“While imperialist colonizers” is doing a lot of work in the post. In my view, there’s little credit to be given out for offering liberalism to a tiny fraction of the population under your rule. So from a macro standpoint, Wilhelm hardly stands out.
I will give the British some credit for bowing to the inevitability of decolonization many years later, after WWII, with only a little bit kicking and screaming. (France, not so much.)
That’s pretty much the European median for the time.
This is a politically-motivated ruling… Thailand’s judiciary, including its constitutional court is packed with ultra-conservative royalists who deploy the law to take down their political enemies. Conveniently enough, politicians who are friendly to the royalist/military establishment aren’t subject to such scrutiny.
People are quick to blame Google for the slow uptake of Jpeg XL, but I don’t think that can be the whole story. Lots of other vendors, including non-commercial free software projects, have also been slow to support it. Gimp for example still only supports it via a plugin.
But if it’s not just a matter of Google being assholes, what’s the actual issue with Jpeg XL uptake? No clue, does anyone know?
Obviously, there’s a more disturbing background at play here, but churches shouldn’t be untaxed in the first instance. The dude literally said to render unto Caesar, etc. etc.
From the FT story about this, it appears the Israeli far right is going to respond with more repression:
Israel’s far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, on Wednesday wrote to Netanyahu, demanding “punitive steps” be against the Palestinian Authority in response to the European decisions and other Palestinian moves on the international stage, including seeking action against the Jewish state by the ICC.
Smotrich called for a series of measures including a major expansion of Jewish settlement construction in the occupied West Bank, the establishment of a new settlement for every country that recognises Palestinian statehood, and the freezing of Israeli tax transfers to the PA.
Why not sanctions? The US has been happy to impose individual sanctions in many other cases. Visa bans don’t have significant impacts on people who don’t want or need to travel to the US.
They are also adding loads of wind, solar, and nuclear (6-8 new plants a year!). Objectively speaking, China is not a country we should be worried about in making the green transition. India, Indonesia, and the rest of the developing world face much bigger problems financing and building the necessary infrastructure. And unfortunately, there has been very little headway in tackling these problems.
There seem to be three distinct post-Trek futures:
Sloppy, but they still succeeded in whacking one guy. The troublesome thing is, they will certainly learn from their mistakes, so subsequent operations will be more sophisticated.
And there will definitely be subsequent operations. India knows that geopolitically the West needs them on-side, no matter what kind of skullduggery they get up to.
About a third of their decisions are 9-0, it’s just not the cases you hear about.
Hash functions are not known to be quantum vulnerable (i.e., there’s no known quantum algorithm that provides an exponential speedup, best you can do is to use Grover’s algorithm to slightly speed up the brute force search). So maybe never.
Well, that’s not the notable bit. Almost every year has seen increasing global CO2 emissions since the start of the industrial revolution. But what’s interesting is that this year or next year are when global emissions are projected to peak, and then come down. So sometime next year, fingers crossed, we’ll be seeing a different headline.
BYD also put lots of resources into electric buses. Anyway the point is that there’s multiple game plans EV makers can follow, not only Tesla’s.
“At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus”
For all those castigating them for not supporting Biden: imagine the issue is abortion, and the Democrats are upholding a bipartisan anti-abortion consensus, the only difference being they feel bad about it sometimes. Would you still be blasting the women’s rights activists trying to raise a stink, and tell them to shut up because the alternative is worse?
If you think LLMs hallucinate too much, wait till you check out code literally written during hallucinations.
There’s more than one way to skin a cat. The Chinese EV companies that have come up in the last few years use a diversity of business strategies, not all involving high margin SUVs. BYD’s cars, for example, are spinoffs of its battery manufacturing business.
No that’s not how leveraged buyouts are structured. Musk isn’t on the hook for the loans, Twitter the company is (basically, Twitter took on debt to help buy its former shareholders out).
Only dozens? HK government getting soft now?