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Did you even watch the video? It’s a well-produced piece of content from a pretty well-known individual

I was actually surprised the Bluetooth keyboard and mouse still worked.

Please stop okay it’s dunning-kruger at its finest.

Any agreement of a ceasefire has to be ratified by NATO if it isn’t ratified by NATO then it doesn’t happen. So Trump and Putin can have their little play acting session but it’s not going to result in anything because no one will ratify it if Ukraine isn’t part of the negotiations. America been big is irrelevant.

What’s America going to do to enforce their version of the ceasefire, if Ukraine disagrees with it if the rest of NATO disagree with it? NATO will continue to supply Ukraine with weapons, and Ukraine will continue to use those weapons. And Trump will do what?

Oh God there are so many problems with your response where do I even start?

lots of the latest negotiations (with the US) seem to involve Russia gaining territory in any peace agreement.

That’s just Trump doing Trump things, it’s got no basis in reality. You cannot have a negotiation where one of the parties is not present. Anything agreed with Russia will not be enforced by the international community. This has already been condemned by pretty much everyone else in the western world so I don’t know why you brought it up.

they’re switching over to a fully wartime economy, so they’re in it for the long haul.

So? They are at war so obviously they are switching over to a wartime economy. That doesn’t indicate any intention to attack NATO.

Ukraine, even with all the western weapons, is treading water.

They are hardly getting given the latest stuff. Meanwhile Russia is Fielding Soviet era tanks. I think will be okay.

Just to demonstrate what I mean, the estimated military casualties for the Soviet Union in WW2 was around 8.6 million. And then they won.

Firstly that was 60 years ago and wasn’t under the auspices of Putin. Who is widely regarded as a nut case. Secondly they wouldn’t have won had it not been for the allied forces having already severely hammered the Nazis.

Throwing meat into the grinder is not a tactic, it’s just desperation.

There’s more to it than that, there’s also the cost of implementation.

If a self-driving car killed on average one less human than your average human does, but costs $100,000 to install in the car, then it still isn’t worth implementing.

Yes I know that puts a price on human life but that is how economics works.

You’d have to be an idiot to merge anything from an AI without going through it line by line. Which really is the problem with AI, it’s mostly fine if you keep an eye on it but the fact you have to keep an eye on it kind of renders the whole thing pointless.

It’s like self-driving cars, if I have to keep an eye on it to make sure it won’t randomly crash into a tree I might as well drive the damn thing myself.

I guess I have no problem in theory with AI agents taking a look at my code it’s just I would want it opt in only. I don’t want to have to deal with them on legacy projects that I’m not working on, or anything mission critical (if there is a bug in the code but the application overall still works, I’d rather not have an AI dick around with it until I have time to properly go through it).

To be clear, I would have the same objections to a human doing the same things. It’s just that most humans don’t randomly submit pull requests on otherwise inactive repos.

Oh great so if you remove bitcoin your argument works, trouble is, bitcoin exists

Wait but that’s like saying that as long as the world has at least one electric car the internal combustion engine can continue to exist without issue.

If the vast majority of cryptocurrencies are still power hungry and the most commonly used cryptocurrency is power hungry then the fact that some of the others are better doesn’t really help.

People could get tons of flows improved by not abusing Excell as a database.

We have our knowledge articles in an excel spreadsheet. If you wrote a virus that would scan every single Excel file and just delete any spreadsheet without any formulae in it you would cause enormous amounts of suffering but not do any actual damage.

You need to be getting the radon infused versions.

Does he have a robot army I’m unaware of? Where is he getting the troops for an attack in 4 years?

They are effectively already at war with NATO and they’re getting their asses handed to them, a direct full-scale no holds-barred conflict would not end well for them.

Don’t worry they’ll probably give the contract to a company that up until now there’s only ever manufactured shopping trolleys. That’s usually the play.

If they ever are delivered it’ll be sometime around 2099 just in time for all the oceans to dry up.

I’m surprised they even have that many workers. What do they do all day?

I do like that the picture on an article about a 40 TB drive is clearly labelled as 1 TB. Like couldn’t they have edited the image?

That’s pretty impressive a couple of those and you could probably download the next Call Of Duty.

If bitcoin didn’t use 40 terawatts to mine and was more reasonable in its electricity demand then I don’t think that many people would care about it. It still wouldn’t make it useful but at least it wouldn’t be actively damaging the environment.

We might even be able to find a use for it at that point. But as it stands now the energy requirements essentially make the technology not worth it given the very minor benefits.

I hate that argument because it’s already been disproven. People use guns to kill people, often in heated situations.

If everyone wasn’t wandering around with guns in their pockets all of the time then they wouldn’t be the opportunity to shoot someone. Things would massively improve if the law was simply adjusted to not allow people to carry guns in public and they’re only allowed to keep them in their house and other authorised locations such as gun rangers and designated hunting locations. The gun nuts will still be able to play with their toys, but the murder rate would drop.

The fact that they stopped due to volatility kind of proved my point.

I don’t know what you’re saying. If I charge a particular amount for a loaf of bread and then the cryptocurrency value drops halfway through the day then that person still has the bread but I now don’t have the money.

The whole point of currency is to get away from the fluctuating value of exchange that everyone had to deal with when we used to buy things with gold and semi-precious stones.