Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Perhaps this a nice use case for Elon Musk's "Datacenters in spaaaaace"!

Over the years I have visited the US from Europe over 40 times for work.

The questions I get at the border really make me feel uncomfortable, both in tone and in coverage. You really feel like a second class person when you see how differently US citizens and non-citizens are treated.

None of this is new, it's just become more and more confrontational. Part of the problem is (again) the fact that the US constitution is not fit-for-purpose and bestows no rights whatsoever at the border.

If you want people to feel safe coming to the US, then fix your laws. If not, then there are plenty of countries that make foreigners feel welcome. Why would the Ig Nobels need to be held in the US anyway?

The contract doesn't say his praise has to be true. I wonder if it excludes sarcasm? Oh, Google, your app store is sooo good!

You could if you were running Wine on a virtual desktop!

(I know you were being sarcastic)

My apologies, I lack extra dimensions. Also all the moderators fled the compound.

In the sense that governments can use this to make a tangible difference in the Russo-Ukraine war?

Also: first post!

Doing bad accounting isn't the same as stealing money, is it? He says the money was always there, and apparently it was. If true then where's the prosecution's case?

Will this be the final end then?

Sorry Lavandera, I replied to the wrong post.

How difficult is it to put up a website with an LLM?

And European companies already have their own search engines and cloud providers, they're just not as big as the Amazons of the world.

I don't think you realize the magnitude of the stupidity of Trump's shenanigans. Europe is just coming out of a millennium of savage, brutal wars. The EU started as a treaty organization for coal and steal. It was a peace project to intertwine European economies. We enjoyed an unprecedentedly high standard of living while the US could go off and be exceptional all they wanted. Everything that happened after WWII was a win-win, with the quiet understanding that the US wouldn't go and make a mess on our side of the Atlantic with all its exceptionalizing.

But now the US has exceptionalized all over our faces for purely internal political reasons and broken the status quo.

We are fucking livid. We could stand by and keep our cool until one single thing happened. You threatened our borders.

Welcome to the decline of the US as a world power, you motherfuckers.

... we're going to buy them from European companies

Hey, I didn't know you were still alive

Strictly speaking TPM hardware is not required for Windows 11 to install or operate, and secure boot isn't either. You just have to bypass/ignore all the warnings.

All this leaves you without secure boot as an added bonus, so no downsides.

I can see how Microsoft would prefer to make computers less safe. It's in their DNA.