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Apropos of nothing, it's "jerry rigged". Jury-rigged is a corruption which is why it doesn't make sense. The phrase originates in World War 1 when jerry was slang for a German (and…

Isn't military work mostly done by private contractors? It's not like the USAF actually owns and operates its own plane factories. Some companies do approximate market operations i…

No, why do pro-EU people lie about this so frequently? The rules say that to join you must adopt the euro. The EU has chosen not to enforce this rule on legacy members for now, but…

Brexit had literally no impact on this, and will likely help significantly. Remember that the eurozone has been an economic disaster for most of Western Europe outside of Germany, …

Those rates don't include all the "economically inactive" people who are on long term benefits. Around 5 million at last count.

There are a lot of people who don't believe in local control or the concept of an independent nation state. They imagine that in their preferred future all governments are merged i…

Has there ever been a non Oop GUI toolkit in those days? Even Win32 was kinda "c with objects".

It doesn't? It says judges openly advertise things like "I will no longer evaluate and thus never vote for rightest capitalist-imperialist" along with many other positions. It also…

They weren't doing that before EME either, were they?

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> a category of ineffective, bitter malcontents and that’s not what we are There are enough top voted people demanding harassment in this and other threads to say that well, maybe …

Isn't the big win of superconductors that you can build batteries with them? Like, you just pump them full of power that goes round and round forever with no or trivial losses. I a…

Yes, fully agree. There are a lot of unstated but unintuitive assumptions and intuitions going on in the AI risk/ethics community. It's useful to surface those.

This article segues from the failure of 80s style expert systems (in many domains) to a generic argument for x-risk and superintelligence explosions. But it doesn't address any of …

Google do that all the time simply because they dislike your opinions or even your fact based arguments.

Nah, they just realize that the sort of rank ideological hatred they're gonna get from the sort of people posting here isn't representative of the software industry as a whole let …

Lol yep sure, almost every website out there uses Recaptcha, Cloudflare and similar services, but they all totally hate the guys who work on stuff like that. The bubblethink here i…

What I meant is, a lackadaisical approach to billing and asking for money was common at Sun for everything software related, same thing for Java which was definitely a line item.

Maybe that approach to licensing is why Sun ran out of money and had to sell itself?

It's not that Germany is uniquely bad at software. It's that the USA is uniquely good. A culture in which software people are considered to be really low status is pretty much the …

It does lead to real customer facing problems. A jungle of different systems won't have transactionality between them at all, it's all a mess of rec scripts, so customers will see …

Not the same poster but as airlines have come up, this German IT dysfunction appears there too. At some point Lufthansa bought Swiss. Swiss previously had a pretty competent websit…

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Why does that make no sense? Sounds a lot like how Google and Facebook were both born along with many other businesses. Rearden is never said to run the whole business himself afte…

So many levels of meta-irony in this thread. You're laughing at a non-existent strawman you've been fed by the media. The people saying Let's Go Brandon are perfectly happy to say …