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And all were denied because of the same problem: laundering russian money.

> international treaties that establish a supranational court system should not exist

The first "supranational" court system was created with the USA fully on-board: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremburg_trials

In fact, they liked it so much that they re-enacted it at home: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsequent_Nuremberg_trials

Yes, your proposal would have been an acceptable approach in 1990. Instead, we have been happily increasing our CO₂ emissions every year since then*. No, we no longer want diversity in the power grid; "reasonable" solutions don't move the needle. Even if the entire world would go carbon zero overnight, the global temperature would continue to rise for decades before settling around a new steady state. It's not a matter of holding out a bit longer for tomorrow's magical solution: every piece of fossil fuel burned today makes the planet more unlivable tomorrow.

We are currently on track to reach the "climate-compatible" scenario of the Paris accords (+1.5°C climate increase by 2100) in 2030. We will exceed the "minor change" scenario (+2°C) in 2050. Those targets are already locked in, they are unavoidable because of the delay between CO₂ emissions and their full effect. Maintaining our current levels of emissions gets us to 3.5°C above historic averages in 2100, which is the lower end of the disaster scenario in the Paris accords.

https://royalsociety.org/news-resources/projects/climate-cha...

* except for a short drop in 2020 due to Covid. You may not like it, but that is what full climate change mitigation looks like today because we didn't act sooner.

> When do we get to full stop on the combustion of fossil fuels

The most likely answer seems to be "when the last human dies".

Minority shareholders did no such thing. The board did that.

Are you sure it honoured your stipulation of "without external help"? For all we know, it hacked its way into Wolfram Alpha and got the result from there.

The lifetime of files in ~/.cache/ is the same as what the FHS documents for /var/cache [0]:

> Application cache data. Such data are locally generated as a result of time-consuming I/O or calculation. The application must be able to regenerate or restore the data. The cached files can be deleted without loss of data.

Meaning: the persistence of such files is not guaranteed across application restarts. If vim (and also neovim) had intended for the undo files to outlive the program, the files should have been put in ~/.local/state instead -- as also explicitly documented by the XDG [1]:

> [XDG_STATE_HOME] may contain: [..] current state of the application that can be reused on a restart (view, layout, open files, undo history, …)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard#...

[1] https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir/latest/#varia...

In general it's easier to control the air you're blowing into a room than what you're extracting, so I'd expect it would be more economical to keep the fabrication rooms under high pressure than low pressure. Also, in case of a leak, air and contaminants will flow out of the room instead of into it.

A few years ago, in NL they banned a campaign from the Brandwondenstichting (foundation for treating burn victims) because it used photos from actual burn scars to warn the public. Ostensibly, the reason given was that it upset their delicate eyes -- which was the entire point of the campaign. The campaign itself was not political, but Facebook choosing to apply their weak US sensibilities to a Dutch campaign surely was a political act.

why is it 1955? Do you see parallels between how trans people are treated today and the start of the civil rights movement?

There is nothing pragmatic about kicking out the workforce you imported because of a shortage of native labour. The pragmatist stance would be to accept those differences, and focus on addressing/alleviating them. Cutting your nose to spite your face is more idealism than pragmatism.

> Applicants will also be required to have a pension pot equivalent to 30 years of payouts.

Does this take into account the amount of pension a person would still accumulate under Japanese employment, or will this immediately disqualify anyone under 45?

Then you'd have an infinite series, as each doll would have to contain two smaller copies.

So, who supplies to Anthropic that doesn't supply to OpenAI and/or Google? In other words, why should Anthropic be singled out in your explanation?

We did have electronics in 1900: Kirchoff's circuit laws date from 1845, the first semiconductor device (crystal detector) is from 1874 and the first vacuum tube is from 1904. What we didn't have is transistors and the miniaturization technology that gave us integrated circuits and microprocessors.

> My claim is that doing this kind of computer security is possible.

But your evidence does not support that claim. SeL4 has proven that it is possible to design a secure microkernel and prove its security guarantees. It does not prove that you can build entire systems (filesystem+database+web server+browser) on top of that kernel while maintaining the same security guarantees.

I'm all for improving the state of computer security, and I'd love for capability systems like SeL4 to become more prevalent. But it's only a microkernel, and it's by no means certain that the PeopleSoft vulnerability exploited here required a kernel-level compromise.

Why the myopic focus on profitability? Only one nation has succeeded in making healthcare profitable, please tell us how that has led to the best outcome for society?

thank you

Dutch is fairly unique in how it uses diseases as expletives, whereas most other languages use body parts or excrement. TB even has the honour of having two expletives named after it (tering and pleuris).

That was merely the excuse given. Teams are already hugely disadvantaged by having to play in 30+°C when a rival gets to play in 20°C instead. Giving the team playing in better conditions a commercial break as well only adds to that unfairness.

> The analysis counted advertising built into the match footage (e.g. on the hoardings [sic?]), rather than commercials shown during advertising breaks.

No, they also fine American companies in China and in Australia.

> This is the common sense understanding of what I said above.

It's very dangerous to assume common understanding here when Trump has been loudly claiming the opposite, i.e. that the tariffs would be paid by the sender rather than the importer. It would have been more accurate to state that "Canadian pharmacies have already been including the tarrifs in the total order cost".

Never assume your enemy is making a mistake either, unless you possess the gift of perfect knowledge.

This is a judgement from the DPC in Ireland, which has a history of reluctance [0] when it comes to enforcing the GDPR on US corporations, e.g. in [1] they even had to be ordered by a court to start investigating. I don't see the Irish DPC voluntarily choosing to take on more oversight here.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/09/ireland-fails-to...

[1] https://cooltechzone.com/news/court-irish-dpa-must-investiga...

Not exactly, it's more like paying ten different cable companies at the same time.

That's not a demographic cliff, that's a financial power cliff, and it's caused exactly by too much money being tied up in PE companies and offshore accounts. All that money taken out of the local economy is leaving each generation with an increasingly smaller size of the pie, even when the pie itself has been consistently growing. You even admit yourself that the problem is that the next generation "can't afford" to maintain the outgoing generation's standard of wealth.

> PE exists because a lot of companies are poorly managed.

This is a non-sequitur. The existence of private equity has an effect on how companies are run, not the other way around. Many well-run companies are targeted by PE exactly because they're well-run and have carved out a sizable captive audience for themselves. And when PE takes over, said company usually ceases to be well-run on all metrics except one.

PE exists because of the non-linear relationship between money accumulation and power. This effect means that it is more beneficial for any company to hoard capital as much as it can rather than "waste" it on the wider economy; after accumulating enough capital, the company can pivot away from whatever market it was in before and focus solely on asset management. PE mostly results from too low taxation on inert wealth compounded by zero-interest rate monetary policies.

> “a árvore”

I'm glad that Portuguese doesn't try to trip up foreigners on purpose here, like Spanish does with "el agua" (which is still a feminine word, but takes the masculine article because "la agua" is too hard to pronounce).

Is AI advancing humanity, though? Or is it only advancing technology while divorcing it from the human?