Without reading the article, there’s also a very relevant XKCD for this type of thing. They may well have controlled for it but it can be tough.
Shiggles
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“There are sheltered teenagers on the internet with dumb political views, which is indistinguishable from actual attempted sedition by current members of government”
Couldn’t hit you over the head with it any harder.
Whether or not you think that, actually enforcing a ban has proved very difficult in the past. Better resources for addicts of all nature is proven to be much more effective than outright banning things.
Betcha it’ll be outsourced once it’s been open long enough to say “look, the domestic talent just isn’t there”
Mind explaining to me why a vending machine needs to know the demographics of its users?
You gotta consider that when a country doesn’t do something for sixty years, that means basically anyone that actually worked on it has retired. They probably have access to more research and data but it’s probably all stored in ancient formats barely used anymore.
If you can’t tell the difference, does it matter?
Of course this gets more into Russel’s teapot than occam’s razor territory.
If you assume the only way to simulate an infinite number is storing it in bits, sure. Also, have we ever really done anything to require representing a truly infinite number?
Are those spending programs also “wasteful”? Because the complaints only seem to start when they benefit the “wrong sort of people”.
Gas subsidies are an economic decision to lower transport costs for industry and consumers alike, it’s why our gas prices are so much lower than practically anywhere else. Besides stunting renewable development, it’s a perfectly reasonable strategy.
Cancelling student loan debt and, ultimately, overhauling the system that puts students into said debt in the first place is also beneficial to society. More educated, intelligent, and qualified people only hurts reactionary and regressive goals.
You also “pay” for our huge corn and gas subsidies, to bomb brown people, and to practically give away the anywhere from $80 to $200 billion in PPP loans that went straight into the pockets of the 1%, but that never seems to bother you lot.
“Killing Russians in self defense is comparable to genociding Palestinians” is the take of a very, very sheltered individual.