When you talk with a real expert on a topic, you can tell immediately, because answers are comprehensive yet short as well as answers to follow up questions.

Some even manage to explain things easier to understand at the same time.

The executive branch that the police belongs to is commonly from where future dictators start their journey.

I'm addition, most of what you mentioned can be achieved without merging two countries, just by trade agreements.

Do you want to argue that both systems suck? I don't know enough about the Canadian system to judge on that, as long as we can agree that the US system is completely broken we agree.

Most important things by far is that it's easy to use for the common use case of a regular android or iPhone user.

The task at hand is replacing MasterCard and Visa, not to decouple from all US companies at once.

A country doesn't get attacked and invaded to change basically nothing or increase the life of the foreign population. It's done to exercise sustained power.

Who do you think would Canadians vote for after Trump starts a war, kills hundreds or more Canadians, etc.? So, for sure they wouldn't get voting rights, for example.

You have a way too romantic idea in your head. "We attack and kill our friends to become better friends" isn't a real thing.

> Or when they get access to Hulu and to the US Netflix catalog. Etc., etc.

Or when they can't afford health care anymore. Or when employees lose rights. Or when the country gets flooded with fire arms. You might think becoming part of the US is the totally best that could happen to anybody and that's okay. But most people outside the US don't agree.

Corruption is also much more normalized in Russia. Bureaucrats will casually take money to work your case faster (or at all). I know that from old friends as they had to bribe people to get their case processed a few years ago (before Russia started the war).

Not convinced that "winning" is the same as "stop the attacker from attacking"

> shown that being bombed hardens civilian resolve to continue resisting

Resist against what exactly in this case? Russian population is well aware they are the attackers and that Putin tries to invade Ukraine.

Why would they? OpenAI and Anthropic aren't even profitable yet.

Partisans strongly dislike non-partisan positions, because they are even more dangerous to them than the partisan counterpart.

From what I read, healthcare had always been super complicated and bureaucratic in the US. Nobody here knows what "network" or "deductibles" even mean.

Going to the doctor or calling an ambulance is similar to calling the police in some sense. You don't think about "network" or cost when calling the police, right? We do neither for health care related things.

Btw. getting down voted for an honest question is a bad thing in my opinion. People should talk to each other and ask questions.

What you suggest will hit normal persons.

What we really need is people going to jail that let stuff like that happen. Let them bear actual responsibility for their 1,000k+ salary.

Generally, because Employees are protected to some degree, when you start a startup you introduce a lot uncertainty into your life.

> There is no money for startups but there is money for playing startup and the various wirecards.

Not sure what you mean by "various wirecards", you mean it's always fintech?Oftentimes it's US VC, because there's just not that much VC flying around in Europe. So I guess only well connected and few high profile startups get to receive big money - see Helsing AI as latest example.

Might be the case here, but just setting a timer and being generally hyped about something is not enough for that.

Very weird how convinced some here seem to be that addiction is involved while they apparently don't know anything about the diagnosis criteria.

How often do you want to do that? Where? How? What's the effect on plants and insects and human?

It's not like we just decide to solve something and then it just happens. There can also be serious outcomes of errors are made that are more serious than climate itself.

This is not generally true.

> For example - something bad can happen to you any time you leave your house.

The better analogue would be: outside of your house is a robber that will rob you if you leave the house. But you can't quantify how bad it will be to get robbed.