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To be fair, some things like MS Office or Windows have insane backwards compatibility and a lot features even if not all used. Moving to a SaaS model seems to have made them worse. Betting the AI push will be similar
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Even stuff like Execl and Outlook are software as a service these days. Outages could cripple business and government. Again, you have to mandate protections in the short term and replacement in the longer term.
Open source building blocks are there, could heavily invest in it.
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Europe needs to mitigate the risk. Building a genuine alternative will take a lot of time and money, but they can mandate critical infrastructure must be in the EU, data must stay in the EU, with suitable backups and technical staff to maintain it.
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Democrats should be running ads right now on that “I’m not in a position to do anything” representative contrasting them with someone who will do something. Set the narrative early, then repeat it roasting every spineless Republican acquiescing to this.
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Equally, he could have set NI on a path to a UI. Unionism would react, but a determined British Government could mute it. Year matters. NI in 1997, 2017, 2027 are different places.
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No one has credibility day 1. Had Corbyn wanted to build credibility with unionism to deal, he could have. Cabinet matters as well as delegation. Corbyn wasn't particularly ruthless - absolutely nothing on Starmer in internal power battles - and seemed to dislike actual conflict.
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It was obviously important in building trust. But the British Government is not any kind of disinterested mediator. From the perspective of republican North Belfast, this is mad. They are the British Government. The Irish Government is suspect for being partitionist.
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This is true to a lesser extent for unionists. Corbyn would have been seen as favouring nationalism but I doubt anyone would have doubted he'd have stuck to what was agreed.
Second a pro British PM is a Trump level crisis for unionism. They may have had to deal or face Anglo Irish Agreement II
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No British Minister or Prime Minister is viewed as an honest broker by nationalists. Even those that are liked. British interests - not necessarily aligning with unionist interests - are paramount. The question is whether you can do business with them and whether they will carry out what is agreed.
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Could you keep Northern Ireland and Ireland generally out of you going off on one about Jeremy Corbyn please? Asking for the entire island
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It's just such patent bullshit. They just don't want blamed for any fallout. It needs treated with the complete contempt they deserve.
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They just want to be blamed when the consequences come. They don't actually want to stop it. The entire elected GOP is the party of rioters, ripping up the US Constitution, disease, sexual assault and surrender.
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If only they were part of an independent branch of government with extensive oversight powers and control of the budget they could use to provide a check against Executive overreach.
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"It's not my fault, it's that big nasty Trump made me do it.". It's nonsense to deflect from their complicity.
Also, have they heard about Profiles in Courage?
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What's the US equivalent of cheese eating surrender monkeys? Light beer swilling surrender monkeys?
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No. This lets the GOP off the hook. They aren't afraid of Trump. They approve of the aim & wait to see if illegality achieves them with no consequences.
The entire Republican Party is the party of rioters, unconstitutionality, tariff inflation, disease, sexual assault and surrender. Not Trump. All R
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Republicans Senators speaking up? Congressmen? Governors? It's not Trump. The entire Republican Party are light beer surrender monkeys
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Marco Rubio doesn't get to be described as a believer is American values. If I go rob a bank, I am not a law abiding citizen no matter what I did before.
If it was really an attempt to influence policy, he could have resigned. He didn't. He's loyal only to his own ambitions.
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Any Republican Congressmen or Senators standing up for Ukraine and democracy. No?
Then it's on the whole party. They are now the party of rioting, unconditional action, disease sexual assault and surrender. Over focusing on Trump is letting them off. It's the entire elected party.
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Do they come back as probationary staff?
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I don't really understand the question, but coding is always given as an example of a job AI will just do away with, and big O notation would engage this knowledge
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Like, it's a useful tool. But still way behind what people are claiming. Maybe exponential growth gets it there. But my guess is the last 10-20% is really hard, like how self driving cars just aren't quite there yet.
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The deeper issue here is that no one without a CS degree will know to ask about big O notation, or know that O(n squared) is a bad sort, or at least not a generally applicable one. Much less be able to spot where the model is going awry or is outright wrong to correct it.
