Actually, the expressions are:

Old World - essentially the world formerly part of the Roman Empire
New world - the Americas
Third world - other stuff.

Shit-hole - USA, Russia, and some parts of Africa, South America

> "War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope." -- General Smedley D. Butler

Equipping both sides is totally normal. The US does this all the time. So do other nations. It has been going on in the mid-east for ages.

If you have not heard the Bob Dylan song "Masters of War" in a while, you should listen to it again.

... Surely all wildlife will be dead by the end of the year!

I'm sure the comments for this article will be filled with well-thought-out replies and level-headed discussion on technology and political freedom.

What do you mean? Didn't you see that AI video he posted awhile back with the jet? He certainly took a dump on people who coincidentally watch TV too.

note, that was a napkin calculation - i didn't know they started dividends as late as 2011, and I don't know the dividend per share. i just put some numbers in to give the impression, but unlike certain politicians, I'm not trying to prove a point to influence policy decisions. Thought experiment, nothing more. :)

yeah, i just did a check. Adjusting for inflation, the stock price would need to be around $154 to be comparable in value. (Assuming total volume has remained relatively constant in that time).

that is, at $80 now, that means the stock is really worth only $42 in 2000 dollars.

So it is a number that's the same, but the value of $80 if you held onto it this entire time is still far less than you had when you started. Dividends won't quite add up to that gap - if 50c per share per quarter, and you kept the cash, that's $50 per share...but that's been spread out across inflation, so you'd have to curve the value down for what the more recent 50c means vs 50c 25 years ago. I'm not in the mood to run the calculus, but i'm gonna wager it still falls a little short.

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There is nothing relating to patents in this story. Terms being used in product names have to be actively used in a product. You can't just call dibs on a word and then not do anything with it. That includes terms you used in the past. Otherwise we would eventually run out of practical names for products due to past use in history and "Trademark Trolls" who register everything in the dictionary and sit on it -- the result will be product names that look like email addresses.

Using Microsoft default anything should be a felony.

Hopefully this will be enacted in Europe soon!

It is not just the artificial "intelligence" that is becoming enshitified. The impact on the real thing is every bit as serious.

laughs in capitalism

I suspect a lot of these people are signing up because they heard about seven figure salaries and huge sign-on bonuses. But, assuming the AI bubble hasn't burst by the time they graduate, I doubt those types of positions will still be a thing by then. The FAANG are spending big bucks to grab talent now in a race. Talent that's already got a decade if experience under the belt in comp sci and machine learning. Not a wet behind the ears undergrad.

Fortran has some optimizations involving pointers that are invalid in other languages like C. So it can be the absolute fastest outside of hand optimized assembly (which is very difficult to do better than a compiler these days). It also has advanced math libraries which are highly tested and optimized. So its niche is highly performant math and scientific programming.

Come on, has the last 12 months not taught you anything? Clearly Trump would add massive tariffs to the import of those vehicles to allow the domestic manufacturers a chance to catch up.

The irony of the NYTimes complaining on copyrights given their history of reporters found guilt of or complicit in plagiarism is not lost to me.