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Comment Not enough specifics... (Score 1) 144

There's not enough information here to really allocate any blame as to the nature of the problem they're solving...

Given all the graphs I've seen for US employment statistics, though, (which massively spiked in the few election months at the end of the year before Trump took power) what I think has probably happened is that the previous thoughts of the market spiking in this manner was actually an illusion, and hiring actually pretty much froze over the election instead, and therefore we get the massive downward revision, now. This probably isn't really about Biden vs Trump, as to whatever it was that caused this illusion while the election took place, instead.

Comment Re:You know I was thinking (Score 1) 85

Why didn't the EU counteract Russian propaganda? Because it wasn't WHOLLY Russian, and we've got enough of our own problems over here with such issues, too - there's a group of rich people, including those who own a LOT of international media, who are prefectly happy with turning the US in a fascist/neo-feudalistic state, and for continuing to divide the EU, too, (so it should be no surprise why they and Putin have common goals), and it was obvious to many of us looking from the outside, just HOW MUCH more the media was against his opponenet and for Donald Trump this election even compared to before.

It Is a conspiracy, but this time it's also true - and we're now also contending with just how much corruption Israel has caused :(

Comment Re:Everything Is Zero Sum (Score 1) 167

Zero-sum is a description of a relationship/interaction that cancels itself out. Entropy is caused by the EXACT opposite, where every interaction causes greater complexity/reactions etc. (Note: It is possible that entropy is a side-effect of the universe having enough internal dimensions that all change/movement is no longer directly reversible.)

Comment Re:Americans and freedom (Score 1) 240

The problem is that so many in the US do NOT understand freedom fully, only partly, and selfishly.

The only freedom too many recognise, is the freedom TO do something/anything. The most important and fundamental freedom FROM harm/death/suffering (and others!) etc., however, is not fully understood and therefore freedom becomes confused with, for, as and by POWER over others.

And this is how and why the US WILL become a fascist state at some point.

Comment Re: Plenty of fuel (Score 5, Insightful) 354

But saying that Brexit still had no impact upon this would be a lie - it's still made a bad situation worse.

No - economically, Brexit was and is always going to be a disaster, it's just COVID has covered up a lot of problems so far due to lower economic activity. That problems start to appear once that rises is no surprise to ANYONE who understands what Brexit would truly mean for the UK. That a number of industries have used foreign workers to fill their ranks does not make anything good or bad, until you get rid of them at short notice without any plans to fully fill the vacuum in time, even if it was made worse by COVID. Either way, it's the COMBINATION of COVID and Brexit that is the problem now, not either in isolation, even if either would still have a negative impact, regardless. And anyone denying the latter, is stupid and/or ignorant.

Comment Re:copyrighting APIs (Score 3, Insightful) 42

One of the problems is that I've never really seen anyone, anywhere, use the true description for what is trying to happen: to copyright rules of language, rather than when a language is specifically applied. This is what an API is - a set of rules of how to apply such existing communication used with computers. The basic rules of the English language is an API, just for humans rather than computers, and trying to copyright that, is the equivalent of what is happening here - in addition to any other additional rules governing any language we may otherwise create - e.g. how to enable 'Yodaspeak' with the English language.

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