This. I studied (at a trivial level) economics at school back in 1986 and it was already well-understood that protectionism is bad for the country doing it. Yet successive governments in so-called civilized countries keep on doing it because it wins votes and appeals to lowest common denominator bases. See also printing money instead of hitting the reset button or at least allowing some short-term suffering for the sake of long-term stability.

Only $2K to offer up the last 6 hours of my day to our corporate overlords?

Where do I sign?

Cheaper than the $86B figure that was being touted is what I was getting at. And the end result is that they've got the bulk of the personnel and none of the debts or other corporate paraphernalia. The stock drop is ephemeral as you said. Stock_holders_ wouldn't be bothered, only speculators.

But I'm just spit-balling, don't mind me.

He's Canadian. But don't let that get in the way of a good rant.

Bad form, replying to self, but there you go.

I happen to agree that Universities shouldn't be vocational colleges and should teach how to learn. But that hasn't been the reality for a couple of decades now (in the UK at least). The students pay the fees and expect to get the skills to get the job. Sad.

So I'm more inclined to say "Bad government, making education a profit-driven industry", "Bad students, expecting to be hand-fed knowledge for interview questions" and "Bad company, for pulling the rug" than I am to blame the teachers.

I was systems manager for a university in the UK for a few years. Nothing annoys lecturers more than changing software under them.

Other than the coffee machine running dry. Or the car park being full. Or any one of a million annoyances.

Nope, yesterday's story had "the Sunbird app, which Nothing Chat is a clone of, was put "on pause." in the summary.

YEAH! And preparing syllabuses is zero-effort so they should just stop whinging. They've only got to rewrite their course materials in all their free time. Bad teachers. And the school's tech people (if they have them) have only got to find a whole new platform to teach with. No biggy.

Was this all a cheap way for MS to get all of OpenAI before it got a large concrete valuation? Bit of a whispering campaign in the ears of a board member or two?

Page 31 of the report considers scenarios including 3C.

You have to search for the degree symbol.

Since there are approximately four nerds left on this site, I'll slap you on your back and congratulate you loudly for this quality humour. Don't forget Mercurial.

You don't get to come back a year (or a century) later and say, "Hey, I just found out what that painting is actually worth. Give it back."

Actually... Why not? You said yourself you're in the wrong and you certainly acted in bad faith, so why shouldn't your victim have their demand to annul the deal enforced?

As opposed to people with nativist and inward looking views, companies like Apple HAVE to work overseas, and if you keep following the US govt kool-aid, then you will only be able to do business with Western Europe and other allies.

Try to understand that a big part of the world actually sees the US as the big bad empire that they portray China to be and it makes sense that they ask Stewart to tone it down a bit.

It's not that China is a big bad empire, it's that Xi is an emperor who's unable to placate his people with promises of a better tomorrow due to China's economy having caught up enough that the rubber band has gone slack and dictatorships being inherently incompatible with the rule of law which a strong economy requires, so his only hope for survival is to placate them with promises of glory which makes a confrontation with China and West pretty much inevitable, and Xi knows that. It's the same deal as with Russia, US is simply being wiser than EU was.

Basically, what's business to Apple is a weapon to China, and China is a fundamentally hostile nation to anyone who doesn't think Xi would make a great world leader, which he wouldn't judging by everything I know about life in China and also because he's a genocidal tyrant. That's not "nativist" or "inward looking", that's simply realism.

I recently saw a very insightful interview where dictatorships are defined by things you cannot criticize, like the CCP in China, Kim Jong-un in Korea, etc. In the US the thing that will absolutely get you canceled will be talking about the Israeli lobby and the influence such a small group holds over US culture in general.

Seriously? You're equating getting canceled with getting disappeared?

Note that such a system would also prevent Slashdot from leaning left and censoring conservatives, which they're doing now by institution an idiotic "karma". Slashdot karma is all about politics. And Slashdot is left leaning. One could express that cutely as "CowboyNeal is an imbecile".

But you're not being censored. Your comment is right here, readable for all who care to engage with users with bad reputation. That you have managed to earn a bad reputation through your own actions does not reflect badly on Slashdot or CowboyNeal, it reflects badly on you. It is the consequence of your actions, in other words, your karma.

That most people ignore you doesn't mean you're being censored, it just means that they think you and your opinions are not worth listening to. That your response to this is that the government should force them to pay attention just serves to demonstrate that their judgement is completely right. It's not a political judgement, it's a judgement about you as a person.

Given your vitriol here, I think you know that too, and judging by the fact that you keep posting on Slashdot despite hating the place I doubt you're more welcome elsewhere either. So perhaps you should reflect on the only common factor for a change, try to see your self from other people's eyes and maybe, just maybe accept that you might actually be the one who's in the wrong and needs to change? It's painful, but so is eternal bitterness, and there is no government big enough to make other people like you, so those are your options.

I don't know why you need actual land to consider yourself a country.

A state is an entity which has an effective monopoly on force over some piece of territory.

If you can't make laws and compel people to obey them, you're not a state.