You can spend millions on building power lines over oceans and such. Or you could just spend that money on building your own power production. Might be more expensive (or not), but you get to control the production.
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When 2 people that know a language want to talk shit about someone else that doesn't know the language, the first thing they'll do is speak that language.
It's not an unreasonable fear at all.
Depending on context it might be stupid or make sense.
At my company, which has 100% Spanish employees, we can talk among ourselves in Spanish. However, in things "for the record" such as jira tickets, git commit messages, documentation pages, they have to be in English.
It makes no god damn sense. Nobody is going to read Jira ticket #6738 in 40 years when we are a multinational. It's a ticket about fixing a typo in page 567 of the documentation. 100% of employees speak spanish, and some have dogshit English.
Sha256 is a hashing algorithm. Not a public/private key algorithm.
Swords had phrases written on them too. This has been happening since forever.
"in 20 years" doesn't get as much hype as "in 3 months"
Maybe if they said "in 3 months" instead we would've actually have had it in 20 years. Seeing how much ai attracts money with these obviously unbelievable promises.
From the makers of "fusion energy in 20 years", "full self driving next year" and "AI will take your job in 3 months" cones "all code will be AI in 6 months".
Trust me, it's for real this time. The new healthcare system is 2 weeks away.
EDIT: how could I forget "graphene is going to come out of the lab soon and we'll have transparent flexible screens that consume 0 electricity" and "researches find new battery technology that has twice the capacity as lithium"
Historically speaking, that will just make the next leader give many powers to the military in order to "bring peace" so whatever happened to the last one doesn't happen to him.
In these situations, governments treat things like "Whatsapp" or "telegram" as social media.
They don't ban social media so tech corps don't fuck their population. They ban social media so their population can't organize against them.
Migrant to me is the more accurate word.
Migration can be seen from 2 viewpoints, "emigration" and "immigration". Depending if you are looking from the country of origin or the destination.
However, in this headline neither the origin nor the destination is mentioned, therefore it doesn't make sense from either point of view. Therefore the viewpoint-agnostic "migrant" makes more sense to me.
Yeah who wouldn't want to be killed indiscriminately and children abducted? They got the spotlight!
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I don't think anyone denies that whatever happens after you no longer pass your genes around has no evolutionary effect.
Whether helping your offspring is evolutionarily helpful or not might be debatable (I don't see how it would not be helpful though)
Even in beings that not form societies it has an impact. Example:
You reproduce, then instantly die. Now your offspring have more available resources around them, since you no longer consume them
Or, your reproduce and you become much stronger, but not aggressive towards non-predators. Now predators are less likely to be near you, and your offspring are probably near you. Therefore, they probably benefit from having less predators around.