Europe is a much, MUCH better societal project than the US ever was
For a fact check, let's check-in on European society...
Germany:
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Netherlands:
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If they were immigration-friendly, the population would not be declining.
It also wouldn't be Japan if it were filled with non-Japanese people.
The country will be just fine without infinity migrants from other cultures. Families will bounce back when they are ready.
Brown University proudly advertises they have 800 cameras watching campus.
The press conferences the University administration and Police Department have been giving are a disorganized disaster. They're hiding something.
How is a new soccer video game news? Isn't there a new soccer game released every year?
rather than modify it to be more of a product that customers actually want.
Customers of full size half-ton trucks actually want a gas powered truck. A few would also go for a hybrid if the mileage benefits made sense. Discontinuing the Ford Lightning electric truck is the car companies reacting to what their customers want.
The US won't be going full electric by 2030... or by 2040 for that matter. Because normal people don't care about global warming when it comes to paying more out their own wallet. Even the emissions cheating scandals got a collective shrug from the customers. They literally don't care.
And to go a step further, enthusiast truck customers would happily rip the emissions equipment off their diesel trucks if armed government agents didn't show up at their door.
The Tesla Cybertruck is the only electric truck that sells in America. In the southwest US, you'll never see a Ford, Chevy or Dodge electric on the road. It's probably the same for other parts of the country too.
It's pretty crazy to say that Mullenweg's biggest failure isn't his flipout at WPEngine, getting himself sued and losing the trust of the entire wordpress community who isn't somehow on his payroll.
That whole login checkbox thing on wordpress dot com accounts was the final straw for many supporters of his.
Gee, why do you think they're trying to eliminate the Corporation for Public Broadcasting from the federal budget?
Because state run media isn't a good look. Just ask China's CCTV, Russia's RT, and Venezuela's TeleSUR.
If they're willing to pay $500k base for the position, chances are good the company doesn't have anyone on staff who can already do the work.
These unknown startups are looking to find a unicorn who can fulfill the mythical AI dreams the founders have.
Batteries degrade over time. What might be two days of battery life out of the box could be one day 3 years from now.
Of course, I think most manufacturers will acknowledge the more energy efficient system and engineer their laptops with smaller batteries.
They do it today between ultra portables and more power hungry gaming laptops. There's no reason that laptop manufacturers won't do it with Snapdragon based laptops too.
Anyone who has watched Office Space knows the pain and suffering that can be brought by sharing the name with someone famous.
Just ask Michael Bolton.
Why are you using grams per pound?
In the US, protein on food labels is measured in grams. Body weight is measured in pounds.
Talking about grams per pound is the standard by all US fitness people talk about dietary macros.
It works out to easy math. 1 gram of protein per pound of body weight is the standard recommendation for people looking to build muscle in the gym.
You have the usual suspects like rsilverman and drinkypoo making wildly false statements (Putin, Nazi, etc), get voted up to +5 and any corrections downvoted to -1.
Over time the echo effect gives all mod points to the whackos and normal people move on from the echo chamber of crazies.
The Trump favorability RealClearPolitics Poll Average has him sitting at 45.9% today, which is just fine for summer when most people have tuned out of politics to go on their summer vacations.
The judge is an 80 year old who was appointed by Democrat Bill Clinton in 1995.
People of his demographic cherish the New York Times and don't understand the first thing about AI, cloud computing or really any kind of computing.
OpenAI is going to have a tough run at this. The judge's innate biases will certainly play a role in how he rules on the motions of the case.
Ironically, it is because of Disney's own actions that AI content generation is a legal minefield.
I don't feel sorry for them one bit.
Interesting that they have the kids write the answers for this exam using Java.
They have to pick something. You can't switch it every year or public school teachers won't keep up.
It is fairly trivial to jump from Java to C++, PHP, C#, Dart or any number of C-like languages.
Worst case, you flip the variable name before the type as the function parameter and you've instantly opened another few dozen common languages. (Kotlin, Golang, Swift, Rust, etc)
Java is a fine language to teach if statements, for loops and arrays.
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