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Why Don't You Use 4 years ago

Internet randos, executives. Next in line should be fellow programmers "Why the f should I tell you my reasons, if you are competent programmer you should allready know everything".

Some proof would be nice.

Wikipedia mentions that it is contested if it is intentional or not.

Personaly for me, intentionality doesn't seem far fetched, given gulags, forced relocations to siberia without supplies and liberal presentation of history/facts (ussr guides said that kaliningrad is russian from olden times).

But now, it is much closer to home.

Europe sees a lot of parallels with what happend right before ww2 (germany taking a bite here and there; testing responses; extending influence and gathering resources)

couple of months of sanctions. Not sure how many russians will want to endure. Of course putin will try to turn it into some patriotic narative, but truth will spread. Holding ukrain will not be simple. People there have tasted freedom. It will not be so easy to feed government news to them.

idea was that if europe trades with russia, russia can be influenced to act in a civil manner. (at least partially)

there is also fact that german ex cancelor (schroeder) is at russian gas and oil companies now (i.e. russia made good friends to make right decisions)

All fundamental research is reaserch for the sake of knowledge, for the sake of satisfying curiosity.

Once it is done, possibly much much much later, somebody may stumble upon it and use it in some creative (and unforseen) ways for other research.

On the other hand if you give any probability to alien existence, then this is very much practical already in the search for them.

Thanks for the link.

Maybe you have data on:

- total installed storage capacity as percentage of daily electricity usage (preferably 95th-percentile daily usage). Hopefully this percentage increases every year.

- how often should we expect to replace batteries. Wikipedia says 400-1200 cycles. Does this mean that whole world storage capacity must be replaced every 400-1200 days?

Positions of power are already taken by people on socio-path (pun intended). So for society nothing changes.

Salesmen already lie. There are already a lot of scammer ceos. People can deal with those by ignoring them. What people can not ignore is gun/knife in their face and a death of a loved one.

not strictly necessary. laws could ve passed that 0.001% is taken over each year. this would be sslowerrl, but would have lower resistance.

What we currently have, and have had for most of human history, is feudalism under many different names.

True.

Though this is the only stable outcome.

Even in communist country there are positions of power (which can be symbolically equated to lords).

Given group of people there is hierarchy. Given selfishness, people tend to use control to ensure more control.

I think it's a plus for society if some criminals go from petty theft to white collar sociapth investor conning CEO. (or more realistically salesman)

Society saves on the need for physical security.