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> It takes tanks half-a-day to cross the Baltic states to reach the sea

And how long does it take for the F35 to fly across all Baltic States? 30 minutes at max speed. Without air supremacy, Russia would be dead in the water.

> That is the time Russia wants to buy. Once Russian forces are already in Riga, Tallinn, Vilnus, the NATO will have a decision to make on whether to bomb the Russian forces already placed by that time among the Baltic states population.

If you think Poland and Finland would sit on their hands and do nothing, you're being naive.

> Making it illegal could make it taboo, kids are less likely to talk about it in fear of "getting caught" and less talking means less usage

So like piracy?

> This is not like porn which is a solitary activity: on social media you have to be social and let everyone know… at least for traditional actually-social media, not content-consuming apps like TikTok

You don't? You can stay perfectly anonymous.

> we indicated that there was government advice/ruling around this.

Why would any pre-teen / teen care about what government thinks? They care what their friends think about that TikTok they saw during recess, though.

Apples to oranges.

Piracy would be a good comparison to this law. We all know how that turned out.

Tariffs hike plan will end up the same as Trump's health plan, coming in two weeks, for 4 years.

> they don't care who wins, they just want peace.

And what happens when Russia invades again after a few years with a revitalized military?

They would have, 1.5 years back. Now there are other players in town.

Magnificent, it's hard to image what we'll be able to do once these do roundtrips daily. For those are not aware, that booster is 71 m (233 ft) tall!

> "He launched airstrikes or military raids in at least seven countries: Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan." https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-na-pol-obama-at-war/

A bit different from "started a war".

> 1k$ is pretty steep.

It's not if you don't want to sacrifice quality, USA made is also a bonus. Kudos to JerryRigEverything.

> I think the best play here would be to release them without any camera functionality at all, or the connotations will be that weird, sweaty guy that no one wants to sit next to on the subway (see: Google Glass).

Sergey Brin sitting sad in the corner after reading this

I still remember how privacy issues killed Google Glass, truly ahead of it's time. Sorry Sergey Brin.

> Yeah it sucks to have a bad wlb work culture, but the alternative is losing what makes America so awesome.

You're not reaping the benefits of that “hard work”, executives do.

> Unfortunately you'll find out it's not actually easy at all when you realize that consumers care about weight, size, temperature and battery life which are all things apple excels at. Their hardware is really quite good, unfortunately the software is horribly crippled.

They really don't. iPhone is a status symbol, especially for the new up-and-coming consumers (teens)

> I think a lot about "steel saucepans with copper bottoms". I read this article by Le Guin at a time in my life to make a real impression on me

Same for me but with sewing machines. Relevant Veritasium video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQYuyHNLPTQ&ab_channel=Verit...

> But instead, we have billions of people now, and it was at least 2000 years ago that we reached 100 million. When you have that many people, although most of them are still working on the basics (growing food, building housing, etc.), in absolute terms there can be millions of people working on specialized tasks.

Now let's imagine what happens when AI and machines step in and completely take over the menial jobs. The redistribution to cognitive task occupation will deliver another technological revolution.

> Even if that science helps not so friendly countries like Russia?

Nothing will stop this wave, and the United States will not allow itself to be on the sidelines.

> If you are talking to support, you already know your question isn't in the 95% easy ones.

Common sense is not that common

> Or put another way, Europe cannot create their own Amazon.

Ozempic-maker Novo Nordisk enters the room

> I presume most young Francophones who are likely to actually use Mistral will pronounce it in Franglais as "le tchatte"

Anything's better than hearing how french pronounce ChatGPT: "tchat j'ai pété" (literally means "cat, I farted" in french).

Don't even remember when I opened Stack Overflow, won't miss that condescending place.

> The writing is on the wall for a while now, the only problem is that people talking about it are promptly labeled as not worthy of being listened

Exactly, did people forget Russia first invaded Ukraine in 2014? Let's not be naive here.

France is up there with UK, but they are not on the chart because they do not disclose all the transfers they do.

And this is chart is missing EU strongest military - France, they do not announce all the support they give for strategic reasons.

> okay to hurt people for the sake of technical progress, you get into some very dark and terrible places

Hurt is a very subjective word in this context, how many people do you think the invention of the steam engine hurt? Or the electricity?

> We estimate that the scrolls we have in Naples contain more than 16 megabytes of text. Some members of our papyrology team say that revealing this text will be the greatest revolution in the classics since the Renaissance

Amazing achievement, let's hope the Italian government allows for additional excavation of the villa.

That 30% doesn't fund the schools or the roads, it's just a fee. Completely different.

> Maybe, recruit the most formidable AI team in the world, removed from the shackles of an awkward non-profit owning a for-profit company?

Into the shackles of ever-controlling mega-corp?

> So Microsoft decided to compete with OpenAI

They already do, though, has everyone forgot they got a Microsoft Research division?

Yeah... Not really how a mega-corp like MSFT does things. They LOVE to have control.