Laws related to environment and food items are strict in Europe, that hurt businesses in food, transport, health and manufacturing sectors. Ideally, this should help Europe over the next few centuries, but not on a small time scale. For the last few years Europe has not been strict on implementing immigration policies. U.S. cherry picks among the immigrants all the time, and that too on a very controlled year by year basis. An immigrant can be a great asset and another can be a big liability. The effect of demographic shift is visible on both smaller and long time scales.

Keeping their rhetoric aside, they know what they are doing and we know what they are doing. They want to establish the law of the jungle: might is right.

Earth is cooling too slowly, at the rate of 120 degrees per billion years at the mantle despite receiving so much radiation from the sun. No wonder the share of residual heat in emissions from father planets is high. I still don't understand why emission higher than incoming solar radiation be considered a mystery? Volcanoes do erupt even on a 4.5 billion year old Earth.

I'm on vim most of the time for things like coding and productivity (like documents, presentations using Latex). For me precision matters the most. Just that a document looks good or the code executes well is not enough. I need to be aware of what's in there and what's not to avoid harassment from edge cases which are generally more often than expected. So I'll be convinced if Microsoft can pitch Agentic OS to Boeing to write the software for their next generation of airliners and let their executives have a joy-ride in its maiden flight, of course with the Microsoft executives.

"The world is really screwed up and made much, much more unfair by the fact that we reward people and punish people for things they have no control over," Sapolsky said.

The world does't have free will either, idiot. So the reward and punishment system is in fact good.

Why should we check for irregularities now when they will eventually be discovered after a decade or so when the AI firms would have made billions, and then in another decade settle the discrimination lawsuit in the court for millions.

Exactly.

But you know already that sometimes we really don't want something that happened to come inside the frame.

Using slideshow to showcase code is a very bad idea. Why does the image change in the middle of reading the code?

You downplayed fugitive's actions quite casually. Are you aware of fugitive's actions? One of his actions is (as per Wikipedia):
"He has also been reported to have been raising his own army and 'human bomb squads' consisting of brainwashed youth as suicide bombers idolising Dilawar Singh."

From user's point of view I can install apps and runtimes and even libraries from limited user account without the need of administrative privileges. That makes flatpak so blessed as compared to shitty snap that always need to corrupt the system folders. It's so clear that designers of flatpak were thoughtful enough to render something that can compete with both snap and appimage simultaneously.

Google's lawyers must have taken Tantra lessons from India to come up with excuses of 1990s when today sandboxing based witchcraft is the norm.

Need not be so paranoid to drag religious extremism into this conversation. When it comes to technology and finance, India is super-secular. Gullibility due to technical ignorance and corruption can be the only impediments here in transforming the idea behind the bill to real customer benefit.

Such research is less of science and more of witchcraft. The reality is more explicit and bleak.

I wish eSIM could be swapped between two devices from two different manufacturers in absence of active network, just like a physical SIM card. Waiting for eSIMs to mature enough like physical SIM card before I go for them. I face such requirement often in my family, especially with older people.