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Comment Re:Talk about biting the hand hat feeds you. (Score 1) 90

Most of the areas where Russia is fighting are full of ethnic Russians and they literally asked for Russian peacekeepers in 2022 because Kiev kept attacking them.

Seems some still can't quite seem to grok the difference between ethnicity, language and nationality.

General Syrskyi for example current commander and chief of the Ukrainian armed forces is "ethnic Russian". His day job is overseeing the transformation of Russian invaders into fertilizer.

As for the Donbasssss rallying cry of every feller who can't be bothered to check basic facts there is help and at least some hope for redemption.

https://ukraine.un.org/sites/d...

https://web.archive.org/web/20...

And it's quite likely that Trump will soon be invading Canada to protect the Western provinces from Ottawa. I suspect he's already set that up with Carney, since it will give him the most valuable parts of the country at very little cost.

While ultimately Albert Hofmann is to blame for your remarks I happen to know the real reason for the pending invasion of Canada. Trump is jealous over Trudeau banging Katy Perry.

Comment Makes no sense (Score 1) 23

Rust's new status in Linux hints at a career path that blends deep understanding of C with fluency in Rust's safety guarantees.

It would seem that adopting Rust, which is supposed to be safe by design, would relieve developers of the duty to write safe code. After all, its Rust. None of these nasty null pointers and buffer oveflows are possible. Just like Python relieves developers from the duty of formatting readable code.

Developers should now be freed to make higher level, more difficult to find logic erors.

Comment Financial Privacy (Score 1) 49

In my lifetime you could open a bank account with just a name, ditto for renting an apartment, and pay for everything in cash.

This guy is screwed unless he's only a guest of a patron.

Crime was lower and people were more responsible back then too.

All this control grid surveillance still hasn't caught the Building 7 people.

Maybe it's possible to decide a course of action was a bad idea and reverse it?

Comment Re:Crrot and Stick (Score 1) 116

We know enough about physics to say there isn't going to be anything as impact as entering the age of stream, or the atomic age again.

Thank goodness we made those leaps in microprocessor design and software back in the 1980s. So there's no need for further incremental improvements.

Typed on my $2500 IBM PC, with 640K of memory. Using MSDOS.

Comment Re:Dumbing down (Score 1) 109

PBS is primarily (85%) privately funded. It will continue to produce shows like Masterpiece, Nova, Frontline, and Sesame Street and people in places like Boston or Philadelphia will continue to benefit from them.

What public funding does is give viewers in poorer, more rural areas access to the same information that wealthy cities enjoy. It pays for access for people who don't have it.

By opting out, Arkansas public broadcasting saves 2.5 million dollars in dues, sure. But it loses access to about $300 million dollars in privately funded programming annually.

Comment Re:Ehhh (Score 1) 90

Blaming tech companies for Russia's evasion of sanctions seems foolish. You'd have to prove that said companies conspired with the Russian Federation to evade sanctions.

Export controls don't work this way. There is no requirement for a conspiracy and you can be held liable for looking the other way or lack of care.

Comment Re: Dumping isn’t just selling cheap / subsi (Score 1) 158

The Americans seem to have a different definition.
For example, they've had tariffs on Canadian soft wood lumber for decades due to the difference in how the lumber industry works in the 2 nations. America mostly gets its lumber from private land, while Canada, or at least BC, gets its lumber from Crown land (Provincial Crown) where the industry pays stumpage, a percent of the value, on the trees.
This they call dumping and while international tribunes have found that it isn't dumping and the tariffs are unfair, those tariffs have been their for decades, sometimes going up and sometimes going down and currently 50%. (Might be 35%)
The softwood lobby in America is strong, stronger then the house building lobby who need BC's lumber as America can't produce enough.
There's other examples of Trump's tariffs that are supposed to be about dumping such as Aluminium.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=soft...

Comment Re:Crrot and Stick (Score 2) 116

Looks at the hundreds of billions being funneled into AI research with no profit in sight

My guess: It's a scam, built on pre-existing 'bot technology.

When it's all done with, the "investors" will have a huge tax write off for their losses plus some neat new data centers, high end servers and utility resources to go into Bitcoin mining big time.

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