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It really says a lot about how dissatisfied people were with the status quo.

And how is that related to this movement? You realize that most of that money was going to Serbia's government, the one this movement defeated?

And where is your evidence? The most accepted theory at the moment is that it was a natural virus that was being studied and leaked from a lab, not that it was developed there.

Yet you seem to be convinced that you have been proven correct that it was developed, so show it.

That's a nice cherry picking to paint a narrative, but the US is trying to force Ukraine to stop attacking Russian oil infrastructure and putting tariffs on allies instead of just China and chinese allies pushes the world towards them.

The Greenland deal was always going to be renegotiated as it always has been, once again antagonizing allies was completely unnecessary.

The US is not operating at the edge of the rules, it is constantly breaking them and tearing down any respect that the world still had for the rules.

At this point I don't know why the world should even have a more positive view of the US than of China. China is far more peaceful and helpful.

It's well known that what you're doing actually uses more water and detergent.

This administration banned states from legislating AI, then turns around and does draconian measures like this.

None of them care about states rights, they just want to control things directly.

2K is 10 years of a Claude Pro subscription, which also gives you better models...

I'm curious how the relative difficulty between the problems can be assessed when no one knows how to solve any of them.

No they aren't, they can't even manage a vending machine.

That's Google forcing you to publish your app publicly, not the EU.

If they allow you to side load you won't need to make the app publicly available and so won't need a privacy policy.

You mention Microsoft at the same time that multiple EU governments are moving away from Windows and Microsoft Office and recommending businesses to do the same.

They're more like comparing Movies to TikTok.

Your last two sentences are contradictory. That is a very significant difference.

Another significant difference is how useful the standard library of each language is, so that you can avoid 3rd party libraries.

Also the tendency in the JS ecosystem to break libraries into tiny parts, because it helps or historically helped to ship less code to the user.

No, because Rust has a standard library that covers the basics enough to not push you to start adding decencies as quickly.

Depends on what you mean, if using batching technologies like Lightning Network it is theoretically unlimited.

If you mean on the globally replicated and stored forever blockchain, I think it's 50/s or something like that.

That usually ends up as proxies to the upstream repos, because the people managing the company repos don't have time to review every new version of a package.

At that point you're just as vulnerable to a supply chain attack.

I was with you until the talk about risk.

Low level employees are always taking far bigger risks in relative terms, the worse position a CEO will be in if all of his "risk" hits him is that they'll have to become a regular low level employee.

Actually I have the best model, but I'm afraid to release it because it's so dangerous.

But it will run into so many more broken commits...

Most packages don't become unsafe just because they were released a week ago.

JS as a language is part of the problem because the standard library is so minimal that people need to use a lot more 3rd party libraries than they would in most popular languages.

Windows is a small part of their revenue on purpose, because the OS monopoly enables them to sell and push a lot of their other revenue streams. Windows has always been easy to pirate for the same reason.

But make no mistake, it is very important for Microsoft and leadership, or they wouldn't keep updating it so much and talking about it so much on their keynotes and marketing.

Funny how the start of your scale, 1200 Elo, is essentially what I have as a goal and am not even close yet, lol.

I'm old enough to remember people in Iraq cheering for the fall of Saddam. Didn't make it great.

There was a large scale self-reported study in November of 2024. It was actually way over 30%, if you ignore non-respondents.

That was 2014, there have been multiple elections since then, with multiple winners and international observers.

Libya was a UN Security Council resolution, doesn't get any more legit than that.

How is that a technical hurdle if they obviously were able to do it before?

It's probably just a question of cost/benefit analysis, it's very expensive to do, so the benefits need to be significant.

You're describing planned and unplanned economies, which aligns somewhat with capitalism and state communism but is not the defining feature of them.

The main difference is ownership of the means of production/companies by the workers or by a separate group that might not work at the company at all.

No, software licensing often gets in the way.