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I think you need to beat the pork vigorously first, to tenderize the meat, you know

I think this is mostly a symptom of the gerontocracy. Most elected officials have not grown up with computers, which is already likely to make them incurious about them. Couple that with being in office so long, likely developing a very high opinion of themselves that they know best. I would guess a significant minority is actively hostile to learning anything about computers, so you can hire any professional to explain stuff with baby talk, it won't work on them. Combine that with the rest of the technologically illiterate politicians just being indifferent, and you get this kind of policy.

It makes more sense if you read it as a threat.

Now that's a tax rate I could get behind.

Irish people have contemporary, first-hand experience with colonialism and oppression from the British. I think their support for Palestine is admirable and brave, but it's also not surprising given their recent and not-so-recent history.

That's reparations for capitalism

Why? Because of the chat control stuff?

Also it's mostly security through obscurity. It is just difficult enough to dissuade most people, but not actually secure because that costs money.

That's true yeah, there is a lot less retail investment in those companies.

What is similar to the dot com bubble though is many "smaller" companies (i.e. not Google or Meta) are buying into AI as an investment into infrastructure for their company, just like was happening with useless websites during the dot com bubble.

The AI bubble is going to be like the dot com bubble I think, but with the world being so heavily financialized it might spiral into something like 2008 or worse...

I'm glad you understand, we don't want any learning /s

Not unless you choose really slow hard drives, or stream very high bitrate media. Most hard drives can easily do 100MB/s sequentially (i.e. reading a large file, such as long video files). Meanwhile high-bitrate 4K video is only about 50Mbit/s, so about 6MB/s.