move to Germany.