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> Why is it allowed to impose its force on the civilians it is protecting?

I don't think co-operation on this type of crime is part of the treaty itself but the treaty doesn't mean much if the two countries don't have a good diplomatic relationship.

> Is it because A/I are "terrorists" and "terrorists" are NATO responsibility?

Wtf are you on about?

If they're willing to go to war for each other, I'd say they're willing to take down a server or two for each other too.

Obviously not a perfect analogy but it shows that US-Dutch relationships very much predate ASML and extend far beyond commercial interests. I have a similar problem with the Taiwan "silicon shield" meme that's been going around, as if the US hasn't supported the republican Chinese forces since the 30's, including with troops on the ground.

Wow, what a bad take.

The EUV lenses are made by Zeiss in Germany AFAIK. But to even suggest that ASML is dictating US-Dutch diplomacy, two NATO members with similar values and goals, is hilariously off.

> COVID had a case fatality rate of 1%. Pneumonic plague, without antibiotics, has a case fatality rate of 100%.

a) why are we comparing treated death rates with untreated death rates?

b) COVID got significantly less deadly as it evolved, which is a known phenomenon that should also apply to this plague

c) that link hijacked my back button, I don't appreciate that >:-(

"... make no mistakes" :)

Your theory seems to be that the speed of information significantly increased the power the pope can wield and this is what allowed for the centralization of power.

I don't think the historical record shows that. The speed of information changed little from the time of the Nicean council to the council of Trent, yet the primacy of the pope was very much established by the latter, even if it was only formalized in the 1st Vatican council.

Even to this day church politics plays out over many months and years (just look at the recent SSPX situation which was a slow-mo train wreck), the speed of information doesn't seem very significant.

> Historically this was the result of the fact the church predates modern communications. It was not possible for a Pope to direct things

That's not really accurate. All bishops were essentially "autocephalus" in antiquity. Whether they could even be removed by a council of other bishops was something that was really not resolved for many centuries. There were many occasions of competing councils declaring each other heretics and shenanigans like that.

The Orthodox still practice this system of governance (although sovereignty has been moved up from diocesan bishops to the patriarch of each autocephalus church).

AGA and EGF are very minor federations in the Go world, all the professionals are in Asia where the game is far bigger.

Nice read but hard to resist the "X but in Japan!" jokes.

Python certainly has some baggage, especially the typing system (which is still not finished, if you're looking at static typing and so is implemented differently by type checkers) and pip's safety, or lack thereof. But comparing it to PHP or Perl is rhetoric leading you one step too far.

Citation needed. And the problem isn't that Europe doesn't have its own wizards, it's that they don't have the mana market to turn those spell ideas into reality.

It's part of the EU's strategy to catch up by investing in future technology instead of building out present capacity.

I think it's a mistaken strategy but it's hard to suggest anything better when you look at the measly amounts they're investing that would get them very little with existing technology. So, they're forced to gamble on vaporwave tech.

Edit: I'm specifically talking about their semiconductor and computing strategy.

a.k.a. VRAM