"We'll be happy to sell AI services to folks in Kenya who don't want the datacenter there. Pony up."

Who is "we"? The same liars who scripted the first part of your absurd post?

"...upgrading the grid and capacity to support such a venture could provide economic benefits..."

It could just as easily impoverish the nation. as the "upgrades" could easily be made to serve only the venture while being paid for by the locals.

"Done right" is a matter of perspective. We know the perspective that matters, it isn't Kenya's.

Never, since SCOTUS declared the president immune from the constitution and all other law. The OP's question is a good one, the only thing that prevents the Trump administration from doing anything is competence / ability to do it.

You can't update firmware unless you can get firmware. That's what alligator Alcatraz is for, anyone who imagines they can provide firmware. Threats is how they do it, just like how they do everything else.

Fortunate, then, that Trump is immune from law. What's this "legal power" stuff? Does ICE have the "legal power" to murder US citizens in the streets?

I like how the discussion centers on what government organizations can do as if that's how the Trump executive branch works. Respect for the law has really sorted the tariffs out and stopped the war in Iran.

Which one of these is the Ayn Rand laissez-faire capitalism choice? #3, right? Certainly can't be #1 or #2. Funny how free markets get abandoned the moment nationalism is the priority.

"While were at it, the public till can get raided to inject cash into some American chip makers so they can design but not actually make any chips..."

So #3 is also the communism choice?

"...do fuck all about supply chain risk and the national security and sovereignty implications..."

What are those, other than current administration talking points? Racism against the Chinese sure is complicated.

"...pretend we did not just sell out our grandchildren at the same time."

Like you did in the last election?

Basically the same point I raised in an earlier discussion of this... What to call this? A leveraged buyout of the imagination?

However it makes about as much sense as most merger shenanigans and I would approve if at least one of the side effects was that eBay disappeared.

But I want to find a recursive joke somewhere around here... Something about eBay auctions/sales of merger/acquisitions/divestitures?

Do you really mean that if your git repo were corrupted, restoring a snapshot of the repo from backups wouldn't work? If that's true, then it sounds like your backup system is broken. The hashes after restoring ought to be identical to what they were before the backup.

If git used the files' iNode numbers for its hashes, then I could understand how a filesystem-based backup/restore might not really work; you'd have to backup at the block level instead. But git doesn't use the iNode numbers.

git isn't magical. It only knows files. It doesn't know if you moved the repo, copied the the repo, or restored the repo from a ten year old backup. I have moved git repos around plenty of times, `cp -a`ed directories with repos, tared and un-tared directories that contain repos, and the copies have always Just Worked without any hash mismatches.

mkdir ~/test. cd ~/test. git init, touch test.txt, git add test.txt and git commit. cp -a ~/test ~/test2. cd ~/test2 and check out the backup repo. The backup is valid. Then simulate a disaster with rm -rf ~/test. Then recover from the disaster with cp -a ~/test2 ~/test and you've just restored a repo from filesystem-level backup. The resulting repo works perfectly and its hashes aren't off. git has no idea you deleted and restored under its nose. Try it yourself.

What am I missing? I'm not surprised to be called idiotic, and the shoe often fits. But I'm surprised to be called that over this.

My router's hardware's parts were made in China. Its software was made as a worldwide effort but the team seems to be officially based in the Netherlands. And I'm not asking my government's permission for updating either one. Trumptards and their micromanaging far-left centralized-economic-planners can go fuck themselves. Keep your damn dirty ape hands off my computers, comrade.

Basically the ACK, but I'm also concerned with the kinetic threats from the control of robots by ASI. You must have seen some of the recent videos of the Chinese humanoid robots dancing? Also the bipedal robot that set the new record for the half-marathon?

Okay, I think your FP is sort of funny and deserves the mod you were going for, but I was looking for the other joke of the revised Subject.

Not laughing, but I think we are living in the biggest house of cards ever. So much awful software and we are so dependent on it. If anyone did have an ASI that was capable of finding every bug, then that person could pwn the world faster than any human-mediated responses.

Pretty sure it hasn't happened yet, but if the ASI was sufficiently "super", then how would I (or you) know?

I like the joke, but it would be funnier to try to fix the dead tree snail mail system with such craziness as an alias database for mapping convenient email addresses.

Another crazy innovation would be to default to no bulk-class mail, but with a new opt-in option to accept it ONLY if the recipient gets a cut of the postage paid.

But I just read another book on why that trick would never work, so...

I like your joke and my Subject is the one I was looking for in the discussion. Just more "tools for fools" to help the richer get more obscenely rich.

I'll add the horse race joke, since I'm pretty sure it also applies here, even though I'm basically too contemptuous of all gambling to spend time digging out the details for the polymarkets. However I'm pretty sure this is one of the scams where the house takes profits off the top. Therefore there are two cases for the gamblers. They might believe the game is honest and they therefore know they are going to lose if they play long enough. Or they believe the game is crooked and they think they can cheat better than the other suckers, which is still a sucker's bet if they stick at it long enough to lose against a better cheater. This path to losing includes getting old and slow or missing new techniques of cheating.

Classic joke: Gambling is a special tax on people who are bad at math.

Citation? Sorry, I don't remember the book, but it was about training primates to gamble. They love it, but if I remember correctly it was the younger adult males that would make the biggest bets.

"They charge me, per hour, as much as my attorney."

What a super relatable comment. But unsurprising.

"And I'll bet they're not carrying half-a-million in college debt from Columbia Law."

I'll bet your "attorney" isn't either. How can such a narcissist hire an attorney that hasn't paid off his school debt yet? Can't afford any more than plumber's pay?