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> The EU can't mend ties with China without giving up on Ukraine as China's FM Wang Yi has stated [0]

At the end of the day China cares more about Europe than Russia. Because that's where the real money is.

> I have 15 years of software engineering experience across some top companies. I truly believe that ai will far surpass human beings at coding, and more broadly logic work. We are very close

Coding was never the hard part of software development.

> Amen. It's hard to live with hope right now at all. Programmer or otherwise we're constantly told we're all going to be replaced and the economy is a mess (US). Definitely a depressing time to be alive.

Unless you're a plumber.

> One of the heaviest people I worked with only ate one meal a day.

People usually lie or have no idea how many calories they consume.

Okay, that was smooth and effective. But now what? Let's hope not another Libya.

> repaired relations between the EU and Russia being sabotaged and false flagged by another country has the onus on that country.

What relations? Nordstream went boom after 2022 war started.

And let's not forget that Russia purposely inflated gas prices to put pressure on EU during 2021.

> That is what separates civilized from uncivilized people, and it is a curse we have to bear unless we want to join the uncivilized.

If the Allies had committed to this thinking, they would have lost the war. And make no mistake, Europe is at war with Russia, just not a kinetic one.

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Because ASML exists, and it's based in Europe.

> When my spouse and I were dating, we made fun of those “overly involved parents” who tried to live vicariously through their kids and over-scheduled them.

> Since having kids, my spouse has (over a one year period) put our 5 year old in: T-ball, swimming, dance, theater, Sunday school, church, soccer, gymnastics, library group sessions, and to my absolute bewilderment and dismay—beauty pageants. On any given week, there are 5+ activities outside of school. My spouse stays up until 2 AM “helping” our daughter on her kindergarten school projects. Never mind all the activities our 2 year old is ramping up into.

> I don’t think this is healthy at all for children, and it’s really created a rift in our marriage. It’s been so bizarre to me to see this change in behavior from what we discussed prior to marriage compared to now. I worry the kids are going to burn out. I certainly didn’t grow up this way, and my personality as a kid would not have handled this well.

Parents appear increasingly terrified of childhood boredom, and thus meticulously cram their children's schedules with activities they feel are "crucial" for "development".

> It's all so unfathomably stupid. And it's going to bring down an economy.

Dot-com bubble all over again

> This also confirms the $500 billion valuation making OpenAI the most valuable private startup in the world.

SpaceX?

> Russia, China, Iran etc. are throwing a hissy fit whenever even a small weapons are deployed in the neighboring countries

Because that's all they can do

"The plan? At dusk, 50 people went to San Francisco's longest dead-end street and all ordered a Waymo at the same time.

The world's first: WAYMO DDOS

We didn't actually get in the cars. They left after about 10 min and charged a $5 no show fee. Waymo handled this well. I assume this isn't much different than if a big concert had just ended. Eventually, they disabled all rides within a 2 block vicinity until the morning "

In true Bay Area fashion?

> Except that Nvidia, Inc. doesn't own any of that NVDA stock, other people do, and they cannot access that money. Nvidia, Inc. owns net profit, which is orders of magnitude less than market cap. Last year's net profit was just under $73 billion. ($5 billion is still very affordable, too be sure).

Not all deals are made in cash, they can borrow money against their market share.

> How about instead abolishing privately owned companies?

We tried that in my country for about 50 years, it didn’t work out.

> and art intends to challenge, none of what's created here is "art". It doesn't push boundaries, create new genres, or satisfy an uncomfortable curiosity.

Art is, above all, subjective.

> It's very dystopian to feel that the robots are making generic human-music with indescribably lifeless properties.

Painters said the same thing about the camera. Photographers said the same thing about Photoshop.

> I really hate the term “expat”

Yeah, separating themselves from those “dirty” immigrants

> We're talking about a developer here so this analogy does not apply. If a developer doesn't actually develop anything, what exactly is he?

A problem solver

> Did you write your own letters? Did you write your own arguments? Did you write your own code? I do, and don't depend on systems other built to do so. And losing the ability of keep doing so is a pretty big trade-off, in my opinion.

Gatekeeping at it's finest, you're not a "true" software engineer if you're not editing the kernel on your own, locked in in a cubicle, with no external help.

> This is a very “inside baseball” take. The average person just does not care at all about privacy from large corporations

Google Glass remembers…

Reads and looks like an obituary, lol

> We _could_ use this to empower humans, but many of us instinctively know that it will instead be used to crush the human spirit. The end result of this isn’t going to be an expansion of creative ability, it’s going to be the destruction of creative jobs and the capture of these creative mediums by a few large companies.

The same was said about the camera or photoshop.

They don't collect data?

> Now free trade is hurting USA economy and that's why USA play against the rules they were promoting for so long.

Explain how is it hurting US economy?

Munich, Germany. Although, the sea is a bit further away.

> Is there really? In the sense of a global organized boycott spearheaded by a particular organization? I've not yet seen anything like that. It seems like instead the brand has just been damaged by Musk in the eyes of the kind of person who might be likely to buy an EV in the first place.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/uk-new...

"According to Germany's road traffic agency, Tesla sold 1,429 cars in Germany, a decline of 76%, an even bigger decline than the 60% drop in January. Overall, sales of electric vehicles rose 30.8% to 35,949 in Germany."

"Tesla sales were down 24% in the Netherlands, 42% in Sweden, 48% in both Norway and Denmark, 45% in France, 55% in Italy, 10% in Spain and 53% in Portugal"

> There are conservatives with money, and those without

The main issue with conservatives is that they just don't like EVs and are much more skeptical about climate change.

> Leaving NATO is not a one way street. If the US leaves NATO, then the NATO countries can also stop supporting the US. How many components of US weapon systems are made in the EU?

For example, 15% of every F35 is made in UK.