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  • Alternately, they might ask ChatGPT. Still better than asking randos on an Internet forum.

  • Any way I can get my country on that list too?

  • Volkswagen did okay. Mind you, only after Hitler's empire had collapsed and Hitler himself had eaten a bullet.

    Elon, if you're listening...

  • It’s so perfect as a great and cherished state.

    Wrong word, Donald. You mean "coveted." You don't cherish Canada, you covet it.

  • Republicans also question Trump's strategy, noting annexation would add millions of liberal-leaning voters and complicate American politics.

    You mean millions of insurgents literally trying to murder every Republican politician and burn America to the ground. Not sure why their voting habits would be relevant in the face of that.

    I think a lot of Americans are completely unaware of just how fucking furious we are at this flippant talk of destroying our country and subjugating our people. Even a lot of the ones who are unsympathetic to Trump don't understand just what this kind of talk means to us.

  • Yes, I said that in the next sentence after the one you quoted.

    The key is that it still remains a two-party state. "Third parties" are not viable in this system, and in fact they are counterproductive. You need to swap one of the existing ones out, or gut it and repurpose the empty shell.

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  • Yeah, this is the same sort of unhinged "they're not a real country, they're like little children that need to be taken care of" bullshit that Putin's spewed about Ukraine over the years.

    The thing that really concerns me is that it's not just Putin. The Russian population as a whole fell right in line with it. And so, too, I fear the American population might. They just don't understand the utter visceral rage Canadians are feeling about this treatment right now. They're treating this like yet another goofy dumb thing Trump is saying.

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  • No way in hell do we want that electorate anywhere near our government.

  • Probably not. The "AS" in ASIC stands for "application-specific", they are designed to be extremely good at just the one specific purpose that they were meant to be used for and if they're good at anything else it's sheer coincidence. In Bitcoin's case that purpose is applying a particular pattern of SHA-256 hashing to a particular-sized blob of data. I doubt there are other applications for that particular sequence of steps.

    ASICs likely get used in mining until they burn out, or until they're supplanted by new designs that make them uneconomical to run in the face of competition, so they probably just get recycled.

  • Nobody mines with GPUs any more, at least not for any significant blockchain. Bitcoin went to industrial ASICs many, many years ago and Ethereum no longer uses proof-of-work mining at all.

  • Doesn't really work, Reddit has your posts and comments archived and if they're selling access they'll likely be including that. All it does is inconvenience everyday human users.

  • Those countries are big oil producers, even with the beating that Russia's infrastructure has taken lately. I don't see why they'd be buying oil.

  • Why they aren't announcing a third party right now, fucking mystifies me.

    Because of basic game theory. The US is a two-party state for fundamental structural reasons.

    That said, the identities of the two parties have changed every once in a while. Seems like they're overdue for another such shakeup at this point, but who knows when it'll come. Could be that the two existing parties have figured out how to stall that.

  • The problem is that Ariane 6 is already an obsolete previous-gen design, not one part is reusable. SpaceX is the dominant launch provider for a very solid reason and ultimately the only way to compete with them is going to be to adopt their ideas and methodologies.

  • This is silly.

    Whether it's "silly" or not is irrelevant, the problem described in the article is real. I have seen innumerable PDFs over the years that were atrocious when it came to the use of those accessibility features, the format's design factors in to how people use it and people use it terribly. If plain old OCR were enough then this wouldn't be such a problem.

  • Reddit already has his content archived. Deleting it won't remove it from Reddit, they can still sell their corpus to whomever they want.

  • No. Reddit already has them archived. All you'll do is inconvenience real humans who might come across them via a search engine at some point in the future.

  • You said Trudeau shouldn't have tried to negotiate. I disagree with that.