prodigalsorcerer

Yeah, that actually changes things. Not a lot, but very slightly. Like, whatever unit is smaller than a Planck length.

Edit: it's an "annual" prize, but Trump got the first one. I would be surprised if there was another, but maybe he'll win that one too.

Presumably the politicians accounted for this in their negotiations. They may have some high level engineers from China, but I can't imagine they'll be allowed to bring in a whole migrant workforce, especially with the current climate around immigration in Canada.

And then they may elect Mr Beast

I can't wait for welfare to be replaced by "Survive 30 days in Guantanamo, win $500,000", and "100 people in Alligator Alcatraz. Last one standing wins $1,000,000".

They're trying to get ahead of regulation. If they can be mildly effective here, they can point to it and say "look, media doesn't need any more regulations".

Any regulation that requires restricting media to kids will be significantly more expensive, in implementation costs and loss of profits.

The Cartel le of the uhhhh cartel.

From China's perspective (and in theory, Taiwan's perspective), invading Taiwan isn't the same, because they both officially recognize One China, they just disagree about who's in charge.

It would more akin to USA invading Puerto Rico, if the governor of PR asserted that they were in fact the proper leaders of the USA.

Should cars have been outlawed because it put farriers and stables out of business? Were shipping containers a bad idea because they required fewer longshoremen?

Technology comes and makes jobs obsolete. It happens all the time. It just happens that this technology has come in a big, visible way, and many of the ways its used and marketed are useless and/or awful. That doesn't mean it's entirely bad, and there's certainly no way to stop it now.

AI will replace jobs. We can't get around that fact. Companies that fail to adapt will fall behind. Whether I use it at my job or not has no bearing on the industry, and I'm not in a position to push for industry-wide change (nor is the company I work for). So we can either use it, or also fall behind.

I work for a mid-sized company. We still hire junior developers. I don't think we have any plans to get rid of them entirely, but I'm not involved in that process. But after a couple decades of huge growth in the industry, developers (especially junior ones) are going to have a rough few years as the industry realigns with the new normal. There will be job losses, there will be companies that disappear entirely because they either depended too much upon AI, or didn't adapt fast enough. But pretending that AI isn't a useful tool when used in specific ways is just sticking your head in the sand.

Are you in the EU? My understanding is that those rewards are not available in the EU due to their much lower transaction fees. Admittedly, I'm not in the EU, so this is second hand knowledge.

Mpg is worse than its inverse gpm, because it's not linear, and humans are really bad at comparisons of non-linear values.

Consider 3 vehicles. They get 10 mpg, 20 mpg, and 40 mpg. With these numbers, it's obvious which is the most efficient, but it's not easy to tell how efficient. For instance, will you get more fuel savings trading in your 10 mpg for the 20 mpg, or the 20 mpg for the 40 mpg vehicle?

Instead, if we look at those vehicles with their gpm ratings, we can quickly tell how much benefit we get from upgrading. Respectively, they are 10, 5, and 2.5 gallons per 100 miles, and it's much easier to see that going from 10 to 20 mpg is a much bigger improvement than going from 20 to 40 mpg.

Ukraine wants EU membership. Trump doesn't want to feel like the US is being left out, so Ukraine will pretend to negotiate to spare his feelings.

If you have a Lemmy account, you're significantly more online than most people.