No idea about Alibaba but E-Bay has a dispute system. And when I bought a pack of 18650 batteries 0.25 Ah each instead of at least 2.5 Ah and marked them OK - it's my own problem.

Next time I asked the seller "How many Ah has your 3.0Ah battery?" Answer was "They usually have at least half of that, you understand...". I preferred to buy a cheap notebook battery and disassemble it.

You are not right. There are lots of useful strictly sequential algos. The mplayer, for instance. It loads 100% one of 8 cores, other cores are idle. Some of it's codecs can be parallel, most not. Some programs are intentionally sequential, litecoin miner for instance.

And since I spend power for heating, the 100W processor gives as much heat as 100W resistor. Heat pump cannot operate since temperature difference is usually big enough.

I don't mean misogyny. There are lots of classic philosophy works that are accepted as classic but are step by step reducible to Kolmogorov's lemma. And "results" or "follows" are necessary part of the lemma. "A is true because I want A to be true" has no "follows".

And btw I think it's as difficult to produce a computer that wants as the computer that feels pleasure.

It would be scientifically quite interesting to make a processor working not with Boolean but Womanian logics:

"If statement B results from statement A, and statement B is _pleasant_ then statement A is true. (c)Academician Kolmogorov.

The only implementation problem should be an implementation of "pleasant".

Of course. But the very origins of microprocessor revolution are being forgotten:

Intel was to make 10 specialized chips. Intel made ONE universal programmable chip i4004 that replaced them all and spent development money ONCE.

It's possible to make 10 special-purpose chips but it will cost 10 times more.

You are right.

Quite often the salesmen approach me with their attempt to sell me an Ipad. I usually answer: "Well, but please add the development kit". Their reaction is epic.

... there are lots of idiots that instead of kWh write kW/h.

It's quite understandable: our Education Minister Fursenko once said:

"Defect of the Soviet education system was an attempt to form a creative man, and now the challenge is to cultivate qualified consumers, qualified to benefit from the creative work of others"

"The ideology of education remains the same - we must prepare creators. But we need above all to inculcate the culture of using already existing developments, following the existing standards."

"I am deeply convinced that do not need higher mathematics at school. Moreover, higher mathematics kills creativity"

Excuse me. I just have not noticed your "Glory to Heroes". Please keep jumping.

Similarly, go ask Poles about Ukrainian justice and Germans about Chech justice. You will find many interesting facts about our "Random neighbors". And also ask about them the Uzhgorod Hungarians (I mean their ukrainization by current Ukrainian state). You know, the ukrainization of ethnic Russians of East Ukraine and Crimea and their national revolt is not the theme for civilized Europeans...

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Yes, your Ponzi scheme works. But it does NOT make it just.

This is a fundamental difference between us. The quintessence. It's why all the world fears our Russian Bear and hates your American Eagle.

You have a world domination and so can print green paper, create it's value out of thin air and pay with it for everything you like. And everybody who sells the oil for everything except this green paper shall be democratized to the stone age. You don't ask yourself whether it's just. It's just efficient.

We believe that it's unjust to do. We believe that if we have some money then the country that issued this money has some goods and is willing to sell us, and if not so then the disparity MUST be corrected for the GREATER JUSTICE and not because we profit from it. And we will correct it sacrificing our lives in the process.

After this, it's not necessary to discuss the fact that your economy does not produce anything except the paper. We at least pump the oil. All your production facilities are in China, and your Detroit lies in ruins. And that your dollars cannot buy anything valuable. Car - yes, car factory - no.

It will last while no oil is sold for any other currency except green papers.

Saddam tried to trade oil for Euros. Killed.

Gaddafi tried to establish a gold dinar. Killed.

And then your President made an epic fail: he pressed SWIFT to disconnect Iran. It appeared to be impossible to bomb Iran to submission, and Iran, seeing no method to obtain dollars, began taking everything in exchange. There are rumors that Iran took from Turkey a physical gold. Basically it means that gold becomes a currency again.

Then your President made a second Epic Fail. He stated that every dollar transaction in the world should be performed according to US laws, even if all sides are not US residents. As a result, the leading french bank plainly refused to work with dollars. Then it was an avalanche of events, beginning with Iran selling oil to Russia for consumer goods to opening an oil exchange in SPb, Russia, trading oil for everything including yuans.

Didn't your mother teach you that the loans should be repaid?

Don't. We Russians will survive everything. You won't.

Yesterday I've read a news that water facility in Kharkov, Ukraine has been cut off electricity for non-payment. As a result, there is no water in Kharkov. Of course, this news is a Putinist propaganda. But still it does not matter that personally you have paid your water bills.

It was quite amusing to observe score falling from 3 to 0 exactly when the dying rabid psychotic entity awakens on export pipelines and turns on computers.

It means that you either buy uranium from us Russians and return spent isotopes to Russia where they are buried somewhere in tundra, or have your personal fluorescent nuclear tundra in the middle of inhabited Europe. Do you really need a fluorescent tundra?