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Although presumably there are companies that do sell liquid nitrogen generators

DARPA is always cost a lot of money. Wouldn’t they the ones that try to investigative psychic powers were real? Oh and for a while they were trying to develop a perpetual motion machine.

Of course in retrospect that looks stupid, but if they’d ever succeeded in building a perpetual motion machine they would have made all their money back and then some. So it isn’t immediately apparent that they will have saved anyone any money. They’ve just not spent the money, which is not the same thing at all.

It wasn’t standalone though everything still ran on the cloud. At the time the product came out everyone said exactly the same thing, this product is just an interface for a remote AI so why not just use a phone?

Given the fact it had the battery life of a suicidal mayfly and the capacity to heat itself up to 700° I could forgive you for thinking it was running the AI locally

It’s called a viral marketing

I’ve always been a fan of book ciphers, but they’re probably really annoying to actually use.

Infamously G4S don’t conduct background checks. If they did they wouldn’t hire anyone because all of their employees are psychopaths.

Even when they are hired as mere security guards rather than close protection they still end up killing people.

These people have enough money to hire private protection already, it’s not the lack of an app that has stopped them from doing so up until this point. It’s simply that they didn’t actually believe they were in any danger from the peons.

Buy a few drones and you could automate the assassination process for maximum efficiency.

I don’t know how these tariffs are supposed to work

You’re overqualified then.

They are not meant to work. It’s just something to threaten other countries with, it isn’t a sound economic policy, it’s the political equivalent of holding your breath so you’ll be allowed more candy.

I imagine most Americans picture something like Surrey when they imagine rural England.

I suppose it would be useful for low poly assets but I’d probably just make them myself because I can’t imagine the AI would do exactly what I wanted

What? I read that three times and it still doesn’t make sense.

That is it. I’ve lost all respect from Microsoft.

The only reason to pursue fusion power research is so you can say this on a weekly basis. Any benefits to humanity are purely secondary.

I don’t think a lot of Americans appreciate how much hatred the UK has for Russia. No politician is going to win any votes with a line of let’s cozy up to the Russians.

Regardless everyone in the western world knows that Russia’s word isn’t worth anything. So ultimately these negotiations are nothing but PR stunt and will achieve nothing except possibly pissing off Europe.

In the UK the parties and the politicians who pushed for brexit are now having serious problems because they can’t justify it. The vast majority of people who supported it now think it was a disaster.

Trump could literally start world war 3 and his supporters would still back him.

Some of the most iconic and renowned weapons of the 20th and 21st centuries were made by European countries. HK is a German company for example.

Because they didn’t need to. As long as the United States was spending money on their truly vast military and was using that military capacity to defend Ukraine there was no requirement for any other the country do anything.

Now that the US has decided to become a pawn of Russia, it has become important.

It’s one of those things that’s hard to really understand why it’s so useful, until you actually use it.