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Google incorporated in Ireland to gain tax benefits. They’ve been Irish ever since.

Just want to point out, it’s polarising because it’s a wedge issues that divides voting blocks neatly, and nothing to do with it being The Issue that it is. More people die from ob…

Duress pin should unlock a benign version with ai generated chats to ai generated friends about the latest benign topics. In the Age of LLMs we could generate a fake digital existe…

Maybe you need to let them know. They were founded in NZ by a NZer, they launch from NZ, their employees are NZers. Calling them a US company is equivalent to saying Google is Iris…

I think it’s more nuanced. Even a “coder” spends the majority of their time, not coding.

But you're ignoring the core point (in both your metaphor and in the argument at hand): - If everyone took a Waymo... Waymo sucks. Not true of trains. ($/MW of power is stupid with…

Right so it’s not phones at all. We are really saying: turn it down - right?

I think this is the only meaningful point being made in this thread. The sound from a phone speaker is annoying, more so, than a typical in person talking. To me the solution lies …

How is that different than two people talking in person? Do you interrupt them as well?

That’s “widely available” — no one is buying them, so not “widely sold”

Or we could realise that they still have that lead, and they were limited in the US by US government policy that propped up Detroit for union/votes rather than economics/environmen…

I’m not sure id call Chevy widely sold, yet. Their full year sales don’t even match a single quarter of Tesla.

This isn’t true: “most” non-lfp batteries in EV context are Tesla. Which means they are cylindrical. Or are you counting OEMs rather than actual vehicles?

I mean there is benefit to understanding competitor well as well?

But anyone didn't do it... you an expert in software development did it. I would hazard a guess that your knowledge lead to better prompts, better approach... heck even understandi…

Love that you are disagreeing with parent by saying you built software all on your own, and you only had 20 years software experience. Isn't that the point they are making?

your heuristics is "last 50 years of US history", and you've now applied that to "That's how the whole multi planetary blob of humanity will operate". I think "handywavy logic" is …

Some handwavy logic there, both on why bubbles instead of terraforming and also why authoritarian control given bubbles.

Or we learn how to make uninhabitable planets habitable. Would also help us “save” this one. (Funny how we say “save the planet” when we really mean “save people/complex life”).

A mean not to go too deep into whataboutism… but at least they only persecute their own Muslims rather than picking random countries on a map and persecuting them.

Immigration would be another option… but not sure how willing China is to adopt that

Imperialism? Expand.

If you flicked the switch and made voting mandatory. Then you'd find the extreme views on both sides would vanish as everyone would rush to please the middle (the VAST majority of …

You are confusing what "Appeal to Authority" fallacy is. Namely you are ignoring the fallaciousness of it. The fallacy is where you use an authority in place of evidence. It is not…

Government organisations try to produce public good. Private organisations try to produce profit. This is why “running a government like a business” is flawed, and treating all lar…