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Is that really qualitatively different to having an entire month for black history?
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He's trying to do the traditional "bridging the US and Europe" role - we'll step up like you asked Mr Trump, but you have to keep a security guarantee. The problem is Trump might smile, say that's great and pull out of NATO.
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Joe Biden stood too close to some women and it was a story for literal months
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If this was a Democrat Fox News and the entire right wing media would have a huge, constant, neverending noise about it. The left's inability to turn preferential treatment for a series of sex offenders is utterly baffling
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Maybe it is time to rewrite it into modern tools and architectures. But also fabulously expensive, time consuming and error prone.
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Almost any IT system of any age has accumulated a lot of leaky abstractions, workarounds, odd and inconsistent implementations, missing docs and weird stuff you could generally terrifying people really easily. But at the same time it represents cumulative knowledge of the domain it's edge cases.
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Could a breakthrough put vaccinated people at risk, particularly if they were vaccinated a long time ago, leading to a "Look, vaccines don't work" doom loop?
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3 Congressional Republicans with a conscience could force the House to provide significant oversight; Republican Governors pushing back against the President might move the needle. So why pretend they aren't onboard? The GOP is the party of lawlessness, disease, inflation and surrender
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Which branch of government do they control to stop it?
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The GOP is now the party of rioting, measles, surrender, lawlessness, anti labour billionaires, foreign agents, sexual assault, corruption, ethnic cleansing, and the Gulf of America. Democrats have multiple examples. It's cartoonish. These are the policies Republicans support. Not Trump. All (R)
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It's not a Musk/Trump effort. It's a Republican effort. Congressional Republicans have sat on their hands or endorsed the nominees who are doing it. It needs to be hung on the entire party.
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Wait what the Trump Administration is lecturing Europe on free speech and democracy. The one that is currently losing court cases left right and centre and provided lists of words that couldn't appear on Government websites? That one?
Ha ha ha ha ha, no.
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How are Senate Republicans this cowed by a lame duck President? You'd have thought they'd have vetoed a few of the comically insane nominees to show their independence. Nope
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"Ethnic cleansing is good, actually"
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I don't think it's the same. The US strategic posture towards Europe has been consistent for a long time and this is a significant break.
Obama had a "pivot to Asia" but no suggestion of weakening NATO
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Brilliant success, just like vaccines. Obviously a MAGA target. Measles and Great-Power Antagonism
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Surely Europe needs to develop arms capacity equivalent to the US or China? Once it has that, it has the ability to act independently of the US. That doesn't seem likely it's strategically great for the US.
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If NATO is cooked, then what stops Russia going after Poland or the Baltic states?
Second, the end state logic of this is that Europe must massively rearm. If it does that, it's still rich enough to have armed forces capable of acting independently of US decisions. Why would the US want this?
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This going to be everyday for at least 4 years
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Ethnic cleansing is a severe violation of the law? Really?
Use the correct term you cowards.
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It is and always has been Calvinball. Democrats need to make clear suddenly finding Constitutional Jesus when they are in power won’t work. Every drop of blood drawn by lash will be paid by another drawn from the sword.
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That type of speculation costs real money by pushing interest rates, even if it's just a tiny amount.
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Is there any possibility of the bond markets going full Truss? Or is the US completely immune to that?
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Looks like the Congressional Republicans think they can acquiesce to this then find Jesus when the Democrats are in. Unclear if SCOTUS will even uphold the Impoundment Act for Trump to defy.
Going to be hard to put it back together again. It's actually worse than predicted
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So clarified it means agreeing to follow EU regs and then the EU agreeing the UK does. For the life of me I don't understand why you'd do this instead of joining CU/SM other than political camouflage
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Why would you do this and not just join the Customs Union or EFTA? Is it just political?
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By imagination and flexibility, do you mean cakeism. The EU had made clear it will not do cakeism. Even if in isolation it is good for EU growth, the risk of emboldening other leaves movements is too high.