Probably in here somewhere: "run locally on your laptop without depending entirely on cloud"

EU techie: "We did it, we replaced Google!"

Boss: "Good job! Are there any other US dependencies?"

EU techie: "Um, yes, it runs on top of Bing."

Boss: "Microsoft!?"

EU techie: "Yip. We couldn't get our home-grown one to work right."

Boss: "Uhgg, well, don't tell anyone and you can have a Citroen."

Sarcasm noted. So... you think this fake call check is a bad thing? Or do you have a different design to suggest that would work better?

Russian citizens have no incentive to push innovation, the war's potential prizes give ordinary Russians no notable advantage, yet Ukraine is fighting for its survival: it's adapt or die.

California joined Canada. The orange thing is now all yours!

Which will come first?:

1. Practical flying cars
2. Practical fusion energy
3. Robot that do can dishes
4. Useful quantum computer

...the Higgs BSOD

Ukraine is affecting their daily lives, by hitting their pocketbooks instead of wasting their attacks on "war crimes," i.e. hitting worthless targets which don't help end the war at all.

Murder a civilian and all you do is slightly sour their family against the war. Blow up an oil storage tank and you just made thousands of people have to suffer through inconvenience.

And worst of all, you heartlessly, viciously left them alive, where they'll remember how much poverty sucks, and they'll complain about it too. Good luck achieving that level of sadistic manipulation through mere murder.

Ex-superpower that can't afford it's lifestyle. Like the US will be in a few years if we don't sweep the idiots out of power.

Hey, you just solved the Hormuz Conundrum, congratulations! Both sides get a better deal than Obama's deal, so can now brag and move on with life.

Maybe the mathies will enter our field and force the industry to factor out all the repetitious bloat found in current stacks. All that repetitious verbose shit just cannot be the pinnacle of software development, I'll bet my Vulcan wanker on it (a transplant). It might require new programming languages, but so be it! Or burning the damned DOM?

Kind of like going from Perl to Java?

Politicians already encroached on that.

If our luck keeps up, Hillary has Putin's emails!

Has anyone here done first-hand testing?