What do you think Europe is going to do? Kick America out of NATO? That's not going to happen.

False. Russia and China are very clear about their goal to create a multi-polar order, and eventually the bigger and eventually the only pole.

Some people in Europe complain about the "rules based order," but they fall in line behind America. They would rather have free healthcare than a big military.

Youtube exists to mine data. If they convert to subscription-only they lose considerable product.

Demonstrably false. You might say it was never the sole point of US policy.

ISPs using CGNAT still log traffic in order to track users, they do significantly more detailed logging for exactly that reason.
Similarly CGNAT breaks p2p, so applications like bittorrent effectively turn into a client-server model making it much easier for such orgs to go after the servers.

The short distance is an issue. Cuba does seem to have the ability to fight back and inflict pain, even if they can't likely win.

It's hard to measure "better" and 'worse" among dictatorships. But, the US has definitely pressured Saudi Arabia (who has responded by giving women more rights among other things), and China (who has responded with counter-sanctions). But right now, the primary axis of international politics is not the spread of democracy.

If you want to understand international politics right now, it's the US led world in favor of Pax Americana, against the Chinese led world that wants to create a multi-polar word (and eventually a communist world led by China if you read Xi Jinping thought).

Trump has been taking out the vassal states (or allies) of China one by one. For Venezuela, he just took their leader. China tried to give them defensive weapons, but the weapons didn't work. For Cuba, he's blockading them. For Iran, he's killing the leaders until they behave. For Russia, he tried being friends with Putin. It's a risky strategy.

So we are in the hot part of a world war right now, and the stakes are domination of the world, whether it will be Pax Americana or Pax China. it's like 1931 when Japan started expanding its empire out of Manchuria, in the sense that the fighting had started, but hadn't spread to the whole world yet. If China does actually take a move and militarily attack Taiwan or the South China sea, then we will be in full world war 3.

I don't think that can be avoided.

It's actually kind of hard to follow your friends on Facebook these days.

[Citation Needed] for this unlikely claim.

This part is definitely true. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Far better methods such as what?

Several ISPs use IPv6 prefixes which are frequently rotated and recycled which can cause issues. A prefix which is static, or at least stable until the user explicitly releases it works much better.

The idea of dynamic addressing made sense in the dialup days when most of your users were disconnected most of the time. It doesn't make sense now.

Marketing companies like to perpetuate this myth that they track you by ip, but they don't and never have. It's just to distract users and make them waste efforts on ineffective means of avoiding tracking.

Mapping legacy addresses to v6 addresses wouldn't achieve anything, since you'd still have multiple users with the same address.

Marketing companies don't track users by IP, that's done with cookies, browser fingerprints, sessions etc. Marketing companies don't care about CGNAT.
This tracking doesn't work with malware, because malware doesn't keep cookies and each instance appears as a new user. It is the constant influx of new users from shared addresses which trigger responses like blocking or captchas. If you're not seeing this, then it means that you've got active tracking so they know you're a legit user and not a bot.

With v6 its a bit different, multiple sessions from the same address would still trigger a response but you won't be sharing an address with others so you can block tracking cookies and you appear as a new user every time, but because you're coming from a new not previously seen address you are not hit with abuse countermeasures.

Much of the world is forced to use CGNAT to access legacy IPv4 sites, and many users are stuck with either no IPv6 or very lousy implementations (eg rapidly changing prefixes etc)...
You have one infected machine and it gets the shared gateway blocked, and then other users of the same provider are unable to access anything.

A lot of people are affected by this, but often don't know the reason. Site operators in developed countries often don't care or don't understand how users elsewhere have to suffer with CGNAT.

Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/Conve...

It's not really a catch-22, since there's no need for it to be the same people regulating how much lying you can do about prices and producing goods and services.

It's also not really a catch-22 since, if it weren't for the tolerance of grotesque levels of regulatory capture, any 'capitalist' regulator would take ensuring high quality price signals really seriously.

The part that should upset people is that the 'capitalists' are so far into bed with actively anti-market rent seekers that you can't rely on them to stand up for honest price signals, contract law that isn't so lopsided as to be basically a joke, and so on.

I don't know, it's really unusual because the LLM could be trainedon the DMV handbook, and it will pass the test.

But that's different, because the LLM portion of the AI isn't connected to the driving AI. So you would want to devise a test that shows the car knows how to handle situations, whether it can answer them in words or not.