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Oh I agree with you. I suspect it happens less than is the conventional wisdom, but I might be wrong.

The capitalist response to that would be that the investment in companies is better because it makes everyone richer in the long term by increasing overall wealth.

I'm not sure I buy it but it's an effect to consider.

It's a little odd to blame this on the English translation since Voltaire was, naturally, writing in French:

"Ce corps qui s'appelait et qui s'appelle encore le saint empire romain n'était en aucune manière ni saint, ni romain, ni empire."

> But wood emits more carbon dioxide per kilowatt-hour than coal

Utterly irrelevant since that carbon came out of the air to grow the tree in the first place.

> Forest regrowth might eventually remove that extra carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, but regrowth is uncertain

Of course it's not! Trees are grown as a crop. These aren't ancient forests, they're fields of trees for harvesting. If it was uncertain no-one could make money from forestry.

Have you ever read Bertrand Russell's critique of the gold standard in his essay The Modern Midas? It's in the collection "In Praise of Idleness".

It's worth reading all of them, even if you disagree with most of it.

I enjoyed thinking about it. Maybe replace if...else with great...sad etc

I was going to say that no country actually chose to join the USSR but perhaps I'm wrong.

Did any country voluntarily choose to join? Maybe Belarus?

The one where you replaced parentheses with the crying laughing emojis was definitely the worst.

No, you're assuming that you need AGI to control a robot, when LLMs have already shown you don't need anything close to hold a conversation.

So why do you suddenly think you need it for controlling a body when animals do it with far less?

Ask rayiner if they observe that large problems need to be socialized.

The first year of Christ's reign is the year 1.

The hundredth year of Christ's reign is the year 100.

The thousandth year of Christ's reign is 1000.

The two thousandth year of Christ's reign is 2000.

There is no year zero.

That's a fair point. It's a difficult sell to say you have to pay more to help out your fellow citizens, in most countries.

Learn what those two things are and you can join me in celebration!

Because it was paid for by the taxpayer.

Why are you suddenly in favour of socialist projects? Shouldn't you be saying they should be privately funded and lets see if they can make a profit selling their electricity?

European car manufacturers have been given every opportunity and encouragement to build EVs and the phrase "dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century" springs to mind.

People are buying BYD because they're better cars, not because they're forced to.

I'm guessing that's because blue means left wing in the USA and red means right wing.

Why did you switch them around? Red always meant left wing. Even in the US red meant the Soviets. It's just confusing to everyone else.

Well, since I know what a delta is, and I know what an object is, I understand all of it.

But they were right and you were wrong. Your mistake is in thinking that years are cardinal numbers when they're actually ordinal.

The current year counting was based on the same way years were counted in the past, so you had things like "the 10th year of Caesar's reign". So the year 1 A D. was the first year of Christ's reign.

The year 2000 was the 2000th year of Christ's reign so that's what is celebrated.

Alternatively, you don't really care about that and it's called Common Era now anyway, but in that case it's entirely arbitrary. So either way, calling 2001 the New Millennium is wrong!

That's the bit that sounds odd. Surely they can't just claim you're not a suspect yet and therefore deny you a lawyer?

Oh right. I'm entitled to a lawyer if I'm ever taken in for questioning. I didn't realise it was so different.

Can the police just question you and you have no right to legal representation?

It definitely depends on the country. I live in Scotland and I've been perfectly happy to chat with police officers but if I'm taken in for questioning (which in Scotland is an arrest) I would have no hesitation in asking for a solicitor and they would probably advise no comment on every question.

If I want to help them out I would then prepare a written statement, approved by my solicitor, and give them that.

It's just the sensible way to go.

There's no rush. Take your time and be smart.

Do you not live in a country where they are obliged to provide one?

In England, a refusal to answer questions can be taken as an indicator of guilt. But you can still ask for a solicitor and they will tell you which questions to answer and which not.

Specifically England, not the UK, as Scottish law is different.

The Hitchhiker's Guide was right. We spend all our time inventing new cures for the mice!

I guess it's a bit different when it's an internal candidate.

I've been on the recieving end of clueless folk trying to make me feel small when I've just been looking for a job, so I might be a bit sensitive about it! Sorry for any offense given. Thankfully I'm beyond that craziness now and can just do what I want for work.

The guy wanted a job, didn't know what answer you wanted for the job, and you guys were being assholes.

If you can accept that then you've learnt something.

Why don't you check the figures rather than confidently spouting nonsense?

Soccer rates as either the fourth or fifth largest sports in the USA depending on how you count it.

You're absolutely right to be upset by this t-shirt!

Well yes. This has been the history of the web. Frontpage generated really crappy code but people still used it to create websites. They didn't care about code quality just how it looked.

You don't need to actually reinstall to fix this. You can boot to single user mode and then you're root. Fix the permissions from there.

Even if you've accidentally removed permission from chmod itself, you can use the linker trick to fix that (your LLM can explain that one but use a fresh context so it's not roleplaying where it doesn't know how to fix without a reinstall)