Anyone else thinking of the bricked Russian Porsches from the slashdot post a few days ago?

Why doesn't Russia attack the US directly instead of doing this proxy war?

"Ukraine incited Russia's entry into the Ukrainian civil war by first overthrowing a lawful democracy and then by oppressing, attacking and killing ethnic Russian Ukrainians. "

So does South America have a natural right to attack the US?

Since the Fed has raised base, high-powered money over 500% since 2008, and inflation over that period has been only 50%, have we proved that we can print money much, much faster than prices rise?

What if Greenspan hadn't raised interest rates because he had an irrational fear of new technology?

What if this RAM price blip is like the Thailand floods that got everyone in a tizzy over hard drive prices, but they still ended up going down long-term?

Why do they grow citrus trees in a desert?

Will China use their hard science advances to perfect a Big Brother society where you're afraid to have any non-state-approved opinion?

"China is a serious country. "

How do you know the papers on which this finding by a western think tank is based are not Chinese AI slop? Have you verified them?

Are you going to replicate it, or place trust in others?

What if I sell you shares for $100, and they're currently at $200?

Haha, remember when everyone said QE was just temporary and the Fed balance sheet would be drawn back down to pre-2008 levels? Is it too soon to call that widely-made prediction wrong, 17 years on with the balance sheet still at $6.5 trillion and growing again?

When will armchair economists give up their zero-sum thinking about money? Where did that $6.5 trillion come from? Does it cause cognitive dissonance to say "thin air"?

And if the Fed can increase base money from less than $1 trillion to $6.5 trillion, or 650%, is there a gain in purchasing power since inflation over that period is nowhere near 650%? So why not print money for a strong basic income and index incomes to inflation, i.e. keep doing what they've been doing (printing way faster than prices rise) but distribute new printed money directly to individuals?

If prices were $700 in 2022 and $100 today even if they go to $200 isn't it just a blip on a long-term trend?

So why are you all so attached to STEM when perverse incentives result in your work being used for evil?

What happens if you sell some stock?

How subservient are engineers to their finance guy bosses? I.e, did AT&T reject ARPANET funding requests because thr finance guys saw the internet as a threat to their telephone business model, even while Ken Thompson was working for them?