Exactly. Palantir won’t spy on the spies that spy new spy stuff

I think it’s a good idea to protect our young minds from addictive behaviour, like we do with drinking, gambling and in many countries, smoking.

However, it will be hard to enforce without some form of identification. We need to do that in a way where a company wouldn’t get their hands on it, unlike what some people have suggested, identification at the OS level. And we really need to keep it out of the hands of Google and the likes.

Maybe the government could send people a code or something at the age of 16 to unlock access to social media, IDK.

Sausages and things like that definitely fall in the ultraprocessed foods category

Can we please continue ignoring the existence of the ridiculous entity that is the FIFA World Cup?

Ahh yes, just “so much wrong”…

You just don’t have a clue what you’re talking about so don’t even know where to begin. You haven’t got an iota of knowledge or understanding about geopolitics and it shows.

What I told you is real, and no amount of “nah-uh!” is going to change that.

Thanks for wasting my time.

But there have been officials who stated it to news sources.

Anyway. That’s not the point. The point is that you ruled out the possibility that it was a drone. And speaking in absolutes is a very good way to make sure you’re wrong.

I understand that people who work on the apache think it’s invincible, but it isn’t. That’s the mistake the US keeps making. They don’t understand asymmetric warfare. They have proven this time and time again, from Vietnam to now. In the current day and age, the apache is an archaic machine. It may be high-tech and have awesome firepower, but that’s the thing with asymmetric warfare: that’s not a strength, but a weakness. The US has been burning through their weapons and funds at an unsustainable rate.

On top of asymmetric warfare, cheap drone warfare has completely changed the battlefield. All bets are off. What has been true in the last 30 years is not true anymore. There are kill zones in Ukraine 20 miles wide and the Ukrainian army are using drones to kill roughly 30k Russian soldiers per month at the moment.

We’ve already seen the footage of a Ukrainian FPV drone take down a Russian attack helicopter… what makes you think it couldn’t happen to an American one? Why couldn’t one slip through an apache’s defenses?

And everyone knows the US government has been up to some morally bankrupt actions to justify their wars, but that is not what I was arguing. That being said, that part also doesn’t really make sense. Trump isn’t looking for escalation. His popularity is decreasing rapidly due to this war, even among his constituents and when the prices at the pump really go up this summer he knows he’s really screwed. He’s got the midterms coming up and all he wants is to make a deal as soon as possible. The only one who really wants to keep going is Netanyahu.

“There is no way” is a pretty bold statement, especially when the official reports indicate that it was in fact a shahed drone that hit it.

Sensors can fail, humans can fail, equipment can malfunction. It is very possible that the drone made it past the helicopter’s defensive systems.

Whether or not it was an accident or a deliberate attack is open for debate.

I’ve had both sides as well, I’ve had jobs where some weeks I worked 7 insanely busy night shifts in a row from 10.30pm to 9.30am. Those weeks you don’t get anything done because you’re just sleeping all day and too tired to do anything after. Not to mention having a commute that was 50 minutes to two hours. That is where I learned I did not want to do that.

And then I also worked 5 days a week working only day shifts 8-6, which bored the shit out of me.

And then I had a much calmer job where officially I worked 8-5, five days a week, but I had to had to figure out how to keep myself busy and I could basically do what I want because my supervisor was fine with whatever because he only cared about the results and I kept those coming. But that was too little structure too.

And I worked part time shift work because that is what was offered at the time and shifts were much shorter and more doable. At that job I had a little too much free time on my hands. I think I just gamed a lot back then. Also not what I wanted.

So now I have something in between, where I do work some weekends, evenings and nights, and I’m compensated during week days, but most of my job is 8-5:30.

And lastly, I want to mention how crazy it is that there is a cap on your sick days. If you get sick, you get sick, right? It’s not really a plannable event, but maybe I’m too European and weak-willed for that.

Ahh yes, how could I forget

Well good news then! Neurotransmitters are just molecules, they cannot shut down as such.

You’re still at the quantum stage? Man if you’re not already living in the post-quantum world, are you really living ?

Absolutely, but it will be, or rather already is at the cost of many Ukrainian lives, their economy, and probably thousands of square kms that they will not regain from Russia.

Winning is something else in my mind.

Not a single entity. Their political opponents, the country’s population, its allies, enemies and trade partners and the rest of the world.

“This” as in a quantum computer, the thing we were discussing. And the physics and engineering is something you don’t know about. For example, you didn’t know about nitrogen vacancy centers that are already theorised to make room-temperature quantum computing possible. On top of that there are many breakthroughs yet to be made that even current experts may not yet know about.

Moore’s law applies to predictions, which is the other thing we were discussing. Moore’s law was indeed an accurate prediction up until recently, but only after the breakthrough was made, like I also mentioned in my previous comment. I never said it applied to quantum computers.

But it seems to me that you’re just going on a hunch. I’ve tried to apply logic, reasoning and sources to no avail, so I think I will just leave it at that.

It’s an interesting thought, and maybe I’m misunderstanding you, but why would the pharmaceutical industry lobby to have certain drugs outlawed? For example, Purdue pharma went to great lengths to hide the truth about the addictiveness of their drug.

The artificial computer wasn’t so much a scientific breakthrough as a conceptual one. It didn’t require anything that didn’t already exist.

Neither does this. You just don’t know about it yet. And the link I provided you with shows that.

The quantum computer does exist. And it’s functional principles are built on physics not engineering. It’s a fundamentally different situation.

Not true. Electrical currents are physics too. And quantum computers have hardware too.

in 10 human generations quantum computers still won’t be portable personal devices.

What are your arguments for this? I’ve shown you that your central argument is already being addressed.

Of course, every increment is predictable after you make the scientific breakthrough. Not before, though.

And Russia is ramping up those attacks.

There will be no winners in this stupid war I’m afraid.

That was a long series of inevitable predictable progress in engineering.

If it was so predictable, why couldn’t anyone in 1926 have predicted it with accuracy? The point is, they couldn’t and so can’t we.

Also, it’s definitely about engineering issues. In fact, scientists are already working on ways to overcome the major obstacles you named.

Trying and succeeding, Palantir and other companies have their hands all over the US government. And if you thought this government cared about things like “environment” or “people” –other than their votes– I have news for you…