He does have darn good shoe ducking reflexes, though.

Intel and overheating.

You complained that I was not providing my own, only comments on yours.

A state doesn’t need to be in Europe to join, it just needs to be European, whatever that means, the treaties don’t say. There’s no geographical limits much less strict ones, it was deliberately left open. The requirements regarding democracy and stability are much more strict and spelled out.

It’d be politically weird to say the least to bar a state that is full of EU citizens from joining the EU. And when it comes to geostrategy not taking them in would be right-out stupid. If you ask some editorialists then even Canada is, in principle, on the table.

And if it’s going to be full-blown AGI then we’ll become AI psychologists.

they used opposite genders

Not necessarily. For IBM PCs that was true, but my UltraSPARC had a differently-gendered serial port which was very annoying because neither standard straight nor null-modem cables worked. It was a DB-25, carrying two ports.

Those connectors were used for a lot of different things, with no autonegotiation no nothing. At least the pinout for port A was compatible with the standard DB-25 one-port pinout, just with different gender.

Greenland won’t declare independence before it is ready to do so, and it’s very likely that when they do it they will do it after or at the same time as re-joining the EU.

The Greenland independence sentiment is of the “we’re our own nation, we should build ourselves up and stand on our own among fellow nations” kind, not the “the Danes are terrible we need to get away from them as fast as possible” one.

There’s nothing emotionally difficult about this. If you want statements to be in a particular form then it’s up to you to provide them.

Or do these limits only kick in for platforms above a certain size?

That’s how it’s in the EU, the DSA only applies to large providers. It’s kinda like the fairness doctrine in broadcasting but in the digital domain, e.g. TikTok is currently in hot waters over the Romania elections because they did not take sufficient precautions to make sure that everything’s fair and square.

And in that case, why would the same principle not apply?

Because size obliges. If I want to smelt some cans in my backyard I can just do that provided I have a “fireplace” – which is just an area set up to be suitable to have a fire. If I want to build an industrial-scale aluminium smelter I have to get permits and everything. The public interest in the latter is much larger, that’s why I have to jump through hoops and follow regulations.

(I can’t burn garden waste though, gotta give it to the municipality to compost. A matter of waste of perfectly fine organic material and unnecessary emissions).

That’s just the federal level, by now every state should also have an instance, e.g. here’s the SH one. Offers accounts to state ministries and agencies, municipalities, public and state-owned corporations and charitable/non-profit associations.

Then there’s instances from public broadcasters, someone should make a list.

You’re smart, you can turn what I wrote into those kinds of statements yourself. I’m not your fucking monkey.

It’s not even about humanity, it’s also the right thing to do from a business perspective: You want your workers to be productive again ASAP, that’s worth not just continuing to pay them, but also focussing the collective buzz-bee energy of middle management on finding out what everyone needs and finding ways of providing it so they can actually do work instead of dealing with personal shit. Suddenly have 1000 homeless employees? Get them hotel rooms, find them homes, if need be build apartments. Have the legal department pro-bono the management of their insurance claims. Whatever is necessary, the next useless presentation and the next grand lawsuit you planned can wait. Don’t paint your nails while your feet are on fire.

It’s getting investigated on the German side as illegal party financing. As a foreigner he’s allowed to donate 1000 Euros while an influencer campaign with similar reach would cost way more. The EU is adding it to the pile of investigations under the Digital Services Act which has quite some provisions for large online platforms.

Indeed, why do you refuse to agree with basic facts such as “Russia is a corrupt post-soviet state whose people, outside of its imperial core, live in often abject poverty”.

No, they don’t. From a Marxist perspective, they think that liberal-democratic capitalism is a better pre-stage to the abolishment of capitalism than Leninist state capitalism.

Quoth the SPD programme:

Our history is shaped by the idea of democratic socialism, a society of free and equal people where our core values are realized. It requires a structure in economy, state and society guaranteeing civil, political, social and economic basic rights for all people living a life without exploitation, suppression and violence, hence in social and human security.

The end of the soviet type state socialism did not disprove the idea of democratic socialism but it clearly confirmed the orientation of social democracy towards core values. In our understanding democratic socialism remains the vision of a free and fair society in solidarity. Its realization is a permanent task for us. The principle for our actions is social democracy.

Here’s where the arrows come from. Figures that social democrats aren’t authoritarians and thus don’t like tankies which the KPD very much was. Calling them, at least at that time, “against socialism” is gross libel. (Technically the SPD still hasn’t abandoned socialism, at least when you look into their party programme, but new labour etc).

I guess a much bigger red flag is coming from a .ml instance and re-heating “social fascist” rhetoric against SocDems.

…can’t believe I’m actually defending the traitor party but it’s against tankies so meh.

I wouldn’t say primary type, they just happen to be the primary example that theory (complexity analysis etc) is taught with. Hence also the veritable zoo of very very bad sorting algorithms that still have proper names. There’s no quantum bogosort for string search.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithm

If you don’t want your “base set of facts” attacked with nuance, don’t present tendentious ones. You’re not trying to establish fundamentals, you’re trying to justify the assumptions you have created to come to your conclusion.

Which is just stochastic optimisation.

Which yes is exactly what evolution does, big picture. Small picture the genome evolves a bit more intelligently, using not random generation and filtering but an algorithm employing randomness to generate, and then the usual survival filter because doing it that way is, well, fitter. Also what you can see under a microscope.