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You're not buying a standard, you're buying a module with particular packaging and specifications, all of which have a huge impact on production cost.

Ukraine's doing their part to "green" Russia one drone strike at a time.

Like a parent with several misbehaving kids, we don't have the luxury of focusing on one problem at a time.

"I don't want to get wet, I'll fly over here to the water."

Try with...salmonella.ai

Could include some locally sourced "raw water" and offer options for unpasteurized, unrefrigerated milk.

We (Toronto) used to export our trash to Michigan when the incinerator was de-commissioned and the landfill was full.

It's paradoxical. Like the famous I Am Canadian ad campaign being the product of a famous Canadian brewer...that was subsequently acquired by an American conglomerate.

Like how Tim Horton's, the quintessential Canadian institution, was bought by Burger King and remains "Canadian" if only for tax reasons.

It's probably because all kinds of movies set in American cities are filmed in Vancouver.

Pretty sure a raccoon wrote this.

It's an interesting point of flex here: Your compiler doesn't have to be feature complete, it just has to be able to build a more feature complete binary.

If you think building a Stripe or Visa replacement is easy, go ahead and try.

Who knew utterly destroying cities and replacing them with gated communities with no accommodations for children whatsoever, and borderline criminalizing any activity which isn't closely supervised would have knock-on effects.

Change is bad because change can be catastrophically expensive. Civilizations don't die because they couldn't adapt, it's because they couldn't afford the cost of adapting, or because their entire society was predicated on a certain set of conditions that ceased to exist.

We take a lot of stuff for granted, like regular rainfall patterns in certain areas, that would be impossibly expensive to replace with technological solutions.

Unless there's an infinite number of programs of finite size, which sounds impossible, then no.

Every day the costs of prevention go up, and the costs of mitigation get even higher.

With politics in the equation, it's better to kick the can down the road and let someone else deal with it than to shoulder the cost now and save the future literal trillions.

See also: American infrastructure.

If there was a generally accepted method for reporting future liabilities and politicians could be graded on how much they addressed those, rather than the immediate keep taxes low pressure they seem to respond to, we might be better off. Then again, there are voters that would rather save a hundred bucks in taxes today even if ten years later they'll have to fork out thousands.

I thought they'd just keep kicking the can down the road until 2038 when all cookies "mysteriously" stop working.

They've been actively under attack for over a decade now.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sad_Puppies

We can't have nice things.

Where have you been for 15 years?

It's not their job to maintain it unless that was specified somehow in advance.

Cloud to Clown substitution plugin?

It's a favourite of mine because the robots are almost all real, which is completely nuts. Today these would all be crappy CGI.

The idea that you could hook several X terminals up to a modest system like a SPARCstation and share it was kind of amazing. Even mid-range workstations were insanely expensive back then.

(May have played an inordinate amount of Netrek on those.)

Hopefully not paper.

Was it private equity?

(Yes, it was private equity)

I mean you can look at the comments and check the vibe.

"We can have the strongest military in the world and have them largely based in the US."

Sure, if you want a really strong Coast Guard. As soon as you venture out of that little bubble you're going to need ports, air-bases, and other facilities.

China is suffering from a lack of these, they really can't operate anywhere in the world like the US can. The same goes for Russia. In effect, those two are completely boxed in.

By things like US bases all over the world.

You can even argue that historically Britain was disproportionately powerful because of their extensive network of bases and ports. Trade was relatively easy for them, while other European powers never had the same access.

Like it or not, the ability to trade and the strength of your power projection are often deeply inter-linked.

"Nitrous oxide best oxide." -- Dominic Toretto

That's an i9 chip without proper cooling.

Restaurants used to be prohibitively expensive, and rent was cheap.

Now it's the opposite.