Many years ago, my grandpa accidentally stole a pack of screws. While buying an electric drill, at a diy-store he was a regular customer at.
What did they do? Called the police, when the police showed up he went straight back to return the drill and vowed to never set a foot again.
Some stores really dislikes being human, and this happened in an area of Denmark far away from the capital and thus control of law
I honestly think it would do a lot if all sorting algorithms were made open source.
We would quite quickly have mapped out how their algorithms work and which companies are the most predatory
we can’t use the Indian trade agreement as an example of European independence if it serves the US strategy.
It serves European strategy, as one step to further isolate Russia, to ensure countries we’re closer aligned to are in better positions. Of the three global tigers (China, India, USA), India is the lesser evil.
Sure India counters China in regional presence, but that’s not the ways USA cares about countering China. India would honestly trade Taiwan for complete soft control of Southeast Asia.
As opposed to the multipolar order.
That doesn’t exist, there’s at least 4 polars today. Usa, China, India and EU. There could be arguments for the Arabic peninsula being a 5th major polar.
Also, how would the EU benefit?
Trading energy in euroes, would make more euroes float and make the euro as a currency stronger. The more a currency is adapted, the stronger it is.
It’s the entire tenant behind US growth, the petrodollar. Making the world swim in dollars, which they end up investing back in the US and the US can then buy new shit overseas. The Euro would achieve a similar effect if it bought its energy in euroes, with a third intermediary being Africa. Saudi Arabia would invest in Africa, Africa would buy a mix of food and industrial equipment in Europe and the triangle trade is in motion
rub it in that the US are violating international law.
fair
That’s when international law matters. If we don’t defend it or at least try, we signal that it is only there to suppress the ambitions of small countries.
An idealists statement, but it’s not how the world spins around
India is built up against China, with an extreme right government that looks US made.
But it’s a democracy which is moving in the right direction in terms of personal freedoms.
Australia is big but with a small population. That looks more like a support of the American shift to Asia since it came with a defence agreement if I remember correctly.
Looking at the official statement, it’s a direct jab against the US turning away from a rules based order. This agreement is not to glaze the US, far from it.
The EU and Australia are already long-standing allies and partners, whose global outlook is aligned in terms of defending multilateralism and the rules-based international order.
So why don’t we invest?
We are, but we should be investing more. And more importantly, we should cleverly flood the Arabic peninsula with euroes through energy trade. To make Saudi Arabia assert its soft power in Africa and weaken the US in the process.
We honor the US embargo. There is no independence.
There’s no way we can break a US blockade on Cuba, just like the US successfully can’t invade France. Distance is a hell of an issue.
Cuba is too insignificant to cause a greater international reaction
Several EU countries have been distancing themselves from the US for the past year and a half, but apparently they didn’t feel prepared for cutting contact this spring.
Was it three trade agreements signed since Trump went to office? Mercosur, India and Australia iirc. They’ve all been laying around in a drawer, with minor details missing. Boom, they’re all good now.
That’s not at random, that’s Europe positioning itself to not rely on the US. The continent has been awakened and the drift away is going to happen. The US wanted to be isolated, they can’t stop the movement now.
India is going to replace a fair share of the reliance Europe has on the US. But Africa is right there next door screaming for investment, no need to invest in the US
If Denmark pushes EU to an economic war, then the USD is no longer the petrol dollar and will crash immediately.
The US relies in Europe for their economy to a greater deal than the EU relies on the US. But an economic war between the worlds two largest economies will cause global economic instability for a bit.
Personally I were shocked EU didn’t attack the petrol dollar at the beginning of the Hormuz closure, as that was the easy way to keep energy flowing out of the strait.
It does make some menial tasks simpler, but if people think it will actually replace us then they’re in for a shock.
That’s the sales pitch, we’re in a job market drought right now. Give it a year or two and all the slop will begin breaking, making a new job market boom for developers
Given EU have created laws to require physical knobs for key features, I’d imagine this will be stopped as well.
BMW is the brand that tests for profit initiatives to see if they stick, I recall them being reported to attempt seated heating as a subscription a few years back
A human brain model would never get us to a super computer, which is their intended goal.
Our brains have about one exaflop of processing. The NVidia B300 has 15 petaflops of processing. Corresponding to 0.015 exa, you’d need 66 of the strongest GPUs on the market to match the processing power of one human brain.
That’s before considering context, current estimations would put the human brain at 2.5 petabytes of storage. The former B300 has 288 gigabytes of VRAM. Corresponding to 0.000288 of one human brain, the earlier expectation of 66 landing flat at 0.019 the storage of a human brain.
Can arguments be made not all brain capacity is at VRAM at all times? Most likely. But context windows is the primary bottleneck, not compute
Our brains are absolute monsters, we’d gain more from understanding how we can have this powerful of a machine on so little space. The bigger breakthrough would be brainbased processing of software, but I’ve not heard of anyone going that route - Probably because it’s not feasible
Although simulations agree with you, that LLM powered agentic frameworks are more efficient than human CEOs at optimising a company. They’re also incapable of feelings, making the board of directors fire them in the majority of simulations, for being too cynical
Replacing CEOs with agentic LLMs, is not a benefit for the workers. Far from it, unless you prefer an openly psychopathic CEO
There’s also laws in place if you’re in focus, that requires permission.
Sure I can take a picture of a plaza and if you happen to be on that photo, that’s bad luck. But I can’t zoom in on you garbling down a spinach roll.
For your scenario of going too close and forcing their way to film voyeur stuff, sounds like harassment
Which banknotes utilises the most unflattering creep shots of faces?
That’s not something I’ve seen anywhere before, the rest of the people ones are pretty standard. But creepy faces is absolutely not normal
Hand drawn and creep faces (A) are by far the best
As long as blue ray discs are released, there’ll be webshops selling them
For digital media, pirating increases the number of sales
Why would you make it harder than it is?
libre office and you got an open source Office suite
I believe that’s very regional, if there’s a local hiking club you could try to reach out to them.
There’s often forums dedicated to hiking, which have all sorts of hikes mapped out.
But a map service like mapy.com (formerly .cz), has the official marked routes as part of their mapping data
And best of all, it’s based on an American average
Gravity walking is the missing link, lift your foot and let gravity pull it down. You’ll be going down almost running and it takes barely any energy.
It’s best in places without other humans, as you’re basically a locomotive and it takes time to slow down
Yep, most people would not understand Machine Learning or Big Data analysis generally being AI, so just market your product by the sub category and you don’t have to deal with the expectancy of GenAI